Drilling for oil & gas : a nontechnical guide

✍ Scribed by Devereux, Steve

• Publisher: Pennwell Pub
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 358
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ideal for non-engineer industry professionals and freshmen-level petroleum engineering students. Devereux introduces the reader to both onshore and offshore drilling operations and technology by covering the entire drilling process from basic geology to managing drilling operations. DLC: Oil well drilling

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part 1 Well planning: planning process - overview, data acquisition and analysis
designing the well - writing the drilling program, writing the final well report, time and cost estimates. Part 2 Practical wellsite operations: casing and wellhead design
primary cementing
drilling fluids
well control
drill bit selection, parameters and hydraulics
directional planning
logging
drilling problem avoidance. Part 3 Safety and environmental considerations: quality control
rig and personnel selection
casing
cementing
drilling fluids
well control
drill bits
directional drilling
drilling problems avoidance
fishing
safety and environment
quality control.

✦ Subjects

Oil well drilling. Petroleum engineering.