Core Drilling and Coring Tools

F Conventional Coring
F Wireline (WL) - Coring
F New Coring Technique

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What is Coring ?

Coring is most simply expressed as:

The cutting and removal of a cylindrical
sample of
in-situ rock from the well bore.
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Why Core ?

Coring provides a unique Formation Evaluation tool which is essential

for critical development decisions on the commercial viability of a
prospect reservoir

Coring provides the tool from which primary data sets can be
measured to supplement and calibrate secondary data sets derived
from other FE tools such as wireline logs

Coring provides certain unique data sets which can only be

determined from core material
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The Need for Core Data

Formation Damage

Geology

Completion Design

Lithology
Petrographics
Depositional

Completion
Engineer

Core
Data

Petrophysicist

Basic Core Properties

Log Calibration

Relative Permeability
Wettability
Other SCA

Reservoir
Engineer

Saturation
Rock Mechanics

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Core Drilling

Geometry of
Coring Systems
OD Borehole 6

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Base Systems
Conventional Core Barrel

250P Series Core Barrel

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WL-Core Barrel

More details in the

VIDEO-DVD
KTB-PILOT HOLE

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Wireline (WL)-Coring-Procedure
1

Coring

WL-Outer
Core Barrel

Overshot
Running-in

WL-Inner
Core Barrel

Pull Head

Latching and
Running-out
of the Overshot and
Inner Core
Barrel with
Core

Pump-inProcedure
of the WLInner Core
Barrel

Core Bit
WL-Core
Barrel with
Core

Coring
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Wireline (WL)-Coring-Technique

More details in the VIDEO-DVD KTB-PILOT HOLE

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New Coring Technique

F CoreDrillTM
F GelCoringTM
F JamBusterTM - System
F Hydro-LiftTM - System

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