Pre-spud Checklist # 3

This article presents an example of a pre-spud checklist.

- weatherford – 2 tongs & power units. Both 20” and 13/38

- rio negro grouted

- drains / channels preferably clear prior to spotting equipment

- 40” casing to cut. And corregate walls on cellar, cut out

- cellar to empty to locate the flyge pump sump. Install pump and hook up same

- mouse hole and rathole, in place

- pipe bins in place

- casing in place and strapped. All casing running tools ready

- chicksans connected to stand pipe, at subbase

- flare line. & degasser hooked up

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- baryte recovery line hooked up

- stairs on pits installed

- trip tank pump

- totco wire line unit ready to go

- general rig floor rig up, tongs..etc

- totco geolograph recorder

- drilling line spooler

- primary check on bop’s

- spud mud ready + extra water in other tanks

- cementing ready, all lines rigged up silo’s full

- mudlog ready

- solids control ready

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- barytes on location, silo’s full

- trash bins in plac

- pick up & make up two stands of hwdp & set in mast

- stab in tool checked, d/p centralisers

- false rotary. Etc

- 20” strapped + cleaned. Check stab in tool required

- channels cut in shoe + shoe made up on first joint run

- welding equipment ready + on stand by

- riser chains ready

- wooden mats out for drilling tools

- spacer spool installation on the bottom of 13 5/8 bops

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- wash down guns rigged up

- install submersible pump in water pit and hook up and test same

- water well generator still on independent power

- weighted bucket on choke manifold flare line

- handrails to install between brine pit and obm tank walk way

- electrical panel to close at brine skid

- cable tray covers to install

- trip tank hose to hook up

- flow line to hook up

- bha to lay out and strap

- 20” casing to lay out and strap – i nstall shoe and cut out channels

- crown ‘o’ matic to install

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- respot drill line spooler skid

- remove bop work platform to other side

- spreader beams on rig cantilever to remove and stow away

- open drainage channels from cellar deck to rio negro

- casing stabbing board to install and test

- lay out 20 riser by racks – check all turnbuckles and  chains are working and lubricated

- hook up choke line to manifold – if you have time

- general drilling tools and casing to get ready

- have the 3 1/2 “ rams been replaced by 5”?

- 40” casing to cut off level with ground. Cut slots in cellar wall

- jet line to install

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- check all chains and turnbuckles are functioning for holding down the 20” casing

- 20 casing to lay out, clean and measure and shoe to install. Channels to cut in shoe joint

- bha to lay out, rabbit and measure. Record stabilizer blade gauges.

- drains and ditches to clear of all obstructions

- rio negro. Is the chute properly installed to carry cuttings away?

- cable tray covers to install

- totco barrel on slick line

- geolograph hooked up

- submersible pump at waterpit  to install and hook up - test same

- flare line off choke manifold  to hook up

- poor boy degasser line to complete.bop platform on back side to install so flowline can be
hooked up on surface pipe.

- 2 stands of hwdp in derrick prior to spud

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- koomey unit to install at location

- ditches between pits to grout with old cement

- ensure the flowline to derrick shakers is clean, to allow the flow of cuttings to the end derrick
shaker

- Prior to acceptance pressure test the rig pumps against kelly to  3000psi each pump, just to
check the integrity of the connections.

- Cut a few of  meters of formation to test the whole system (1x kelly down).

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