To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
> curved hole?".
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> Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".
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> Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)
Y'know, ever since I saw those diagrams of the "relief well(s)" in the Gulf Spill news, I've wondered - how _DO_ you drill a bent hole?
Thanks, Rich
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See also "mud motor"
Gunner, heart of the oil fields
I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)
Thanks! Rich
Your welcome.
It can be rather fascinating to figure out how the boys do things out in the patch.
Gunner
I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)
Carefully...
I've often wondered. I've asked contacts in the oil industry from time to time. The usual response is a hasty subject change, or just embarrassed silence. I guess it's for initiates only.
For an angled hole someplace really inaccessible
Not a real detailed explanation, but includes diagrams of bottom hole assemblies for 2 of the methods of curved bore drilling.
Also google "whipstock"
Thanks, but since I installed the new adblocking hosts file:
I get basically a blank page.
Thanks anyway! Rich
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OK I don't know how they drill a curve. But what I find even more remarkable is that they know where the end of the drill bit is in three dimensions to perhaps a 1 meter accuracy... maybe better. I mean they have to hit this other well several miles down.
George H.
Just get close and pop a cap on it...
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