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    ~ special Ine cous Crerserat report = = Chemosteering Wellsite Laser Analysis Of Cuttings Helps Guide The Bit During Directional Drilling Expected geochemistry along vertical well os ie a To; as KO Drilling horizontally inthe Jean | ‘headed inthe wrong direction, che bit Marie formation of northeast British | may have punched out of the zone, ‘Columbia, Devon Canada Corpora- | necessitating a sidetrack tion often encountered a common ‘Also, the Jean Mare is 2 roughly problem — inadvertently drilling | 15-metre-thick layer of “clean” lime- ‘outside the target zone, sone with no shale markers. Unlike Devon was using a gamma ray tool | shales, many carbonates have to help guide the bit, bucit didn't | extremely low concentrations of always work. The tol is 18 metres | radioactive elements such 2s thorium back from the bit, so by the time the | and uranium, which enable the garn- velit geologist realizes the wells | ma ray tool to determine vertical wnt iht.com Toe no, Expected geochemistry slong deviated wel position in the formation. So in ITS ELEMENTAL clean limestone the tool isn't particu. Chemostratigraphy can. larly useful help drillers stay with- sn the target zone, “To improve drilling accuracy in the Jean Marie, Devon decided to try something new — chemostrat graphic analysis atthe wellsite (Chemostratigraphy — the character ination of sedimentary sequences by their chemical elements — is based ‘onthe fat that even lithologically New Teemoloay Magazine # Ap/May 2002 1 cialreport rege cou Chmoea comnct FOR NORE INFORKATION an ati, ‘Sper Sun Deling Series ‘ee (733) 479-0557, Erma ken ctcte (@halibaroncom homogeneous sedimentary rocks have widely varying geochemical signatures. ‘Atuny simple of dil cttngs i ground 0 ' powder, pressed toa smal pelle and blasted ‘wih alae This exestes a high-temperature plasma just above the surface of the sample, ‘aporising# sin amount of che sample into the plas. This material is insandy ionized ani the electrons in che various elements are ‘ited to higher energy sates. As the plasma cools, wtravolet and visible radiation is emit- ted, By measuring this energy at specific ‘wavelengths, elemental concentrations ean be determined CCemortratigraphy itself int new ‘Chemostat Led, x small British-based fm, has offered lab-based chemical analysis of dill ctngs since 1992. Chemostrat says it has done lab-based analysis on Devon samples from the Mackenzie Det Petro-Canada samples from the Terma Nova field (ofshore "Newfoundland and PanCanadian Energy Corporation samples fom the Wester Cana-

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