Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Directional drilling of boreholes
- In
- Report of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Canberra meeting, January, 1939
- Imprint
- ANZAAS, Sydney, 1939, p. 193
- Description
Abstract only.
- Abstract
The author show how the rapidly increasing demand for petroleum and its products has stimulated all branches of the industry to greater efforts and increasing ingenuity directed towards the keeping up of supply to demand. On the drilling side improvements in machinery and method have been rapid. Not only has a hole been drilled to a depth of over 15,000 feet but holes can now be drilled, under control, at any desired angle from the vertical. In many cases this is desirable and constitutes a great step forward. Directional drilling has been made possible by the invention of a tool called a 'Whipstock' and by the invention of devices which enable an accurate survey to be made of a borehole as it is being drilled. Both devices are described and the uses which can be made of directional drilling are illustrated and briefly discussed.
- Source
- ASBS13363
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- Report of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Canberra meeting, January, 1939 edited by Walkom, Margaret (Sydney: ANZAAS, 1939), 455 pp. Details