Exploration Drilling Articles
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LNG For Exploration & Production - Drilling Operations - Case Study
Use of gas in drilling actually began several years before (2010) use of gas in frac operations (2013). The scope of a rig retrofit with three (3) engines vs. 12-20 engines on a frac spread is one major reason why drilling innovated with natural gas before frac operations. At one time (mid-2014) there were over 100 drilling rigs employing natural gas either in a dual fuel configuration with ...
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Project - Definition of an environmental reference for the Boughezoul area
CLIENT WORLEYPARSONS LOCATION Médéa, Tissemsilt, Tiaret and Djelfa Algeria DATE 2015 - 2015 ASSIGNMENTS Preparation of an HSE plan for the field assignment In-depth measurements in order to determine the baseline environmental situation: acoustics, air quality, dust in suspension, soils, water Preparation of the baseline situation report ...
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Don’t Get Stuck in the Ice! - Best Practices for Arctic Logistics
Resource exploration and maintenance in the arctic presents unique challenges with respect to off-road travel logistics. Locations for exploratory drilling and maintenance of infrastructure often reside outside of existing roads and pads, requiring the need to build seasonal ice roads or snow trails for transport of equipment and personnel during the harsh winter work season. ...
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Project - Mineral resource
The Balasausqandiq deposit is very large, with the centre of the estimated range being around 126 million tonnes of ore, equivalent to over 840,000 tonnes of V2O5 and equal to over four times the estimated annual world production of 2018. It is made up of five known ore-bodies. Only the first of these five ore-bodies has been fully explored but this single ore-body contains reserves on a JORC ...
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Retrac button drill bit
Retrac button drill bit Material: Tungsten carbide tips and steel Process: Forging Face type :Drop center 、Concave Diameter(mm):43-115mm Thread Type:R22 R25 R28 R32 T38 T45 T51 Button shape:Hemispherical Buttons Parabolic button Conical button Ballistic button Products adopts superior raw material to produce;we are retrac bit wholesaler,Have rich manufacture experience and strict quality control ...
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Application Spotlight: Denver CO uses magnetic resonance to manage aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)
Magnetic resonance (NMR) logging is well suited for helping manage aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) projects. An excellent example is this project in Denver Colorado, in which they used Vista Clara NMR borehole logging tools to characterize the Denver basin aquifer properties, especially hydraulic conductivity, for potential aquifer storage and recovery. The aquifers of interest are ...
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Risky Business: OSHA Fall Protection for the Oil & Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry is critical to the economy, and like many industries, it has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. But despite the slump, the safety of employees working on oil rigs and refineries is still a leading OSHA priority. Downtime or not, the oil industry remains a dangerous place for workers exposed to chemical, physical, and biological hazards. In fact, downtime might be ...
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The Key Benefits Of A Waste Oil Pyrolysis Machine
Countries worldwide happen to be sending their rubbish to sea fills, incinerators, and landfills for decades. Unfortunately, those methods of waste disposal have had negative impacts about the environment. Think clogged valleys, contaminated rivers, air pollution, polluted oceans, and toxic agricultural land. The worst element of all is the fact many of the items thrown away contain resources, ...
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Flowback Water Treatment in the Permian Basin, TX: A Case Study from a Large Oil/Gas E&P Company - Case Study
Produced water from the extraction process of oil and gas reserves, as well as flow back water from hydraulic fracturing operations, must be properly managed in order to mitigate any environmental impacts to existing water supplies caused by oil drilling/fracturing activities. Recent research and data indicate that the amount of produced water from these energy exploration and drilling ...
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Practical Open Pit Rock Mechanics - Case Study
Project Description Open pit mining often result in high rock slopes, sometimes combined with difficult rock conditions. This is further augmented by large blasting rounds resulting in high vibrations. Reinforcement of pit slope walls is also difficult and many times associated with high costs and loss of production. Bench slope stability is vital for a safe working place for all personnel in the ...
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Drilling down into chemical hazards in the mining industry
Industries worldwide rely on the steady supply of minerals and metals harvested by the mining industry such as coal, iron ore, bauxite, and potash. Though the final products of mining may not be hazardous, there are many chemical risks that mine workers are exposed to daily. Mineral production involves a series of physical and chemical processes. These occur throughout the excavation of ore ...
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Offshore Platform
Description Biological fouling is a frequent issue whenever seawater or freshwater is used as cooling or process water for petrochemical plants processes, and offshore facilities such as oil and gas exploration drilling rigs, FPSO vessels. Several consumers on offshore oil and gas production platforms such as fouling control equipment including Fire Water pipes, Jockey Pump, Cooling Water, and ...
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Earthfill Dam—Targeted Remediation - Case Study
THE CHALLENGE An earthfill dam, in Austria, had a planned underseepage, with several piezometers installed to understand the water flowing beneath the dam. The owner wanted to know if there were preferential seepage paths or if the seepage was evenly distributed in the foundation. THE SOLUTION In 2015, Willowstick completed an investigation at the dam, with several surveys covering the entire ...
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Lamor Waste Management Services
In the pursuit of new oil and gas finds around the world, exploration and drilling companies are concentrating their efforts in many new and emerging territories. Many of these new locations lack basic amenities such as sanitation; water and waste management. They are often devoid of infrastructure and support services to cope with the burgeoning demands placed upon them, especially when it comes ...
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Sand & Gravel - Case Study
Creating a Borehole Database A series of exploration boreholes were drilled. Samples were taken every five feet and sieved in order to determine the relative percentages of sand, gravel and clay (or other non-sand/gravel material). These samples were restricted to the interval below the base of the soil profile and the top of the bedrock. The borehole locations, stratigraphy (see Table 1), and ...
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Drill King International is exploring reverse-circulation drilling opportunities in Chile
The new XT RC50 hammer from Drill King International completed drilling trials at the beginning of August 2016. This 5in (127mm) reverse-circulation (RC) hammer is the first one from the XT (Extreme Torque) series, introduced by the down-the-hole (DTH) drilling equipment manufacturer from Texas, US. The XT RC hammer series will complement Drill King's extensive line of DTH air- and water-powered ...
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Abrasives case study - Carbo Ceramics
It's been four years since Tom Sorensen has had to replace an elbow in his pneumatic conveying lines. But life wasn't always this easy for the maintenance manager at Carbo Ceramics' Eufaula, Ala. Facility. The company manufactures ceramic beads for use as proppants in oil and gas exploration and drilling. Global Giants such as Halliburton and Schlumberger pump the ceramic beads into well bores to ...
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Meet an Intelex Client: Coral Barrett, Boart Longyear
Coral works in EHS Data & Support at Boart Longyear, a mineral exploration company that provides drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling. Based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, this year Boart Longyear celebrates its 125 anniversary as a leader in the global mining and drilling industry. In this video, Coral discusses what made Intelex stand out from the competition when her ...
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Q&A: A look at Shell Oil and Arctic offshore drilling
Shell Oil drill vessels are heading to the Arctic. But they will not be permitted to drill into petroleum-bearing rock until a key piece of blowout response equipment, a capping stack, is on site. The capping stack is carried on the icebreaker Fennica, which arrived early Saturday for repairs in Portland, Oregon. Arctic offshore drilling opponents plan to demonstrate while the Fennica is in ...
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What`s at Stake: The debate over Arctic Drilling
Royal Dutch Shell is planning to park two massive Arctic oil drilling rigs in Seattle's waterfront before they head north - but the petrochemical giant will first have to get around protesters in kayaks and others who want to thwart the new frontier in oil exploration and spark a national debate about fossil fuels and climate change. Here's a look at the debate over Shell's plans to drill in the ...
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