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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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 | |||
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North: 38.91685 | South: 38.9 | West: -71.2271 | East: -71.22 |
Platform(s):
Ben Ocean Lancer |
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.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Well drilling | --- | Geology |