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1) The driller is tripping pipe out of a 12 ¼” diameter hole. 25×92 ft. stand of 5” pipe
have already been pulled. There are 85 more stands to pull. The calculated metal
displacement of the 9 ½” collars is 0.08 bbls/ft. The capacity of the drill pipe is 0.01776
bbls/ft and the metal displacement 0.0075 bbls/ft. The trip tank volume has reduced
from 27 barrels to 15 barrels. What action should be taken in this situation?
Answer: d
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2) Prior to pulling out of the hole from 10485 ft. TVD, the pipe is full of 10.4 ppg. mud.
The pipe capacity is 0.01776 bbls/ft. A 25 bbls slug weighting 12.0 ppg is pumped into
the drill pipe causing the level to drop some 216 ft. inside the drill pipe.
What is the drop in bottom hole pressure due to pumping the slug into position?
a) 25 psi
b) 0 psi.
c) 117 psi
d) 135 psi.
Answer: b
3) Which of the following possible indications suggest that mud hydrostatic pressure
and formation pressure are almost equal?
a) A drilling break.
b) Connection gas.
c) Large, splintery cuttings.
d) Trip gas.
e) All of above.
Answer: e
4) While pulling out of the hole it is noticed that mud required to fill the hole is less
than calculated. What action must be taken?
a) Flow check, if negative displace a 100 ft. heavy slug into annulus and continue to pull out
of the hole.
b) Flow check, if negative run back to bottom circulate bottoms up and monitor returns.
c) Pull remaining stands out of the hole.
d) Flow check, if negative continue to pull out of the hole.
e) Shut the well in and circulate the hole clean.
Answer: b
5) You are pulling out of hole. Two 93 ft. stands of 8” drill collars have been stood
back in the derrick. The displacement is 0.0549 bbls/ft.
According to your Assistant driller – 5.1 bbls should be pump into the well. It only
takes 5 bbls to fill the hole. (Answer “Yes” or “No” to each question.)
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a) Are the calculations correct?
b) Have you taken a 5 bbls influx?
c) All OK, keeps going?
Answer:
a. = No (10.2).
b. =Yes,
c.= No.
6) While tripping out of the hole a kick was taken and a full bore kelly cock was
stabbed and closed. A non return type safety valve was made up on top of the kelly
cock prior to stripping in.
(Answer “Yes” or “No” to each question.)
Answer:
a.= No,
b. = No
7) You are planing to trip out of the hole. From the list below, circle six items that you
would check before starting your trip.
Answer: a, b, c, e, f, h
Shut-in Procedure
1) From the list of practices shown below, choose the six most likely to lead to an
increase in the size of the influx.
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a) Switch off the flow meter alarms.
b) Regular briefing for the derrickman on his duties regarding the monitoring of pit levels.
c) Drilling 20 ft further after a drilling brake, before flow checking.
d) Running regular pit drills for drill crew.
e) Maintaining stab in valves.
f) Testing stab in valves during BOP tests.
g) Excluding the drawworks from the SCR assignment.
h) Keeping air pressure on choke control console at 10 psi.
i) Calling toolpusher to floor prior to shutting in the well.
j) Not holding down master air valve on remote BOP control panel while functioning a
preventer.
Answer: a, c, g, h, i, j
2) What is the reason for raising the kelly to bring the first tool joint above the rotary
table when shutting in a well?
a) Allow the free flow of mud around bit during kill operation.
b) Allow access to the lower kelly cock and, if required, removal of the kelly.
c) Extend closing time to give softest possible shut in.
d) Allow annular to close around drillpipe because the annular is not designed to seal around
the kelly.
Answer: b
3) If flow through the drillpipe occurs while tripping, what should the first action be?
Answer: d
4) While drilling along at a steady rate the derrickman asks to slow the mud pumps
down so that the shakers can handle the increase in cuttings coming back in the
returns. Which one of the following would be the safest course of action.
a) Continue at the same rate allowing the excess to bypass the shakers and get caught in
sand traps which can be dumped later.
b) Pick up off bottom and check for flow, if there is not any then circulate bottoms up to
reduce rate so shakers can handle cutting volume, flow check periodically during circulation.
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c) Slow down the mud pump until the shakers can handle the volume of cuttings in the
returns as requested by derrickman.
d) Slow down the drilling rate and the pump rate until the shakers clear up then go back to
the original parameters.
Answer: b
5) Which of the following would be the first action you would take if while circulating
out a kick the chicksans or hose connected to your drill string parted?
a) Stop pump and close the full opening safety valve on the drill string. Close the choke.
b) Close the shear rams. (Shear ram position above pipe rams being used).
c) Drop the drill string and close blind/shear rams.
Answer: a
6) While circulating out the kick, No.1 mud pump fails. What is the first thing to do?
Answer: a
a) A larger pit gain will result in a higher SIDPP resulting in a heavier kill mud weight
b) A larger pit gain will result in higher SIDPP and SICP
c) A larger pit gain will result in higher SICP but SIDPP will stay the same
Answer:
a) False
b) False
c) True
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2) A flowing well is closed in. Which pressure gauge reading is normally used to
determine formation pressure?
Answer: b
3) A flowing well is closed in. Which two pressure gauge readings might be used to
determine formation pressure?
Answer: b & d
4) A kick is being circulated out at 30 SPM. The drill pipe pressure reads 550 psi, and
casing pressure 970 psi. It is decided to slow the pumps to 20 SPM while maintaining
970 psi on the casing gauge.
How will this affect bottom hole pressure (exclude any Equivalent Circulating Density
[ECD] effect)? Pick one answer.
a) Increase
b) Decrease
c) Stay the same
d) No way of knowing
Answer: c
5) While killing a well, as pump speed is increased, what should happen to casing
pressure in order to keep bottom hole pressure steady?
Answer: a
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6) The principle involved in Constant Bottom Hole Pressure methods of well control is
to maintain a bottom hole pressure that is :
Answer: b
7) At what point while correctly circulating out a gas kick is it likely that the pressure
at the casing shoe to be at its maximum?
Answer: d
8) If Drill pipe Pressure is held constant while displacing the string with kill mud, what
will happen to Bottom Hole Pressure?
a) Increases.
b) Remains the same.
c) Decreases.
Answer: a
Answer: d
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10) The choke has to be gradually closed due to a string washout. What effect does
the gradual closing of the choke have on the bottom hole pressure?
a) Decreases.
b) Increases.
c) Stays the same.
Answer: b
11) If Bottom Hole Pressure is held constant while circulating the influx out, the
pressure on at the casing shoe will not increase after the influx passes, even though
surface pressure on the annulus continues to rise.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a
References:
1.Transocean Sedco Forex – Jakarta Learning Centre – Pre-school exercises for Well
Control With Answers.
2. Well Control Manual part.1 & 2 – from Well Control School
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