Terrain, Land Use and Waste Drilling Fluid Disposal Problems, Arctic Canada
A survey of over 60 abandoned wellsites in the Mackenzie Delta, the Arctic Islands and the interior Yukon Territory indicated that approximately 25% of the sites experienced terrain problems related either directly or indirectly to sumps and/or the containment of waste drilling fluids. These problem...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65648 2023-05-15T14:19:17+02:00 Terrain, Land Use and Waste Drilling Fluid Disposal Problems, Arctic Canada French, Hugh M. 1980-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65648 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65648/49562 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65648 ARCTIC; Vol. 33 No. 4 (1980): December: 671–862; 794-806 1923-1245 0004-0843 Environmental impacts Oil well drilling Sumps Canadian Arctic Islands Mackenzie Delta N.W.T Yukon info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1980 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:40Z A survey of over 60 abandoned wellsites in the Mackenzie Delta, the Arctic Islands and the interior Yukon Territory indicated that approximately 25% of the sites experienced terrain problems related either directly or indirectly to sumps and/or the containment of waste drilling fluids. These problems are classified as follows: (A) non-containment during drilling, (B) melt-out problems during summer operations, and (C) restoration problems. Fewest problems are associated with one-season winter drilling operations. Two-season winter drilling, in which the sump is left open during the summer, and one-season summer drilling operations present more problems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Mackenzie Delta Yukon University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Canada Mackenzie Delta ENVELOPE(-136.672,-136.672,68.833,68.833) Yukon ARCTIC 33 4 |
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A survey of over 60 abandoned wellsites in the Mackenzie Delta, the Arctic Islands and the interior Yukon Territory indicated that approximately 25% of the sites experienced terrain problems related either directly or indirectly to sumps and/or the containment of waste drilling fluids. These problems are classified as follows: (A) non-containment during drilling, (B) melt-out problems during summer operations, and (C) restoration problems. Fewest problems are associated with one-season winter drilling operations. Two-season winter drilling, in which the sump is left open during the summer, and one-season summer drilling operations present more problems. |
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Terrain, Land Use and Waste Drilling Fluid Disposal Problems, Arctic Canada |
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