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This 8 page paper looks at different aspects of laser use to drill oil and gas wells. The paper starts by comparing laser and traditional methods, then looks at formation perforation, spalling and the use of lasers for casing. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TElaseroil.rtf
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of the commercial consumer environment, however, for such as important industry the innovations in the extraction of oil and gas has seen few developments, oil rigs have become larger and
more efficient but the basic process remained the rotary drilling techniques that were developed in the mid 19th in Britain (Anonymous, 2004). The ability to make use of lasers marks
a major revolution in the drilling for oil and gas (Anonymous, 2004). The potential use of lasers is broad ranging and with a diverse range of control mechanisms using
both the parameters of the laser and the properties of the rock, the rock can be chipped, melted or even vaporised (Shirley, 2002). These are more choices that indicated
greater potential of lasers in the oil and gas industry. If we make amore direct comparison of the potential of lasers and the traditions drilling techniques there are many
differences. The major apparent different is the equipment used which is both smaller and requires fewer moving parts, but the mechanical differences between a drill and a laser are easily
seen. The implications of these are the persuasive aspect of the use of lasers and may be the most valuable area of comparison. In traditional drilling the process
is slow and much of the time used is with support services to help and facilitate the drilling rather than the actual drilling. In one recent study t was found
that only 50% of the time spent on drilling actually saw the drill in use to make the hole, 25% of the time was spent on tripping and the remaining
25% of the time was spent on casing and cementing (Shirley, 2002). The use of lasers offers the potential to reduce much of this non productive time and processes and
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