Catalogue of the EC-sponsored projects related to scientific drilling

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Catalogue of the EC-sponsored projects
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Catalogue of the EC-sponsored projects
related to scientific drilling
Authors
J. Colson and O. Parize
Armines/Ecole des Mines de Paris
Edited by
G. Oilier, J. Garnish, M. Lombardini, J-Y. Calvez and M. Kitchener
ECOLE DES MINES
ARMINES DE PARIS
Directorate-General for Research
2000 EUR 18768 LEGAL NOTICE
Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is
responsible for the use which might be made of the following information.
Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to all those who helped them prepare the present survey,
and in particular to:
Andrea Dahmen, from the training and mobility of researchers programme (TMR)
Ulrich Harms, from Geoforschungs Zentrum Potsdam
Christian France-Lanord, CRPG, Nancy
Alister Skinner, from the British Geological Survey
Hedi Sellami, Armines/École des Mines de Paris/CGES
Christophe Simon,e des Mines de Paris/CGES
Pascal Podvin,e des Mines de Paris/Géophysique
Marc Noble, Armines/École des Mines dee
Edith Sauzay,e des Mines de Paris/CGES, for her valuable help in the data search and
management
Christine Vaines, from the European Commission, for her help in the preparation of the catalogue for
publication.
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PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE-FREE PAPER PREFACE
Immense areas of the ocean floor surface and subsurface remain largely "terra non
cognita", and not only in remote regions but at our door in the European waters, even
after years of exploration by sophisticated imaging systems. What is the real chal­
lenge for improving our knowledge of the ocean substratum? The keyword answer
to this question is probably "ground truthing". A tremendous need has arisen nowa­
days for sampling and calibration methods to test the models and images of the
ocean substratum obtained through indirect geophysical exploration methods. These
are becoming essential for several strategic activities relating to the European
Marine Environment such as deep-water exploration, global change studies, natural
hazard predictions and risk assessment. Drilling is the main sampling method that
will be employed to efficiently core the ocean substratum over hundreds of meters.
The present volume results from an initiative of the European Commission to con­
duct a survey of the most recent European Projects in domains relevant to scientific
drilling. A specific emphasis is put in this report on Community funded projects. This
inventory has been launched in order to contribute to the preparatory work for the
future International Scientific Drilling Programmes. Thisy work is taking
place in particular within the IWG/IODP International Working Group for an
Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme to be launched by 2003. The main objective of
this survey was to identify as far as possible the European projects, most specifical­
ly in the Technology domain, that contribute to strengthening European research in
the domain of scientific drilling. From this state-of-the-art one can start to assess in
which area Europe is best prepared to contribute to the technological and scientific
components of the future International Scientific Drillings. In the spirit of the Fifth
Framework Programme of Community Research ( FP5), this publication is spread
across several programmes of FP4, the Energy programme (JOULE and THER­
MIE), the Brite-Euram programme, the TMRe (Training and Mobility of
Researchers), the Environment Programme, and the MAST programme (Marine
Sciences and Technologies). The volume is conceived as a database tool so that it
is possible to identify in various domains relevant to scientific drilling which projects
have been supported at Community level. This catalogue should enable whoever is
interested in the field of scientific drilling to rapidly access basic information and to
contact these projects. At the time of publication, FP5 has already started and a first
round of evaluations has taken place in the Environment & Sustainable Development
Programme. Following this, 4 projects intending to improve understanding of geo­
logical, biological and microbiological environments of the European Margin, and
involving scientific drilling have started (COSTA, STRATAGEM, GEOMOUND and
DEEPBUG). Also two projects in the domain of earthquake research and requiring
scientific drilling have been selected for funding (SMSITES, and DGLAB-CORINTH). I am convinced that in several domains relevant to scientific drilling, the technology
and the scientific results that have been obtained in Europe either by academia or
by industry can be usefully integrated into the plans of the future Ocean and
Continental International Drilling Programmes.
Christian Patermann
Director DG Research/DI TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
I. INTRODUCTION 7
I. 1. Ocean Drilling Programme (ODP) and the U.S.A.
as a programme leader
I. 2. The future of scientific drilling and the situation in Europe 9
I. 3. The European research in scientific drilling 10
II. COMMUNITY PROGRAMME DESCRIPTIONS3
II. 1. Industrial and Material Technologies Programme
(BRITE/EURAM) 1
II. 2. Non-Nuclear Energy (JOULE-THERMIE) 1
II. 3. Marine and Science Technologies Programme (MAST) 14
II. 4. ENVIRONMENT and CLIMATEe5
II. 5. Training and Mobility of Researchers Programme (TMR) 16
III. STRUCTURE OF THE CATALOGUE 17
IV. PROJECT SYNTHESIS9
A. DRILLING TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS 1
A. 1. Tubing and casing
A. 2. Drilling bits 20
A. 3.g fluids3
A. 4. Rig6
A. 5. Safety
A. 6. Sealing8
A. 7. Automated drilling
A. 8. Slimhole drilling 3
A. 9. Horizontal drilling1
A. 10. Multilateral and advanced wells 32 Α. 11. Risers 33
Α. 12.Coring36
Α. 13.Coreprocessing36
Α. 14. New materials in drilling 37
A. 15. Other projectsdealingwithdrilling technologies 38
B. SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGPROGRAMMES IN EUROPE40
B. 1. Transnationalprogrammes40
B. 2. National programmes43
B. 3. Conclusions 48
C. PROJECTSRELATEDTO BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS 49
C. 1. Measurementswhile drilling49
C. 2. Wireline logging53
D. PROJECTS LEADING TO IDENTIFICATION OF
DRILLING SITES 58
D. 1. Geodynamics58
D. 2. Sea-floorexploration tools59
D. 3. Marinesedimentation61
D. 4. Climatestudies66
D. 5. Datamanagement72
V. STATISTICS 75
V.1.ECsponsoredprojects in the period 1990-98 75
V.2.Evolutionofthe EC sponsored projectsthrough the
FrameworkProgrammes77
VI. CONCLUSIONS83
VII. REFERENCES 85
VIII. LISTOFFIGURES93
IX. ANNEX97
INDEXES
Index by topic101
Index by project reference number 111 I. INTRODUCTION
The present catalogue was contracted to the "Association pour la recherche et
développement des méthodes et processus industriels " of the "Ecole des Mines de
Paris" by the European Commission through a grant support from the Marine
Science and Technology Programme (MAST). The two authors, J. Colson and O.
Parize are working at the "Centre de Géotechnique et Exploitation du Sous-Sol' of
the "Ecole des Mines de Paris". "AfìMINES/Ecole des Mines de Pahs/CGES' is spe­
cialised in drilling technologies, rock mechanics, reservoir engineering and sedi-
mentology.
The aim of this study is to review and catalogue the projects relevant to scientific
drilling that have been conducted during the Second (1990-92), Third (1992-94) and
Fourth (1994-98) Framework Programmes of Community Research. The catalogue
is intended as an informat