PRODI TEKNIK GEOLOGI Kukuh Jalu Waskita S.T., M.

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STT MIGAS BALIKPAPAN DRILL CUTTINGS NIDN: 1117128503
Drill cuttings are the broken bits of solid Cutting Shape will inform you what is happen in
material removed from a borehole and brought your borehole. Normal cutting is always shows
to the surface in the drilling muds. the bit bite. When you see cutting without bit
bite, you might think something wrong with the
Just like coring, drill cuttings give the bit cutter, it might be balling (your bit is covered
informations how good the reservoir qualities by the sticky mud). Sometimes you might see
and where you should take more focus on. the cutting in big size and also without bit bite. It
is called a sloughing shale. This happened with
Equipments and solution needed in order to do your mud weight is not enough to keep the
the cutting description: wellbore stability and need to increase the mud
1. Binocular Microscope weight.
2. Fluoroscence Light
3. Rock chart color
4. Grain size comparator SANDSTONE : very light gray-
5. Washing sieves set (Coarse, Medium & fine) medium gray, occ olive grey, off
white, transparent, translucent,
6. Sample Trays loose to friable, subblocky to
7. Calcimeter blocky, fine to very fine grain, silty
8. HCL (to check carbonate contain) in part, sub rounded-rounded,
high sphericity, moderate to well
9. Iso-propanol (to check oil show) sorted, quartz,abundant of quartz,
10. Phenolphthalein (to check cement) trace of carbon matt, fair vis
porosity, argilliceous matrix, non
calcareous, no oil show.
Description order SANDSTONE : predominantly
1. Rock type (% and modifier, if required) light olive gray to very light gray, Normal Cutting Abnormal Cutting /
2. Colour or colour range occasionally greenish grey, off Sloughing shale
white, transparent, translucent,
3. Hardness firm to moderate hard, subblocky
4. Fracture and texture (Break) to blocky, fine to very fine grain,
5. Grain size: Range and Dominant size sub rounded-rounded, medium
sphericity, moderate to well
6. Sorting sorted, abundant of quartz, trace
7. Angularity or Roundness of carbon matt, fair vis porosity,
8. Sphericity argilliceous matrix, slightly
calcareous cemented, Oil show
9. Matrix 20-30 % Sandstone at 6212 ft to
10. Cementation: 6280 ft, no to very weak odor,
SHALE : predominantly COAL : Black to grayish
11. Accessories and Fossils: yellowish green direct
brownish gray olive gray, occ black, brittle, subblocky to
fluorescence, very slow yellowish
12. Effective Visual porosity, type(s) and amount blooming cut fluorescence, very
olive black, medium hard to conchoidal fracture,
hard, subblocky to subplatty, vitreous lustre.
13. Hydrocarbon indications – shows description thing white residual ring, no stain
amorph, non calcareous