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Using Hi-vis Sweep to Clean Hole while Drilling

By DrillingFormulas.Com | August 22, 2015 - 9:09 am |Drilling Operation, Oil Field Knowledge 8 Comments

Sweep is a mud which has higher rheology and/or more mud weight than current mud property. It is used to carry cutting that set at low side of a wellbore
and it is widely used for Sea water drilling.

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What You Need To Know About Drilling Bit Balling Up and How To
Troubleshooting It
By DrillingFormulas.Com | October 14, 2014 - 4:33 pm |Drilling Operation 3 Comments

Bit balling is one of the drilling operational issues which can happen anytime while drilling. This issue can cause
several problems such as reduction in rate of penetration and surface torque, increase in stand pipe pressure.
Personnel may eventually need to pull out of hole the BHA in order to clear the balling issue at the bit. This article
will teach you about the bit balling and how to prevent it in the planning phase and how to effective detect and clear
the balled up bit before it becomes a worse problem.

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How You Recognize the Bit Balled Up While Drilling

Drilling Torque – Drilling torque will be lower than normal drilling torque since most of the cutters are covered up by cuttings.

Rate of Penetration – The ROP will decrease more than projection. If you drill 100 fph and later on the ROP drops to 50 fph without any drilling
parameters changed, this might be this problem.

Standpipe Pressure – Standpipe pressure increases with no changes in flow rates or drilling parameters. Balling up around the bit reduce annular
flowing area resulting in increasing pressure.

Factors Affecting Drill Bit Balling Up

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Mechanical Blind Back Off Drill String and Tubular

By DrillingFormulas.Com | July 12, 2013 - 3:40 pm |Drilling Operation 1 Comment

Mechanical blind back off is the procedure to intentionally break out stuck drill string by applying left hand torque and transmitting down hole. This is
the last method to recover drill string because back-off position cannot exactly determine. One situation that I used to do the blind back of is when the
perforating gun cannot be run into tubing string.

Procedure to Perform Blind Back Off Operation

1. Determine drilling parameters prior to get stuck if possible.

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Pick up weight __ lb

Slack off weight __ lb

Rotating weight __ lb

2. Pick up drill string at 10% over the rotating weight. Apply 50% of make-up torque with left hand turn and lock TDS. Record how many turns. Slowly
work string down for 5-10 minutes to transmit surface torque to the bottom. Weight while working should be between pick-up and slack off weight.

3. Repeat step#2 with 70%, 90%, 100%, 110% make up torque

4. The string should be back off while working down.

Note: The concept is to have overpull tension applied at each connection while left hand torque is transmitted into the drillstring. Once the drill string is
worked, the torque will be transferred to the bottom connection of the well.

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Fishing Drill Pipe Procedure – Screw in Drill Pipe

By DrillingFormulas.Com | July 2, 2013 - 7:17 pm |Drilling Operation 3 Comments

Sometimes drillpipe is accidentally dropped into the well and you need to fish it out of the well. One easy option that may be feasible to perform is to use
a drill string to screw into the drill pipe in the well.

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Before going into a detailed procedure, you may need to check the following conditions.

• Tight clearance between hole and tool joint

• Tool joint at the top of fish is in a good condition

Data that you need to know before going to fish the drill string

• Fish length

• Top of fish

• Weight of fish in the mud

• Actual turn to fully engage when screw in

Detailed procedure for fishing drill pipe by screwing into the fish

Fish length = xxx ft

Expected TOF = xxx ft

Weight of the fish (BHA + DP) = xx Klb

1. Trip in hole 1 stand

2. Count the actual turn of drill pipe

3. Run in hole to xxx MD (200 ft above the Top Of Fish)

4. Make up top drive

5. Break circulate with 160 GPM using current drilling fluid in the well

• Record pressure

6. Record pick up and slack off weight without rotation

7. Record pick up and slack off weight with 20 RPM

8. Record torque with 20 RPM

– In the steps 5-8, you will get the base line values when the drill string does not engage with another part.

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9. Slowly run in hole without rotation

10. Tag top of fish while pumping with 160 GPM

11. Pick up 5 ft

12. Slowly run in hole with 20 RPM

13. Attempt to screw into the top of fish (tool joint)

14. Indicators if the fish is engaged.

– Increase in pumping pressure, torque, weight on bit and pick up weight.

– When picking up drill string, increment of pick up weight should close to buoyed weight of the fish (dropped drill string).

15. Flow check

16. Pull out of hole to surface.

Note: This is the generic guideline. You may need to adapt some parameters/steps to match with your rig operation.

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Deal With Soft Clay Formation in Sea Water

By DrillingFormulas.Com | November 12, 2012 - 10:05 pm |Drilling Operation 3 Comments

The well was drilled with sea water and the formation is soft clay formation. Then, the bit was totally plugged. We did not have any chance to displace
well with water based mud prior to coming out of the hole. We flow checked and came out of hole to change the bit.

Because the formation is clay which will react with seawater resulting formation swelling, we need to develop specific rig procedure to deal with when
tripping in hole.

What are the foreseeing issues?

• Clay formation swell

• Pack off due to formation instability

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• Soft formation tends to get side tracked easily with mud motor

What is the objective?

• Attempt to condition the well before running back in hole with motor assembly to minimize chance of side track.

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