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    CAME A . TUSOOS4I3I84A United States Patent 19 (11) Patent Number: 5,413,184 Landers [45] Date of Patent: May 9, 1995 [54] METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR 44610362 2/1987 Schelstede 166/258 HORIZONTAL WELL DRILLING Sreurse a/1988 tél dete Sos 5/365 [76] Inventor: Carl Landers, 141 S. Union St., 4,832,552 5/1989 414/22.54 Madisonville, Ky. 42431 Seagell 67st 2971 eawteo 1989 Wes [21] Appl. No: 131,526 4,854,400 8/1989 175/85 ; Soot 1/1990 Tufte. [22] Filed: Oct. 4, 1993 5,090,496 2/1992, . 175/61 [st] ENB 7/08 3113983. 5/1992 5/6! [52] 5,148,880 9/1992 173/393 Steseor 11/1992 5762 a Sussit 2/1993 ins/e0 x Primary Examiner—Terry Lee Melins 56 References Cited Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Middleton & Reutlinger; Charles G. Lamb U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS am Re, 33,660 8/1991. Jelsma : eA ABSTRACT 1,367,082 2/1921 Granville ‘A method and apparatus for penetrating a well casing. 1485,615 3/1924. Jones and surrounding earth strata includes the insertion of a 1733,311 10/1829 MeNeill. flexible shaft having a ball cutter on an end thereof into Bosse 1/1986 Ervin ‘upset tubing within a well casing. The upset tubing is areas hone provided with an elbow at its lower extremity for re- Pease aise Haye ceiving the ball cutter therein. The flexible shaft is then 5191687 6/1965. Hames... 175/404x rotated and the ball cuter cuts a hole in the well casing 3262508 7/1966 Price wo 175/24 % and is then moved horizontally a distance, usualy less eae heed am Jeet al. . than 30”. The flexible shaft and ball cutter are then iver removed and a flexible tube having a nozzle blaster on Peseta peie hima) ‘an end thereof is then inserted into the upset tubing in 3853185 12/1974 Dat eta Paeba resin zoo the channel. A fuid of surfactant and water at high 3958.69 5/1976 Ball eral 17s/61 pressure is then pumped into the tbe wherein the high Sheesa 971979 175/12 pressure fluid passes through orifice in the spiral drill 3es6 12/1982 175/61 thereby cutting an extension into the previously cut ae ised eae channel. The tube is continually feed into the channel as . - the sore fluid continues to blast away the asisua /ises U9/3t rai suata The chanal then cute preselected a52n69 771985 oo sf61 Gute eves Tel Gistance from the well up to 200 feet and beyond. 173/22 4)589,499 5/1986 4601353 7/1986 15/8 9 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets Sheet 1 of 3 5,413,184 May 9, 1995 US. Patent 1A FIG. US. Patent May 9, 1995 Sheet 2 of 3 5,413,184 so, w q Ors CTs 1 1 ¢ |

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