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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Authors biography
- Foreword
- Quick tips: What to do now?
- Abstract
- Worst-case analysis—Assume the influx is gas
- You are OK
- Quick tips
- On bottom kill and well shut-in
- Driller’s method recap
- Varying pumps, estimate new pump pressure
- Wait and weight well control method recap
- Off-bottom kill (mud cap)
- High H2S and/or close proximity to the public
- Bullheading
- Gas expansion (allow casing pressure to increase)
- Common problems during well control
- Quick tips (before kick)
- Chapter One: Well control discussion and theories
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Commentary and suggestions
- Local and governmental requirements
- Team and individual responsibilities
- Blowout prevention equipment (BOP or BOPE)
- Well control responses
- Prerecorded data sheet
- Slow pump rate data
- Posting information
- Risk management and risk assessments
- Bridging document
- Barriers
- Critical well control skills
- Management of change
- Emergency response plan (ERP)
- Incident command system (ICS)
- Standardized units of measure
- Density and weight relationship
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Surface pressure
- Bottom-hole pressure
- Choke pressure
- Capacity (volume)
- Maximum feet or number of stands pulled prior to filling the hole
- Charged formations (abnormal pressure)
- MASP—Maximum allowable surface pressure at static conditions
- Ballooning theory
- Kick tolerance
- Simplified well diagramming (U-tube)
- Simplified well control equations
- Equivalent mud weight
- Slow circulating rate
- Gas expansion
- Kick detection
- Well construction process
- Multiple well pads
- Classifications of blowouts
- Causes of kicks
- Abnormal formation pressure
- Drilling fluids
- Water-based drilling fluids
- Oil-based drilling fluids
- Synthetic-based drilling fluids
- Air/aerated fluid/foam drilling fluids
- Lost circulation materials
- Diverting
- Diverter system
- Shallow gas
- Chapter Two: Routine well control methods
- Abstract
- Warning signs
- Shut-in procedures and crew responsibilities
- Prerecorded information sheet
- Fluids management during well control
- Off-bottom well control
- Tripping well control method
- Well control for horizontal and highly deviated wells
- Well kill methods for horizontal wells
- Well kill methods for highly deviated wells
- Summary of equations for horizontal and deviated wells
- Driller’s method
- Driller’s method action plan
- Wait and weight method
- Wait and weight method action plan
- Comparison of Driller’s method and wait and weight method
- Casing pressures
- Bullheading method
- Step activity
- Chapter Three: Nonroutine well control methods
- Abstract
- Lubricate and bleed method well control
- General checklist for lubricate and bleed method
- Lube and bleed method for NO losses downhole (variable mud volume)
- Lubricate and bleed for NO losses downhole (variable mud volume) example
- Lubricate and bleed for NO losses downhole (set mud volume) example
- Lubricate and bleed method WITH losses downhole (pressure)
- Lubricate and bleed action plan
- Checklist for lubricate and bleed
- Volumetric well control method (passive)
- Volumetric control method example
- Stripping well control method
- Stripping recap
- Detailed stripping procedure
- Example 1: Stripping with bleed example (oil-based mud)
- Example 2: Stripping with bleed example (water-based mud)
- Stripping drill (before drilling out casing)
- Reverse circulating well control method
- Chapter Four: Well control using specialized equipment
- Abstract
- Commentary
- Wireline operations well control methods
- Wireline operations commentary
- Wireline well control operations
- Wireline equipment
- Wireline pressure control equipment
- Coiled tubing well control method
- Introduction to coiled tubing
- Coiled tubing well control methods
- Coiled tubing specialized equipment
- Snubbing well control method
- Snubbing well control operations
- Remedial operations
- Snubbing operations
- Snubbing unit equipment
- Managed pressure drilling (MPD) well control method
- Variations of managed pressure drilling
- MPD IADC classification codes
- Planning MPD
- Connections
- MPD well control methods
- Dynamic kill
- Driller’s method
- Well control matrix
- Managed pressure drilling equipment
- Chapter Five: Reference: Surface well control equipment
- Abstract
- Commentary
- Surface well control equipment
- Diverters
- Rotating control device (rotating heads)
- Annular preventers
- Ram preventers
- Blind ram preventers
- Full opening safety valves (FOSV)
- Inside blowout preventers (IBOP)
- Choke manifold
- Gate valves
- Ancillary equipment
- Blowout preventer review checklist
- Ring gaskets
- Annular preventers
- Spherical annular preventers
- Sealing elements
- Ram type preventers
- Blind shear rams
- Hinged door ram type preventers
- Hydraulic access ram preventers
- BOP closing equipment (accumulators)
- Mud gas separators (MGS)
- Well/preventer stack classification
- Generalized BOP testing procedures
- BOP test equipment
- Considerations for BOP testing
- Summary test procedure for a class 4 stack
- Step-by-step test procedure for a class 4 stack (with a test plug)
- This concludes the testing of BOPE
- Chapter Six: Subsea well control
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Commentary
- Deepwater vessels
- Subsea drilling considerations
- Subsea well planning, design, and construction
- Riserless drilling and shallow well flows
- Shallow water flow (SWF)
- Choke line friction
- Subsea well control
- Well shut-in methods
- Well kill preparations
- Gas in riser after BOP shut-in
- Step 1: Kill well
- Step 2: Fill riser with KMW
- Step 3: Clear trapped stack gas
- Loss of rig station-keeping
- Disconnecting from the Well
- Dual gradient drilling
- Chapter Seven: Reference: Subsea equipment
- Abstract
- Commentary
- Subsea stack and riser
- Subsea wellhead
- Subsea wellhead and LMRP connectors
- Subsea BOP stacks (five ram and six ram)
- Lower marine riser package (LMRP)
- Remote-operated vehicles (ROV)
- MUX BOP closing systems
- Risers
- Booster lines
- Choke and kill lines
- Flex joints
- Slip Joints and tension rings
- Diverter system
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- 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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Gerald Raabe
Gerald Raabe has over 40 years of international oil industry experience with emphasis on drilling and well control. Drilling experiences include technical and operational aspects of well control, managed pressure drilling, and extensive Onshore/Offshore/Inland Barge rig site experience in both hard rock and sedimentary basin environments. He currently is a General Manager Operational Excellence and Senior Technical Advisor for Wild Well Control providing operational support for pressure control jobs and blowouts, site audits, crew awareness training, and well control prevention planning. Previously, he was VP Operations for Remedial Offshore LLC, Senior Drilling Engineer and Well Control Manager with Chevron. He is certified black belt in Lean Six Sigma Quality Improvement and earned an undergraduate degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.
Affiliations and expertise
General Manager Operational Excellence for Wild Well Control, USACJ
C. Scott Jortner
C. Scott Jortner is a Professional Engineer with 45 years of domestic and international oil industry experience with emphasis on drilling. He is also Technical Director of RL Skills, his own training company with Gerry Raabe. The last 17 years have been in well control. Previously, he was a Senior Engineering Advisor/Manager Engineering for Wild Well Control, performing response plans for clients worldwide. Scott was also a consulting drilling engineer for Newfield Exploration, drilling manager for Offshore Exploration Development Corporation, and a drilling engineer, drilling superintendent, and offshore drilling manager for Pennzoil Company. He is a professional registered engineer in the state of Texas, and a member of SPE. Scott earned an undergraduate degree in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University.
Affiliations and expertise
Professional Engineer, Technical Director, RL Skills, USARead Universal Well Control on ScienceDirect