Underbalanced Drilling: Limits and Extremes

✍ Scribed by Bill Rehm, Arash Haghshenas, Amir Saman Paknejad, Abdullah Al-Yami and Jim Hughes (Eds.)

• Publisher: Gulf Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 680
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present crude oil and natural gas reservoirs around the world have depleted conventional production levels. To continue enhancing productivity for the remaining mature reservoirs, drilling decision-makers could no longer rely on traditional balanced or overbalanced methods of drilling. Derived from conventional air drilling, underbalanced drilling is increasingly necessary to meet today's energy and drilling needs. While more costly and extreme, underbalanced drilling can minimize pressure within the formation, increase drilling rate of penetration, reduce formation damage and lost circulation, making mature reservoirs once again viable and more productive. To further explain this essential drilling procedure, Bill Rehm, an experienced legend in drilling along with his co-editors, has compiled a handbook perfect for the drilling supervisor.

Underbalanced Drilling: Limits and Extremes, written under the auspices of the IADC Technical Publications Committee, contain many great features and contributions including:

• Real case studies shared by major service companies to give the reader guidelines on what might happen in actual operations
• Questions and answers at the end of the chapters for upcoming engineers to test their knowledge
• Common procedures, typical and special equipment involved, and most importantly, the limits and challenges that still surround this technology

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
GULF DRILLING SERIES, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Inside Front Cover, Page vi
Preface, Pages xix-xxxix, P.E. Don Hannegan, Jim Hughes
Biographies, Pages xli-xlix
CHAPTER 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-38
CHAPTER 2 - Flow Drilling: Underbalance Drilling with Liquid Single-Phase Systems, Pages 39-108
CHAPTER 3 - Gaseated Fluids (Gas-Liquid Mixtures), Pages 109-195
CHAPTER 4 - Foam Drilling, Pages 197-295
CHAPTER 5 - Air and Gas Drilling (Drilling Dry and with Mist), Pages 297-348
CHAPTER 6 - Snubbing and Underbalanced Drilling, Pages 349-369, Mike Ponville
CHAPTER 7 - Mud Cap Drilling in Fractured Formations, Pages 371-397, Dennis Moore
CHAPTER 8 - Underbalanced Liner Drilling, Pages 399-413, Robert Sanford
CHAPTER 9 - Coiled Tubing and Underbalanced Drilling, Pages 415-440, Earl Dietrich
CHAPTER 10 - Gases Used in Underbalanced Drilling, Pages 441-461, Bill Rehm, Abdullah Al-Yami
CHAPTER 11 - Equipment and Equipment Integration, Pages 463-536
CHAPTER 12 - Flaring, Pages 537-575
CHAPTER 13 - Corrosion in Drillpipe and Casing, Pages 577-616, Bill Rehm, Abdullah Al-Yami, Katherine Dimataris
Index, Pages 617-629

✦ Subjects

Горно-геологическая отрасль;Бурение скважин;Бурение и ремонт нефтегазовых скважин;