Drilling automation is a rapidly growing area of information technology development. Efforts within automation are being undertaken by numerous and diverse organizations in the oil and gas industry, partly due to a desire for exploitation of marginal and complex fields, and partly in order to increase safety of high risk operations. As offshore drilling occurs in a unique work environment, orga...

knowledge of the orientation of horizontal in situ stresses is important to some areas of oil and gas field development plans. borehole breakouts observed in image logs and drilling-induced fractures are the main parameters for the determination of the stresses’ directions in situ. in this work, the orientations of borehole breakouts were investigated as a function of depth in oil wells a and b...