Drilling

make the choice whether we want to be more self-reliance or have a safer environment. That brings us to the subject of offshore drilling in regards to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Offshore drilling is the process of drilling for oil offshore in places such oceans or sea beds through an oil rig. Sound like something non-complex. Many would assume that offshore drilling could not have very much effect in regards to onshore. The most politically correct way for a person to decide where they stand

An offshore drilling rig is a machine that creates holes (usually called wells or boreholes) and/or shafts in the ground. Drilling rigs can be huge structures that house equipment which is then used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas wells. The term “rig” refers to the complexity of the equipment that is used to penetrate deep into the surface of the earth’s hard crust. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled through the seabed. Typically carried out in

measuring the piece in every procedure. From the beginning, when we cut our piece from the steel bar using the Band Saw machine. In the end when we drilled four different sizes of holes in the piece using two different techniques; drilling using the milling machine and drilling by hand. Before we started machining, we were instructed in how to perform measurements using calipers and micrometers, but we mainly use micrometers during the procedure. Then, after a clear explanation of the procedure, measurements

Northern Drilling: Introduction Northern Drilling Inc. was established as a subsidiary of Europe’s InterDrilling Corporation, the world’s third largest exploration drilling contractor, in 2006 to take on a new frontier in Canada. A seasoned veteran in the drilling exploration field for more than 30 years, Peter Bremner took the helm as general manager to build its Canadian division as an opportunity to take advantage of a potentially untapped resource ‘goldmine’. Northern Drilling prided itself

The offshore drilling industry can be split into 5 key markets: upgrade market, contract drilling market, second-hand market, scrap market and contract drilling market. Among them contract drilling market is most important, because it ensures smooth cash flow between markets. drilling units is summarised in the table below. The table above describes cash flow within offshore drilling markets. Contract drilling market leases drilling units to O&G companies to drill or service wells, in turn they

Offshore Drilling Does anything out weigh the importance of our planet’s health? You would be surprised by the number of people who look the other way when it comes to keeping the planet clean. Offshore drilling is just one of the major environmental issues that has existed for many years and still continues to be a problem. The topic of offshore drilling not only touches on environmental issues but also political, economic, and ethical issues. All of these tie into the huge debate over offshore

One of these jobs would be mining for coal and drilling for oil, which would, as you stated, create over 42,000 jobs. America needs these jobs, but is the price of jobs worth the overall impact? In the end, the impact made by drilling and mining is not worth all of the jobs in the world. The United States has a lot of oil, and by extracting all of this oil from the earth, an infinite amount

One way that drilling for oil destroys animals homes is that fossil fuels create carbon dioxide, and then that burned carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere and then Global Warming is starting to melt the ice caps that animals live on. Also, drilling the new wells that we have to drill to get the oil, that makes the amount of land for the animals to make homes go down, and when the land amount goes down so does the length of the animals, like the polar bear, go down. The average length of the polar

Offshore Drilling What is it? Drilling for oil in the ocean is one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in recent decades, and many new techniques have been developed to profit from the abundance of oil underneath the ocean floor. While drilling for oil has been around for hundreds of years in one form or the another, the effective extraction of petroleum from beneath the sea floor did not surface until the last forty years. The search for oil often turns out to be unproductive, but

5. The functions of drilling mud, and how their properties are modified to suit downhole conditions Discussion of the problems the mud engineer has in selecting a mud for a HPHT well. Introduction The drilling mud plays a critical role in any successful drilling operation. It must be carefully optimised and managed to ensure the safety of the drilling operation and to minimise hole problems. A failure in the mud design can lead to significant losses in terms of time and cost as a result of problems