Depth in practice: examples from in the oil and gas industry in Australia
Any combination of unit, path, and reference can be used, as long as they result in fully specified, unambiguous depths.
- Unit: the usual unit of depth is the metre (m).
- Path: common expressions of path are measured depth (MD) – elsewhere often known as along hole depth (AHD) – and true vertical depth (TVD). Note that using TV for true vertical depth is not consistent with the use of MD for measured depth, hence the recommended TVD.
- Reference:
- the legal datum offshore Australia is Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT) – (Ref. 1 & 2). Note that this requirement in itself can cause difficulties as it is difficult to measure offshore and can vary greatly between locations and even with time. There is, however, an advantage to this convention: tidal corrections should always be of the same sign (negative depth), i.e. the sea level is always higher than or equal to LAT.
- A commonly used alternative is Mean Sea Level (MSL).
- A datum used in the past was Mean Indian Spring Low Water (MILSW). It is comparable to, but not exactly the same as, LAT.
- Common references used in operations include: Rotary Table (RT), Drill Floor (DF), Kelly Bushing (KB), Sea Bottom (SB), Ground Level (GL), Casing Bowl Flange (CBF).
The term "subsea" (SS) by itself should not be used, as it is ambiguous. It could mean: below sea floor or bottom, below mean sea level (MSL), below lowest astronomical tide (LAT), etc.
My take is MSL. so I stick to my progress calc.
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