Oil Well: DESP 4.1 VIDEO: I.M.S. SCIENCE Name: __________________________
Academic Standards:
Period: ______ Date:`___________
SCORE:____ / 20
1. How long are the lengths of pipe used to drill for oil?
2. What is a blow out preventer?
3. What is mud used for?
4. What is the length of a string?
5. How long does it take to change a drill bit?
6. What meant by going fishing?
7. By pass drilling requires deviated drilling. Explain deviated drilling.
8. If high gas pressure is hit we have to increase the weight of the ______.
9. What is the cap rock? What kind of rock usually is it?
10. The Well hole is lined with steel casing. Why?
11. What kind of rock was found to hold the oil?
12. A special instrument probe measures?
13. What is a flow test?
14. What is the method of perforating the well pipe to get the oil out of the ground?
15. What is the structure of the underground oil/Gas field?
16. What is drilling an out step well?
17. What is a dry hole?
18. Who made this oil drilling video?
19. The oil field may cover the area of a whole ________.
20. Off shore drilling is _____ expensive then onshore drilling?
Essay: Would you like to do this kind of work? Explain why or why not.
anticline syncline drilling off at an angle
fold trap
Sandstone
shale limestone salt mud 30
feet 90 feet rig
cement wet slurry pumps valve
dry wet city town
2 hours 4
hours 8 hours casing
cave-ins viscosity density
Ruff Neck Tool pusher drill bit explosives
break electric acoustics
radioactivity pressure temperature (at right angles) BP
Shell Sheetz Exxon Texaco
more less $600,000 $4,000,000
(speed of oil movement)