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The difficulty with super-deep drill holes is anticipating the problems that will be encountered in the deeper portion of these holes, and preparing programs to cope with them. Fortunately, drilling experience is available to simulate many of the anticipated conditions. This experience is the result of drilling many wells in very hostile environments to produce geothermal energy.
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Otte, C., Pye, D.S., Stefanides, N.J. (1990). The Applicability of Geothermal Drilling Experience to Super-Deep Drilling. In: Fuchs, K., Kozlovsky, Y.A., Krivtsov, A.I., Zoback, M.D. (eds) Super-Deep Continental Drilling and Deep Geophysical Sounding. Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50143-2_3
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