Directional drilling allows quick exit from petrochemical plant
- BERCO Services, Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
Horizontal directional drilling uses specialty tools and techniques largely taken from the oil field and the mining industry to very accurately install pipelines, utilities and other conduits under obstacles such as rivers, beaches, environmentally sensitive areas, roadways, railroads, airfields, and congested pipeline corridors. In the early part of 1990, a particularly interesting problem confronted the pipeline engineers at Union Carbides 2,500-acre Seadrift plant near Port Lavaca, Texas. Having started up in 1954, the plant today is a major supplier of chemicals and plastics to industry, shipping more than two billion pounds per year. Since very large volumes of cooling water are needed for the operation of a petrochemical complex of this magnitude, years of expansion and modifications have caused the plant to become nearly surrounded by a number of rather large segmented ponds.
- OSTI ID:
- 93055
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940113-; ISBN 0-7918-1182-4; TRN: IM9537%%98
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) energy-sources technology conference and exhibition (ETCE), New Orleans, LA (United States), 23-26 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Drilling technology -- 1994. PD-Volume 56; Vizniak, J.P. [ed.] [Maurer Engineering, Inc., Houston, TX (United States)]; PB: 280 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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