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Advanced Drilling Engineering

The document outlines the teaching and examination scheme for an advanced drilling engineering course, including 4 units that cover topics such as drill string design, directional drilling techniques, common drilling problems, and non-conventional drilling methods with a total of 39 hours of instruction. Students will be evaluated based on multiple choice questions, short answer/essay questions, internal assessments, and a final viva voce exam out of a total of 100 marks. Recommended reference texts on well logging, formation evaluation, and drilling are also listed.

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Advanced Drilling Engineering

The document outlines the teaching and examination scheme for an advanced drilling engineering course, including 4 units that cover topics such as drill string design, directional drilling techniques, common drilling problems, and non-conventional drilling methods with a total of 39 hours of instruction. Students will be evaluated based on multiple choice questions, short answer/essay questions, internal assessments, and a final viva voce exam out of a total of 100 marks. Recommended reference texts on well logging, formation evaluation, and drilling are also listed.

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  • Unit 2: Directional Drilling: Discusses directional drilling technology, objectives, and methods, including tools and techniques for precise direction.
  • Unit-I: Design: Covers the design of drilling strings, casing design, bit selection, and weight hydraulics.

17MPE113 : Advanced Drilling Engineering

Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme


Theory Practical Total
L T P C Hrs/Week
MS ES IA LW LE/Viva Marks
3 1 0 4 4 25 50 25 -- -- 100

Unit-1: Hours: 13
Design
Design of Drill string design, Casing design, Bit Selection, BOP design, Wellbore Hydraulics
Unit 2 : Hours:13
Directional Drilling
Directional Drilling Technology, Objectives of Directional Drilling. Tools for deflection & orientation.
Directional well profiles and well path – deflection & corrections Motor Types: PD motors and Turbodrills; their
description, power calculations and applications, Horizontal Well Drilling, Introduction of Horizontal well drilling:
Objectives & selection, Drilling techniques and different well profiles, Special mud requirements and their characteristics.
Well Surveying: Objectives & methods. Surveying analysis & calculations for well coordinates Directional drilling
problems & their remedies Auto and Verti-track systems: Rotary steerable motors and geo-steering tools.
Unit 3 : Hours : 07
Drilling Problems
Pipe sticking, Lost circulation, Sloughing shale, formation damage, fatigue failure of drill string, Bit failure, wire line
failure etc. Well control and hydrodynamic pressure, well control techniques
Unit 4: Hours : 06
Non-conventional drilling methods
Special Drilling Methods: Foam, under balanced, overbalanced, plasma, electrical, top drive, re-entry, extended reach, jet,
multilateral, slim-hole and coil tubing drilling methods; Drilling HPHT wells, Drilling fluids for HPHT environment, Case
study of HPHT drilling

Total Hrs -39


Texts and References:
1. Malcom Rider, Second Edition, 2002: The Geological Interpretation of well logs, Rider-French Consulting
limited
2. Oeberto Serra & Lorenzo Serra, 2004 : Well logging - data acquisition and applications, Edition Serralog,
France
3. Jorden J R and Campbell F. L., , SPE, New York, 1986: Well Logging Vol. 1 and 2
4. Ellis, D. V. and Singer, J. M. 2nd edition, 2007: Well logging for Earth Scientist, Springer
5. Toby Darling, Well logging and Formation Evaluation, Gulf Professional Publishing, Elsevier Science

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