Drilling operations, Deep Sea Drilling Project

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1969 · Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5394676

Eberhart, J R

The project's scientific objectives are to provide new knowledge of the ocean basins, their history, and record of changing climate and evolving life for many millions of years. Physical evidence substantiating 2 principal geological hypothesis (sea-floor, spreading and continental drift) has been recovered. The operational objective is to penetrate all sediments, recover samples of these sediments, make a shallow penetration of the basement and recover samples of the basement. Drilling operations in the deep ocean basin are being conducted from the Glomar Challenger to obtain core samples of the sediment and basement in water depths to 20,000 ft. The results obtained and the drilling techniques used on the first 6 legs of the program are described. The summary includes discussions on the drill ship, dynamic positioning, drilling equipment, drill string, coring equipment, techniques used to obtain the cores, electric logging, and the results obtained on the first 6 legs of this project.

• Research Organization: Standard Oil Co California
• OSTI ID: 5394676
• Report Number(s): CONF-691149-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States) Journal Volume: SPE-2753
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
020200* -- Petroleum-- Reserves
Geology
& Exploration
CLIMATES
CONTINENTAL MARGIN
CONTINENTAL SHELF
CORING EQUIPMENT
DRILL CORES
DRILLING
DRILLING EQUIPMENT
ELECTRIC LOGGING
EQUIPMENT
EXPLORATION
GEOLOGIC HISTORY
GEOLOGY
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MAPS
MWD SYSTEMS
OFFSHORE DRILLING
PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
RECOVERY
SAMPLERS
SAMPLING
SEA BED
SEA-FLOOR SPREADING
SEDIMENTS
SHIPS
UNDERWATER OPERATIONS
WELL LOGGING