Week 10 : Common drilling problems
In well planning, the key to achieving objectives successfully is to
design drilling programs on the basis of anticipation of potential
hole problems rather than on caution and containment. Drilling
problems can be very costly. The most prevalent drilling
problems include:
- Pipe sticking
- Loss of circulation
- Hole deviation
- Pipe failures
- Borehole instability
- Mud contamination
- Formation damage
- Hole cleaning
- Equipment and personnel-related problems
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Course Material
- Week 1-2 : Introduction to rig components
- Week 3 : Drilling methods and operations
- Week 4-5 : Types of bits; drilling fluids
- Week 6 : Cementation operations
- Week 7 : Casing operations
- Week 8 : Coring operations
- Week 9 : Secondary and enhanced oil recovery
- Week 10 : Common drilling problems
- Week 11 : Evaluation and analysis of well data i.e. Well cutting,
- Week 12 : Well testing and completion
- Week 13 : logs and production data
- Week 14 : . Hse at well site.
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Dr. Syed Haroon Ali
