Applied Drilling Circulation Systems - Hydraulics, Calculations, and Models

✍ Scribed by Guo, Boyun; Liu, Gefei

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Used to clean the borehole, stabilize rock, control pressures, or enhance drilling rates, drilling fluids and their circulation systems are used in all phases of a drilling operation. These systems are highly dynamic and complicated to model until now. This book provides engineers and students with the necessary analytical/numerical models to handle problems associated with the design and optimization of cost-effective drilling circulation systems. The only book which combines system modeling, design, and equipment, this book provides a clear and rigorous exposition of traditional and non-traditional circulation systems and equipment followed by self contained chapters concerning system modeling applications. Theories are illustrated by case studies based on the author’s real life experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Content
•Part I. Liquid Drilling Systems
1. Equipment in Mud Circulating Systems
2. Mud Hydraulics Fundamentals
3. Mud Pumps
4. Mud Hydraulics Optimization
•Part II. Gas Drilling Systems
5. Equipment in Gas Drilling Systems
6. Gas Compressors
7. Gas Drilling Operations
•Part III. Underbalanced Drilling Systems
8. Equipment in Underbalanced Drilling Systems
9. Gas and Liquid Injection Rates
10. Underbalanced Drilling Operations
Appendices
Index