Blanco Field, San Juan Basin

Harrell Budd

Four Corners Geological Society

.... Normally, the blast affect of the shot and the release of pressure of the natural gas in the formation cleaned the wellout, so that they were...

Photographs

Ohio Geological Society

... frozen solid and a tin barricade has been put up to block the icy blast of the wind...

Wellbore Management - Workshop Summary

Kent Gantz, Ed Delgado, Ronnie Aten, Bill Webb, Lynn Rowlan, Ken Barker

PTTC

... on the rods or couplings. Tubing anchor catchers are used on all sucker rod lift installations. Internally plastic-coated tubing joints are run as a blast...

Notes on the Stratigraphy of Cimarron County, Oklahoma

J. Willis Stovall

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... ranging from very fine sand to six-inch cobbles. All of the cobbles are well worn and are apparently polished by sand blast. The pebbles are composed...

Gemstones and Minerals of the Four Corners Area

Ross Glenn, E. Parker Chipman

Four Corners Geological Society

... of Creede, Colorado. It was here that Bob Ford, the man who shot Jesse James, was himself killed by a shotgun blast. This is not Creede’s only claim...

The Narrow Gauge Lines

Kenneth E. Carter

Four Corners Geological Society

... it was necessary to blast the roadbed out of solid rock, and the cost ran as much as $100,000 per mile, which was extremely expensive in an era of cheap labor...

Use of Rice Husk Ash for Soil Stabilization

M. S. Subrahmanyam, Lee Lih Cheran, Lee So Cheran

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... of Malaysia (GSM) 144 M.S. SUBRAHMANYAM, LEE LIH CHERAN & LEE So CHERAN bricks, pulverised blast furnace slag, fly ash and burnt shale. The rice...

Uranium Deposits of the Uravan Mineral Belt

H. B. Wood, M. A. Lekas

Utah Geological Association

.... Jackleg type drills are usually used for drilling blast holes. Operations range from two men mining 2 to 5 tons per day, to 40 men mining 100 tons...

The Emelle Hazardous Chemical Waste Disposal Facility, Sumter County, Alabama

Rona J. Donahoe, Sara R. Walton

Alabama Geological Society

... to cement kilns, blast furnaces, and other high-efficiency boilers for use as a supplemental fuel. The facility recovered over 4 million gal (15 million I...

A New Coal-Investigations Program in Oklahoma

S. A. Friedman

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... to blast it in preparation for the stripping shovels. One pit contains an auger drill that prepares 70-foot-long horizontal holes in shale and siltstone...

IRON MINING AT THE RUFFNER MINES OF SLOSS SHEFFIELD STEEL AND IRON COMPANY

Robert Yuill,

Alabama Geological Society

.... This included the earliest mine, the Eureka mine opened in 1863 to feed blast furnaces at Oxmoor and was the type area of the Big Vein or seam. All the early...

How the Independent can be Effective in Washington (Remarks from the Aforementioned Talk)

Honorable Clifford P. Hansen

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... things go wrong -- every shotgun blast such as the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act and the Energy Emergency Act aimed at the big oil companies also...

Floating LNG Technology for Abadi Field Development

Ryo Manabe, Akinori Ogawa, Yoshiro Niiho

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to provide further considerations in design with regard to the topside module layout, the optimum gap spaces between the modules, the need for a blast...

Construction Geology Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Area, Colorado

Lynn A. Johnson, Gene E. Tuttle

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of the excavation are tight, and those of the side walls slightly open as a result of weathering and blast damage. (1) Leadville Limestone - The Leadville...

Stratigraphy of Oklahoma

Robert H. Dott

Tulsa Geological Society

... dolomite is quarried in the central Arbuckles and sold for use as blast furnace flux in making glass and for mineral fillers. Pitts or vugs that can...

Impact of Downward Releases on the Risk Profile in Hydrocarbon Process Plants

Fariba Askari, Colin Crowley, Hojat Kord

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... explosion blast waves and partially block jet fires, while obstruction may cause gas accumulation, reduced air entrainment, and eventually, a larger flash fire...

Efficient Removal of Annular Fluids with Microparticulates

James Benkley, Chad Brenneis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., C.P. 1999. Mud Solidification with Blast Furnace Slag-Laboratory Evaluation. Paper presented at the 3rd Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. Int. Petroleum...

History of Coal Production in Southwestern Utah

Paul Averitt, W. B. Cashion

Utah Geological Association

... blast furnace. In 1854 the Leyson mine in Right Hand Canyon (sec. 33, T. 36 S., R. 10 W., locality 1 on Figure 1) was opened for the first production...

Colorado Oil Shale—Its Geology and Economic Significance

Tell Ertl

Tulsa Geological Society

... of the oil shale in place is mined and 25 percent kept in the mine as pillars. The cycle of mining is to drill a round of blast holes into the face or bench...

REPLY: PERMIAN…TRIASSIC MICROBIALITE AND DISSOLUTION SURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON THE GENESIS OF MARINE MICROBIALITES AND DISSOLUTION SURFACE ASSOCIATED WITH THE END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION: NEW SECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NANPANJIANG BASIN, SOUTH CHINA

DANIEL J. LEHRMANN, JOHN M. BENTZ, TANNER WOOD, ALEXA GOERS, RYAN DHILLON, SARA AKIN, XIAOWEI LI, JONATHAN L. PAYNE, BRIAN M. KELLEY, KATJA M. MEYER, ELLEN K. SCHAAL, MARINA B. SUAREZ, MEIYI YU, YANJIAO QIN, RONGXI LI, MARCELLO MINZONI, CHARLES M. HENDERSON

PALAIOS

...) returned to the outcrop and discovered that it was reduced to rubble by dynamite. There were drill holes and dynamite blast fractures behind where...

The Occurrence and Classification of Hard Rock Body in Putrajaya and Its Implication to Construction Activities

Abd Rasid Jaapar, Nuril Anwar Ahba, Azimah Hussin

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... not possible. The rocks also cannot be ripped. Thus, the Turnkey Contractor had to blast the rock. The quantity and amount of the blasting works were...

Facies Analysis and Stratigraphic Model for the Carboniferous…Cretaceous Sequences in Eastern Central Subandean/Chaco Plain, Bolivia

C. E. Souza Cruz, A. C. A. Rocha

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

..., in the glaciers and lakes, during thousands of years, being liberated partly as floods due to the melting of the ice cap or in function of ice dams blast. During...

Hypercleaning as a Stimulation Technique for the Duri Field

Timothy A. Nagy, Eamon J. Flynn

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... each of the 28 nozzles and water blast the liner with a focused energy stream in helical overlapping patterns. Three passes are made across each...

Proppant Powder … The Protection and the Pain … Lurking Hazards of Silicosis

Chris Barrand, Radika Lucas, Anne Nissen

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... Cardiovascular risk Ionising radiation Musculoskeletal disease Whole body vibration Blast fume Low Other hazardous substances Low Hand arm...

Construction Aggregates for Urban Development: Consumption, Sterilisation and the Environment

J. J. Pereira, T. F. Ng

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... October 1994 and May 1996. 23 J.J. PEREIRA areas. The main problems related to blasting are ground vibration, air blast and the occurrence...