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, multi-
lateral drilling; and fishing operations
Prerequisite: PETE 411
Classes: 8:00 8:50 a.m. MWF
Richardson: 313
Introduction
Instructor: Jerome J. Schubert, PE
Office: 501K Richardson
Hours: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. TR
Phone: 979/862-1195
e-mail: schubert@spindletop.tamu.edu
Notes:
http://pumpjack.tamu.edu/~schubert
Grading
QuizA: 20%
Quiz B: 20%
Final: 20%
Hmwk: 20%
Project: 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 (ft
3
)*62.4 lb/ ft
3

*MW/8.33
=62.4/8.33*MW*A*h

h
A
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 = HSP
dp
+ SIDPP
Shut-in casing pressure - SICP
FP = HSP
csg mud
+ HSP
influx +
SICP
Bottom-hole pressure - BHP
BHP = HSP + SIP + Friction + Surge - Swab
U-Tube Concept
Basic Calculations
Dia, in - cap, bbl/ft
disp Capacity Wetdisp
ID OD f t wt
DCdisp
f t wt
DPdisp
OD ID
AnnularCap
ID Capacity
pipe hole
+ =

= =
=

=
=
1029 2750
/
2600
/
1029
1029
2 2
2 2
2
Basic Calculations
Pump Output
Duplex Pump

Triplex Pump

( ) | | eff RD LD SL TPO
duplex
=
2 2
2 000162 . 0
eff LD SL TPO
triplex
=
2
000243 . 0
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


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OWM KWM MudVol
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