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Comprehensive Unit Conversion Guide

This document provides conversion factors between common drilling engineering units and SI units. It lists various drilling related quantities like depth, weight on bit, nozzle size, drill rate, volume, pump output, flow rate, annular velocity, slip velocity, linear lengths and diameter, pressure, bentonite yield, temperature, mud density, mud gradient, funnel viscosity, apparent and plastic viscosity, get strength and stress, cake thickness, filter loss, material concentration, and shear rate. Conversion factors are given to convert between the typical field units used and standard SI units.

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Comprehensive Unit Conversion Guide

This document provides conversion factors between common drilling engineering units and SI units. It lists various drilling related quantities like depth, weight on bit, nozzle size, drill rate, volume, pump output, flow rate, annular velocity, slip velocity, linear lengths and diameter, pressure, bentonite yield, temperature, mud density, mud gradient, funnel viscosity, apparent and plastic viscosity, get strength and stress, cake thickness, filter loss, material concentration, and shear rate. Conversion factors are given to convert between the typical field units used and standard SI units.

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  • Unit Conversions

Unit Conversions

Unit conversions
Quantity Units Conversion factors SI units Symbol
property multiply by
Depth Feet 0.3048 meters m
Weight on bit Pounds 0.445 decanewtons daN
4.535 x 10-4 tonne tonne

Nozzle size 32nds inch 0.794 millimeters mm


Drill rate Feet/hour 0.3048 meters/hour m/h
Volume Barrels 0.1590 cubic meters m3
US gal/stroke 3.785 x 10-3 Cubic meters/stroke m3/stroke
Pump output US gal/min 3.875 x 10-3 cubic meteres/minute m3/min

Flow rate bbls/stroke an oil barrel is cubic meters/stroke m3/stroke


0.159873m3exactly
bbls/mi 0.1590 cubic meters/minute m3/min
Annular velocity Feet/min 0.3048 meters per minute [Link]
Slip velocity
Linear lengths & inches 25.4 millimeters mm
diameter
Pressure Psi 6.895 kilopascals kPa
0.006895 Megapascals MPa
0.06895 Bar Bar
Bentonite yield bbls/ton 0.175 cubic meters/tonne m3/t
Temperature ° Farenheit °F - 32/1.8 °Celsius °C
° Celsius (1.8 x°C) +32 ° Farenheit °F
Mud density lbs/gal (US) 119.83 kilograms/cubic meter kg/m3

Mud gradient Psi/foot 22.621 kilopascals/meters kPa/m


Funnel viscosity s/qt (US) 1.057 secs per liter s/L
Apparent & Plastic centipoise 1 millipascal mPas
Viscosity seconds
Get Strength & lbs/100 ft2 0.4788 pascals Pa
Stress (0.5 for field use)
Cake thickness 32nds inch 0.794 millimeters mm
Filter loss millimeteres 1 cubic centimeters cm3
MBT lbs/bbls 2.85 kilograms/cubic meter kg/m3
(bentonite
equivalent)
material lbs/barrel 2.85 kilograms/cubic meter kg/m3
concentration
Shear rate Reciprocal 1 reciporocal seconds kg/m3
seconds
Torque foot pounds 1.3358 newton meters nm

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