PHOTOS FROM THE PAST

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... shot point activity -- a bit too close for comfort. Looks like a National recording truck of about 1936 vintage. Captions by W. B. Robinson Figure...

Plans for Drilling the Mohole

Willard Bascom, J. S. Brown

CSPG Bulletin

... to be Cretaceous; in the Pacific the soft sediments appear to be mostly Eocene except for the odd bit of Cretaceous. The sedimentary rate would indicate...

Colgrade Field Winn Parish, Louisiana

Robert E. Nelson

GCAGS Transactions

.... The field operators have, as a general rule, drilled to a point as close to the top of the pay sand as they dared with a conventional 7 7/8 rock bit...

Subsurface Lithostratigraphy of the Hunton Group, in Parts of Payne, Lincoln and Logan Counties, Oklahoma

Terry Lewis Hollrah

Oklahoma City Geological Society

..., the Chimneyhill can be divided by careful study of the lithology of bit cuttings. The Haragan and Henryhouse Formations also were treated generally as a single...

Donald Field

Toby Elster

Kansas Geological Society

... are, in the sequence that the drill bit penetrates, the Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Ordovician, and undoubtedly Cambrian laying on the basement or Pre-Cambrian...

Memorial: Lowell Waller Saunders (1901-1954)

V. L. Vander Hoof

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... rare persons whose presence made it a bit better for his being here, even for so short a stay. Lowell Saunders was born on his parents' ranch west of Red...

Whale Hunters Seek Elephants

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... that fit migration modelling results. Susanne. “Now, it is finally going to be investigated by the drill bit. Our targets are the deep marine sandstones...

Petroleum History Institute Annual Meeting and Field Trip; New Harmony, Indiana, May 11…13, 2023

William R. Brice

Petroleum History Institute

... to cancel the tour. But we did get to take our meeting photo in front of the education building (Fig. 29). With the end of the field trip, we had a bit...

History of the Petroleum Industry

Paul Hedrick

Tulsa Geological Society

... the Smiths to drive a 39 foot iron pipe to solid rock and drill inside the pipe. On Saturday, August 27, at a depth of 67 feet the bit dropped two feet...

How to Select Correct Logging Method

C. K. Ruddick

Tulsa Geological Society

... Low resistive shale High resistive limestone Hole conditions Bit size Caved Information Supplied by Services Once the information...

Thums Oil Operations

Brigitte Berman, Donald Clarke

Pacific Section of AAPG

... be designed as a build and sail course, then an “S” shaped course using a maximum angle of 55° is attempted. THUMS requires that the bit remains within...

ABSTRACT: The Characteristics of Desmocollinite in Turpan Coal and Its Potential to Produce Oil in the Turpan Basin, China

Zhongkai Chen, Yingting Guo, Kuili Jin, John J. Renton

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... containing 3% to 10Y0. The erdnite is composed mainly of spoxinite, cutinite, bit-mirite, and subrinite. Risinite and alginite are rare...

White Belly Wash Field—An Organ Rock Gas Field

Harold H. Brown

Four Corners Geological Society

... Sandstone. Both of these units make up the Permian upper Cutler. During drilling operations the Organ Rock can easily be picked by drilling time as bit...

Advances in Seismic Acquisition in the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia

Jair Rodrigues de Salles Scares Filho, Mario Geraldo de Freitas

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

..., when stacked with high multiplicity, the high dynamic range of the Figure L Location Map. 18 recording instrument (a 24 bit I/O system Two...

Elk Hills Medium Radius Horizontal Well

Orville Hart

Pacific Section of AAPG

... planned. Results Hole direction, azimuth and angle: During drilling, the bit tended to go directly up-dip away from the target. As a result, the horizontal...

Memorial: William Darwin Kleinpell (1898-1959)

Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Vernon L. King, Earl B. Noble

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... of Bill's philosophy b y describing a personal i n c i d e n t — " I entered this group as a cub geologist and was a bit overawed b y the number...

Horizontal Drilling in the Dos Cuadras Field

J. David Payne

Pacific Section of AAPG

... was chosen that also provided downhole weight on bit and torque. Completion Procedure Almost all Dos Cuadras well completions involve some method of sand...

Progress of A Horizontal Well in a Mature Steamflood Project: Kern River Field, CA

K. L. Haney

Pacific Section of AAPG

... was calibrated based on circulation rates of between 250 and 500 gpm. Recognizing that the position of the directional sensor was 66′ behind the bit...

Communicating Geoscience: What is Geology?

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... at communicating to nongeoscientists as a performance; a bit like a play in three acts,” another student explains. “First we hook the audience with wonderful...

Is There a G in Decommissioning?

John Simpson, John Mcnab

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the casing at that depth. With a tested mechanical plug as a base, the cement should be load tested with a drill bit or mill once set, to prove...

Memorial: Thomas Franklin Petty (1900-1962)

L. T. Barrow

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... to take life a bit easier, travel a little, and "play the game" on his own. Premature retirement was granted on August 1, 1959. Petty accepted every...

Abstract: The Ultimate Gas Curve for Lateral Wells

Bill Chandler

West Texas Geological Society

... throughout the procedure. Once at the lab, all samples to be evaluated go through particle size distribution which is dependent on rock type and bit...

Cavernous reservoir and large potentials in Ordovician Ellenburger carbonates at north Texas

Fangjian Xue, Vasudhaven Sudhakar

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... mud-losses and bit-drop in drilling, high flowrate in testing and high cumulative up to 5.3MMBO (Well #1 in Figure 1C) or 300BCF (Well #4 in Figure...

Marine Vibrators: Part I: Early Developments and a Failure

Martin Landrø, Lasse Amundsen

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., and why it might be getting closer to reality. A Bit of History et al. (1960) published a paper entitled ‘Continuous signal seismograph’, where...

Criteria for Successful Exploration of Miocene Reef Production in the Philippines

R.M. Lloyd

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... and in the subsurface . Many of the subsurface reefs have been tested by the drill bit (Figure 2). In most cases, good reservoir properties were encountered...