Pressure Control During Oil Well Drilling
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740307900
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 1.1. Scope of this book; title: 1.2. The drilling process; title: 1.3. Geological sediments; title: 1.4. About Pressure Control in sedimentary rocks; title: 1.5. Principle of barriers and safety aspects; title: 2. Pressure in the sediments; title: 2.1. Predictive models; title: 2.2. Quantifying formation pressure; title: 3. Well Control Equipment; title: 3.1. BOP stack and associated equipment; title: 3.2. Remote control of the BOP; title: 3.3. Volumetric unstable well (kicking well); title: 3.4. Closing procedure during drilling operations; title: 3.5. Well integrity during drilling operations; title: 4. Standard killing methods; title: 4.1. Surface and bottom pressure of a shut-in well; title: 4.2. Hydraulic friction during killing; title: 4.3. Killing by means of Driller’s Method; title: 4.4. Engineer’s Method; title: 4.5. Killing when unable to circulate from bottom; title: 4.6. Pressure control during Underbalanced Drilling; title: 4.7. Killing operations; title: 5. Modification of the standard killing method; title: 5.1. Modification due to narrow pressure window; title: 5.2. Killing with irregular drill string geometry; title: 5.3. Wellbore strengthening; title: 6. More realistic gas behavior; title: 6.1. Transport of gas; title: 6.2. Wellbore pressure during two phase flow; title: 6.3.; title: 6.4. Gas solubility; title: 7. Special offshore safety issues; title: 7.1. Low sea temperature; title: 7.2. Other deep water problems; title: 7.3. Shallow sands below deep sea water; title: 8. Gas migration through cement; title: 8.1. The cement slurry; title: 8.2. Cementing operations; title: 8.3. Gas migration; title: 9. References; title: 10. Nomenclature; title: 11. Abbreviations; title: 12. Unit conversion factors