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No, that’s not an oil well under construction in front of the building — it’s a wa ter well that will be used as a laboratory for students in Pet roleum Engineering 415, Mea surements Laboratory, begin ning this semester. “Everybody who goes by there asks what we’re doing,” said Dr. J. T. Rollins, an associ ate professor of petroleum en gineering and one of the depart ment faculty members involved in the development of the pro ject and construction of the well. Rollins said the well will be used to run petroleum en gineering experiments that could not previously be run on campus because of a lack of faci lities. About 270 students from nine laboratory classes will use the well this semester. ^ “It’s a good teaching device,” said Dr. William Von Gonten, head of the department. Von Gonten made the proposal that awell be constructed on campus. He explained that the well will be used to run experiments that previously required laboratory field trips to off-campus wells. Von Gonten said that having a well directly outside the build ing eliminates problems in volved in arranging field experi ments such as receiving the pier- mission for students to observe wells and arranging transporta tion to the well site. “We have certain experi ments run in the labs that in volve pumping wells,” he said. “It’s a better situation to have a well by the building.” Von Gonten explained that the water well cannot be used to pump oil because of its small size. “It would be far too expen sive to pump oil, and there would be safety problems,” he said. “We wouldn’t be able to drill right next to the building.” He said that while the water well costs between $1,000 — $2,000, the cost of constructing an oil well could be as high as $500,000. The water well was funded by the department, and its construction was planned for nine months before it actually began. Mark Beach, a junior pet roleum engineering major working on construction of the well, explained two types of ex periments that will be run using the well. They are a dynano- meter test, used to judge whether a well is pumping effi ciently, and a product index test, used to determine how much oil or water will be produced in the future. Rollins said transient press ure testing is one of the new ex periments that will be per formed using the water well. Transient pressure testing is a means of determining how va rious well properties, such as pressure and ease of water flow are differentiated. “This well is exactly like an oil well,” said Russell Fontaine, a petroleum engineering teaching assistant, “It’s just on a much smaller scale.” Photo by Dean Saito Laborers work on part of the water drilling rig to be used by Petroleum Engineering students for a measurments laboratories. 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