January 2011 Blog Posts (6)

African Drilling

I was just offerered a drilling job in Africa. Was wondering if anyone who works there could tell me what to expect... thank you!!

Added by mark lewis on January 29, 2011 at 8:30pm — 11 Comments

Cactus Rig 103 Blowout-Elk City

Subject: from keco news

2:39PM 1/24/11

A well erupting and shooting gas into the air north of Elk City led to a long night for the EC Fire Dept.

By Nathan Brewer

ELK CITY (YN) - A gas well two miles north of Country Club near Falcon Road blew out early Monday morning, causing gas to escape “uncontrollably,” according to Elk City Fire Chief Rick Shelton.

The Elk City Fire Department was contacted just after midnight Sunday, and units remained on… Continue

Added by Drilling Ahead on January 24, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

BP Oil Spill-The Macondo Well Decoded

BP Oil Spill-The Macondo Well Decoded

I have honestly quit watching the news in America on television. After watching CNN's Anderson Coopers coverage of the BP spill I realized that since CNN's inception when I was a kid, somewhere along the way this world news machine lost its integrity and began using world airwaves to further and promote its own propaganda and agenda.

To a young lazy American public , searching for and understand truth has become a matter of just tuning… Continue

Added by Drilling Ahead on January 20, 2011 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

The operational impacts of solid content

The solid content in the drilling mud has several operational impacts on drilling operation as listed below;

Equivalent Circulating Density (ECD) – The ECD will be higher if the solid content increases, regardless of whether High Gravity Solid (HGS) or Low Gravity Solid (LGS). As you may know, excessive ECD will lead to formation fracture and a loss circulation issue.…

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Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on January 16, 2011 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Directional Drilling Calculations

I got the question from my friend, Nien, asking me about directional drilling calculation and the question is shown below:

Wellplanner is planning to design a deep kick-off well with a build section to by pass a salt dome section. He intends to achieve a horizontal departure of 1500 ft at the with the TVD at the target point to be 10,000 ft. Calculate the measure depth and build up rate.

1 problem

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Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on January 11, 2011 at 9:00pm — 4 Comments

Solid Content in Drilling Mud

Solid content is a fraction total solid in drilling mud, and it always increases while drilling ahead because of drilling solid (cuttings), mud chemical additives and weighting material. When we talk about the solid content, we always mean soluble and insoluble solid content in the drilling fluid system.

There are three types of solid contents as listed below;

- Soluble material such as salt

-… Continue

Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on January 10, 2011 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

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