Directional drilling in ice caps
Authors:
About authors
- 1 — Ph.D., Dr.Sci. senior research assistant Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University)
- 2 — Ph.D., Dr.Sci. Associate professor Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University)
- 3 — Ph.D. associate professor Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University)
- 4 — Ph.D. associate professor Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University)
- 5 — student Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University)
- 6 — Ph.D. leading research assistant GU «Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute»
Abstract
Directional drilling technology can be used in glacier boreholes to obtain additional ice cores and to pass over sticking drills. Experimental sidetracking of 5G-2 hole in the deep borehole at Vostok station, Antarctica, showed the high efficiency of the directional drilling without using of special whip-stocks to deviate the hole.
Область исследования:
(Archived) Applied and fundamental research in physics and mathematics
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