Continuous coring method - Slim Hole Wells
The continuous coring method is the utilisation of modified small mining (or other) rigs capable of continuous coring using wireline retrievable core barrels, coupled with on-site evaluation of the cores (which is now available commercially).
Potential benefits (specific to continuous coring)
·The quantity and quality of information that could be obtained through coring in a series of cheap, "throwaway" wells, could lead to exploration strategies involving the close integration of drilling into the information and evaluation stages.
·Continuous coring can accelerate the building of a geological model which . . .