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ISSUE 1
SEPTEMBER 1999
BP Amoco
Directional Survey Handbook BPA-D-004
Contents
Section 1 Introduction
1.1 About this Handbook
1.2 Directional Survey and Value Addition
1.3 The Design-Execute Principle
Section 3 Theory
3.1 Surface Positioning
3.2 The Earth’s Magnetic Field
3.3 Position Uncertainty
3.4 Position Uncertainty Calculations
Section 4 Methods
4.1 Multi-Well Development Planning
4.2 Survey Program Design
4.3 Anti-Collision – Recommended Practice
4.4 Anti-Collision – Selected Topics
4.5 Target Analysis
4.6 Survey Calculation
4.7 In-Hole Referencing
4.8 In-Field Referencing
4.9 Drill-String Magnetic Interference
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Contents
Section 1 Introduction
1.1 About this Handbook
1.2 Directional Survey and Value Addition
1.3 The Design-Execute Principle
Section 3 Theory
3.1 Surface Positioning
3.2 The Earth’s Magnetic Field
3.3 Position Uncertainty
3.4 Position Uncertainty Calculations
Section 4 Methods
4.1 Multi-Well Development Planning
4.2 Survey Program Design
4.3 Anti-Collision – Recommended Practice
4.4 Anti-Collision – Selected Topics
4.5 Target Analysis
4.6 Survey Calculation
4.7 In-Hole Referencing
4.8 In-Field Referencing
4.9 Drill-String Magnetic Interference
4.10
4.10 Su
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Contents (cont’d)
Preface
This Issue 1 of the BP Amoco Directional Survey Handbook (BPA-D-004)
is applicable in all areas of the BP Amoco organisation.
Amendment Summary
Section 1
Contents
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1.1 Well positioning process and associated files 1-7
Who this Handbook is for, and what
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What BP Amoco Policy says about
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(12.5) A database of well trajectories (planned and actual)
and all project data (slots, targets, locations and
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(8.8) The rotary table elevation, relative to seabed at mean
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rigs) shall be determined and formally recorded.
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(12.1) Survey programs for all wellbores shall be designed
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c) Minimise the risk of intersection with any nearby
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(12.2) The performance specification of all instruments
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(12.7) All procedures for assessing tolerable risks of
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3.1 The Earth’s surface and the geoid 3-2
3.2 Globally and locally fitting ellipsoids 3-3
3.3 Dependence of latitude on choice of ellipsoid and datum 3-3
3.4 Relationship between geodetic heights 3-5
3.5 Geographical, mapping grid and drilling grid co-ordinates 3-7
3.6 Variation of grid scale factor across a mapping grid 3-8
3.7 Components of the magnetic field vector 3-18
3.8 The one dimensional normal distribution 3-23
3.9 A two dimensional distribution resolved in two directions 3-24
3.10 Principal directions and the standard error ellipse 3-25
Section 3
Contents (cont’d)
Table Page
3.1 Definition of the drilling grid in some
BP Amoco operation areas 3-9
3.2 The magnetic field in some of BP Amoco’s operating areas
(approximate values as of 1 July 1999) 3-19
3.3 Confidence intervals for the one dimensional
normal distribution 3-23
3.4 Confidence intervals for the two dimensional
normal distribution 3-25
3.5 Error term propagation modes 3-27
An introduction to the science of well
surveying.
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