Milling Applications In Drilling:

1. Keep mud yield point is high enough prior to milling operations

2. Start rotation before the top of fish with a minimum of 3 ft.
3. Adjust WOB & RPM (start with 70 rpm and monitor the torque while increasing RPM ) as
you are using a new drilling bit to get the best Milling rate
4. Keep the flow velocity high to have a turbulent flow for cleaning while milling and avoid the
accumulation of the cuttings inside important tools such as BOP rams
5. Never to circulate through choke while milling
6. Using Jars in compression will be good while milling to help in case of sudden stuck of the
mill.
7. Use ditch magnets on the shaker area to help collect the metal cuttings, keep it always clean
& record its weights.
8. If the milling is inside the casing, try to make your oil & gas drilling mud lubricant enough to
avoid casing wear.
9. After POOH, if the mill blades have a hook shape, this means the milling is doing good. But
if the shape was tapered, it will mean that you applied too much weight which caused wear.
10. Cutting shape is important. As if it was hair-like, it means that weight shall be increased. And
if it was fish-like, it will be a good idea to decrease the weight and increase the RPM.
11. You always shall keep a record of the following:
1. torque
2. RPM
3. pump pressure
4. progress made
5. weight on mill
6. Recovered metal weight
7. circulation rate
12. Using non-rotating drill pipe protectors will be useful across build-up and drop-off sections
(check also well trajectory calculations) to decrease casing wear.
13. Use drilling stabilizers (above the mill with one or two joints) and it will be great if they
have soft blades. Don’t use a lot of centralizers as it may increase the resultant torque.

Sources: https://www.drillingmanual.com/milling-in-drilling-oil-gas/