V nastoyashchee vremya i v blizhayshem budushchem poisk i osvoenie novykh mestorozhdeniy budut yavlyat"sya strategicheskoy zadachey Rossiyskoy Federatsii. Podtverzhdennye geologorazvedochnymi rabotami promyshlennye zapasy nefti i gaza na Arkticheskom i Dal"nevostochnom shel"fe strany sozdali perspektivu ikh rentabel"noy razrabotki. Prinimaya vo vnimanie osobennosti osvoeniya mestorozhdeniy v etikh regionakh vsye bol"shuyu aktual"nost" priobretaet poisk novykh i sovershenstvovanie sushchestvuyushchikh podkhodov, tekhniko-tekhnologicheskikh resheniy po proektirovaniyu i stroitel"stvu skvazhin, tsel"yu kotorykh budet snizhenie kapital"nykh zatrat i uvelichenie nefteotdachi plastov. Ukazannoy tendentsii udovletvoryaet, nakhodyashchee vsye bol"shee rasprostranenie v mirovoy praktike, burenie gorizontal"nykh i mnogozaboynykh skvazhin. Nesmotrya na uzhe stavshuyu traditsionnoy tekhniku i tekhnologiyu stroitel"stva takikh skvazhin, po-prezhnemu sushchestvuyut problemy, snizhayushchie effektivnost" ikh primeneniya. V dannoy knige rassmatrivayutsya priemlemye resheniya dlya realizatsii provodki gorizontal"nykh stvolov skvazhin v usloviyakh morskogo shel"fa.