Drilling device
AssigneeBadger Explorer ASA
InventorSigmund Stokka
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Abstract
Method of introducing instruments/measuring equipment/tools into formations (9) in the earth's crust or other solid materials, such as ice, by means of a drilling device (1), material being liberated by, for example, rotation of a drill bit (2), or by melting, for example by means of a heating element, the liberated material thereafter flowing, or being pumped, past/through the drilling device (1) and being deposited in the bore hole (18) above/behind the drilling device (1). A drilling device (1) for practising the method described above, comprising necessary components, for example a drill bit (2), a driving motor (4), and a steering/control component (7), the drilling device (1) being provided with a cable magazine (10) containing a cable (12), and possibly with an output feeder (11).
Claims20
A method of introducing instruments/measuring equipment/tools into formations in the earth's crust by means of a drilling device, material being liberated by rotation of a drill bit, wherein the drilling device liberates the formation material in front of the drilling device, the liberated material thereafter flowing, or being pumped, past/through the drilling device and being deposited in the bore hole above/behind the drilling device, wherein the drilling device is supplied with sufficient energy to push possible excess volumes of mass into the neighboring formation.
A method of introducing instruments, measuring equipment or tools into formations in the earth's crust, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing an elongated drilling device having a drilling end that comprises a drill bit;
- penetrating the formation with the drilling end of the drilling device to liberate formation materials from the formation such that the materials flow past or through the drilling device and close a bore hole left by the drilling device with sufficient pressure to force the materials into the formation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.