This text aims to give students an introduction to the principles and some recommended procedures practiced in drilling engineering. All chapters contain a theoretical introduction, as well as examples and exercises. References for further readings are given at the end of this text. Necessary equations and procedures to solve the exercises are presented through out the text <...>

The history of well drilling goes back for millennia. Oilwell drilling has, even to this day, been more a craft rather than an engineering science. An engineering approach to oilwell drilling first began to take hold at the end of World War II. Perhaps one indication was seven papers related to drilling and completion topics in the 1953 Transactions of the AIME, Petroleum  Development and Technology.

Heterogeneous ductile shear zones are very common in the Earth’s lithosphere and are particularly well exposed in mountain belts (e.g. Iannace and Vitale 2004; Yonkee 2005; Vitale et al. 2007a,b; Okudaira and Beppu 2008; Alsleben et al. 2008; Sarkarinejad et al. 2010; Kuiper et al. 2011; Dasgupta et al. 2012; Zhang et al. 2013; Samani 2013; Mukherjee 2013, 2014; also see Chapter 9), where they provide useful tools for a better understanding of the processes and parameters controlling strain localization, type of deformation, and rock rheology. The occurrence of strain markers such as fossils, ooids and ellipsoidal clasts in sedimentary rocks, or equant minerals, deflected veins and dykes in igneous rocks, allows one to quantify the finite strain by means of various methods (e.g. Dunnet 1969; Fry 1979; Lisle 1985; Erslev 1988; Vitale and Mazzoli 2005, 2010). <...>

Short-lived mantle generated magmatic events and their dyke swarms: The key unlocking Earth’s palaeogeographic record back to 2.6 Ga 

W. Bleeker & R. Ernst

Giant dyke swarms and the reconstruction of the Canadian Arctic islands, Greenland, Svalbard and Franz Josef Land 

K.L. Buchan & R. Ernst

AMS criteria for determining the azimuth and dip of a subduction zone from a mafic dyke swarm 

J.-P. Lefort, T. Aпfa & F. Hervй

Palaeo- and Mesoproterozoic dyke swarms in the Lake Ladoga area, NW Russia – palaeomagnetic studies 

S. Mertanen, O. Eklund, A. Shebanov, D. Frank-Kamenetsky & T. Vasilieva