Method can improve efficiency of heli-portable seismic operations
- Kingsbury (Oliver J.), Pembroke (United Kingdom)
There are regions of the world where the only viable means of conducting a seismic survey on land must involve helicopters as a primary means of transport. The high operating cost of helicopters means that such heliportable work is expensive compared with the more common land and marine surveys. This article is addressed to exploration companies contemplating heliportable seismic surveys. Its aim is to show how these operations work and to enable a dramatic reduction in the cost and timescale of future operations compared with numerous operations this writer has witnessed and been involved with in recent years. The core of this article concerns distinct designs of drilling machinery used in these activities and the most efficient ways of configuring this machinery in the field.
- OSTI ID:
- 128997
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 93, Issue 46; Other Information: PBD: 13 Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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