Drilling/producing depths; Two records and a revision

Journal Article · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · World Oil; (United States)

OSTI ID:5677932

This paper reports that record depths for natural gas or oil well drilling or producing continue to be rare occurrences, although one or two still come in each year. Records fell in Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) District 9 and in the California area of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in 1990. Deep drilling and production has traditionally been defined as well depths greater than 15,000 ft. Smith Tool reported that 9.4% of all active rotary rigs were dedicated to targets below 15,000 ft at the beginning of 1991. Deep rigs had dropped to 8.1% by year-end 1991, but remained above the 1989 and 1990 levels of 8.4 and 7.6%, respectively. In 1988 about 11% of active rigs were drilling deep at any given time.

• OSTI ID: 5677932
• Journal Information: World Oil; (United States), Journal Name: World Oil; (United States) Vol. 213:2; ISSN 0043-8790; ISSN WOOIA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
020300 -- Petroleum-- Drilling & Production
020700* -- Petroleum-- Economics
Industrial
& Business Aspects
03 NATURAL GAS
030300 -- Natural Gas-- Drilling
Production
& Processing
030600 -- Natural Gas-- Economic
Industrial
& Business Aspects
DEPTH
DIMENSIONS
DRILLING
EVALUATION
NATURAL GAS WELLS
OIL WELLS
PRODUCTION
SURVEYS
WELL DRILLING
WELLS