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Methods of Exploration Techniques

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Course Unit Code541-0425/09
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated6 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KUN109doc. Ing. Antonín Kunz, Ph.D.
KLE028doc. Ing. Martin Klempa, Ph.D.
Summary
The subject gives basic information about exploratory methods used in drilling technical practice. The accent is expecially put on the exploratory drilling activities, used both for purposes of deposit geology and engineering geology, hydrogeology etc. The lectures are complemented with computation and practical tutorials (the visit of drilling working compartment, measurement using drilling machine). The student can complete their theoretical knowledge by this way. The subject is intent on there undermentioned thematic spheres.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The main goal of the subject is to make students acquainted with the basic methods of the technical exploratory works. The students must gain the basic knowledge, which makes them possible to define individual types of exploratory works, to describe them and outline the technical means and technological processes used during their realisation in drilling practice. The students must be able to relate them one another with respect to their advantage and disadvantage during their utilization in concrete conditions. On the basis of the acquired theoretical knowledge they have to demonstrate how to explain these basic technologies used by the realization of drilling works and to ilustrate the sphere of their utilization, using some practical examples. They must be able to apply their gained theoretical knowledge during the computation and practical tutorials, to find suitable processes by the solution of tasks dated up in these tutorials and to select their optimum varieties. The students must be able to analyse the knowledge gained within the frame of lectures and tutorials in their individual study and preparation for exams, to diferentiate between the important and unimportant information, to order it according to the importance degree for the purpose of encompassment of all study materials.
Course Contents
1) Exploratory technical works - objectives, methods, methods, content of exploratory geology
2) Methods of drilling and types of boreholes, application of drilling work
3) HG boreholes, ways of drilling water wells, construction of HG wells
4) Filters in HG wells, measurements in HG wells
5) Drilling in IG and geotechnics - purposes
6) Slope stability - drilling, methods
7) Probing - drilling and driven probes with the yield of rock samples
8) Standard penetration probe
9) Geotechnical field tests - aim, purpose, methods
10) Presiometry and dilatometry, press loading test and measurement of rock mass stress
11) Penetration probing, plate load test, propeller shear tests and water pressure tests
12) Drilling works in construction
13) Piles and jet grouting - characteristics, anchoring and underground walls, trenchless technologies
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Hayward Paul: Directional Drilling – back to basics, No Dig International, Vol.11 No.5, May 2000, p.28, 30,31.
Mazáč, J. (2005): Drilling Technologies, university mimeographed; VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Publishing Centre of VŠB-TU Ostrava.
Klempa, M.; Bujok, P.; Kovář, L.; Struna, J.; Pinka, J.: Fundamentals of Onshore Driling, FRVŠ, projekt č. 2212/2012. (http://geologie.vsb.cz/DRILLING/index.htm).
Pinka, J., Wittenberger, G., Engel, J. (2007): Borehole Mining, university textbook, Publishing Centre/AMS, F BERG TU in Košice.
GABOLDE, G. a J. P. NGUYEN. Drilling Data Handbook. Paris: Editions TECHNIP, 2014. ISBN 978-2-7108-0971-5.
LYONS, W., T. CARTER a N. LAPEYROUSE. Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production and Workover. Elsevier, 2012. ISBN 978-1-85617-929-4.
ZEMAN, V., J. PINKA, M. KLEMPA a J. STRUNA. Technika a technologie vrtných prací – I. díl Technika pro provádění vrtných prací. Ostrava: Marionetti Press, 2014. ISBN 978-80-905737-0-3.
ZEMAN, V., J. PINKA, M. KLEMPA a J. STRUNA. Technika a technologie vrtných prací – II. díl Základy technologie vrtných prací. Ostrava: Marionetti Press, 2014. ISB: 978-80-905737-0-3.
Recommended Reading:
DCCA, 1998: A summary of Guidelines for Successful Mid-Sized Directional Drilling Projects, Directional Drilling, 1998, iss. 2, s. 43-46.
Huey D.P., Hair J.D., McLeod K.B.: Installation Loading and Stress Analysis Involved with Pipelines Installated by Horizontal Directional Drilling, Interntional NO-DOG 96 Conference Papers, New Orleans, NASTT, 1996, s.36-60.
Ďurica, D.; Suk, M.: Vrty v geologické praxi. Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno 2011. ISBN 978-80-7028-381-3
Lyons, W. C.: Air and Gas Drilling Manual – Applications for Oil and Gas Recovery Wells and Geothermal Fluids Recovery Wells. Elsevier, USA, 2009. ISBN 978-0-12-370895-3
KREPELKA, F., G. ZÁHORANSKÝ a kol. Tunely. Košice: F BERG, TU v Košiciach, 2006. ISBN 80-8073-591-3.
PINKA, J. Mikrotunelovanie, Horizontal Directional Drilling HDD. Učební texty. Košice: TU v Košiciach, Fakulta Baníctva, ekológie, riadenia a geotechnológií, 2007.
ZEMAN, V. Technologie speciálních vrtných prací, přednášky pro denní studium. Ostrava: VŠB – TUO, 1990.
LYONS, W. C. Air and Gas Drilling Manual – Applications for Oil and Gas Recovery Wells and Geothermal Fluids Recovery Wells. Elsevier, 2009. ISBN 978-0-12-370895-3.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Seminars, Individual consultations, Tutorials, Project work, Field trip, Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 18