Drilling Fluid Engineering
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740311396
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nine distinct mud systems; title: The five main tasks of a drilling fluid; title: About this book; title: Mud circulation loop and its components; title: The mud loop and solids control; title: The mud pump; title: Drilling fluid viscosity control; title: Clay chemistry; title: Polymer chemistry; title: Rheology of drilling fluids; title: Filtration control; title: Additives; title: Hydraulic friction in the circulating system; title: Head loss; title: Laminar flow; title: Turbulent pipe flow; title: Singularity losses; title: Removal of cuttings from under the bit; title: Cuttings removal process; title: Boundary conditions of the drilling process; title: Optimizing ROP, liner by liner; title: Optimizing the complete well; title: Transport of cuttings to the surface; title: Hole cleaning in vertical wells; title: Hole cleaning in medium inclined wells; title: Hole cleaning in highly inclined wells; title: Keeping wellbore within maximum and minimum pressure; ECD-control; title: Density control; title: ECD factors; title: Temperature variation; title: Mathematical model of pressure surge & swab; title: Keeping the wellbore stable; title: Introduction; title: Mechanical stability; title: Chemical stability; title: Inhibitive muds; title: Hole problems; title: Countermeasures to hole-problems; title: References; title: Supportive information; title: Nomenclature; title: Abbreviations and explanations; title: Definitions; title: Continuity, momentum and energy equation in microscopic and macroscopic form; title: Hydraulic friction loss equations; title: Determine Rheological Constants – Regression Analysis; title: Unit conversion factors; title: Viscosity and density of water vs temperature