ICDP Training Course 2014: Drilling in Active Fault Zones
The annual ICDP Training Course took place from October 6 to 10 at the Franz Josef Glacier (New Zealand) nearby the parallel running ICDP Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) that aims at sampling and monitoring the Alpine Fault at depth. 33 graduate students, PhD students, early-career scientists and senior scientists involved in currently running or upcoming scientific drilling projects attend the training course. The lecturers touched upon relevant aspects of scientific drilling in active fault zones, including drilling engineering, rock and fluid samples and sampling strategies, pre-site studies, downhole logging, permanent downhole monitoring, data management, and project planning and management. Practical exercises and a one-day visit of the drill site helped deepen the acquired expertise.
Agenda and Additional Material
Presentations
Thomas Wiersberg: Introduction and ICDP Mission, Fluid Sampling and Analysis
Alex Pyne: Fundamentals of Drilling and Drilling Technology
Anja Schleicher: Basics on Sampling, Cuttings Studies, Core Studies
Peter Malin: Downhole Seismology I, II, III
Doug Schmitt: VSP and Anisotropy, Stress Measurements
Steve Hickman: SAFOD I, II-III
Maria Jose Jurado: Downhole Logging Acquisition and Interpretation I-III
Ronald Conze: Data Management