Sunday, July 14, 2013

The Major Seismic Drilling Products And Their Functions

By Carmella Watts


Seismic drilling is a crucial practice that has been in existence for a long time in the world now. It is practice carried out to gather essential information such as for exploration of natural resources. This include oil, gas among many more. Short hole drilling, as the process is also known, is conducted on some personnel on the ground who invoke vibrations on the ground to generate some recordings on their seismic detectors. This detector draws up a map showing the nature of the structures in the subsurface. For this process to be successful there needs to be some seismic drilling products for this practice.

A drill is the major equipment used for the purpose of this digging up. The practice requires holes to be made on the surface to various desire depths. The drills are of various types created to suit various purposes and geographical areas. Examples are the air and water machines among many more. They may be placed on sledges or some movable that is mobile platforms.

The movable mobile platforms are very suitable especially for teams conducting their survey on a very large area of land. This means that the personnel have to move from one place to the other at very frequent intervals. The platforms make it faster and more efficient to move from one location to the other. Some grounds are very hardy and rocky thus it requires the equipment to be well constructed from strong steel material.

Explosives are some other essential products that are used in this process of seismic stimulation. Explosives are highly reactive and are an easy way for the experts to generate vibrations in the process. When the holes have been made in the ground, the explosives are inserted and used to cause vibrations that are recorded on special machines.

Geologists, explosives experts, drilling professionals and other seismic surveyors are mainly the personnel at ground. The use of explosives is hazardous to the environment at large. They affect the organisms living in the ground and even the people in the surrounding locality. They therefore need to be accredited for use and used by experts only.

A seismic detector is the device that is used to record this relevant information required by the experts. It is made in such a way that it has a rotating drum and a drawing pen that is moved back and forth as the drum rotates. Once there are vibrations triggered off, the pen draws lines on the paper on the rotating drum and therefore records essential movements that can later be analyzed.

A smart switch is also essential equipment for security purposes during the digging process. On such a site where the process is being conducted, there may be pipes ferrying commodities such as oil and gas. The stimulator machines may give a high vibration that may cause bursting of these pipes. A smart switch is essential to contain these volatile products.

With great advancement in the technology industry, there have been major developments on the seismic drilling products. The equipment now is much safer to use, much more reliable, efficient and very durable. They are also widely available. The quality is much better taking into consideration all side effects that may arise.




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