An Introduction to the Flora and Vegetation of the Western San Joaquin Valley

Ernest C. Twisselmann

Pacific Section of AAPG

... in its range for livestock, exceeding even alfalfa in protein content, is an excellent soil holder in “blow” areas, and is vital for food and cover...

A Geologic Analysis of the Fruitland Formation Coal and Coal-Bed Methane Resources of the San Juan Basin, Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico

Bruce S. Kelso, Donald E. Wicks

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Fruitland coals have been documented by operators in certain areas of the San Juan Basin as significant gas kicks and even blow-outs. To delineate...

History of the Durango Area

Norman J. Bender

Four Corners Geological Society

... that they blow so much about. Both the enterprising editors have been ordered out of camp.”24 The newspapers of today seem rather pale, at best...

WOMAN'S POCKET ANTICLINE: Geology and Drilling History

DANIEL S. TURNER

Montana Geological Society

... analysis which we might apply on a current test. In short it can be said that unless any well could be made to "blow the tools from...

The Birth of the Modern Oil Industry

Halfdan Carstens

GEO ExPro Magazine

... into the hole and causing a blowout. The well was as such no drilling hazard even, though, for obvious reasons, it lacked a blow-out preventer. The well...

Net Directions and Rates of Present-Day Beach Sediment Transport by Littoral Drift along the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

J. K. Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... blow from November to March, and from June to September, respectively (Dale, 1956). During the northeast monsoon, strong (of about 3 to 7 m...

The Seismic Exploration of the Mahakam Delta, or "Nine Years Shooting in Rivers, Swamps and Very Shallow Offshore"

Guy Roux

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and shoot in deeper holes, below this modern delta. Due to drilling difficulties, mainly the risk of superficial gas blow out, the expected depth...

CO2 Injection and Sequestration in Depleted Oil and Gas Fields and Deep Coal Seams: Worldwide Potential and Costs

SCOTT H. STEVENS, VELLO A. KUUSKRAA, JOHN GALE, DAVID BEECY

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... the production and injection wells will also maintain CO2 sequestration. Current practice is to “blow down” an EOR field at decommissioning...

Chapter 2: Processes of Eolian Sand Transport and Deposition

C. J. Schenk

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... by a lag of coarser grains (Fig. 4B). They commonly form in deflationary settings, which can be interdune, blow-out dune, parabolic dune, and sand-sheet...

Current Trends in Geophysics

H. E. Stommel, J. M. Graul

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... velocity verifies the gas-related nature of the bright spot. Figure 29. Bright Spot Color- Velocity Anomaly Figure 30 depicts a blow-up of the same...

Drilling & Development

C. H. Riggs, J. L. Eakin, Larman J. Heath, K. H. Johnston

Bureau of Mines

... at 100 million cubic feet daily, with enough force to blow the drilling tools out of the hole. The total initial daily gas flow of wells completed...

Temporal Controls and Resulting Variations in Oligo-Miocene Carbonates From the East Java Basin, Indonesia: Examples From the Cepu Area

James V. White, Aram N. Derewetzky, Geoff C. Geary, V. Kurt Hohensee, Errol M. Johnstone, Chengjie Liu, Andrew C. Pierce, Jill Stevens

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... scale; getting it right, In: Geological Society of America, 1995 Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America. Blow, W.H....

Selected Geopressured Geothermal Energy Bibliography

Houston Geological Society

..., no. 5, September, pp. 817-828. Bacon, C. F., 1976, Blow-out of a geothermal well: Calif. Geol., vol. 29, no. 1, January, pp. 13-17. Bloomster, C. H...

Role of the Doctrine of I. M. Gubkin in the Development of Petroleum Geology in the Oil and Gas Producing Industry of the USSR

M. F. Mirchink

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... into adjacent pore space. The damaging blow to the opponents of the idea on oil-source formations was struck by the work of V. V. Veber, A. I. Gorska...

Sisi Nubi Development Drilling: A Challenging Well Construction Process

Pierre Brossollet, Armel Simondin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... BOP procedures without the risk of internal blow out. For these formations, a diverter is installed to provide enough time, if a gas kick occurs...

Physical Parameter Distribution Patterns in Bottom Sediments of the Buctouche Bay Complex

J. Thibault

Atlantic Geology

... effect on the deeper portions of the bay, they can effectively erode, transport and resuspend sediment along the shore. Northeast winds blow over a much...

Geology as an Historical Tool

Warren E. Grabau

GCAGS Transactions

... of draft, into the lead. A moment later the ironclad shudders to a stunning blow under her port bow, and a second later to another under her stern. She has...

Comparison of Two Mollusc-Dominated Faunas from Cavity Layers in the Lower Cretaceous Edwards Formation of Central Texas

Linda McCall, James Sprinkle, Ann Molineux

GCAGS Transactions

... of unidentified Caprinuloidea sprudist NPL 39334. (H) Large, unidentified caprinid rudist, NPL 39350. (I) Blow-up showing small coral growing on the surface...

Pacific Coast Paleogeography Field Guide 4: Tertiary and Quaternary Geology of the Salinas Valley and Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County, California; Frontmatter and Roadlogs

S. A. Graham

Pacific Section SEPM

... in Monterey shales. Two areas are faulted folds, while the third is a sand pinch-out across a fold. A blow-out early in the development of the field...

Controls on Occurrence of Oil and Gas in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin

F. H. Lane, K. S. Jackson

CSPG Special Publications

... that the potential source material has been geochemically metamorphosed. Most of the Mesozoic section, as seen in the Blow River and Spring River wells, has thermal...

A NEW TAXON IN THE GENUS CHARONIA (MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA) FROM THE PLIOCENE OF VENEZUELA, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

J. Gibson-Smith

Asociación Venezolana de Geología, Minería y Petróleo (AVGMP)

... determined as Globorotalia tosaensis tenuitheca Blow by Fred Rogl (in litt.) who assigns an upper Pliocene age; it occurs throughout the Mare Formation...

A Brief History of Early Mineral Exploitation in the Uinta Basin

Robert E. Covington

Utah Geological Association

... the stack would blow back across the gilsonite-loaded cars and often catch the ore on fire. One of the engines came from Venezuela, where it had been...

Environmental Issues Deriving from the Energy Winning Activities in the Gippsland Basin

S Hancock, H Grynberg, P Lindon, J Wardrop

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... operations was the blow out in the 1960s close to the Marlin Production Platform. This occurrence involved largely gas leakage and was sealed off within...

A Software Breakthrough for Tackling Challenging Kick Situations in Indonesia Fields: Sisi Nubi, Tunu and Tambora

Bernard Lopez, Philippe Essel, Patrick Isambourg

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... influx, whereas, underestimating them can lead to fracturing the formation and possibly causing an underground blow out. From this starting point...

CURRENT DRILLING AND FORMATION EVALUATION TECHNIQUES WILLISTON BASIN

ROBERT M. WATKINS

Montana Geological Society

... sands have been penetrated which have resulted in blow-outs. These gas pockets nearly always contain inert gas and often deplete themselves...