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Radioactive Hole (PTD_7)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: ptd_7.ttl
- Name
radioactiveHole- Attribute
- PTD Borehole Type
- Definition
- A wellbore that was not brought into service due to the excessive presence of radioactive materials in subsurface strata.
- Description
- Subsurface formations may contain low levels of radioactive materials such as uranium and thorium and their daughter products, radium 226 and radium 228. Such Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) typically appears in trace amounts and can be brought to the surface through oil or gas wells (for example: when fluids that are present in the radioactive formation are pumped out of the well, or when natural gas contains radon gas, a radium daughter).
- Accepted
- 2013-10-18
- Allowed for
- RWOI terms naming it
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.