Practical Well Planning And Drilling Manual

Contents :

Introduction
Section 1: Well Design — Preliminary work for the well design; Well design: general; Precompletion and completion design; Casing design; Directional design.
Section 2: Well Programming — Preliminary work for the drilling program; Well control; Directional planning; Drillbit selection, parameters, and hydraulics; Drilling fluids program; Casing running program; Cementing program; Formation evaluation; Drilling problems — avoidance planning.
Section 3: Practical Wellsite Operations and Reporting — Well control; Drilling fluid; Drilling problems; Casing; Cementing; Drillbits; Directional drilling; Writing the final well report.
Appendix 1: Calculating kick tolerances
Appendix 2: Formation integrity test recommended procedure
Appendix 3: Information resources
Appendix 4: Drilling equipment lists by operation
Appendix 5: Conductor setting depth for taking returns to the flowline
List of acronyms
Glossary
Index