Spudding vs Spuddling - What's the difference?
spudding | spuddling |
(drilling) The initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.
* 1941 , James George Needham, Paul Bigelow Sears, Aldo Leopold, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, A Symposium on Hydrobiology ,
* 1963 , ,
* 1998 , Society of Petroleum Engineers of , Proceedings [of The] Drilling Conference ,
As verbs the difference between spudding and spuddling
is that spudding is while spuddling is .As a noun spudding
is (drilling) the initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.spudding
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(en noun)page 36,
- From these spuddings' the approximate percentage loss of capacity can be estimated, but no reliable volume figures are obtained because the exact location of the ' spuddings is not known, and the area of the lake is seldom accurately known.
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- Of the 21 holes the small consortium drilled, all of them proved to be dry except two promising spuddings in Libya during 1958.
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- On the first two spuddings a standard rotary bottom hole assembly was used and was unsuccessful because of(sic) top hole deviations between 4 and 6 degrees were measured.