ISBN13: | 9781032753850 |
ISBN10: | 1032753854 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 470 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 190 Illustrations, black & white; 178 Halftones, black & white; 12 Line drawings, black & white; 40 Tables, black & white |
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The Practical Handbook of Well Control
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This text teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling engineering. It covers fundamental aspects of well control and includes procedures and well control/kill methods. It features a wealth of questions to commonly encountered problems and comprehensive answers to test reader comprehension of each topical discussion.
The Practical Handbook of Well Control teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling well engineering. Offering an applied and scientific point of view, it covers fundamental aspects of well control and includes practical procedures and well control methods for land and offshore operations. It features a wealth of questions to commonly encountered problems and comprehensive answers at the end of each topical discussion to test reader comprehension.
? Written in a concise, accessible way by experienced oilfield and academic experts
? Covers all related technical subjects of well control
? Describes modern aspects of well control including automatic well control, advances in outflow measurement, artificial intelligence and IoT techniques for early kick detection, mud gas separators and riser gas modeling
? Includes case studies to familiarize readers with real-world problems and solutions
? Offers a full explanation of each problem to familiarize readers with commonly faced issues
? Features sample exercises with comprehensive answers useful for IWCF and IADC exams
This handbook serves as a valuable reference and workbook for field drilling and workover engineers in the energy sector.
0. Front Matter. 1. Introduction. 2. Barriers. 3. Drilling Fluids and Pit Management. 4. Well Control Concepts. 5. Causes of Kicks and LOWCs. 6. Kick Warning Signs, Indicators, and Detection. 7. Prerecorded Data for Possible Well Control. 8. Well Shut-In and Diverting Procedures. 9. Post Well Shut-In Monitoring Pressures and Activities. 10. Kill Sheets' Completion Methods. 11. Well Control Methods. 12. Wireline Operations and Well Control Setup. 13. Early Kick Prediction Detection by Data-Driven AI/ML Techniques. 14. IoT Infrastructures for Well Control. 15. Automated Well Control. 16. Recent Advancements in Flowmeters for Kick Detection. 17. Mud-Gas Separator Analysis: A Comprehensive Review of Sizing, Design Criteria, and Industry Standards. 18. Riser Gas Challenge and Modeling. 19. Case Study: Root Cause of Blowout ?Middle-East, 2017. 20. Case Study: Blowout in Australia PETREL No.1 (SEDCO 135G), 1969.