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PETROLEUM
Lesson 5 - Page 7

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Once you find oil, you must drill for it. Drilling on land is difficult enough, but drilling offshore where much of the oil is located is even more difficult. In the figures below it shows several ways to drill the ocean bottom.

Discovering a producing well is the goal of interpreting the geologic and seismic information. Petroleum geologists try to make the most accurate and precise locations to drill a producing well. But sometimes it comes down to, whether you were lucky or not.


Offshore well in the North Sea

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