Patent ID: 8490695
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A method for drilling and completing multiple wellbores in a subsurface rock formation, comprising: drilling a first wellbore along a first selected trajectory through the rock formation; fracture treating the first wellbore; abandoning the first wellbore by setting a plug therein at a wellbore depth above the rock formation; drilling a second wellbore along a second selected trajectory through the rock formation, the second trajectory laterally spaced from the first trajectory; fracture treating the second wellbore; abandoning the second wellbore by setting a plug therein at a wellbore depth above the rock formation; drilling a third wellbore along a third selected trajectory through the rock formation, the third trajectory disposed between the first and second trajectories; and fracture treating the third wellbore such that a fracture network extending therefrom hydraulically connects to fracture networks extending from the first and second lateral wellbores.