 ... penetrated to a sufficient depth to insure a flow in the well. The drilling tools are then withdrawn, the water bailed, and the well allowed to flow. When a sufficient time has elapsed to allow of the well cleaning itself of all loose pieces of rock...  Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey - Page 172by Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Geology - 1903 - 898 pages
...cleaning itself of all loose pieces of rock or gravel, the valve is closed and the well shut in. None of these wells has been torpedoed. This method of...and its poisonous qualities are intensified by its being saturated with petroleum vapor. Petroleum vapor has the effect of rendering persons inhaling... | |
 | Geology - 1906 - 1190 pages
...deadly gas is probably sufficiently accounted for by the following quotation from Hayes and Kennedy:" "This gas contains a large proportion of hydrogen...and its poisonous qualities are intensified by its being saturated with petroleum vapor. Petroleum vapor has the effect of rendering persons inhaling... | |
 | Charles Willard Hayes, William Kennedy - Oil fields - 1903 - 222 pages
...cleaning itself of all loose pieces of rock or gravel, the valve is closed and the well shut in. None of these wells has been torpedoed. This method of...and its poisonous qualities are intensified by its being saturated with petroleum vapor. Petroleum vapor has the effect of rendering persons inhaling... | |
 | Nevin Melancthon Fenneman - Oil fields - 1906 - 180 pages
...cleaning itself of all loose pieces of rock or gravel, the valve is closed and the well shut in. None of these wells has been torpedoed. This method of...Spindletop and the only result was a ruined well. NOTE. — In November, 1905, the Mound Oil Company completed a successful well not far from the drillings... | |
 | 1908 - 248 pages
...of the Louisiana-Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, published by the United States Geological Survey in 1903: Considerable danger accompanies the flowing and closing...and its poisonous qualities are intensified by its being saturated with petroleum vapor. Petroleum vapor has the effect of rendering persons inhaling... | |
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