دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: a bit especially designed for use in drilling a hole around an obstruction in the main borehole. Usually, a cement plug is set on top of the obstruction, the side tracking bit is run into the hole on a whipstock or other directional drilling device, and the new borehole begun. Because the new borehole goes off to the side of the plugged borehole, the operation is called side tracking.