CLASS NOTES

VI SEMESTER B.TECH PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

SESSION 2015 – 2016

COURSE PEC 16101

DIRECTIONAL DRILLING

BY

DR A.K.PATHAK
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES DHANBAD – 826004

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 Department of Petroleum Engineering
B.Tech. VI Semester Petroleum Engineering 2015-2016

LECTURE PLAN
PEC 16101 L T P
Course : PEC 16101 Directional Drilling. 3 1 0

Lecture Topic Lecture Tutorial

No. Hrs. Hrs.
1. Directional drilling: objectives, tools and profiles 6 2
2. Well Monitoring: Well path deflection corrections and Well 4 2
Surveying
3. MWD techniques, tools and applications 4 -
4. Down Hole Motors Positive Displacement Motor and 4 2
Turbodrills: Motor Description, Performance
5. Rotary Steerable Motors 2 0
6. Horizontal drilling 2 2
7. Multilateral Drilling 3 1
8. Hole Cleaning in High Angled Wells 2 -
9. Slim Hole Drilling 2 -
10. Coil Tubing Drilling 2 -
11. Underbalanced Drilling 4 -
12. Directional Drilling Problems and their Remedies 2 -
13. Special Methods of Drilling: Variable pressure regime, 4 2
Plasma drilling, Electrical Drilling, Top drive drilling, Re-entry
drilling, Jet Drilling, Geosteering.
14. Drilling Economics 2 -
Subject coverage 43 11

Computer Assignments:
1. Development of interactive computer software for one assigned problem.

Books Recommended for Consultation:

Books Authors
1. Well Design Drilling and Production : Craft, Holden & Graves
2. Oil Well Drilling : H Rabia
3. Applied Drilling Engineering : Adam T.Bourgoyne Jr. et all
4. Drilling Engineering: A complete : Neal J.Adams.
Well Planning and approach.
5. Well Control Problems Solutions : Neal J.dams.
6. Horizontal Well Technology : SD Joshi
7. Horizontal Wells : R. Aguilera et all
8. API Standards

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 Department of Petroleum Engineering
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
VI SEMESTER B.TECH AND DUAL DEGREE 2014-15
Directional Drilling PEC 16101

Term Paper Assignment

Sl.No. Name Admn.No. Topic of Term Paper

1. Effect of weighting materials on

2012JE0910 Pramod Raj performance of Thermal Cement used
2. in HPHT wells.
2012je1093 Abhishek Kumar (JPT May 2013)
3. 2012JE1138 Abhideep Kumar
4. 2013JE0104 Ashish Murlidhar Pag
5. Drilling Modeling and Simulation:
2013JE0117 Shlok Rai Current Status and Future Applications
6. JPT September 2015)
2013JE0122 Dushyant Singh Shekh
7. 2013JE0126 Avinash Pratap Meena
8. 2013je0129 Rajesh Kumar Atal
9. High Pressure and High Temperature
2013JE0143 Vishnu Khandelwal Gas well Drilling
10. (JPT April 2013)
2013JE0160 Abhimanyu Singh Kush
11. 2013je0184 Vikas Kumar
12. 2013JE0186 Deepesh Khandelwal
13. Vertical Positioning of Extended Reach
2013JE0189 Vivek Kumar Wells
14. (JPT February 2013)
2013je0197 Anadi Gupta
15. 2013je0198 Pratik Marandi
16. 2013JE0203 Akashdeep Das
17. 2013JE0204 Sameer
18. Early System Detection for Down Hole
2013JE0247 Utkarsh Gupta Conditions
19. (JPT February 2013)
2013JE0249 Amrit Kumar
20. 2013JE0252 Ankit Kumar Verma
21. Ravi Kumar Sharma
2013JE0254

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22. Drilling and Completion Technique
2013JE0261 Mayank Shrivastava Selection for Coal Bed Methane Wells
23. (JPT July 2013)
2013je0262 Avinash Kumar
24. 2013JE0267 Saurav Kumar
25. 2013JE0288 Uday Singh
26. Buckling loads in Long Horizontal
2013JE0308 Nishant Kumar Wells
27. (JPT June 2013)
2013JE0337 Yadvendra Kshatri
28. 2013JE0339 Nishant Jain
29. 2013je0341 Anshul Varshneya
30. Multistage Horizontal Well Spacing for
2013JE0345 Ammar Khan Gas Reservoirs.
31. (JPT November 2015)
2013JE0363 Prateek Kumar
32. 2013JE0379 Bharat Agrawal
33. 2013JE0383 Rohan Ranjan
34. Drilling Management and System
2013JE0390 Shubham Kumar Automation
35. (JPT September 2015)
2013JE0397 Chandan Kumar
36. 2013JE0413 Piyush Raj
37. 2013je0425 Rahul D'cruz
38. Smart Horizontal Wells for
2013JE0442 Abhishek Shinde Development of Thin oil seam
39. Reservoirs.
2013JE0449 Ishan Taunk (JPT November 2015)
40. 2013JE0451 Keerti Anand
41. 2013JE0454 Mohd Saif Ali Khan
42. Automated Managed Pressure Drilling
2013JE0462 Omar Khalid (JPT September 2012)
43. 2013JE0466 Navdeep Bhakat
44. 2013JE0467 Rajendra Kumar
45. 2013JE0473 Gauraw Kumar
46. Geo Steering: Applications, Challenges
2013JE0478 Vivek Kumar Bhadani and success.
47. (JPT December 2013)
2013JE0491 Ritesh Kumar
48. 2013JE0494 Azmeera Sai Manoj K
49. Aman Kumar
2013JE0501

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50. Surface Torque and Tension
2013JE0510 Udbhava Mishra Measurements for Detecting Pipe
51. Sticking.
2013JE0511 Ashirbad Choudhury (JPT September 2015)
52. 2013je0512 Abhishek Agarwalla
53. 2013je0520 Malla Bhanu Suraj
54. Extended Reach Drilling in Thin oil
2013JE0524 Chirag Gupta Column.
55. (JPT May 2013)
2013JE0525 Awant Kumar
56. 2013JE0530 Shubham Agarwal
57. 2013JE0531 Ayush Goel
58. Drilling Modeling and Simulation:
2013JE0533 Yash Gupta Current status and Future Applications
59. (JPT September 2015)
2013JE0539 Pankaj Chaudhary
60. 2013JE0544 Abhishek Jain
61. 2013JE0553 Kulpreet Singh
62. Unconventional PDC Bit Design and
2013JE0554 Aakash Kumar Faujdar Performance
63. (JPT December 2013)
2013je0556 Deepak Kumar
64. 2013JE0562 Shivam Khetan
65. 2013JE0571 Setu Raj
66. Well Planning: A Risk Management
2013je0573 Neeraj Abhishek Process
67. (JPT September 2012)
2013je0574 Dharmendra Yadav
68. 2013JE0582 Ritvik Arora
69.
2013JE0588
Chirag Jain
70. Managed Pressure Drilling Technology
2013JE0590 Jatek Chhateja (JPT April 2013)
71. 2013je0595 Abhijeet Kumar Roy
72. 2013JE0608 Palash Jain
73. 2013JE0618 Akshay Singh Shekhaw
74. Narrow Margin Drilling and Operational
2013JE0622 Rishabh Raj Geosciences
75. (JPT September 2012)
2013JE0626 Sumit Kumar Gautam
76. 2013JE0638 Vishal Kumar Rajak
77. Vishwa Mohan Rai
2013JE0643

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78. Drilling in Deep Water: Challenges and
2013JE0649 Davendra Kumar Gurja solutions
79. (JPT April 2013)
2013je0651 Mayank Kumar Agarwal
80. 2013JE0665 Kshitij Goel
81. 2013JE0680 Tanmay Milind Sutay
82. Designing of New Rotary Steerable
2013JE0698 Sankalp Bansal System for onshore Drilling.
83. (JPT December 2015)
2013JE0715 Dev Nagpal
84. 2013JE0722 Rakesh Kumar
85. 2013je0751 Mani Bansal
86. Extended Reach Drilling in Deep
2013JE0757 Kunal Ranjan Water.
87. (JPT May 2013)
2013JE0758 Abhishek Anand
88. 2013JE0771 Balija Ranganath
89. 2013JE0807 Anunay Sinha
90. Space Drilling and Oil and Gas
2013je0827 Amrendra Kumar Industry
91. (JPT September 2013)
2013JE0832 Gajendra Nagar
92. 2013JE0861 Shashank Goswami
93. 2013JE0864 Rahul Gupta
94. Optimum Shale Drilling Performance
2013JE0899 Anurag Awasthi (JPT December 2015)
95. 2013JE0912 Mahesh Kumar Meena
96. 2013JE0943 Babulal Meena
97. 2013JE0976 Priyanka Panigrahi
98. Directional drilling innovation through
2013JE0986 Purvi Shukla Built in Kickoff Ramp
99. 2012JE0565 Shailesh Rahul Beck (JPT May 2013)

100. 2012JE1297 Pankaj Kumar

101. 2013JE0324 Shubham Kumar

102. 2013JE0464 Srijan Maheshwari Hydraulic Percussion Drilling System

(JPT December 2015)
103. 2013JE0527 Rahul Sharma

104. 2013JE0669 Krishna Joshi

105. 2013JE0671 Agyeya Narayan

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 106. 2013JE0673 Ashutosh Kujur Limited Redesign Process to cover Flat
Time Operations in Drilling Systems
107. 2013JE0679 Varun Arya (JPT September 2015)

108. 2013JE0725 Shivam Gupta

109. 2013JE0730 Priya

110. 2013JE0736 Job K Simon Rotation by Reciprocation Casing

Landing Technology
111. 2013JE0745 Chandan Kumar Agrawal (JPT December 2015)

112. 2013JE0805 Telangae Rahul

113. 2013JE0812 Vikash Raj

114. 2013JE0834 Nishant Kalra Multilateral Drilling in Unconventional

Shale.
115. 2013JE01073 Palak Bansal (JPT May 2013)

Each Group has to –

1. Submit 30 – 40 page hard copy write up in spiral binding form.
2. Present the term paper in class in month of March 2016.
3. Submit on CD : Soft copy of write up, Power Point of presentation, minimum 5
downloaded reference paper on the topic assigned, Computer program developed on
topic if any.

Department of Petroleum Engineering

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 B.Tech. VI Semester Petroleum Engineering 2014-2015
LECTURE PLAN
L T P
Course : PEDC 16101 Directional Drilling. 3 1 0

Lecture Topic Date Time

No.
1. Directional drilling: objectives & Terminology 4.12.2014 10.30-12.10

2. Directional drilling: tools 4.12.2014 2.30-4.30

3. Directional drilling: Build & Hold, Build hold and 5.12.2014 2.30-4.30
Drop Well profiles
4. Directional drilling: Slanted Well and Horizontal Well 12.01.2015 2.30-4.30
profiles
5. Directional drilling: Profiles trajectory 13.1.2015 2.30-4.30

6. Well path correction 15.1.2015 10.30-12.10

7. Ragland Diagram 15.1.2015 2.30-4.30

8. Well Surveying Methods 21.1.2015 2.30-4.30

9. Ragland Diagram 22.1.2015 10.30-12.10

10. Well surveying calculations 22.1.2015 2.30-4.30

11. Well monitoring 23.1.2015 2.30-4.30

12. MWD techniques, tools and applications 23.1.2015 4.30- 6.30

13. Down Hole Motors Positive Displacement Motor: 28.1.2015 2.30 4.30
Description, Performance
14. Down Hole Motors Turbodrills: Motor Description, 29.1.2015 2.30-4.30
Performance
15. Rotary Steerable Motors 30.1.2015 2.30-4.30

16. Horizontal drilling: objectives and technology 12.2.2015 10.30-12.10

17. Horizontal well drainage area calculation and field 12.2.2015 2.30-4.30
planning
18. Multilateral Drilling 18.2.2015 2.30-4.30

19. Multilateral Drilling 19.2.2015 10.30-12.10

Mid Semester Evaluation: February 23-28, 2015

Lecture Topic Date Time

No.

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20. Slim Hole Drilling 04.3.2015 2.30-4.30

21. Coil Tubing Drilling 05.3.2016 2.30-4.30

22. Underbalanced Drilling 11.3.2015 2.30-4.30

23. Aerated Drilling 12.3.2015 2.30-4.30

24. Students Seminar: Topic no. 1 to 5 18.3.2014 2.30-4.30 (2)

25. Students Seminar: Topic no. 6 to 10 19.3.2014 2.30-4.30 (2)

26. Students Seminar: Topic no. 11 to 15 20.3.2014 2.30-4.30 (2)

27. Students Seminar: Topic no. 16 to 20 25.3.2014 2.30-4.30 (2)

28. Students Seminar: Topic no. 21 to 25 26.3.2014 2.30-4.30 (2)

29. Students Seminar: Topic no. 26 to 29 01.4.2014 8.30-2.30 (6)

Semester Examination starts April 13, 2015

Self Reading assignment

Special Methods of Drilling: Variable pressure
regime, Plasma drilling, Electrical Drilling, Top drive
drilling, Re-entry drilling, Jet Drilling and Drilling
Economics
Subject coverage – 60 sessions