A primer of oil well drilling.

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Proposed 1983 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale offshore central California : OCS sale no. 73 /

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Final environmental statement : OCL sale no. 48 : proposed 1979 outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sale offshore Southern California /

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The design of offshore drilling structures.

"Paper no. 54-Pet-19 for presentation at the ninth annual Petroleum Mechanical Engineering Conference, Los Angeles, California September 27-29, 1954. American Society of Mechanical Engineers."

Classification of petroleum well drilling operations using Support Vector Machine (SVM)

During the petroleum well drilling operation many mechanical and hydraulic parameters are monitored by an instrumentation system installed in the rig called a mud-logging system. These sensors, distributed in the rig, monitor different operation parameters such as weight on the hook and drillstring rotation. These measurements are known as mud-logging records and allow the online following of all the drilling process with well monitoring purposes. However, in most of the cases, these data are stored without taking advantage of all their potential. On the other hand, to make use of the mud-logging data, an analysis and interpretationt is required. That is not an easy task because of the large volume of information involved. This paper presents a Support Vector Machine (SVM) used to automatically classify the drilling operation stages through the analysis of some mud-logging parameters. In order to validate the results of SVM technique, it was compared to a classification elaborated by a Petroleum Engineering expert. © 2006 IEEE.

Study design for resource management decisions : OCS oil and gas development and the environment.

"October 1, 1978."

Technology and labor in oil and gas, extraction and commercial banking.

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Draft proposed program : 5-year outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing program for mid-1986 through mid-1991.

"March 1985."

Final environmental impact statement : proposed 1978 OCS oil and gas lease sale /

"OCS sale 45."

Proposed environmental impact statement : proposed 1979 OCS oil and gas lease sale.

Cover title: Proposed 1979 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale 58, western and central Gulf of Mexico.

California OCS phase II monitoring program : year-one annual report /

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Proposed Southern California lease offering, April, 1984 : final environmental impact statement /

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Gulf of Mexico's Offshore Oil Platform Wind Potential

There are over 6000 natural resource drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, all of which will become obsolete once their deposits are extracted. This study examined one of the possible alternate uses for these platforms, wind power potential. Using ArcGIS the number of platforms was reduced by weighting their distance from National Data Buoy Center wind speed collection points and water depth. Calculations were done to assess the optimal sites remaining, as well as provide an estimate of the energy potential for each site. Data for this project was obtained from the Minerals Management Service (MMS), United States Geological Service (USGS), and National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). A major limitation of this project was a lack of NDBC wind speed buoys, creating large data gaps and excluding many oil rigs that have otherwise high energy potential.

Characterization of operational safety in offshore oil wells

The main concern of activities developed in oil and gas well construction is safety. But safety during the well construction process is not a trivial subject. Today risk evaluation approaches are based in static analyses of existent systems. In other words, those approaches do not allow a dynamic analysis that evaluates the risk for each alteration of the context. This paper proposes the use of Quantitative and Dynamic Risk Assessment (QDRA) to assess the degree of safety of each planned job. The QDRA can be understood as a safe job analysis approach, developed with the purpose of quantifying the safety degree in entire well construction and maintenance activities. The QDRA is intended to be used in the planning stages of well construction and maintenance, where the effects of hazard on job sequence are important unknowns. This paper also presents definitions of barrier, and barriers integrated set (BIS), and a modeling technique showing their relationships. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Proposed 1985 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale offshore the south Atlantic states : OCS sale no. 90 : draft environmental impact statement /

"MMS 84-0007"--Cover.