He insists that in the push to drill the well quickly, the drillers lost circulation and got stuck, and had to regroup and drill a sidetrack well.
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What they do is they sign a lease, and then a company comes along eventually and sets up a well and a derrick, and then they drill the well themselves.
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It is making preparations to drill another well nearby and thereby relieve pressure on the one that is leaking.
Johnston knows the drill so well he could practically teach the class.
And the main way they do it is through what they call hydraulic fracturing, which after they drill the well bore, they perforate it.
It costs a lot to drill the well, but you continue to get a slow stream of profits or rents for years to come.
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Oil drillers get a sweet package of tax breaks, including writeoffs when they drill a well and more writeoffs as the hydrocarbons come out of the ground.
It takes longer to obtain a drilling permit or to receive approval of an expanded permit to be allowed to drill a well deeper than originally permitted.
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After we landed, the farmer we met grumbled that he had to drill his well deeper each year so he could grow more rice in the dry lands.
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To drill the well, engineers have devised an ingenious system of hollow "riser pipes" that create a hermetic seal between the well opening on the sea floor and the ship swaying above.
That was as deep as one could look into the earth with the available geological tools--and also about as far into the ground as anyone knew how to drill a well and push pipe into the hole.
So, for example, when they said they would drill one relief well to stem this leak we demanded a backup and ordered them to drill two.
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Once the blowout preventer is replaced to mitigate the risk of pressure in the well, it will take about four days to drill through the relief well and intercept the main well, based on statements from Allen.
Soon after that, I got it in my head to drill my first well.
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The experience has been that when you drill one relief well, potentially you keep on missing the mark.
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Mr Wang raised capital from relatives and friends to drill that first well, which produced 60 barrels of crude a day.
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It is due in Cuban waters by the end of the year, contracted by Spain's Repsol to drill an exploratory well.
The company revealed it could return to Alpha at some point in the future to deepen it or drill a sidetrack well.
First to use it will be the Spanish oil company Repsol YPF, which plans to drill an exploratory well around 100km (62 miles) from the Florida Keys.
This well has taken on added significance because it is to the north of the Davy Jones complex and what they find may aid significantly in revealing what is to the north of the main structure without the need to drill yet another well to gather that info.
If it can drill more oil from a well than the contract says it must, it charges a higher fee.
The foundation is still raising money to drill this much-needed well.
As a prelude to permanently shutting down the well, crews are trying to withdraw drill pipe hanging below the bottom of the blowout preventer and remove it from the well, so they can then remove the capping stack that's kept oil from leaking since July 15 and replace the old blowout preventer with a new one.
The American sergeant knows it's well worth rehearsing the drill over and over.
At this moment, Davy Jones has been cased to the bottom of the well, sealed with cement and temporarily abandoned so the rig could be moved 2.5 miles to the southwest to drill the second Davy Jones delineation well.
So that -- this particular well took 90 days to drill -- the one that is -- that the accident occurred on.
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