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This document provides an introduction and overview of the Petroleum Engineering 406 course. It outlines the class hours, grading structure, textbooks, and course content. The course will cover topics such as well control, kicks, blowouts, terminology, calculations, unusual well control operations, offshore drilling, and dual gradient drilling. It provides definitions and formulas for key well control concepts like hydrostatic pressure, formation pressure, shut-in pressures, and basic calculations.

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WC 01

This document provides an introduction and overview of the Petroleum Engineering 406 course. It outlines the class hours, grading structure, textbooks, and course content. The course will cover topics such as well control, kicks, blowouts, terminology, calculations, unusual well control operations, offshore drilling, and dual gradient drilling. It provides definitions and formulas for key well control concepts like hydrostatic pressure, formation pressure, shut-in pressures, and basic calculations.

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Petroleum Engineering 406

Introduction

Introduction

Introduction to course
Class hours
Grading
Textbooks
Schedule
Introduction to Well Control

Introduction
Description: (3-0). Credit 3. II
Well control; underbalanced drilling; offshore
drilling; horizontal, extended, reach, multilateral drilling; and fishing operations
Prerequisite: PETE 411

Classes:
Richardson:

8:00 8:50 a.m. MWF


313

Introduction

Instructor: Jerome J. Schubert, PE


Office:
501K Richardson
Hours:
9:00 - 11:00 a.m. TR
Phone:
979/862-1195
e-mail:
[email protected]
Notes:
http://pumpjack.tamu.edu/~schubert

Grading

QuizA:
Quiz B:
Final:
Hmwk:
Project:

20%
20%
20%
20%
20%

Textbooks
Applied Drilling Engineering
Bourgoyne, Chenevert, Millheim, Young

Well Control Manual


Schubert

Handouts, Technical papers, etc.

Course Content
Well Control

Kicks
Blowouts
Terminology
Basic Well Control Calculations
Causes of Kicks
Kick Detection
Shut-In Procedures

Course Content

Well Kill Procedures


Equivalent Mud Weights
Casing Seat Tests
Kick Tolerances
Gas Kicks
Abnormal Pressure
Casing Seat Selection

Course Content

Well Control Equipment


Unusual Well Control Operations
Shallow Gas
Subsea Well Control

Course Content
Underbalanced Drilling, UBD

Introduciton to UBD
UBD techniques
Benefits
Equipment
Selecting candidates
UBD engineering

Course Content
Offshore Drilling
Platform Rigs
Jackup rigs
Floating Drilling

Course Content
Dual Gradient Drilling

Introduction to DGD
U-tube concepts
Pressure profiles
DGD well control

Petroleum Engineering 406


Lesson 1
Well Control

Well Control
Kick
an unscheduled entry of formation fluids into
the wellbore, of sufficient Quantity to require
shutting in the well.

Blowout
Loss of control of a kick

Blowout

Blowouts

Well Control
Blowout
Surface
Underground

Blowouts caused by
equipment failure
human error

Well Control
Engineers in office can aid in well control
by:
Provide pressure profiles for all pending wells
Provide offset information such as logs, bit
records, mud reports, drilling records.
Provide support and assistance personnel on
location.

Well Control Terminology


Hydrostatic pressure = .052 x MW x TVD

Hydrostatic Pressure
Derive HSP equation
Calculate the HSP for each of the following:
10,000 of 12.0 ppg mud
12,000 of 10.5 ppg mud
5,000 of 11.2 ppg mud on top of 6,000 of 16.5
ppg mud

Hydrostatic Pressure
Derive HSP equation
Area
= A, sq.ft.
Height = h, ft.
Density = MW, ppg

Weight of fluid =
A*h (ft3)*62.4 lb/ ft3
*MW/8.33
=62.4/8.33*MW*A*h

MW

Hydrostatic Pressure
This weight is equally distributed over an
area of A sq.ft or 144*A sq. in.
Pressure = Weight (force)/area
= 62.4*MW*A*h

8.33*144*A
P=.052*MW*h
where h=TVD

Terminology
Pressure Gradient
psi/ft = .052 x MW
ppg equivalent

Formation Pressure
Normal pressure
Abnormal pressure
Subnormal pressure

Terminology
Overburden pressure
function of rock and fluid above zone of
interest

Fracture pressure

Terminology
Pump pressure or
system pressure loss

Terminology
Slow Pump Pressure
Taken:

every tour by each driller


pumps repaired or liners changed
mud properties change
every 500 of hole
change in BHA
bit nozzles changed

Terminology
Surge pressure
Swab pressure

Terminology
Shut-in drillpipe pressure - SIDPP
FP = HSPdp + SIDPP

Shut-in casing pressure - SICP


FP = HSPcsg mud + HSPinflux + SICP

Bottom-hole pressure - BHP


BHP = HSP + SIP + Friction + Surge - Swab

U-Tube Concept

Basic Calculations
Dia, in - cap, bbl/ft
Capacity ID 2 1029
AnnularCap

2
2
IDhole
ODpipe

1029

wt / ft
2600
wt / ft OD 2 ID 2
DCdisp

2750
1029
Wetdisp Capacity disp
DPdisp

Basic Calculations
Pump Output
Duplex Pump

TPOduplex 0.000162 SL 2 LD2 RD 2 eff


Triplex Pump

TPOtriplex 0.000243 SL LD eff


2

Basic Calculations

Basic Calculations
Kill Weight Mud
KWM = SIDPP/(0.052 x TVD) + OWM
KWM = FP/(0.052 x TVD)

Weight material to add to increase density


MudVol 14.7 ( KWM OWM )
sxBarite
35 KWM
PitGain sxBarite / 14.7
MudVol 15.96 ( KWM OWM )
38 KWM
PitGain sxIlmenite / 15.96

sxIlmenite

MudVol 17.64 ( KWM OWM )


sxIronOxide
42 KWM
PitGain sxIronOxide / 17.64
MudVol 25.2 ( KWM OWM )
sxGalena
60 KWM
PitGain sxGalena / 25.2

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