... soil profile clay british geological survey geological subdiscipline database sand north sea study area north sea recovery reservoir characterization layered soil soil combination unitisation database penetration depth shear strength dataset Innovative Geotechnologies for Energy...

... category silt catalonia soil investigation geotechnical engineering technical university positioning water depth upstream oil & gas sampler minidrill drilling operation investigation deployment site investigation recovery geoscience platform ABSTRACT The paper...

... and three recoil compensation rep- resenting six different trials are tested and each trial is dupli- cated once or twice (Table 1). The slack of the piston cable BEHAVIOUR OF A PISTON CORER FROM ACCELEROMETERS AND NEW INSIGHTS ON QUALITY OF THE RECOVERY Jean-François Bourillet, Gilbert Damy, Loïc Dussud...

... prototype had a deep keel for stability to counter the weight of the engine mounted on top of the spar. This restricted shallow water use and made recovery over the stern impossible, although recovery with a davit had been demonstrated at model scale. These problems have been in- vestigated using a range...

... rig on the seabed. Conventional straight push tube or (alternatively) a down- hole mechanical piston type sampling system is available. The PROD system offers an alternative, proprietary pis- ton sampling system for the recovery of seabed sediments. Figure 4: Geometry of PROD soft soil footings...