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FORAGE SOCLE [3 records]

Record 1 2012-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

An oil or gas well from which a well-head equipment has been removed and the opening sealed because its yield has fallen below that necessary for profitable production.

OBS

When permanent drilling and production platforms became operational in 1974, the four subsea wells were plugged and abandoned.

OBS

"abandoned" means, in respect of a well or test hole, a well or test hole that has been permanently plugged; ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Un dernier carottage [...] permet de vérifier que l'outil a bien pénétré dans le «socle», basalte ou autre roche sous-jacente aux terrains sédimentaires : qualifié de sec, le puits est abandonné. L'appareil de forage est alors démonté et transporté sur un autre site.

OBS

«abandonné» signifie, en ce qui concerne un puits ou un trou d’essai, qu’il a été obturé de façon permanente; [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

With horizontal drilling, many wells can be drilled from a single well pad, known as pad drilling. Pad drilling reduces the environmental footprint – or surface area – of well sites.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

En faisant appel au forage horizontal, plusieurs puits peuvent être forés à partir d’un seul socle de puits, ce qu'on appelle forage sur socle. Le forage sur socle réduit l'empreinte environnementale – ou la zone de surface – d’un site de puits.

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
CONT

The Nitinat bedrock formation consists of pillow lava and breccia of augite (uralite) porphyry, basic tuff and chlorite-actinolite schist. In these mountainous regions, the till and colluviated bedrock form a veneer over the bedrock with exposed bedrock showing only at the steepest areas.

OBS

colluviated bedrock: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

PHR

Colluviated weathered bedrock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
OBS

Des valeurs plus faibles ont localement été obtenues, principalement dans la portion supérieure du socle rocheux, notamment dans le forage F-10, où le roc est désagrégé sur une épaisseur de 0, 47 mètre [...]

OBS

Substratum (bedrock) : Soubassement rocheux, «en place», d’une accumulation alluviale (alluvions fluviatiles ou glaciaires, éboulis etc., en général quaternaires).

OBS

socle désagrégé : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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