Shot hole (completions):

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• Shot

  1. A charge of high explosive, usually nitroglycerine, detonated in a well to shatter the formation and expedite the recovery of oil. Shooting has been ...

• Nitro shooting

  A formation-stimulation process first used about a hundred years ago in pennsylvania. Nitroglycerine is placed in a well and exploded to fracture the rock. Sand ...

• String shot

  An explosive method utilizing primacord, which is an instantaneous textile-covered fuse with a core of very high explosive. It is used to create an explosive ...

• Directional survey

  A logging method that records rift angle, or deflection from the vertical, and direction of the drift. A single-shot directional-survey instrument makes a single photograph ...

• Rathole

  1. A hole in the rig floor, 30 to 35 feet (9 to 11 meters) deep, which is lined with casing that projects above the ...

• Casinghead gas

  (oil well gas) is associated and dissolved gas produced along with crude oil from oil completions.

• Borehole

  1. A hole made by drilling or boring; a wellbore. 2. The wellbore itself, including the openhole or uncased portion of the well. Borehole may ...