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Solutions or Case Histories

• Agip has tested a real-time mass spectrometer in Indonesia
• Apache did a deepwater well offshore Egypt using real-time
• BP has formalized the drilling process:
  • Start with a 3-D seismic volume
  • Constrain the Earth Model with well control
  • Derive a 3-D geomechanical model
  • Assess any successful well to decide where to put the platform, where the platform impact on trajectory is tied to the geomechanical model
• Exxon-Mobil Research has developed a real-time mass spectrometer
• San Andreas Well (see http://www.icdp-online.de/html/sites/sanandreas/news/news.html):
  • Vertical to 7,000'
  • Set casing at 2,500' in granite
  • Measure gas in real-time with:
    • mass spectrameter
    • gas chromograph
    • radon dector
  • looking at tectonic signatures tied to plate tectonics:
    • high Helium3 is tied to the mantle
    • might also be tied to the physics of faulting
• Shell is using Geomechanics International in the Gulf of Mexico
• Total-Fina-Elf has tested a real-time mass spectrometer in Indonesia