Hawaii geothermal drilling guide : Circular C-126

Contents: introduction -- rules and regulations -- drilling -- casing and cementing -- blowout prevention -- well completion & testing -- monitoring and reporting -- workovers, plugging, and abandonment -- emerging technology -- illustrations -- appendices"This Geothermal Drilling Guide has been prepared at the request of the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide a single, comprehensive document that describes geothermal drilling and well-testing operations for the use of potential developers, operators, and stakeholders. This guide is intended as a general reference for common practices currently found in the geothermal industry. For site-specific well programs, detailed analysis of all available project data should be performed in order to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and county regulations.""Prepared by GeothermEx, Inc., a Schlumberger company."Department of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawai