Drilling Fluid Engineering
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740307917
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 1.1. Nine distinct mud systems; title: 1.2. The four main tasks of a drilling fluid; title: 1.3. About this book; title: 2. Mud circulation loop and its components; title: 2.1. The mud loop and solids control; title: 2.2. The mud pump; title: 3. Drilling fluid viscosity control; title: 3.1. Clay chemistry; title: 3.2. Polymer chemistry; title: 3.3. Rheology of drilling fluids; title: 3.4. Filtration control; title: 3.5. Additives; title: 4. Hydraulic friction in the circulating system; title: 4.1. Head loss; title: 4.2. Laminar flow; title: 4.3. Turbulent pipe flow; title: 4.4. Singularity losses; title: 5. Removal of cuttings from under the bit; title: 5.1. Cuttings removal process; title: 5.2. Boundary conditions of the drilling process; title: 5.3. Optimizing ROP, liner by liner; title: 5.4. Optimizing the complete well; title: 6. Transport of cuttings to the surface; title: 6.1. Hole cleaning in vertical wells; title: 6.2. Hole cleaning in medium inclined wells; title: 6.3. Hole cleaning in highly inclined wells; title: 7. Keeping wellbore within maximum and minimum pressure; ECD-control; title: 7.1. Density control; title: 7.2. ECD factors; title: 7.3. Temperature variation; title: 7.4. Mathematical model of pressure surge & swab; title: 8. Keeping the wellbore stable; title: 8.1. Introduction; title: 8.2. Mechanical stability; title: 8.3. Chemical stability; title: 8.4. Inhibitive muds; title: 8.5. Hole problems; title: 8.6. Countermeasures to hole-problems; title: 9. References; title: 10. Supportive information; title: 10.1. Nomenclature; title: 10.2. Abbreviations and explanations; title: 10.3. Definitions; title: 10.4. Continuity, momentum and energy equation in microscopic and macroscopic form; title: 10.5. Hydraulic friction loss equations; title: 10.6. Determine Rheological Constants – Regression Analysis; title: 10.7. Unit conversion factors; title: 10.8. Viscosity and density of water vs. temperature