Due to the relative high cost of this technology limited inroads to the lower end of the directional drilling marketplace have been achieved. As a result this sector of the marketplace is still dominated to a large extent by traditional motor steerable BHA technology. A number of entrepreneurs have made attempts to develop tools aimed at this market (Rotary Steerable Tools BVI, Terravici and Kinetic Upstream Technologies for example) however the impact made has thus far been limited.
