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Drilling Preliminaries
Drilling Preliminaries
Drilling Preliminaries
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When a suitable
structure, sufficiently large, so as
to give economically viable reserves
of HCs) is discovered for the
presence of HCs by
geological, geochemical &
geophysical methods, a location for
drilling of an exploratory / wild cat
well is decided.
Classification of Wells
Exploratory Well / WildCat
Well:
They are drilled purely for
exploratory purposes i.e. for
gathering information. The well is
drilled to find and produce oil or
gas in an unproven area, or to find
a new reservoir in fields, or to
extend a known reservoir.
Classification of Wells
Discovery Well:
If the well does discover a new
field, it is called the discovery well
for that field.
Classification of Wells
Appraisal Well/ Delineation
Well:
Walking
Beam
Steam
Engine
Drawworks
Drill collar
Bit
Drilling Rig
Cable Tool Drilling ( Cont…..)
As the walking beam pivots, it
causes the bit to rise and fall.
The bit pounds the well down
by pulverizing the rock.
Drilling Rig
Cable Tool Drilling ( Cont…..)
After drilling 3 - 8 ft., (1 – 2 ½ m),
the bottom of the well becomes
clogged with rock chips.
The bit is raised and a bailer is
lowered into the well to remove
the rock chips and water.
Drilling Rig
Cable Tool Drilling ( Cont…..)
After the bailer is raised and
emptied, the bit is lowered into
the well to pound deeper.
Drilling Rig
Cable Tool Drilling ( Cont…..)
Heavy casing ( large diameter
pipe) is run down the well to
keep water from filling the well
and to prevent the sides from
caving in.
Drilling Rig
Cable Tool Drilling ( Cont…..)
Derrick
Drill Line
Rotary Table
Swivel
Mud Pump
Shale Shaker
Mud tank
BOP
Drill Bit
Crown Block:
A fixed, steel frame with steel
wheels on a horizontal shaft. It is
located at the top of a derrick or
Mast.
Is an assembly of pulleys
mounted on beams at the top of
derrick
CROWN BLOCKS
Derrick:
The derrick or Mast is the tower directly
above the well that supports the crown
block at the top & provides support for
the drill pipe to be stacked vertically as
it is pulled from the well.
It is generally 40m in height strong
enough to hold the weight of the drill as
it goes deeper & deeper into the rock.
The derrick can support a weight of
about 50 tonnes or more.
Kelly :
The kelly is a square rod
attached to swivel.
The kelly turns all the pipe
below it to drill the hole.
To the lower end of the kelly, a
10 m pipe is screwed in.
Kelly
Kelly
Bushing
Drillpipe
Pin
Box
DrilPipe:
The drillpipe (which, when joined
together, forms the drillstring)
consists of 30ft. (10m) sections
of heavy steel pipe. The pipes
are threaded so that they can
interlock together.
As the drill goes deeper, a new
pipe is added to the end of the
first pipe and so on.
Drill Collars
Swivel :
The swivel allows the kelly to
rotate freely.
SWIVEL
Rotary Table:
The kelly along with the pipe &
drilling bit is rotated by a rotor
known as “Rotary Table”.
It is a circular table in the derrick
floor that is turned clockwise by
the prime movers. If it were
turned in the opposite direction,
the drillpipe would unscrew.
DRAWWORKS DRIVEN ROTARY
TABLE
Drill stem:
3 main components are Kelly,
Drillstring & the Bit.
Drill string:
It is made up of steel pipes called drill
pipes, drill collars (below the drill pipes
are thicker – walled, heavier, stronger pipes
to put weight on the bottom of the drills
string to drill straight down and prevent the
drill pipe from kinking & breaking) and bit
in the well.
Drill string:
It is made up of steel pipes called drill
pipes, drill collars (below the drill pipes
are thicker – walled, heavier, stronger pipes
to put weight on the bottom of the drills
string to drill straight down and prevent the
drill pipe from kinking & breaking) and bit
in the well.
Drill Bit :
It is located at the bottom end of
the drill string. The drill bit is
responsible for breaking up and
dislodging rock, sediment, and
anything else that may be
encountered while drilling. There
are dozens of different drill bit
types, each designed for different
subsurface drilling conditions:
1.Steel Tooth Rotary Bits are
the most basic type of drill
bit used today.
2. Insert Bits are steel tooth
bits with tungsten carbide
inserts.
Disadvantages of Insert Bit
• Inserts dig deeply into formation.
Cones can hit the formation and
transmit shock loads to bearings and
damage bearings
• Abrasive mud containing sands can
erode cutters base and let them fall
in the well
• Much more expensive
• Can not drill soft to soft-medium hard
formations as fast as steel-tooth bits
3. Polycrystalline Diamond
Compact Bits have
polycrystalline diamond
inserts attached to the
carbide inserts found in
Insert Bits.
4. Diamond Bits have industrial
diamonds implanted in
them, to drill through
extremely hard rock
formations. Diamond bits are
forty to fifty times harder than
traditional steel bits, and can
thus be used to drill through
extremely hard rock without
dulling overly quickly.
Drilling Mud:
When the drilling goes on , a special
type of drilling fluid known as mud is
pumped down by a hose through the
drilling pipe to keep the bit cool.
(The mud flows just like ink flows out of a pen)
A viscous mixture of clay (usually
bentonite) and additives with either
water or oil or an emulsion of water
with droplets of oil or a synthetic
organic fluid.
Drilling Mud ( Cont…..)
The mud squirts out of the drilling bit
and flows back through the annular
space between the outer side of the
pipe and the drilled hole carrying with
it chips of rocks that are cut.
Drilling Mud ( Cont…..)
Geologists work day and night to
record the sequence in which the
different types of rocks come out.
After studying the rocks, the
geologists prepare a map showing the
vertical distribution of rocks
underground.
Drilling Mud ( Cont…..)
From this map, it is possible to find
out :
(1) The type of rock
(2) The depths at which different rock
types occur
(3) The thickness of the bed of each
rock type.
The geologists also note if the rocks
give any sign of oil.
The Drilling Mud Cycle
1) Clean drilling mud is
taken from the steel mud
4) the mixture is tanks and pumped down the
circulated across inside of the drill pipe.
screens at surface
3) the mixture of drilling
6) Clean mud mud and drill cuttings are
screens falls through circulated up the annulus
the screens and
is returned to
the pits
mud pump
WHY???
The casing required to be lowered in
the well should be effectively serve
the purpose.
It must be of sufficient strength,
adequate to withstand the stresses
to which it is subjected in the well.
It should be water tight and it
should be made of material that
resists corrosion or be protected
against corrosion (particularly when it
is in contact with saline ground water)
The material of which the casing is
made should be hard & tough and
rigid enough to resist abrasion and
distortion by contact with the rock
walls of the well or drilling tools.
TYPES OF CASING
Casing types involve the
character of the material from
which the tubes are made, the
method of their manufacture, the
design of the joints and especially
the method of connecting one
individual section to another.
TYPES OF CASING
In recent years, economy and safety of
operation at increased depths have
necessitated still further changes and
improvements in the casing designs.
• Conductor Casing
• Surface Casing
• Intermediate Casing
• Liner String
• Production Casing
Conductor Casing
• Conductor casing is installed first,
usually prior to the arrival of the
drilling rig.
Onshore: 16 inch. or 40 ½ cm