– It sounds strange, but the Northern Lights and oilfield affected by the same phenomenon, says engineer Inge Edvardsen in oil services company Baker Hughes to the homepages of the Norwegian Arctic University (UiT).
He has written a doctoral thesis on the phenomenon after having researched the challenges with drilling that occurs when the northern lights dancing in the sky.
the research got underway after Edvardsen wanted to find out why drilling in wells in the north Sea and the Barents Sea went off course.
– the same particles that make auroras also produces currents in the atmosphere. When one receives a flow in the atmosphere so creates a magnetic field. And it is in this magnetic field, an external magnetic field, which affects wells drilling down into the soil under the sea, explains civil engineer, according to NRK.
Currently, there is no clear answer on what you can do to prevent the northern lights can interfere with drilling, but Edvardsen has prepared some suggestions.
– These methods includes the use of monitoring stations from land. By these measuring stations recorded fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn can be used to correct measurements made down the wells, he explains.
(© NTB)
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