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Newcomers Training Indoo /O Associ National Buckeye C r town, OH Expo III utdoor ation Drilling hapter of NDA4U com • Buckeye Chap • Great BBQ • Safety Presen • Live Drilling De May 16 - 1 /chapters/ ter Meeting tations monstrations 7, 2018 buckeye/buck . eye-events New Water-Activated Product Helps with Repairs Adapted from Information by Clock Spring Company, LP Clock Spring Company, LP (Clock Spring), a manufacturer of permanent and temporary composite pipeline and pipe work repair solutions, has launched Contour WA™ - a composite solution featuring an engineered, biaxial stitched e-glass tape saturated with a water-activated polyurethane resin. The new product, which is designed for application on lines up to 1500 psi, repairs corrosion and mechanical damage on process piping. It is designed for abrasion-resistant coatings and horizontal directional drilling runs for pipes under roads and rivers. All Clock Spring solutions are executed without hot work or welding, and require no heavy installation equipment. “Controlling installation variables and increasing safety are first principles in Clock Spring’s R&D [research and development] program,” said Clock Spring CEO Matt Boucher. To provide a controlled installation, the Contour WA solution uti- lizes several innovative elements. The product is packaged with the Clock Spring Sprayer™, a measured dispenser which ensures an accurate and consistent water-to-resin ratio, guaranteeing proper curing and a quality repair. Meticulous control during the installation of Contour WA prevents overwetting, eliminating waste- water, and the potential for environmental violations. The Clock Spring solution also employs a wet film thickness meter to ensure the proper amount of primer is applied prior to installation. Once the Contour WA is in place, Clock Spring AnchorPly™ secures the installed repair to facilitate curing. Clock Spring Anchor Ply requires no sanding or perforating prior to the final Uv coating process, which means there is no dust produced in the installation process. When the Contour WA installation is complete, a durometer hardness gauge, includ- ed in the Clock Spring QC kit, allows installers to verify fibers have cured properly. “Clock Spring is driving an increased level of sophistication in product development in the composite pipeline repair industry,” Boucher said. “Quality control, safety, and sustainability a re as important to Clock Spring as developing products that are cost effective and easy to install to deliver consistent, reliable results.” Oil/Water Exploration by Harold White you cannot find an aquifer, creek, or river by looking at core samples and cuttings. They will show there is gas, oil, or water if there is some, but probably does not show you where the creek, aquifer, gas, or oil creek is. If the core cut- ting shows oil, the creek is probably there, or close. Take tests, check the fluid in the hole, take a pump test. The sam- ples may be in the creek or river, and it may be way off to the side. Then which way and where is the center of the creek to make a good productive and valuable well? I can find the center of the volume or flow of the fluid. They are all valuable if they produce enough, and I can tell a lot about this from the surface. I know where there are a lot of potential gas and oil fields around that no one is aware of and I do not have to know the names of the materials or stratas to find any of the fluids. Cores and cuttings are not an immediate help for me to find large creeks or rivers of any fluids. However, if I had information from cores showing land tilt and direc- tion of probable flow saying at this level all creeks would flow north, south, east, or west for miles, it would help. All moving fluids are going downslope, meaning down the geologic slope, which changes a lot - sometimes maybe 14 or more times in 2000 feet, and in different places a lot less. All places vary. So I have five - and more if I can - directions of gas, oil, or water creeks cen- tered on each drill site. Knowing the depth of each direction of fluid flow would help. Harold Harold White may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com G&O 52 MAY 2018 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® DIR