Mineral and Ceramics
This is a natural, inorganic material that is quite pure.
What is a mineral?
This is the burning of natural gas that is not needed. It's also a way of reducing pressure at oil and gas facilities.
What is flaring?
In the early days, oil men broke rock with a chisel and lifted the pieces out in a basket. Working this way, they only drilled this much per day.
What is 20 to 30 feet per day?
These are sheets of glass that are flat and thin.
What is float glass?
This is a mixture of several minerals and may also contain organic material.
This release pressure when the pressure in plant equipment is too high. It's a safety device to protect vessels and pipes.
What are pressure release valves?
This is the hole that drillers go into. You need to lubricate the bit as you drill into it.
What is a borehole?
This is what we call glass that is floated in molten tin to produce flat sheets. It's left to cool slowly, but it often brakes into dangerous sharp pieces.
What is annealed glass?
This is an example of an extremely hard Carbon that is often used for cutting in engineering.
What is a diamond?
This a gas that is trapped with oil when it is extracted. It's found it some countries, like Nigeria.
What is associated gas?
This kind of drilling allows drillers to enter horizontal oil-bearing rock while sending feedback data for the well log.
What is deviated drilling?
It's an example of safety glass. It's heated and kept hot for a certain time, so that when it breaks it shatters into small pieces.
What is tempered glass?
This is an inorganic, non-metallic material that is formed by heating. One example of this is glass.
What is a ceramic?
Experts estimate that this much natural gas is flared each year, 25% of the US gas consumption or 75% of Russian consumption.
What is 150 billion cubic metres?
This kind of drilling is more efficient than drilling in vertical wells.
What is horizontal drilling?
This kind of glass is better for a windscreen or windshield. It is a sandwich of polymers so that if the glass breaks it holds together and doesn't fly.
What is laminated glass?
This is another example of a ceramic material. It is made from clay and then fired in a kiln.
What is brick?
This is the agency trying to reduce flaring and recover associated natural gas. It was set up in 2002
These kind of platforms us multiple deviated wells from a single well. An example is the Cognac platform which has 62 deviated wells.
What are deep water offshore platforms?
This is another word we use to say that two things are stuck together, like the way layers of glass are stuck together to layers of polymers.
What is bonded?