PETR 6368 WELL DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS I

Course Description: Topics include drilling rig components design

and operation, circulating, wellcontrol and well monitoring systems. This course envisages studying topics such as cost analysis, probability and price elasticity. Also the course will focus on drill bit hydraulics, drilling mud composition, properties and functions, different rheology models. Additional topics include holecleaning, selected empirical correlations and models for deviated wells with emphasis on practical drilling problems, primary and secondary cementing. Substantial assignments and a term project are an integral part of the course.

Instructor: Dr. Robello Samuel Prerequisites: Senior, post baccalaureate or graduate standing in engineering or science Course Textbooks:
Drilling Engineering Mechanics by J.J.Azar, G.R.Samuel Reference Book: Applied Drilling Engineering, by Adam T. Bourgoyne Jr., Martin E. Chenevert, Keith K. Millheim and F.S. Young Jr., Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, TX, 1991.

Course Outline:
1 Drilling Processes 1.1 Drilling Rigs 1.2 Hoisting System 1.3 Circulating System 1.4 The Well Control System 1.5 Well Monitoring System 1.6 Special Marine Equipment 2 Cost Control 2.1 Cost of Drilling 2.2 Probability of success or failure in Drilling 2.3 Price elasticity and Well Drilling 3 Drilling Hydraulics 3.1 Mechanical Energy and Pressure Balances 3.2 Pressure Losses in the circulating system 3.3 Flow through Jet Bits 3.4 Rheological Models 3.5 Laminar Flow and Laminar Flow in Pipes and Annuli 3.6 Flow through Core Bits 4 Drill Bit Hydraulics 4.1 Jet Bit Nozzle Size Selection 4.2 Hydraulics Power Requirement 4.3 Nozzle Optimization 4.4 Split Flows 5 Hole Cleaning 5.1 Factors affecting Hole Cleaning 5.2 HoleCleaning in deviated holes 5.3 Empirical correlations for high angle wells 6 Cementing 6.1 Cements and Cementing 6.2 Cement Additives 6.3 Cement Placement Techniques 6.4 Primary and Secondary Cementing