文档介绍：1. Basic Drilling Technology
History and Drilling Environments
Drilling Equipment
The Drillstem and Drilling Fluid
Drilling the Well
Offshore Operations
History
History and Drilling Environment
Surface Environments
Subsurface Environments
History
The history of oil well drilling technology is studded with the familiar names of Colonel E. L. Drake, Captain Anthony Lucas, and “Spindletop.” However, the rapid development mercial applications of rotary drilling in the early 1900s were preceded by the work of many individuals from many different countries.
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Figure 1-2 Colonel Edwin Drake
[courtesy The Drake Well Museum]
Col. Edwin Drake, the father of the modern oil industry.
A former railway conductor, the “colonel” was an affectation adopted to impress the towns-people of Oil Creek.
As a representation of the Pennsylvania Rock pany, Drake spent three essful years trying to skim oil in marketable quantities from the same springs the Indians had used years before. When pany failed, anized the Seneca pany to try again. This time he looked at the brine wells that had been drilled at nearby Tarantum and made the momentous decision to try to obtain oil in quantity by drilling for it .
That he was essful was due in no small part to the skill and dedication of his driller, William A, “Uncle Billy” Smith, a blacksmith and experienced brine well driller. After rating 30 ft of rock. Drake struck oil at a total depth of 69 1/2 ft.
The well was not a gusher —the oil had to be pumped to the surface, but it was the first “oil-well” in the United States and the lamp oil producers quickly flocked to the site to buy Drake’s oil for $20/bbl.
That day, August 27, I859, is noted as the birthday of the oil industry, for Drake had proves that it was possible to obtain oil in quantity by drilling for it through rock.
History
The history of oil well drilling technology is studded with the familiar names of Colonel E. L. Drake, Captain