Borrowed tool offers down-hole solution

Operators adapt hardrock mining technology to perfect grind-and-inject disposal of drilling waste and reduce industry footprint

Rose Ragsdale

For Petroleum News

When oil and gas explorers converged on the North Slope in the 1950s and 1960s, they brought industry practices from the Lower 48. These customs included constructing berm-enclosed pits beside new wells for disposal of discarded rock, mud and other solids that came out of the ground during the drill....

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