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This document provides an overview of rotary drilling and the steps involved in drilling an oil or gas well. It discusses the personnel involved in drilling, including drilling engineers and foremen. It also outlines the typical 15 steps to drill a well, from obtaining permits and seismic data, to constructing access roads and platforms, drilling the well, completing the well installation of surface facilities. The document also briefly describes different types of offshore drilling rigs like jack-up rigs, semi-submersibles, drillships, and tension leg platforms.

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1A - Overview of Drilling Engineering PDF

This document provides an overview of rotary drilling and the steps involved in drilling an oil or gas well. It discusses the personnel involved in drilling, including drilling engineers and foremen. It also outlines the typical 15 steps to drill a well, from obtaining permits and seismic data, to constructing access roads and platforms, drilling the well, completing the well installation of surface facilities. The document also briefly describes different types of offshore drilling rigs like jack-up rigs, semi-submersibles, drillships, and tension leg platforms.

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Well Drilling Engineering



Overview of Rotary Drilling
Dr. DO QUANG KHANH

Contents
Introduction
Drilling Team
Steps to Drill a Well
Drilling Rigs
Offshore Drilling
Drilling Cost Analysis
(Drilling Economics)
2
Fig: Role of drilling in field development
Introduction:
The life of an oil or gas field
can be sub-divided into the
following phases:

Exploration
Appraisal
Development
Maintenance
Abandonment
Fig. 1.3 - Typical drilling rig organization
Personnel involved in drilling a well
Fig. 1.4

The
rotary
drilling
process
Steps to Drill A Gas/Oil Well
1. Complete or obtain seismic, log,
scouting information or other data.
2. Lease the land or obtain concession.
3. Calculate reserves or estimate from best
data available.
4. If reserve estimates show payout,
proceed with well.
5. Obtain permits from conservation/
national authority.
Steps to Drill a Well - contd
6. Prepare drilling and completion
program.
7. Ask for bids on footage, day work, or
combination from selected drilling
contractors based on drilling
program.
8. If necessary, modify program to fit
selected contractor equipment.
Steps to Drill a Well - contd
9. Construct road, location/platforms and
other marine equipment necessary for
access to site.
10. Gather all personnel concerned for
meeting prior to commencing drilling
(pre-spud meeting)
11. If necessary, further modify program.
12. Drill well.

Steps to Drill a Well - contd
13. Move off contractor if workover unit
is to complete the well.
14. Complete well.
15. Install surface facilities.
16. Analysis of operations with
concerned personnel.

Drilling Operations
Field Engineers, Drilling Foremen

A. Well planning prior to SPUD
B. Monitor drilling operations
C. After drilling, review drilling results and
recommend future improvements
- prepare report.
D. General duties.
What are the well requirements?
Objectives, safety, cost
Making
a
Connection
Making
a
Trip
Making a mouse hole connection
Making a mouse hole connection - contd
Single
Added.
Ready to
Drill
Moving Kelly
to Single in
Mousehole
Stabbing
the Pipe
Use
Elevators
for
tripping
Making a trip
Put Kelly in
Rathole
Why
trip?
Making a trip - contd
Tripping
one stand
at a time

60-90 ft
Fig. 1.5

Classification
of rotary
drilling rigs
Noble
Drillings
Cecil
Forbes

A Jack-
Up Rig
Sonats
George
Washington
A Semi-
Submersible
Rig
Zapatas
Trader

A
Drillship
Deep Water Development Options
SUBSEA
COMPLET
IONS
FIXED
PLATFO
RMS
COMPLI
ANT
TOWER
S
FLOATIN
G
PRODUC
TION
SYSTEM
S
TENSIO
N LEG
PLATFO
RMS
TENSION LEG PLATFORM
Shells
Auger

Tension
Leg
Platform
Shells
Bullwinkle

Worlds tallest
offshore
structure

1,353 water
depth

Production
began in 1989
45,000 b/d
80MM scf/d

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