Horizontal Well

Horizontal Well. Any drilling or jetting of a horizontal or near- horizontal lateral into a potentially-productive interval (whether into a coal seam or non-coal formation) from a vertical or slant wellbore including, but not limited to, the drilling or jetting of a long-, medium- or short-radius lateral (as such terms are commonly used in the industry), the long axis of which lateral is oriented approximately parallel to the bedding plane of the formation being drilled into