Advanced

Drilling

and Well Technology

Book Editors:

Bernt S.

Aadnoy

University of Stavanger
Cooper
Schlumberger
Iain

Stefan Z. Miska

University of Tulsa
Robert F. Mitchell

Halliburton
Michael L. Payne
BP

Society

of Petroleum

Engineers

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

ix

1. The Well Construction Process

1.1 This

Chapter in

1.2 Overview of

the Context of This Book

a Well

Project
1.3 Objectives, Needs, Assurance, and Resources
1.4

1
2

Implementation

1.5 Reporting and Feedback

13

1.6 How Best To Use Advanced

2.

Technologies

in the Overall Advanced Well

Casing Design

2.3

Casing Design
Strength

19

2.4
2.5

Design of Connections

2.6 Material Selection

3.

17

Casing Standard Loads

Design Approaches for Casing

2.7

27
32
37

Considerations

in

Casing Design

Casing Special Problems

42
52

Advanced

Drillstring Design
Drillstring Design
3.2 Drillstring Vibrations

85

3.1 Advanced

85
117

3.3 Jars and Jarring Dynamics

3.4 Loads, Friction, and Buckling

156
162

4. Advanced Wellbore

Hydraulics
Hydraulics
4.2 Well-Control Modeling
4.3 Foam Drilling

191

4.1 Wellbore

5.

13
17

2.1 Introduction to
2.2 Theories of

Design

191
221
248

Geomechanics

301

5.1 Geomechanics and Wellbore

Stability

301

5.2 Normalization and Inversion Methods

414

6. Wellbore Measurements:

Tools,Techniques, and Interpretation

6.1

Images While Drilling

6.2 Geosteering

443
443
458

6.3 Pressure Measurement While

473

6.4 Formation Pressure While

508

6.5

Drilling
Drilling

Drilling Vibration

544

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7.

8.

Deepwater Drilling
7.1 Deepwater Drilling Technology
7.2 Deepwater Dual-Gradient Drilling
7.3 Buoyant Wellhead

557

Design Considerations for High-Pressure/High-Temperature Wells

641

8.1 Introduction

641

8.2 Literature

643

621

635

Survey

8.3 Estimation of Pressure

645

8.4 Estimation of

646

Temperature

8.5 Thermal Effects

653

8.6

665

8.7
9.

557

Design of Wells for HP/HT Conditions

Operational Implications of HP/HT Wells

667

Innovative Drilling Methods

9.1 Underbalanced Drilling Operations
9.2

Casing

9.3

Managed-Pressure Drilling
Coiled-Tubing Drilling
Novel Drilling Techniques

9.4
9.5

677
677

While Drilling

703
750
764
785

10. Heat Transfer in Wells

797

10.1 Wellbore Thermal Flow and Simulation

10.2

Analytic Approach

to

797

Temperature-Induced

Well Problems

816

Author Index

851

Subject Index

859

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