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BMP ID: 5823
Title: Upgrading nozzle technology for more efficient drilling
Text: For accessing marginal reservoirs and/or for more effectively drilling multilateral wells, using abrasive slurry jetting (ASJ) and high pressure slurry pumping (HPSP) drill bit nozzles can "improve drilling penetration rates by factors up to 20 times that of conventional rates."
Source Publication Name: Advanced ASJ Drilling System
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Citation Page: entire, quote from page 8
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Usage Type: Recommended
Timing: • Drilling
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Surface Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Mineral Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Primary Contact: Kenneth Oglesby
Impact Technologies, LLC
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Alternate Contact: Stripper Well Consortium, The Pennsylvania State University
C-211 Coal Utilization Laboratory
University Park, Pennsylvania  16802-2323  United States
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Categories: Land Surface Disturbance
Location: General / Federal
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Date Entered: 2009-07-25 11:01 UTC
Last Updated: 2009-09-16 06:54 UTC