Drilling for oil wells: methods and equipment used

Authors

  • Brayon Victor Pinheiro Sousa UNIT - Universidade Tiradentes
  • Felipe Cerqueira de Oliveira Nogueira Santos
  • Fellipe Costa Rodrigues
  • Marcone Carvalho dos Santos Filho
  • Marcus Vinícius Camposdos Santos Souza
  • Pedro Henrique Feitosa
  • Yuri Matheus Santana Dias
  • Michelle de Jesus Silva

Keywords:

Oil drilling, offshore and onshore

Abstract

To the oil reaches the surface it is necessary to drill a well that do reach the tank and ascend to the surface. The technology involves drilling wells jumped in the last decade, allowing the range of depths unimagined before, above 6,000 m depth. The drilling of wells may be on land (onshore) and offshore (offshore). In the drilling of oil wells are used drilling rigs, which consists of a set of equipment rather complex, with great variety of types. Such probes can be land or sea, as the site of operation.

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Published

2012-10-01

How to Cite

Sousa, B. V. P., Santos, F. C. de O. N., Rodrigues, F. C., dos Santos Filho, M. C., Souza, M. V. C. S., Feitosa, P. H., … Silva, M. de J. (2012). Drilling for oil wells: methods and equipment used. Caderno De Graduação - Ciências Exatas E Tecnológicas - UNIT - SERGIPE, 1(1), 103–108. Retrieved from https://periodicos.set.edu.br/cadernoexatas/article/view/212

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