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Universal Well Control
- 1st Edition - November 3, 2021
- Authors: Gerald Raabe, C. Scott Jortner
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 8 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 7 0 7 - 1
Universal Well Control gives today’s drilling and production engineers a modern guide to effectively and responsibly manage rig operations. In a post-Macondo industry, well cont… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUniversal Well Control gives today’s drilling and production engineers a modern guide to effectively and responsibly manage rig operations. In a post-Macondo industry, well control continues to require higher drilling costs, a waste of natural resources, and the possibility of a loss of human life when kicks and blowouts occur. The book delivers updated photos, practice examples and methods that are critical to modern well control information, ensuring engineers and personnel stay safe, environmentally responsible and effective. Complete with all phases of well control, the book covers kick detection, kick control, loss of control and blowout containment and killing.
A quick tips section is included, along with templated. step-by-step methods to replicate for non-routine shut-in methods. Bonus equipment animations are included, along with a high number of visuals. Specialized methods are covered, including dual gradient drilling and managed pressure drilling.
- Provides a practical training guide that is focused on well control, including expanded subsea coverage
- Includes well kill procedures, with added kill sheets and bonus video equipment animations
- Helps readers understand templated steps for non-routine shut-in methods, such as the lubricate and bleed method and variable mud volume
Drilling engineers; production engineers; well control supervisors; subsea engineers; drilling superintendents
2. Routine Well Control Methods
3. Non-Routine Well Control Methods
4. Specialized Well Control Methods
5. Reference - Surface Well Control Equipment
6. Subsea Well Control
7. Subsea Equipment
- No. of pages: 638
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 3, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323905848
- eBook ISBN: 9780323907071
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