Manufacturing Industry
U.S. Department of Energy Develop Flexible Carbon Fiber Composite Drill Pipe.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, May, 2004
May 21, 2004 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a new carbon-fiber reinforced polymer composite drill pipe that is lighter, stronger and more flexible than steel, for use in the oil industry. The new composite drill pipe could, according to the DOE, significantly alter the ability to drain substantially more oil and gas from rock than traditional vertical wells.
With much of the nation's "easy-to-produce" oil gone, many U.S. companies are looking for lower cost ways to recover oil and gas that may have been bypassed when the fields were first opened. Some of these companies have turned to the combination of flexible drill pipe and "slimhole" (small diameter) drilling to re-enter older, vertical wells and drill horizontal offshoots into oil-...
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