Drilling Engineering

Class Note 1: Introduction to Drilling Engineering

First oil well Drilling
Drilling Rig
Onshore Offshore
Rotary Drilling Process
Rotary and swivel systems
Automatic Pipe handling
Circulating system
Drilling fluid circulation
Mud circulating system
Primary solid control
Casing
Mud circulating return line
Cementing system
BOP (Blow out preventer)
Basic well control
Drilling in control
Loosing control
Wells out of control
Rig Moving: Skidding
Rig moving: Onshore
Rig moving: Offshore
Drill pipe string

Drill Pipe

HW Drill Pipe

Drill
Collar

Bit
Drill bits
 Drill pipe connection

Breaking out

Stop rotating/ Slips set Adding pipe

raises kelly to drill string
Mousehole connection
 End of Drilling
Pulling out of hole

Bit inspection/
BHA remove assessment
Resuming Drilling
Running in hole
Well sequence
Casing
Casing Design
Casing scheme
Casing running
Cementing
Cementing
Cementing sequence
Poor cementing
Fishing operations
Fishing examples
Well completion
n Well completion includes all design work and
operations needed to prepare the well for
production after it has been drilled

n Workover operation include all operations

performed on the well after starting
production for the purpose of remedial of
producing problems
Well completion options
Cased completion
Gravel-pack
Multilateral completion
Factors influencing Well completion
design
Methods of Completion

Openhole Completion

Liner Completions

Perforated Completions
Open hole completion
Perforated liner completion
Perforated cased completion
Multiple zone completions

Two zone Triple completion Triple tubingless

completion completion