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Field Activity Details for field activity 1978-040-FA

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Other ID: COST WELL NO. B-3

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

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Principal Investigator(s): Claude (Wylie) Poag

Affiliate Investigator(s): William Patterson

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Resource exploration well drilled by a consortium of oil companies on the New Jersey offshore continental slope. Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test No. B-3 well (COST B-3) was drilled by the BEN OCEAN LANCER, a dynamically positioned drill ship operated by Chevron USA. Lease block would be made available upon completion of well.

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Start Date: 1978-10-09

End Date: 1979-01-25

Equipment Used: Well drilling

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Morphology; Resource exploration potential;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: COST No. B-3 well: 3,990 m (13,092 ft.) below sea floor (total depth 4,822 m, 15,820 ft. below Kelly Bushing). Conventional cores: 4; Sidewall cores: 689; Geophysical surveys: 3; Seismic velocity surveys: 3.

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Notes:
Project = Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test (COST) B-3 Well, Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test (COST) B-3 Well

Location:

New Jersey outer continental slope, Baltimore Canyon Trough, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 38.91685 South: 38.9 West: -71.2271 East: -71.22

Platform(s):

photo of Ben Ocean Lancer
Ben Ocean Lancer

Publications

Amato, R.V., and Simonis, E.K., eds., 1979, Geological and operational summary, COST No. B-3 well, Baltimore Canyon Trough area, Mid-Atlantic OCS: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1159, 118 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr791159.

Klitgord, K.D., and Schneider, C.M., Geophysical database of the east coast of the United States northern Atlantic margin—Velocity analyses: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-192, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr94192.

Scholle, P.A., ed., 1980, Geological studies of the COST No. B-3 Well, United States Mid-Atlantic continental slope area: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 833, 132 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/cir833.

Scholle, P.A., Schwab, Kim A., and Krivoy, Harold Lloyd, 1981, Summary chart of geological data from the COST No. B-3 well, U.S. Mid-Atlantic continental slope: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigation Chart 106, 1 sheet, URL: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/oc106.

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Well drilling --- Geology

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