Drilling Equipment

2008 ◽  
pp. 2-2-8
Author(s):  
JA Luppens ◽  
SE Wilson ◽  
RW Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Drilling Equipment

The Thirty-Ninth Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture: Offshore Drilling, with Particular Reference to the North Sea and the ‘Sea Quest’

1966 ◽  
Vol 181 (1) ◽  
pp. 848-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. S. Avery
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Safety Equipment ◽  
Offshore Drilling ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The North ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
Sea Bed ◽  
Weight Problems ◽  
The North Sea

The origins of offshore drilling work and the development of structures used at sea are traced. Comparison of the various types illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of each. Tables show the numbers in operation, being built, and the apparent liability of each type to damage. Typical bore-hole structures are illustrated, the need for undersea well-heads explained and their development into a sea-bed completion is discussed. Much more research is necessary before this can be considered a practical proposition. The design of drilling barge equipment is compared with typical land rigs and the development of drilling equipment, including the sophisticated electric drive and turbo-drill, discussed. Rigs in various types of barge are compared. Fire precautions and other safety equipment are described. The problems associated with control by the driller lead to complications of motive power layout. The lecture describes in some detail the design of the semi-submersible drilling barge Sea Quest, illustrates the weight problems and their effect on floating stability and indicates the need for management decisions on the degree of resistance to damage. This is measured by the variable deck load of drilling equipment that can be held on board and the degree of weather deterioration that can be tolerated before disengaging the drill from the hole. The need for, and extent of, diving is discussed, with some comparison between diving vehicles. Weather too is an essential factor of work in the North Sea and both pre-surveys and day-to-day reporting are described.

Development of a Commercial Wireline Retrievable Coring System

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (06) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Warren ◽  
Jim Powers ◽  
David Bode ◽  
Eric Carre ◽  
Lee Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Coalbed Methane ◽  
Technical Conference ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Recovery ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
Original Manuscript ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conventional Drilling ◽  
Target Depth

This paper (SPE 52993) was revised for publication from paper SPE 36536, first presented at the 1996 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, 6-9 October. Original manuscript received for review 11 October 1996. Revised manuscript received 22 September 1998. Paper peer approved 23 September 1998. Summary A Wireline retrievable coring system for use with conventional drilling equipment is described. The coring system was developed and tested for application in evaluating coalbed methane prospects where a large quantity of core is required, and it is essential that the core is processed soon after it is cut. A drill plug allows for alternation between coring and drilling without tripping the drillstring. The system is particularly advantageous for coring long intervals, multiple zones relatively close together, or when the exact target depth is unknown. The system has been used to core more than 4940 m (15,057 ft) in Poland, Germany, and France, with a combined core recovery of 94%. In addition, the impact of varying rig costs on total savings is factored into the overall economic evaluation of the system. P. 489

scholarly journals Development of Bench for Testing and Running-in of Slurry Pumps After Repair Activities of Drilling Equipment in the Oil and Gas Complex System

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
V. Babarykin ◽  
A. Karimov ◽  
S. Kucherov ◽  
E. Evseenko ◽  
O. Gagarina
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Test Bench ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies

In the article the question of checking the quality of repairs carried out by slurry pumps used in drilling for oil and gas companies. Development and implementation of test bench for slurry pumps will enable the company not only to improve the reliability of the repair, but also reduce the number of repetitive equipment repairs.

scholarly journals QUALITY ASSESSMENT TERRITORY ADJACENT TO THE «DRILLING EQUIPMENT PLANT»

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Marina Yuryevna Garitskaya ◽  
Alina Ivanovna Baitelova ◽  
Ludmila Andreevna Pikus ◽  
Kristina Andreevna Kosacheva
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Orenburg Region ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Soil, performing a number of important functions is the geomembrane and affects the flow of most processes in the biosphere. Wherein geochemical processes occurring in the soil play an important role in the fate of contaminants as organic matter while controlling their redistribution in the ecosystem between its various components are generally leads to the formation of stable areas of contamination. The soil not only geochemically components accumulates contaminants, but also acts as a natural buffer that controls the transfer of chemical elements and compounds in the atmosphere. Around industrial enterprises formed geochemical anomalies with high content of pollutants, which can reach a radius of 10-50 km, and the impact of large industrial centers can be traced to a distance of 100 km. All known processes of metal accompanied by the formation of large amounts of waste that pollutes air, water and land surface. Mechanical engineering is an important industry of the Orenburg region and is represented by enterprises of the military-industrial complex, agricultural machinery, machine tools, equipment for ferrous and non-ferrous metals, vehicles, electric household appliances. In the machine-building complex of the Orenburg region includes more than 70 large enterprises. The share of engineering products in the volume of industrial production is about 8%. In this case, the natural environment of the city of Orenburg slabozaschischena from most adverse geo-environmental factors. Based on this, we carried out a study on the quality of soil and environmental situation prevailing in the city of Orenburg, in the zone of influence of the enterprise Plant drilling equipment.

Shape Memory Polymers as Lost Circulation Materials for Sealing Wide-Opened Natural Fractures

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Maryam Tabatabaei ◽  
Arash Dahi Taleghani ◽  
Guoqiang Li ◽  
Tianyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Shape Memory Polymers ◽  
Reservoir Temperature ◽  
Lost Circulation ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
X Ray Computed ◽  
Large Width ◽  
Lost Circulation Materials

Summary While there have been various lost circulation materials (LCMs) available in the market for treating fractures during the drilling of oil and gas wells, there is still a demand for a technology to seal large fractures. Considering limitations on the size of the particles that can be circulated through the drilling equipment, especially the bottomhole assembly, simply enlarging conventional LCM particles becomes ineffective for sealing large vugs and fractures. In this study, we use shape memory polymers (SMPs) to prepare programmed LCMs with various temporary shapes, which can transform to their permanent shapes with much larger dimensions as compared to their temporary shapes. A series of steps for thermomechanical programming of SMP is designed to trigger their expansion at the reservoir temperature. The dimensions of the programmed shapes can be an order of magnitude smaller than the ones for the original shapes, making their transport through the flowlines feasible, and bridging wide-opened fractures possible. The basic idea is that, after recovery, the SMP-based LCMs form an entangled network across a large width of fracture, and SMP particles recovered within the network, filling in the pores to form an effective sealing. We seek the capability of entangled ladders and interwoven fibers in forming a network across the fracture. A permeability plugging apparatus (PPA) is used to examine the efficiency of developed LCMs. The technique of 3D X-ray computed tomography (CT) is used to visualize the internal structure of formed plugs, enabling us to understand the mechanisms of bridging, plugging, and sealing.

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