Drilling Technology of the Super-Deep Borehole Upper Parts in Sedimentary Sequences

1990 ◽  
pp. 269-272
Author(s):  
E. Ya. Oxenoid ◽  
V. A. Shvetsky ◽  
Yu. M. Guerzhberg ◽  
A. B. Solarev
Keyword(s):  
Deep Borehole ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences ◽  
Drilling Technology

Deep borehole disposal of higher burn up spent nuclear fuels

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 3003-3017 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. G. F. Gibb ◽  
K. P. Travis ◽  
K. W. Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Deep Borehole ◽  
Nuclear Fuels ◽  
Deep Drilling ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Flow Modelling ◽  
Fuel Assemblies ◽  
Drilling Technology ◽  
Potential Benefits

AbstractThe heat outputs of higher burn up spent fuels (SF) create problems for disposal in mined repositories, including needs for reduced container loadings and extended pre-disposal cooling. An alternative that is less temperature sensitive is deep borehole disposal (DBD) which offers safety, cost, security and other potential benefits and could be implemented relatively quickly using currently available deep-drilling technology. We have modified our previously proposed version of DBD to be more appropriate for higher burn-up fuels by using smaller (0.36 m diameter) stainless steel containers, a smaller (0.56 m diameter) borehole, and different support matrices. We present the results of new heat-flow modelling for DBD of UO2 and MOX SF with burn ups of 55 and 65 GWd/t showing how temperatures evolve, especially on the outer surface of the containers. Consequences for the performance of the support matrices and the disposal concept are discussed. The thermal modelling indicates DBD is a viable option for higher burn-up SF and could be a practical disposal route for many combinations of fuel types, burn ups, ages and container loadings. Further, the results suggest that DBD of complete fuel assemblies, a desirable option, would be feasible and require much shorter pre-disposal cooling than necessary for disposal in mined repositories.

scholarly journals The Underground Directional Drilling Technology and Equipments for Kilometer Deep Borehole with MWD in Coalmine

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijun Shi ◽  
Shuning Dong ◽  
Ningping Yao ◽  
Dongzhuang Tian
Keyword(s):  
Directional Drilling ◽  
Deep Borehole ◽  
Drilling Technology

Analysis of Efficiency of Drilling of Large-Diameter Wells With a Profiled Wing Bit / Badania Efektywności Wiercenia Studni Wielkośrednicowych Świdrem Skrawającym z Profilowanymi Skrzydłami

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-373
Author(s):  
Jan Macuda
Keyword(s):  
Average Rate ◽  
Large Diameter ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Mechanical Parameters ◽  
Drilling Rate ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Rock Drillability ◽  
Drilling Technology ◽  
Weight On Bit ◽  
Rotary Speed

Abstract In Poland all lignite mines are dewatered with the use of large-diameter wells. Drilling of such wells is inefficient owing to the presence of loose Quaternary and Tertiary material and considerable dewatering of rock mass within the open pit area. Difficult geological conditions significantly elongate the time in which large-diameter dewatering wells are drilled, and various drilling complications and break-downs related to the caving may occur. Obtaining higher drilling rates in large-diameter wells can be achieved only when new cutter bits designs are worked out and rock drillability tests performed for optimum mechanical parameters of drilling technology. Those tests were performed for a bit ø 1.16 m in separated macroscopically homogeneous layers of similar drillability. Depending on the designed thickness of the drilled layer, there were determined measurement sections from 0.2 to 1.0 m long, and each of the sections was drilled at constant rotary speed and weight on bit values. Prior to drillability tests, accounting for the technical characteristic of the rig and strength of the string and the cutter bit, there were established limitations for mechanical parameters of drilling technology: P ∈ (Pmin; Pmax) n ∈ (nmin; nmax) where: Pmin; Pmax - lowest and highest values of weight on bit, nmin; nmax - lowest and highest values of rotary speed of bit, For finding the dependence of the rate of penetration on weight on bit and rotary speed of bit various regression models have been analyzed. The most satisfactory results were obtained for the exponential model illustrating the influence of weight on bit and rotary speed of bit on drilling rate. The regression coefficients and statistical parameters prove the good fit of the model to measurement data, presented in tables 4-6. The average drilling rate for a cutter bit with profiled wings has been described with the form: Vśr= Z ·Pa· nb where: Vśr- average drilling rate, Z - drillability coefficient, P - weight on bit, n - rotary speed of bit, a - coefficient of influence of weight on bit on drilling rate, b - coefficient of influence of rotary speed of bit on drilling rate. Industrial tests were performed for assessing the efficiency of drilling of large-diameter wells with a cutter bit having profiled wings ø 1.16 m according to elaborated model of average rate of drilling. The obtained values of average rate of drilling during industrial tests ranged from 8.33×10-4 to 1.94×10-3 m/s and were higher than the ones obtained so far, i.e. from 181.21 to 262.11%.

Underbalanced Drilling Technology for Unconventional Tight Gas Reservoirs

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hani Qutob ◽  
Khelil Kartobi ◽  
Abdelaziz Khlaifat
Keyword(s):  
Tight Gas ◽  
Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Tight Gas Reservoirs ◽  
Underbalanced Drilling ◽  
Drilling Technology

EXPERIENCE OF THE CASING DRILLING TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION IN PJSC "TATNEFT" OIL FIELDS

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
R.F. Sagatov ◽  
◽  
A.Ya. Vakula ◽  
A.R. Ibragimov ◽  
L.B. Khuzina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Fields ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Drilling Technology ◽  
Casing Drilling

Regionally continuous Miocene rhyolites beneath the eastern Snake River Plain reveal localized flexure at its western margin: Idaho National Laboratory and vicinity

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-270
Author(s):  
Kyle L. Schusler ◽  
David M. Pearson ◽  
Michael McCurry ◽  
Roy C. Bartholomay ◽  
Mark H. Anders
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Snake River Plain ◽  
North American Plate ◽  
Snake River ◽  
Trace Element Geochemistry ◽  
Deep Borehole ◽  
Age Progression ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
Silicic Volcanic ◽  
River Plain

The eastern Snake River Plain (ESRP) is a northeast-trending topographic basin interpreted to be the result of the time-transgressive track of the North American plate above the Yellowstone hotspot. The track is defined by the age progression of silicic volcanic rocks exposed along the margins of the ESRP. However, the bulk of these silicic rocks are buried under 1 to 3 kilometers of younger basalts. Here, silicic volcanic rocks recovered from boreholes that penetrate below the basalts, including INEL-1, WO-2 and new deep borehole USGS-142, are correlated with one another and to surface exposures to assess various models for ESRP subsidence. These correlations are established on U/Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar sanidine age determinations, phenocryst assemblages, major and trace element geochemistry, δ18O isotopic data from selected phenocrysts, and initial εHf values of zircon. These data suggest a correlation of: (1) the newly documented 8.1 ± 0.2 Ma rhyolite of Butte Quarry (sample 17KS03), exposed near Arco, Idaho to the upper-most Picabo volcanic field rhyolites found in borehole INEL-1; (2) the 6.73 ± 0.02 Ma East Arco Hills rhyolite (sample 16KS02) to the Blacktail Creek Tuff, which was also encountered at the bottom of borehole WO-2; and (3) the 6.42 ± 0.07 Ma rhyolite of borehole USGS-142 to the Walcott Tuff B encountered in deep borehole WO-2. These results show that rhyolites found along the western margin of the ESRP dip ~20º south-southeast toward the basin axis, and then gradually tilt less steeply in the subsurface as the axis is approached. This subsurface pattern of tilting is consistent with a previously proposed crustal flexural model of subsidence based only on surface exposures, but is inconsistent with subsidence models that require accommodation of ESRP subsidence on either a major normal fault or strike-slip fault.

Scientific and technological aspects and prospects for application of cryogenic drilling technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
A. B. Tulubaev ◽  
E. V. Panikarovskii
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Wellbore Stability ◽  
Drilling Mud ◽  
Chemical Reagent ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Permafrost Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Drilling Technology

In the article, we analyze types of drilling mud, which are used to drilling intervals of permafrost rocks; the importance of wellbore stability is noted. Wedescribethemain technologies, which have been being applied in the north of Western Siberia; these technologies are aimed at minimizing the loss wellbore stability due to violation of the temperature conditions in the well. We also analyze hydrocarbon systems, taking into account foreign experience, which is based on prospecting and exploratory drilling of ice deposits in Greenland and Antarctica. The article draws your attention to using synthetic fluids, monoesters and chladones. The difficulties of the existing technology and the disadvantages of the hydrocarbon systems are highlighted. We propose to apply a new cryogenic drilling technology, which consists in the use of synthetic fluorine-containing agents as flushing fluid at low temperatures. The text gives valuable information on composition of the proposed flushing fluid and the prospects of using the technology to prevent complications. Much attention is given to issue of manufacturing the main chemical reagent with the reduction of the generalized production chain of its production from the starting material, it is fluorspar.

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