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Title: Deepwater Drilling Operations
Author: J. V. Langston
Source: American Gas Association 1976
Year Published: 1976
Abstract: A continuing strong position in maintaining domestic energy supplies requires that in the long term, the United States develop new sources of energy. In the immediate future it requires that we extend our search for conventional sources of oil and gas to new frontiers. The two most promising are the Arctic and the Deepwater along our shores. This discussion will review the present challenge of drilling in deepwater and outline the progress in the technology which is meeting that challenge. The incentive for pushing our exploration and drilling to deepwaters rests upon the supposition of possible reserves in deepwater. The Outer Continental shelf and water depths to 12,000 feet are shown on Figure 1. It can be seen that surrounding the United States are large areas having waters in this depth range. Several of them, in theory, have large petroleum potential. To verify the existence of commercial reserves, we must drill and produce in these areas. Some, as you notice, besides offering the challenge of deepwater, offer the additional challenge of intermittent to perennial ice coverage.

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