Sentences with phrase «of drilling mud»

Even Burland isn't entirely sure of the recipe, although he says it includes some bentonite, used in the oil industry as a component of drilling mud, and that the mix is nontoxic and viscous enough to stop the ground from squeezing it.

But the Chikyu will use a new drilling technology, stabilizing and lubricating its borehole with seawater instead of the drilling muds that have often caused contamination in the past.

Not exact matches

What really matters to achieve optimal reservoir exploitation is the rig's mud system and reliability, hole size, kickoff point, rate of build through the bend, the mud system, drilling tools, and the planned direction of the wellbore.

But once a drill penetrated the ice, Scherer and others determined that it is actually 5 feet deep, sitting atop 20 feet of gooey mud.

The EPA also flagged health risks to workers close to wastewater and other potentially radioactive materials, like the large amounts of soil and mud unearthed by drilling.

Of course, the chances of the top kill succeeding are good but not great; BP's CEO admits the chances of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 Of course, the chances of the top kill succeeding are good but not great; BP's CEO admits the chances of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 of the top kill succeeding are good but not great; BP's CEO admits the chances of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 %.

On the afternoon of May 26, BP technicians fired up pumps rated at a total of 30,000 horsepower and began shooting heavy drilling mud into the well.

With the oil staunched, Chu allowed BP to proceed with a so - called «static kill» — another attempt to push the oil back down the well with heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seafloor.

For 2 months in 2013, the JOIDES Resolution, the ship for the International Ocean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dated.

Dumptrucks for gravel; 18 wheelers for supplies, water, waste, drilling mud, pipe, fuel, cement and oil; flatbeds for excavators and rig equipment — plus hundreds of trips in work trucks and pickups.

Sasha Friedlander (co - director / co-producer) and Cynthia Wade (co - director / co-producer) / Mudflow (U.S.A.): Mudflow is the story of Indonesian villagers» fight for justice in the wake of a massive exploding mud volcano blamed on gas drilling gone wrong.

Volcanos, geysers, boiling mud pits, petrified lava fields, peculiar rock formations, splashes of paint on martian landscapes — the sights were truly amazing, but less enjoyable when broken down into standardized drills: Drive, step out, take a picture, drive.

But after Rauschenberg's Mud Muse — a huge vat of industrial - drilling mud which bubbled and burped in response to auditory signals — set off a frenzy of mud throwing and smearing at the opening of an E.A.T. show in Los Angeles, support evaporatMud Muse — a huge vat of industrial - drilling mud which bubbled and burped in response to auditory signals — set off a frenzy of mud throwing and smearing at the opening of an E.A.T. show in Los Angeles, support evaporatmud which bubbled and burped in response to auditory signals — set off a frenzy of mud throwing and smearing at the opening of an E.A.T. show in Los Angeles, support evaporatmud throwing and smearing at the opening of an E.A.T. show in Los Angeles, support evaporated.

Other galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: «Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore)» (1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal and «Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71 3.5 tons of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressoMud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71 3.5 tons of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressomud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.

Later galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore, 1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal junkyard treasures with the most advanced wireless transistor circuitry, and Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71), a vat of 8,000 pounds of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressoMud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71), a vat of 8,000 pounds of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressomud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.

As heavy drilling mud is pumped through the well in hopes of overcoming the upward force from the pressurized oil and gas, one can only hope there will be a telegenic high - five moment for the hard - working engineers working relentlessly on the crisis since late April.

«Beneath Siberia's snow may lie geologic formations that hold vast deposits of fossil fuels, as well as mineral resources» as if they didn't have drills that get through ice and like Canada, prefer to work on ice than on mud.

An image taken Thursday night from one of BP's video cameras monitoring the oil and drilling mud flowing from its damaged well.

Postscript: Tonight, BP resumed efforts to choke the well with heavy drilling mud, with no assurance of success and two or three more possible solutions in the wings.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

In any case, unless the boreholes were made with a magic drilling rig, where the drilling head generated no heat, and no fluid or drilling mud was used to flush the drill waste from the hole, the temperatures of the exposed bore walls are useless for anything except rough indications of the local geothermal gradient.

As a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University she's spent decades analyzing mud core samples drilled from lakes around the world to examine climate and fire going back thousands of years.

The drill core penetrated 514 m of silts and silty clays (glacial deposits) punctuated by muds and episodic 0.02 — 1.2 m thick terrigenous sands (interglacial deposits) 22.

During an early December nightshift, an employee of the Respondent, Precision Drilling Canada Limited Partnership, mistakenly mixes sulfamic acid into drilling mud instead of causticDrilling Canada Limited Partnership, mistakenly mixes sulfamic acid into drilling mud instead of causticdrilling mud instead of caustic potash.

Was first participant from Mud School class to be allowed to work alone because of a professional attitude and demonstrated knowledge of drilling operation.

A drilling fluids engineer who is also known as a mud engineer is an engineer who has specialized knowledge of drilling practices and uses this knowledge to create and develop fluids which help in lubricating the components of machines.

Throughout my experience as a Mudlogging professional, I have successfully provided detailed well log records of borehole examinations of rock, sediment, and mud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operations In addition, I helped ensure that each company's daily operational aspects were conducted in a highly professional manner and adhered to corporate standards, industry regulations, professional ethics, and applicable laws.

This cover letter was written by ResumeMyCareer's staff of professional resume writers, and demonstrates how a cover letter for a Well Drilling and Mud Logging Cover Letter Sample should properly be created.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Mud Logging — Texan Drilling Services, Weimar, TX 2010 to Present Provide microscopic observation and examination of drill cuttings (formation rock chips), and evaluate any hydrocarbon (gas) constituents, basic chemical and mechanical parameters of drilling fluid or mud (chlorides and temperaturMud Logging — Texan Drilling Services, Weimar, TX 2010 to Present Provide microscopic observation and examination of drill cuttings (formation rock chips), and evaluate any hydrocarbon (gas) constituents, basic chemical and mechanical parameters of drilling fluid or mud (chlorides and tempeDrilling Services, Weimar, TX 2010 to Present Provide microscopic observation and examination of drill cuttings (formation rock chips), and evaluate any hydrocarbon (gas) constituents, basic chemical and mechanical parameters of drilling fluid or mud (chlorides and tempedrilling fluid or mud (chlorides and temperaturmud (chlorides and temperature).

Key identification of the downhole lithology (rock rate), and monitors any natural gas entering the drilling mud stream, and creates well logs for use by oil company geologists.

Knowledgeable, focused, and motivated Mud Logging Well Driller with experience in creating detailed well log records of borehole examinations of rock, sediment, and mud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operatioMud Logging Well Driller with experience in creating detailed well log records of borehole examinations of rock, sediment, and mud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operatiomud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operations.

Also noted are the rate of penetration or drill rate, pump rate, pump pressure, drill string weight, rotary speed, rotary torque, mud weight and mud viscosity, sometimes using attached monitoring devices to the drilling rigs equipment.