In thin-layered reservoirs, drilling engineers face tough challenges—planning their drilling programs to follow the most productive reservoir layers while avoiding nearby water, gas or high-pressure zones. The rewards for a successful drilling strategy are clear—increased oil production and reduced water cut. In an oil field in the Persian Gulf, for example, oil production was increased four- t...

PURPOSE To determine whether a wire-guided single drill protocol could be utilized without causing an increase in bone temperature beyond those seen with the traditional techniques of sequential drilling with and without a drill guide. MATERIALS AND METHODS A bovine femoral bone model was used with thermocouples and infrared temperature measurements to record thermal increase of the bone and ...

During the micro-drilling process of stainless steel, the wear, fracture, and breakage of the micro-drill easily occur. Micro-drill geometry parameters have significant influence on the drilling performance of the micro-drill. Nowadays, the helical point micro-drill is proposed and its improved drilling performance is validated by some researchers. In this study, to analyze the effect of geomet...

NIOSH continues to conduct respirable dust control research for surface mine blasthole drilling operations. Research areas have included testing variables (shroud leakage area, drill deck cross-sectional area, shroud height, collector-to-bailing airflow ratio, etc.) that have the most impact on respirable dust control, development of a dust collector inlet hood, development of a dust collector ...

Logging while drilling (LWD) is an advanced drilling technology in oil/gas exploration and development, which was developed to increase drilling efficiency and decrease drilling cost. The real-time logging data transmission by the limited transmission bandwidth is a key technology in LWD. Compressing logging data by some algorithm is an evident method to enhance data transmission. This paper in...

Previously, we successfully applied a new method composed of drilling, bone marrow transplantation (BMT), external fixation and low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) for the clinical treatment of Kienböck's disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether bone regeneration can be induced by LIPUS and/or multiple drilling and/or BMT within a severely necrotic small-bone rabbit mod...

Drilling performance prediction, using traditional mechanics of cutting approach, is based on the extension of three-dimensional oblique cutting theory. The quantitative reliability of such conventional models depend on a numerous number process variables and quantitative accuracy of the data bank for a given work material. The complexity of such models is increased when inevitable eccentricity...

Introduction: Osteochondrosis dissecans (OD) is a chronic subchondral lesion potentially affecting almost every joint. The etiology still remains unclear. Vascular, traumatic, infectious and genetic causes have been discussed. While stage I (Berndt and Harty classification) can spontaneously heal, the next stages require operative treatment. At stage II it consists of a retrograde drilling of t...

the drilling is well known as one of the most common hole making processes in the industry.due to close tolerance requirement for drilled holes in the most of work pieces, onlinecontrolling of the diameter of drilled holes seems to be necessary. in the current work, an onlinedimensional controlling system was developed for drilling process. doing this, drilling processwas executed in different ...