deep-water drilling
1deep-water — deep wa·ter (dēpʹwô tər, wŏt ər) adj. Of, relating to, or carried on in waters of a relatively great depth: a deep water port; deep water drilling for oil. * * * …
2deep-water — adjective a) Having a great depth of water a deep water harbour b) Carried out at great depth deep water drilling …
3Deep Sea Drilling Program — Glomar Challenger The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) was an ocean drilling project operated from 1968 to 1983. The program was considered to be successful as evidenced by the data and publications that have resulted from it and is now supported …
4Deep Water Royalty Relief Act — The United States Deep Water Royalty Relief Act (DWRRA) implemented a royalty relief program that relieves eligible leases from paying royalties on defined amounts of deep water petroleum production over Federal Outer Continental Shelf lands.… …
5Drilling engineering — is a subset of petroleum engineering. Drilling engineers design and implement procedures to drill wells as safely and economically as possible. They work closely with the drilling contractor, service contractors, and compliance personnel, as well …
6Drilling fluid invasion — is a process that occurs in a well being drilled with higher wellbore pressure than formation pressure. The liquid component of the drilling fluid (known as the mud filtrate) continues to invade the porous and permeable formation until the solids …
7Drilling fluid — This article is about fluids used when drilling a well. For fluids used with drill bits during metal working, see cutting fluid. Driller pouring a foaming agent down the rod string on a drilling rig In geotechnical engineering, drilling fluid is… …
8Deep-sea exploration — is the investigation of physical, chemical, and biological conditions on the sea bed, for scientific or commercial purposes. Deep sea exploration is considered as a relatively recent human activity compared to the other areas of geophysical… …
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10Deepwater drilling — is the process of oil and gas exploration and production in depths of more than 500 feet. By this definition, there are approximately 600 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico.[1] It has been economically infeasible for many years, but with… …
