Casing and Liners for Drilling and Completion
Design and Application
- 2nd Edition - June 4, 2014
- Author: Ted G. Byrom
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 0 0 9 8 - 1
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 5 7 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 6 6 0 - 3
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Request a sales quoteOnce thought of as niche technology, operators today are utilizing more opportunities with casing and liners as formations and environments grow in difficulty, especially with the unconventional oil and gas boom. Casing and liners for Drilling and Completions, 2nd Edition provides the engineer and well designer with up-to-date information on critical properties, mechanics, design basics and newest applications for today’s type of well. Renovated and simplified to cover operational considerations, pressure loads, and selection steps, this handbook gives you the knowledge to execute the essential and fundamental features of casing and liners. Bonus features include:
- Additional glossary added to explain oil field terminology
- New appendix on useful every day formulas such as axial stress, shear stress in tubes and principal stress components
- Listing section of acronyms, notations, symbols and constants for quick reference
- Concise step-by-step basic casing design procedure with examples
- Thorough coverage and tips on important field practice for installation topics
- Advanced methods for critical and horizontal well casing design including hydraulic fracturing
- Exhaustive appendices on foundational topics: units & nomenclature, solid mechanics, hydrostatics, borehole environment & rock mechanics, and a summary of useful formulas
Drilling Engineers, Petroleum Engineers, Well Completion Engineers, Drilling Advisors, Drilling Coordinators, Drilling Managers-both Senior and Global, Well Engineers, Well Designers
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acronyms
- 1. Introduction to casing design
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Design basics
- 1.3 Conventions used here
- 1.4 Oilfield casing
- 1.5 Closure
- 2. Casing depth and size determination
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Casing depth determination
- 2.3 Casing size selection
- 2.4 Casing string configuration
- 2.5 Closure
- 3. Pressure load determination
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Pressure loads
- 3.3 Gas pressure loads
- 3.4 Collapse loading
- 3.5 Burst loading
- 3.6 Specific pressure loads
- 3.7 Example well
- 3.8 Closure
- 4. Design loads and casing selection
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Design factors
- 4.3 Design loads for collapse and burst
- 4.4 Preliminary casing selection
- 4.5 Axial loads and design plot
- 4.6 Collapse with axial loads
- 4.7 Example well
- 4.8 Additional considerations
- 4.9 Closure
- 5. Installing casing
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Transport and handling
- 5.3 Pipe measurements
- 5.4 Wrong casing?
- 5.5 Crossover joints and subs
- 5.6 Running casing
- 5.7 Cementing
- 5.8 Landing practices
- 5.9 Closure and commentary
- 6. Casing performance
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Structural design
- 6.3 Mechanics of tubes
- 6.4 Casing performance for design
- 6.5 Combined loading
- 6.6 Lateral buckling
- 6.7 Dynamic effects in casing
- 6.8 Thermal effects
- 6.9 Expandable casing
- 6.10 Closure
- 7. Casing in directional and horizontal wells
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Borehole path
- 7.3 Borehole friction
- 7.4 Casing wear
- 7.5 Borehole collapse
- 7.6 Borehole curvature and bending
- 7.7 Combined loading in curved boreholes
- 7.8 Casing design for inclined wells
- 7.9 Hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells
- 7.10 Closure
- Appendix A: Notation, symbols, and constants
- A.1 Mathematical operators and symbols
- A.2 Standard ISO and traditional solid mechanics variables and symbols
- A.3 Casing and borehole application-specific variables
- Appendix B: Units and material properties
- B.1 Introduction
- B.2 Units and conversions
- B.3 Material properties
- Appendix C: Basic mechanics
- C.1 Introduction
- C.2 Coordinates
- C.3 Notation convention
- C.4 Scalars, vectors, and tensors
- C.5 Kinematics and kinetics—strain and stress
- C.6 Constitutive relationships
- C.7 Natural laws
- C.8 Field problems
- C.9 Solution methods
- C.10 Closure
- Appendix D: Basic hydrostatics
- D.1 Introduction to subsurface hydrostatic loads
- D.2 Hydrostatic principles
- D.3 Formulation of hydrostatics
- D.4 Buoyancy
- D.5 Oilfield calculations
- D.6 Closure
- Appendix E: Borehole environment
- E.1 Introduction to the borehole environment
- E.2 Pore pressure in rocks
- E.3 Basic rock mechanics
- E.4 Fracture pressure
- E.5 Borehole stability
- E.6 Borehole path
- E.7 Closed-Form friction solutions
- E.8 Closure
- Appendix F: Summary of useful formulas
- F.1 Borehole geometry
- F.2 Directional well equations
- F.3 Hydrostatics equations
- F.4 Geometric equations for tubes
- F.5 Axial stress and displacement equations
- F.6 Tube bending equations
- F.7 Tube pressure equations
- F.8 Torsion equations
- F.9 Lateral buckling equations
- F.10 Thermal equations
- F.11 General solid mechanics
- F.12 API/ISO performance equations
- Glossary
- Terms Related to Mathematics
- Terms Related to Borehole Applications
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 438
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: June 4, 2014
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128100981
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128005705
- eBook ISBN: 9780128006603
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