Drill cuttings
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drill-cuttings-169-10405599
title:
Drill cuttings
text:
Drill cuttings are broken bits of solid material removed from a borehole drilled by rotary, percussion, or auger methods and brought to the surface in the drilling mud. Boreholes drilled in this way include oil or gas wells, water wells, and holes drilled for geotechnical investigations or mineral exploration. The drill cuttings are commonly examined to make a record of the subsurface materials penetrated at various depths. In the oil industry, this is often called a mud log. Drill cuttings are
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encyclopedia
description:
Fragments of rock resulting from drilling
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_cuttings
date created:
2006-05-13T04:14:17Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T13:08:43Z
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