Out Into the Surf and Beyond: the Why, How and Where of Offshore Oil Exploration from Bristol Bay to Point Loma from the 1890s to the 1980s

L. Rogers Hardy

Petroleum History Institute

... in California in the early 1950’s of the world’s first dynamically positioned drillships with blow out preventers (BOP’s) on the ocean bottom, separate from...

Seismic Activity in the Central Gulf Coast Basin

Eugene R. Brumbaugh

New Orleans Geological Society

... they do not blow out. Since the shot holes are often 200 feet deep or more, some companies are experimenting with two individual shots discharged...

Abstracts: Petroleum History Institute 2022 Oil History Symposium Santa Barbara, California, May 18, 2022

Petroleum History Institute

Petroleum History Institute

... positioned drillships with blow out preventers (BOP’s) on the ocean bottom, separate from Gulf of Mexico efforts. This plus geophysical advances and new...

Sedimentary Features in the Lake Bonneville Group in the East Shore Area, Near Ogden, Utah

J. H. Feth

Utah Geological Association

.... Hamblin infers that the ridges were caused by a joint process of wind erosion and building of dunes on ridges between the blow-out areas. Unquestionably...

The First-Person Account of Walton Sumner: One Mans Experiences in Petroleum Exploration, 1928…1939

Ginny Kilander

Petroleum History Institute

... was used the core – always badly contaminated by cavings – would blow out all over the place. The third system – contra-flush coring – was operating...

Deltaic Models of Clastic Sedimentation

New Orleans Geological Society

.... Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 48, no. 8, p. 1416-1444. McCloy, J. L., 1969, Morphologic characteristics of the Blow River delta, Yukon Territory, Canada...

Mesozoic and Cenozoic Depositional History of the Northern Interior Plains of Canada

C. J. Yorath, D. G. Cook

CSPG Special Publications

... to the southwest and connected to the Boreal Sea via the Blow Trough (Young et al., 1976), continued to receive mudstones and siltstones of the Arctic Red...

The Los Angeles City Oil Field - California's First Oil Boom During the Revitalization Period (1875-1900)

Stephen M. Testa

Petroleum History Institute

... by the addition of sheet-metal on side of derrick in case of a blow-out, explosion or fire (American Petroleum Institute). ENDRES, BERNARD, 1999...

Geology Of Greater New Orleans: Its Relationship to Land Subsidence and Flooding

J. O. Snowden, W. C. Ward, and J. R. J. Studlick

New Orleans Geological Society

... critical path east of the city, winds would blow from the south and/or east resulting in high tides in Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchartrain. Once the eye...

JUDITH RIVER FORMATION IN EASTERN MONTANA—INNER SHELF SAND RIDGES AND PALEOTECTONISM

George W. Shurr, Frederick D. Wosick, Lawrence M. Monson, John R. Fanshawe

Montana Geological Society

.... 59 E. one mile north of Baker, Montana. In 1915, the same well blew out of control and continued to blow gas for about 7 years until 1921...

A NEW RECORD OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE CORAL POCILLOPORA PALMATA FROM THE DRY TORTUGAS, FLORIDA REEF TRACT, USA

LAUREN T. TOTH, ILSA B. KUFFNER, HAI CHENG, R. LAWRENCE EDWARDS

PALAIOS

.... 2012). The loss of P. palmata was simply the final blow to a group that proved unsuited to the environmental variability of the Quaternary...

NEW DATA ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF BIPLANISPIRA (FORAMINIFERIDA), BASED ON ITS OCCURRENCE IN ARMENIA

ELENA YU ZAKREVSKAYA

PALAIOS

..., 26). According to Matsumaru (1996, p. 27): ‘‘Assemblage III in Haha-Jima is considered to correspond to Zones P15 to P17 of Blow (1969, 1979...

Australia's New Diamond Search

E.W.J. Tyler

Circum Pacific Council Publications

..., appropriately named Skerring (Plate I). The body itself was a blow on a kimberlite dyke, about 400 m long and 75 m wide at its widest point. A large zircon...

The Hydrocarbon Potential of the Lower Tanjung Formation, Barito Basin, S.E. Kalimantan

Indra Kusuma, Thomas Darin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... at the time was believed to be the southern extension of the Tanjung Field structure, was abandoned after an oil blow-out from the Lower Warukin...

A Model for the Evolution of Hot (>200°C) Overpressured Brines Under an Evaporite Seal: The Fundy/Magdalen Carboniferous Basin of Atlantic Canada and Its Associated Pb-Zn-Ba Deposits

Casey Ravenhurst, Marcos Zentilli

CSPG Special Publications

... of some of the Pembroke Breccia may be similar to the overpressured conditions described for the 1956 blow-out of the Alborz no. 5 well in Central Iran...

Aspects of the Stratigraphy of Western Irian Jaya and Implications for the Development of Sandy Facies

Peter Lunt, Ramli Djaafar

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is very common. Furthermore the "N" zonations of Blow, which are now standard in the oil industry, have considerable weaknesses for the Pliocene...

The Great Salt Lake - an Overview

Robert E. Cohenour

Utah Geological Association

... the water contains as much as 0.8 percent salt. Strong winds from the west often blow the brine from the main body of the lake into these bays, killing...

Structure and Basin Analysis of the Southern Tonga Forearc

Richard H. Herzer, Neville F. Exon

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... The foraminifer and nannofossil ages of dredge samples obtained from the sequence above reflector A are late Pliocene and early Pleistocene (Blow zones...

Oil Fields of Germany

Walter Kauenhowen

AAPG Bulletin

... of the poles. The tools strike a springing blow, rebounding rapidly. The percussion work is united with a draw work serving for lowering and raising...

What Lies beneath … A Review of Frontier Exploration for Deep Plays in the Bowen Basin

Raymond L. Johnson Jr, Nathan Parker

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... and the Cabawin 1 well comple­ tion report noted a ‘strong blow of gas and mud, blowing the Kelly bushing, and table bushings out of the rotary table...

Mass Movement of Mississippi River Delta Sediments

J. M. Coleman, J. N. Suhayda, T. Whelan, L. D. Wright

GCAGS Transactions

... exceed a few millimeters. When such a sample is slowly dewatered by drying, the clay simply shatters upon being dropped or given a blow. Both porosity...

Beach Environment: Chapter 5: PART 1

Richard F. Inden, Clyde H. Moore

AAPG Special Volumes

... oriented at almost right angles to "shamal" winds which blow across the width of the gulf from a west-northwesterly direction. Thus, without...

Interpretation of Depositional Processes from Sedimentary Structures in the Cardium Sand

E. R. Michaelis, G. Dixon

CSPG Bulletin

... and the fetch across which the winds blow. For example, a 40-mph wind blowing across 30 mi of open sea causes appreciable water movement at a bottom 18 ft...

Basin Margin Environment: Chapter 11: PART 3

Harry E. Cook, Henry T. Mullins

AAPG Special Volumes

... above the sea floor (20 to 40 m). Water depths in meters on left and right. (Bottom) Blow-up of 5 cu in air-gun seismic reflection profile...

Gas Reservoirs in the Lower Miocene Peutu Formation, Aceh Timur, Sumatra

Charles A. Caughey, Turcahyo Wahyudi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Blow, W. H., 1969. Late Middle Eocene to Recent planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy, in. Proceedings of First International Conference...