Air and Gas Drilling Manual; Author: Lyons, William C.; Hardback; Book

Author: Lyons, William C.
2nd ed; Hardback; Book; Tables
800 pages
Published: December 1999
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
ISBN: 0070393125

An applications-based, across-the-board look at how to use increasingly popular air and gas drilling techniques -- both basic and advanced. Discusses how these techniques are applied in vital industries construction and development of water wells, geotechnical boreholes, mining operations boreholes, and more. Covers both deep and shallow borehole drilling in rock, using compressed air or various other gases as the circulating primary drilling fluid. Excellent for petroleum, mining, drilling, groundwater, and other engineers, as well as geologists, seeking to increase their expertisein this important, up-and-coming new area of drilling technology.Describes techniques for drilling shallow and deep boreholes in rock using compressed air or various other gases as the circulating primary drilling fluids.This manual describes techniques for drilling shallow and deep boreholes in rock, using compressed air or various other gases as the circulating primary drilling fluid. It discusses the application of these techniques in differing industries, particularly mining and water-well construction.