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What is an offshore platform and how is it different an onshore drilling rig?
An offshore platform is a structure that is installed over as group of wells that was drilled by an offshore drilling rig. The function of the platform is to produce the oil from these wells. A platform can be mounted to the seabed or could be a floating type platform. Offshore drilling rigs are for drilling the wells and are mobile and moved from area to area. Onshore drilling rigs are mobile units too and are moved from pad to pad for drilling and exploration. After a well is drilled onshore, a wellhead is installed on the well. There is no need for a platform as this only economically viable in offshore applications. There have been cases where an offshore well was drilled from land into the sea, but operated from land. This can only be possible if the oil formation is not too far offshore.
How deep do the fracking wells go?
Fracking originally started in the 1940s. There is no known distance that s for sure on how far fracking wells go. It is basically that they go down as far as they need to to get oil out of a well underground.
Why is drilling not the most effective technique for analyzing earth interior?
Drilling doesn't go far enough.
What is the typical well spacing on a petroleum production well?
A very traditional well spacing is 40 acres. However, many factors will dictate how far apart wells will be drilled. In offshore developments, wells are drilled directionally from the offshore platform, and drilling costs are very high, spacing may be 100 to 160 acres. On the other extreme, steam flooding shallow sands and enhanced oil recovery pilots where the cost of drilling is much lower, the spacing may be only 5 to 10 acres per well.
How do oil rigs function?
There are basically 2 types of rigs. 1) Drilling Rig The function of this rig is drilling a well down to the production zone then installs a casing in it. There are various types for offshore drilling and there are types for onshore drilling. 2) Production Platform (Offshore) The function of this rig is for producing oil. It consists of not only a single well like on an onshore pad, but I have seen platforms with 20 to 50 wells. They are not drilled straight down like most onshore wells, but they are deviated and get drilled in and arc, away from the platform and ends up being somewhat horizontal. Wells can be anything from 1000+ and up to a few thousand feet deep. A work-over rig on the platform uses equipment to perforate the casing at the desired production zone and a screen is installed to minimize sand flowing into the well. Pumps are installed into wells to produce the oil. Depending on how far the platform is located from land, a pipe line can tranport the oil to land or in most cases where platforms are to far offshore, the surrounding platforms pump the oil to a FPSO which is basically a huge oil tanker that transfers oil to oil tanker ships. Onshore operations are different. A well is drilled and a wellhead is installed. Piping from the wellhead leads to a manifold which is connected to the surrounding wells. From there oil gets pumped to gathering stations then to refineries.
How does ocean drilling provide evidence for plate tectonics?
It determines how far the ocean has spread
Why did kings have wells in places of worship?
in ancient times holy sites had to be visited on foot by common people, for this reason you could only travel so far if the place you were headed had no well, a source of clean water. water for the rich could not be sourced from streams as the risk of disseas was high, wells were also a sighn of wealth. wells cooled the air and made shrines nice:)
How far from Wells's MN to Eagen MN?
105 miles
Is the swift code for WaMu WFBIUS6S or not?
No - that is Wells Fargo as far as I know.
How did the Deep water Horizon oil spill start?
It Happened Because The Worker People Were Drilling To Far Down For Oil, And The Hit A Certain Point Where The Pressure and Temperature Got Higher And Eventually Exploded.
Do tree roots only grow as far as the branches spread out?
Tree roots will generally spread as far as they need to to get water.
Where can you find fresh water two hundred miles out of sea?
The Amazon has a flowrate so large that fresh water is found up to 20 miles and further out, and there are active volcanic regions with "wells"; parts where fresh water steam comes out of the seabed then rises to the surface as fresh water (cooled by the water around it). There are also underground rivers which "surface", that is, exit the ground, when they are far out to sea and (due to densities) have a similar effect as wells. 200 miles, however, is a bit farfetched.
