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Volume II – Drilling Engineering
Chapter 1 - Geomechanics Applied to Drilling Engineering
PEH:Geomechanics Applied to Drilling Engineering
- Subsurface stress and pore pressure
- Methods to determine pore pressure
- Rock properties
- Elastic wellbore stress concentration
- Determining stress orientation
- Methods to estimate stresses and orientation
- Building geomechanical models
- Handling uncertainty in geomechanical design
- Predicting wellbore stability
- Models for wellbore stability
- Geomechanical analysis in real time
Chapter 2 - Drilling Fluids
- Drilling fluids
- Functions of drilling fluid
- Drilling fluid types
- Drilling fluid tests
- Drilling fluid challenges
- Lost circulation
- Stuck pipe
- Hole cleaning
- Barite sag in drilling fluids
- Challenges in drilling salt formations and rubble zones
- Riserless interval
- Deepwater drilling
- Drilling HP/HT wells
- Drilling fluid environmental considerations
- Drilling waste management
Chapter 3 - Fluid Mechanics for Drilling
Chapter 4 - Well Control: Procedures and Principles
Chapter 5 - Introduction to Roller-Cone and Polycrystalline Diamond Drill Bits
Chapter 6 - Directional Drilling
- Directional drilling
- Directional well profile: surface-hole section
- Directional well profile: overburden section
- Directional well profile: reservoir penetration section
- Horizontal wells
- Multilateral wells
- Extended reach wells
- Directional survey
- Directional survey instruments
- Calculation methods for directional survey
- Directional survey errors
- Bottom hole assembly (BHA) design for directional control
- Directional deviation tools
Chapter 7 - Casing Design
- Casing and tubing
- Strength of casing and tubing
- Casing and tubing buckling
- External pressure loads on casing and tubing strings
- Internal pressure loads on casing and tubing strings
- Mechanical loads on casing and tubing strings
- Thermal loads on casing and tubing strings
- Casing design
- Arctic well completions
- Risk-based casing design
Chapter 8 - Introduction to Wellhead Systems
Chapter 9 - Cementing
- Cementing operations
- Primary cementing placement design
- Remedial cementing
- Remedial cementing placement techniques
- Hole preparation in cementing
- Circulatability treatment in cementing
- Spacers and flushers in cementing
- Contact time in cementing
- Sweep pills in hole cleanup for cementing
- Cement composition and classification
- Specialty cements
- Cement hydration
- Cement slurry design
- Cement slurry accelerators
- Cement slurry retarders
- Cement slurry extenders
- Foamed cement
- Cement slurry weighting agents
- Cement slurry dispersants
- Cement slurry fluid-loss-control additives (FLAs)
- Water insoluble materials in cementing
- Water soluble materials in cementing
- Cement slurry design testing
- Cementing hardware
Chapter 10 - Drilling Problems and Solutions
Chapter 11 - Introduction to Well Planning
PEH:Introduction to Well Planning
- Well planning
- Data collection for well planning
- Determining depth to set casing
- Hole geometry
- Authority for expenditures (AFE)
- AFE: cementing
- AFE: completion equipment
- AFE: drilling fluids
- AFE: drilling rig and tools
- AFE: location preparation
- AFE: projected drilling time
- AFE: rental equipment
- AFE: supervision and administration
- AFE: support services
- AFE: transportation
- AFE: tubulars
- AFE: wellhead equipment
Chapter 12 - Underbalanced Drilling
- Underbalanced drilling (UBD)
- Underbalanced drilling (UBD) limitations
- Designing an underbalanced drilling operation
- Underbalanced drilling (UBD) circulation designs
- Reservoir inflow in underbalanced drilling (UBD)
- Downhole equipment for UBD operations
- Surface equipment for UBD operations
- Completing underbalanced wells
- Workover of a UBD well
- Underbalanced drilling (UBD) health and safety issues
Chapter 13 - Emerging Drilling Technologies
Chapter 14 - Offshore Drilling Units
- History of offshore drilling units
- MODU types
- Fixed-platform rigs
- Tender assist drilling (TAD) units
- Conventional ship and barge-shaped rigs
- Submersibles
- Jackups
- Semisubmersibles
- Ultradeepwater drilling units
- MODU mobilization
- MODU equipment and capabilities
- MODU riser and mooring systems
- Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
- Offshore rig crews
- Drilling safety
- Security
- Classification and registration of offshore drilling units
- Offshore drilling agreements
- MODU selection
Chapter 15 - Drilling-Data Acquisition
- Surface data sensors during drilling
- Collecting data while drilling
- Measurement while drilling (MWD)
- Drilling dynamics
- Logging while drilling (LWD)
- Electromagnetic logging while drilling
- Acoustic logging while drilling
- Nuclear logging while drilling
- Magnetic-resonance-image (MRI) logging while drilling
- Formation testing while drilling (FTWD)
- Drilling data management
- Rigsite data systems
- Drilling data management systems
Chapter 16 - Coiled-Tubing Well Intervention and Drilling Operations
PEH:Coiled-Tubing Well Intervention and Drilling Operations
- History of coiled-tubing technology
- Coiled-tubing equipment design
- Tubing injector for CT unit
- Service reel for CT unit
- Prime mover for CT unit
- CT control and monitoring equipment
- Downhole CT tool connections
- Well-control stack for CT operations
- Coiled tubing
- Coiled-tubing fatigue
- Predicting CT fatigue
- Coiled-tubing applications
- Coiled tubing drilling
