Final Report: Introduction to Drilling workshop

A Course purpose was to give basic knowledge about drilling industry.

Therefore, the course was too short but I had enough opportunity to take
crucial information by my teacher about emergency, about drilling, drilling
component and rigging up/down as well. In short, I got information that
absolutely will help me in the future. Its important to note that especially
for me the first day in the workshop was very wondering before the starting
class because I have never studied and worked there with some equipments
subsequently night before the class I was thinking what will I do and I had a
lot of questions about that . After that, in the first lesson as usually, we
talked about course description and grading, in one word with course
syllabus. Then we continue our lesson with crucial topic about safety
orientation and introduction drilling, rig such as components, tools and
equipments.
As for safety, it goes without saying that it's number one priority. While ,
the teacher was explaining about how important to follow safety rules I
figured out that in worst case I can be fired if I don't perform at least one
step in safety rules. For example, my mother has been working as a driller
operator in Zhanatalap which is small industry and located west side of
Atyrau. What's worse that I always notice that she leaves her hard hat and
safety glasses at home. Moreover, mother told me that she and her coworkers don't get used to wear safety equipments. To add to it, people who
work as safety controllers don't check the employees for safety when they
come to work. Furthermore, we talked about personal protector equiments
but I already had a little bit background information from previous courses
about it . Also, with helping this course I once again made sure the amount
of rigs in the Kazakhstan depends on the oil prices. For instance, in 2014
year oil price was enough good also high and were 178 rigs but currently in
2016 year there are 56 rigs. It means nowadays our oil price doesn't satisfy.
By the way, we did assignment in the next classroom which has a lot of
drilling equipments and our task was to find hazards in that room. The result
of survey was not so good because we found several hazards that can harm
to the people especially teachers who attend every day that class. For
instance, there are some heavy equipments that can fall and curbs that you
can fall. I suppose that #1 assingment will be critical notation to the students
and teachers who will work whenever with equipments. During, the second
assignment I was familiar with some safety equipment which I have never
seen also heard such as First Aid Kit, ESD switch and Lock out box as well.
Besides, looking at the scheme of the rig we talked about which component
where located. On the other hand, I refreshed my memory about rig site also
I had experience about it from previous course.
Actually, the most interesting thing in this course was to see well
monitoring system equipments in the real life such as WOB sensor, Flow

paddle sensor, pit volume and Casing pressure sensor as well. As far as I
understood Flow paddle sensor measures the amount and rate of fluid fill in
the flowline and if a saddle in horizontal inclination it means our flow of fluid
is so good for 100 percent. Moreover, pit volume needs to identify the
distance to the top of the mud in the pits. In addition, it looks like radar and
as name is telling it determines in volume. Furthermore, Casing pressure
plays key role in the giving the pressure reading in the manifold. Also, it is
mounted on the surface and it can withstand around 15000 psi pressure ir
1000 bar. In addition, I knew about how to reduce and eventually prevent the
flow of drilling fluid into weak formations such as lost circulation. In this case
there materials that will minimize or prevent lost circulation. For instance,
cellophane, calcium carbonate, plant fibers and ground rubber. Also, I figured
out the mud plays vital role in the drilling. There are a lot of reasons. First
and foremost reason is to hold back formation fluid pressures. It means mud
pressure should be higher than formation pressure subsequently should not
be so less than formation. What's more, I covered there are other
equipments except BOP to control well pressure in emergency such as
Accumulator , kill line , choke manifold and flair line. Also, most kicks or
tripping occurs during the swabbing. Swabbing is when we trip out the pipes
too fast. Therefore, the pipe will suck the pressure and at the bottom
pressure will decrease. And, it leads to exist the kick. Then, I remembered
how to do cement job and about how centralizers very important. Also, if we
have problems or not so good at the end of casing we need to use deflection
tools such as whipstocks and jetting bits in order to change direction of
drilling. The whipstocks can be used for casing but jetting bit for uncasing
holes. Besides, I gained knowledge or information about transportation of
rigs and types. There two types rigs mobile rigs and conventional rigs. The
difference between then tat mobile rigs used for short depth especially in
order to produce water and conventional vice version for deeper wells in
order to produce oil or other hydrocarbons. During the rig up we should have
some components such as drawworks in order to load up and down
equipments, power system to transfer the power in order to turn some
supplies. Actually, there are some potential hazards during rig up or down.
For example, the crane can struck or falling from heights. To sum up my
mind, in the drilling everything is interconnected to each other and safety
must be in the highest priority.

Alisher Pazylov