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CABLE DRILLING [23 records]

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Record 1 2020-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Wires and Cables
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
CONT

For most projects, cable burial is done with trenches, or sometimes with directional drilling or micro conduits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et fils téléphoniques
  • Canalisations à grande distance
CONT

Dans la majorité des projets, l'enfouissement de câbles se fait en tranchée et parfois, par forage directionnel ou encore en micro-conduit.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cables e hilos telefónicos
  • Tuberías de larga distancia
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Record 2 2017-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Outfitting of Ships
DEF

Cable connecting anchor with drill barge, float or other vessel, or drilling tower.

CONT

Mooring lines consisting of wire rope, chain, or a combination of the two have been successfully used in floating drilling. Recently, synthetic fiber rope has been considered for mooring lines in combination with chain at the anchor end ...

OBS

mooring line: terminology to be used by the Department of National Defence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Armement et gréement
CONT

Pentagone, comme tous les semi-submersibles jusqu'à présent, est maintenue en station par un encombrant système de lignes d'ancrage composé de câbles, de chaînes et d'ancres.

OBS

amarre : terminologie d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
  • Equipo y aparejos (Transporte por agua)
DEF

Cuerda o cable con que se asegura una embarcación en el puerto o lugar donde se da fondo, ya sea con el ancla o sujetada a la tierra.

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Record 3 2017-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ground-Drilling Facilities (Mining)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A pulley, set of pulleys, or sheaves at the top of a drill derrick on and over which the hoist and/or other lines run.

CONT

The crown block is an assembly of sheaves mounted on beams at the top of the derrick. The drilling cable is reeved over the sheaves of the crown block alternately with the sheaves of the traveling block, which is hoisted and lowered in the derrick by means of the drilling cable.

CONT

At the top of the derrick there is a crown block containing pulley wheels over which are run three steel cables: the casing line ..., the sand line ..., and the drilling line ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de forage minier
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Ensemble des poulies de renvoi placées au sommet de l'appareil de forage.

CONT

[Un moufle fixe] composé [...] de poulies montées [...] sur un même axe [...] monté sur un bâti comprend une petite poulie fixée au-dessous du bâti et qui sert à la manœuvre du câble de curage.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

A piece of drilling equipment in which the drill is raised by a rope or cable and allowed to drop, pulverizing the rock with successive blows.

CONT

The earliest type of drilling bit was the percussion bit for cable-tool drilling. The percussion bit is alternately lifted and dropped while suspended at the end of the drilling cable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
Key term(s)
  • sonde de battage

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

A cylindrical heavy piece of iron attached to a cable or wire line, making it descend rapidly into a borehole, when the cable or line is not attached to a string of drilling tools or equipment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
DEF

Masse fixée à un câble de façon à lui permettre une descente rapide quand il n'est plus assujetti au train de tiges.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Mining Wastes
CONT

As there is no drilling discharge(Drilling by product, other than desired core sample) disposal cost of contaminated drilling waste is very marginal as compared to auger and cable tool applications.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Déchets miniers
CONT

Les rejets de forage sont constitués des boues et des déblais produits durant la phase de perforage des puits. Pour chaque puits, la société Woodside prévoit de décharger en mer environ 600 tonnes de déblais de forage […]

CONT

[…] l'analyse des cuttings est une analyse géologique des rejets de forage qui permettent de déterminer les types de roches traversées, la présence de fossiles repères, la présence d'hydrocarbures […]

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
DEF

The cable that is attached to the bailer, passed over a sheave at the top of the derrick, and spooled on the reel.

CONT

A cable tool rig... consists of a derrick to support the drilling line, the sand-line on which the bailer is run, and the casing line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
DEF

Câble auquel est attachée la cuiller de curage, dans le forage au câble.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
CONT

The speed of drilling and rate of progress with cable tools depend on the hardness of the formation, the depth and diameter of the hole, the weight of the tool string, and the stroke rate and length.

OBS

Depending on the system used, the stroke length is measured in terms of meters (or millimeters) and feet (or inches).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
CONT

Il est [...] souhaitable que le dispositif pour forer les roches ait un siège de soupape pour lequel le rapport de la surface transversale de la partie de siège de soupape à l'intérieur du cylindre sur la surface transversale de la tige du siège de soupape soit de l'ordre de 0,09 à 010 sur 1, le rapport de la longueur de frappe du piston sur la longueur de la tige du siège de soupape de l'ordre de 0,87 à 0,88 sur 1, et le rapport de la longueur interne totale de surface portante sur la longueur de frappe du piston de l'ordre de 0,56 à 0,57 sur 1.

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Machine Shafts, Journals and Swivels
CONT

There are five components on a full string of cable tool drilling equipment : a drill bit or shoe, a drill stem, drilling jars, a swivel socket, and a cable. The drill bit transmits the force to the earth. The drill stem is the longest section, and it connects the bit to the drilling jars. The drilling jars are like a pair of links in a chain and are used to jar the drill bit free of the formation. The swivel socket connects the rest of the drill tools to the cable.

CONT

A swivel socket [is used] to connect the cable to the tools and enable the cable to unwind.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Arbres et tourillons (Composants mécaniques)
DEF

Partie d'un arbre ou d'un axe qui tourne ou oscille angulairement dans ou contre un palier, ou autour duquel un palier tourne ou oscille angulairement.

Spanish

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Record 10 2008-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
CONT

The speed of drilling and rate of progress with cable tools depend on the hardness of the formation, the depth and diameter of the hole, the weight of the tool string, and the stroke rate and length.

OBS

The stroke rate is measured in terms of strokes per minute or per second.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
CONT

Plus la fréquence de frappe du marteau et/ou Plus la Vitesse de Rotation sont constantes et plus la courbe restituée par le procédé VIBRALIM sera une image fidèle de la dureté relative du sol traversé par l'outil de foration.

OBS

La fréquence de frappe se mesure en coups/minute ou en coups/seconde.

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A rig that drills for oil and gas.

CONT

An oil rig is a contraption which makes a hole in the ground to allow one to retrieve profitable quantities of oil or gas. It may be as simple as a hammer and a basket lowered on a cable(a "cable tool", still used... in some parts of West Virginia), but since 1900 a "rig" refers to a rotary drilling rig, wherein a bit is screwed onto the bottom of some pipe, and the pipe is turned at the surface("rotary") and the whole "drill string" drills a hole into the ground.

OBS

rig: 1. An assembly of hole boring equipment used for drilling for oil or gas. The principal components of a rig ... comprise a derrick, the drawworks, with its drilling line, crown and travelling blocks, and a drilling fluid circulation system, including standpipe, flexible hose, mud tanks and pumps. ... 2. A self-contained unit equipped with hole boring equipment and used for drilling for oil or gas offshore.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Installation située en mer où sont menées les opérations d'exploration et d'exploitation de gisements d'hydrocarbures.

CONT

Les plates-formes pétrolières construites dans des chantiers spécialisés à terre, sont amenées en mer, soit sur barges, soit en remorque. Elles sont utilisées pour le forage, la production, le traitement, le stockage, le chargement et l'habitation.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme pétrolière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
Key term(s)
  • plataforma petrolera
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Record 12 2005-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ore Extraction and Transport
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

The cable that supports the drill pipe, swivel, hook, and traveling block on a rotary drilling rig.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Extraction et transport du minerai
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Extracción y transporte de minerales
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
DEF

Cable arrastrado por una polea Koepe, con una jaula en cada ramal para extraer el mineral del pozo maestro.

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Record 13 2003-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Ground-Drilling Facilities (Mining)
DEF

The percussion method of drilling, whereby a heavy bit makes hole by a pounding action.

CONT

Cable-tool drilling consists in pulverizing the rock formation a little at a time by alternately raising and dropping a heavy cutting tool called a bit, thereby driving a hole into the earth. Water must be present in the bottom of the hole to keep the rock fragments in suspension, and from time to time the excess water and rock particles must be bailed out.

CONT

Early wells were drilled with impact-type tools, in a method called cable-tool drilling, in which a chisel-like bit was suspended from a cable to a lever at the surface, and an up-and-down motion of the lever caused the bit to pound the bottom of the hole and chip away the rock. Such drilling had to be interrupted periodically to allow loose rock chips to be removed with a basket-like device.

OBS

It has largely been replaced by rotary drilling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Installations de forage minier
CONT

Le forage au battage consiste à désagréger la roche en faisant tomber de quelques centimètres de hauteur, à une cadence assez rapide, un instrument lourd et tranchant. Les déblais sont ensuite recueillis au moyen d'une cuiller, après injection d'une petite quantité d'eau au fond du puits.

CONT

[...] le forage par battage fut employé jusque vers 1922; ce type de forage consistait à attaquer la roche au moyen d'un trépan [...] animé d'un mouvement alternatif vertical qui assurait le creusement du trou.

OBS

Les termes «forage au câble», «forage par battage» et «système de forage par battage» portent la mention CORRECT puisqu'ils représentent des formes abrégées du syntagme «système de forage par battage au câble» dûment attesté dans UNIVE (Encyclopaedia Universalis). Nous attribuons également la mention CORRECT aux termes «sondage au câble» et «sondage par battage» puisqu'ils sont construits sur les modèles «forage au câble» et «forage par battage». Toutefois, nous recommandons que ces termes soient utilisés dans le domaine minier puisque le Dictionnaire de géologie de A. Foucault et J.-F. Raoult [source FOUGE, 1984, p. 132] et le Dictionnaire du pétrole de Yves Barbier [source BARPE, 1981, p.78] signalent que le terme sondage s'applique à la reconnaissance du sous-sol.

Key term(s)
  • forage par battage au câble

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Instalaciones de perforación minera
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Record 14 2003-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

The rocking or reciprocating steel, horizontal member of a beam-pumping unit.

CONT

The walking beam supported at fulcrum on a post... imparts reciprocating motion to drilling cable and tools suspended in borehole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Poutre pivotante communiquant aux outils de forage leur mouvement alternatif.

Spanish

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Record 15 2000-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Ground-Drilling Facilities (Mining)
  • Mobile Hoisting Apparatus
DEF

An arrangement of pulleys, or sheaves, through which drilling cable is reeved and that moves up and down in the derrick or mast.

CONT

The drilling cable is reeved over the sheaves of the crown block alternately with the sheaves of the traveling block, which is hoisted and lowered in the derrick by means of the drilling cable.

CONT

The kelly is suspended by a hook-and-swivel assembly to a traveling block, which is connected by a steel cable to a crown block at the top of the drilling rig.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Installations de forage minier
  • Appareils de levage mobiles
DEF

Dans un derrick, moufle inférieur du palan de levage et portant le crochet; il est relié au moufle fixe par le câble de forage.

CONT

Le palan mobile ou «traveling block» comprend quatre poulies de 42". Ce dernier pèse à lui seul près de cinq tonnes.

Spanish

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Record 16 2000-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

To shear off; said of cable tools that part at the eye of the drill stem as a result of drilling with a slack line. The cable tools always break above the rope socket.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

[En parlant] d'outils de forage au câble [se séparer] au-dessus de l'attache-câble par suite de jeu dans le train de tiges.

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A wire rope used to support the drill tools.

CONT

The rig includes a square open tower or derrick ... At the top of the derrick there is a crown block containing pulley wheels over which are run three steel cables: the casing line ..., the sand line ..., and the drilling line for raising and lowering the drilling tools.

CONT

The drilling line is raised and dropped by a walking-beam mechanism driven by a steam, gasoline, or diesel engine.

CONT

The cable drilling bit is made of a heavy bar of steel or iron 4 to 11 feet... long, shaped to a blunt edge on one end. The other end has a tapered tool joint for attachment to the drilling cable.

CONT

The percussion bit is alternately lifted and dropped while suspended at the end of the drilling cable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 18 1999-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

The end of a drilling line or cable made fast to some stationary part of the drill rig or to a deadman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)

Spanish

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Record 19 1999-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ground-Drilling Facilities (Mining)
  • Surface Mining
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The bits and other bottom-hole tools and equipment used to drill boreholes by percussive action, using a cable, instead of rods, to connect the drilling bit with the machine on the surface.

Key term(s)
  • cable tool

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de forage minier
  • Exploitation minière à ciel ouvert
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
Key term(s)
  • outil de forage au câble

Spanish

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Record 20 1999-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A heavy rope or cable from which a cable drill and stem are suspended and by means of which they are lifted and dropped, or churned up and down, in drilling a borehole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Câble de transmission rond en chanvre entraînant le tambour de forage depuis l'arbre-manivelle de la machine au câble.

Spanish

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Record 21 1998-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

Early wells were drilled with impact-type tools, in a method called cable-tool drilling, in which a chisel-like bit was suspended from a cable to a lever at the surface, and an up-and-down motion of the lever caused the bit to pound the bottom of the hole and chip away the rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

[...] le forage par battage [...] consistait à attaquer la roche au moyen d'un trépan [...] animé d'un mouvement alternatif vertical qui assurait le creusement du trou.

Spanish

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Record 22 1998-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Geological Research and Exploration
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
DEF

A turn given the drilling cable by means of a special wrench to counteract its tendency to twist in the same direction as its lay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
  • Sondage et forage miniers
DEF

Torsion donnée en sens contraire du câblage pour éviter le détoronnage d'un câble de forage.

Spanish

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Record 23 1987-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

A system of oil-well drilling differing from the American cable system, in that wooden rods screwed together are used instead of a rope. The Canadian pole is useful all-round prospecting rig, and it is particularly suitable for regions where excessive caving makes it necessary to have some positive method of rotating the bit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

[...] les procédés employés pour la réalisation des forages profonds (500 à 2000 m) [...] sont les procédés : - pennsylvanien (forage au câble), - canadien (forage aux tiges pleines). [...] la perforation se fait au trépan [...] fixé à des tiges pleines dans le canadien.

CONT

Avec le procédé «canadien», les chocs du trépan au fond du trou sont isolés par une coulisse qui lâche l'outil en position haute et le rattrape après sa chute. Ces chocs, nuisibles à la bonne conservation du matériel, se produisent ainsi uniquement sur l'outil spécialement conçu à cet effet.

Spanish

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