A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. A borehole may be constructed for many different purposes, including...

The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина СГ-3, romanized: Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina SG-3) is the deepest human-made...

drilled section of a borehole. Similar to the bones of a spine protecting the spinal cord, casing is set inside the drilled borehole to protect and support...

Borehole Mining (BHM) is a remote operated method of extraction (mining) of mineral resources through boreholes based on in-situ conversion of ores into...

in Triton. Triton workers excavated a 235 feet (72 m) shaft, known as Borehole 10-X and supported by a steel caisson to bedrock, in 1971. According to...

The Askam Borehole is a borehole that is located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is situated in the watershed of Nanticoke Creek...

Deep borehole disposal (DBD) is the concept of disposing high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors in extremely deep boreholes instead of in more...

also known as borehole logging is the practice of making a detailed record (a well log) of the geologic formations penetrated by a borehole. The log may...

as the "Siberian hell sounds", is an urban legend regarding a putative borehole in the Siberian region of Russia, which was purportedly drilled so deep...

The Bertha Rogers Borehole is a former natural gas well in Burns Flat, Dill City, Oklahoma, US. Today plugged and abandoned, it was originally drilled...

exchanger, (DHE) also called a borehole heat exchanger, (BHE) is a heat exchanger installed inside a vertical or inclined borehole. It is used to capture or...

(commonly referred to as MD, or just the depth) is the length of the drilled borehole. In conventional vertical wells, this coincides with the true vertical...

exploration boreholes drilled by Pemex on the Yucatán peninsula have provided some useful data. UNAM drilled a series of eight fully-cored boreholes in 1995...

Borehole imaging logs are logging and data-processing methods used to produce two-dimensional, centimeter-scale images of a borehole wall and the rocks...

tool that provides a continuous measurement of the size and shape of a borehole along its depth and is commonly used in hydrocarbon exploration. The measurements...

The Ludham Borehole was a geological research borehole drilled in 1959 near Ludham, Norfolk, UK. A continuous core sample of late Pliocene and early Pleistocene...

Borehole drilling has a long history. Han dynasty China (202 BC – 220 AD) used deep borehole drilling for mining and other projects. Chinese borehole...

the borehole (or anywhere along its length) in a straight perpendicular line represented by line (a) in the image. Line (b) is the actual borehole and...

"down-the-hole" type hand pump. Casing to support the external surfaces of the borehole against collapse may be needed, either temporarily or permanently, and...

sometimes forms at the rock-borehole interface. In such cases the fracturing may extend only a few feet from the borehole. In the Soviet Union, the first...

parameters describe the quality of core recovered from a borehole. Total core recovery (TCR) is the borehole core recovery percentage. TCR is defined as the quotient:...

California, the project installed geophone sensors and GPS clocks in a borehole that cut directly through the fault. This data, along with samples collected...

sediment or foraminifera in ocean sediments, temperature profiles of boreholes, and stable isotopes and mineralogy of corals and carbonate speleothems...

injected into (or extracted from) a borehole while the borehole mean temperature is measured. The system consists of a borehole, pipe system, circulation pump...

utilities. The process creates an open-air chamber, referred to as a borehole. The borehole is then used to run utilities. Underground pneumatic drills can...

particular bullet, it penetrating the borehole wall, the retention system recovering the bullet from the borehole wall, and the sample is retained in the...

the KTB borehole, was a scientific drilling project carried out from 1987 to 1995 near Windischeschenbach, Bavaria. The main super-deep borehole reached...

the presence of an aquifer. BTES (borehole thermal energy storage). BTES stores can be constructed wherever boreholes can be drilled, and are composed...

Ernst Zorin, and Pavel Shatu. The film is based on true events at Kola Borehole. Ara Woland as Eduard Ernst Zorin as Professor Mihailov Pavel Shatu as...

geological structure, and boundaries between bedrock units. Creating a borehole is a technique that consists of drilling through the ground in various...