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Recent Rotary Rig Count May 17th, 2013



AREA

 LAST
COUNT
DATE

COUNT 

CHANGE FROM
PRIOR COUNT
 

DATE OF
PRIOR COUNT 

 CHANGE FROM 
LAST YEAR

DATE
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UNITED STATES 

5/17/13 

1769
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5/10/13

-217

5/18/12

CANADA 

5/17/13
118
+5

5/10/13

0

5/18/12 

USA OFFSHORE 

5/17/13 

 52
+2
5/10/13

 +5

5/18/12 

INTERNATIONAL 

04/2013 

1301

 +33

3/2013 

 +123

4/2012 



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Rachain Jetjongjit's Blog – April 2011 Archive (3)

Importance of Hole Cleaning

Drilling mud has several important functions and one of them is hole cleaning which I will discuss today. Transporting cutting from the wellbore is fundamental part of drilling operation and you will not be able to successfully drill the well if you do not pay attention to this basic concept.



Nowadays people have more focusing on new technology about drilling mud and try to improve drilling fluid properties to achieve hole cleaning because many wells drilled in the world are more… Continue

Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on April 24, 2011 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

Trip Sheet Spread Sheet

This is an electronic version (Excel sheet) of trip sheet from drilling formulas blog. The trip sheet can be used for both trip in hole and trip out of hole.



Please check out this link below to download.

Trip Sheet





1. When you open the file, you will see the screen like this.











2. First of all, you need to input pipe… Continue

Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on April 24, 2011 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

pH in drilling mud

pH is a value representing the hydrogen ion concentration in liquid. We use it to indicate acidity or alkalinity of drilling mud especially water base mud. Let’s talk about general of the pH. The pH is presented in a numerical value (0-14) which means an inverse measurement of hydrogen concentration in the fluid.

The pH formula is listed below;…

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Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on April 14, 2011 at 9:00am — 5 Comments

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