Managed Pressure Drilling

detection and well control applications

Shreya Shekhar Parth Sharma

Applied Petroleum Engineering with Applied Petroleum Engineering with
specialisation in gas stream specialisation in gas stream
UPES, Dehradun , Uttarakhand UPES, Dehradun , Uttarakhand
Email Id: sash01717@gmail.com Email Id: parthsharma0907@gmail.com
Contact no.: 8171939103 Contact no.: 8650859251

Abstract

In times when oil industry is looking for drilling technologies to optimize field development, managed-
pressure drilling (MPD) has become an attractive technology, offering considerable benefits. Managed
Pressure Drilling (MPD) is an adaptive drilling process used to precisely control the annular pressure profile
throughout the wellbore. The objectives are to ascertain the downhole pressure. In non-technical terms, the
simplest yet most compelling definition of managed pressure drilling is cheating Mother Nature.
Bottomhole pressure is normally maintained above pore pressure by simply controlling the density of the
drilling fluid. When density gets too high, the formation begins to drink fluid and its time to stop. Casing
must be run to isolate the open hole before drilling can continue. The common objective of all currently
known managed pressure drilling techniques is to stretch or eliminate casing points to allow drilling beyond
conventional limits of depth or pressure variation. Mother Nature is thus cheated out of her desire of
preventing wells from reaching their ultimate objective depth.

The poster provides an overview of the current application and techniques of MPD. The poster then
highlights the unique challenges that are associated with the implementation of managed pressure drilling in
a deepwater horizon.

Keywords: Managed pressure Drilling, Bottomhole Pressure, Pore Pressure