1 Drilling Site Selection 1
1.1 Introduction to Drilling Site Selection 1
1.2 The Drilling Site 4
1.3 Finding Oil and Gas 8
1.4 Types of Petroleum Traps 11
1.5 Locating Petroleum Traps 13
1.6 Selecting the Drilling Site 16
1.7 Exploratory Drilling(1) 18
1.8 Exploratory Drilling(2) 21
1.9 Exploratory Drilling(3) 24
2 Rig Components 29
2.1 Power System 29
2.2 Mechanical Power Transmission 31
2.3 Electrical Power Transmission 33
2.4 The Drawworks and the Cat-heads 35
2.5 The Blocks and Drilling Line 39
2.6 Masts and Rotating Equipment 43
2.7 The Drill String 47
2.8 The Bit(1) 49
2.9 The Bit(2) 52
2.10 Jet Bit Nozzle Size Selection 55
2.11 Maximum Nozzle Velocity and Maximum Bit Hydraulic Horsepower 57
2.12 Drilling Fluids(1) 59
2.13 Drilling Fluids(2) 63
2.14 Drilling Fluids(3) 67
2.15 Mud Pumps and Conditioning Equipment(1) 72
2.16 Mud Pumps and Conditioning Equipment(2) 74
2.17 Circulating Equipment 76
2.18 Auxiliary Equipment 79
3 Drilling Operations 81
3.1 Preparing Site 81
3.2 Rigging up 84
3.3 Jobs on the Rig 87
3.4 Drilling the Surface Hole 90
3.5 Spudding-in 94
3.6 Tripping out 96
3.7 Running Surface Casing 99
3.8 Cementation 101
3.9 Tripping in 105
3.10 Running Intermediate Casing and Drilling to Final Depth 108
3.11 Well Logging and Well Completion 111
3.12 Setting Production Casing and Perforating 114
3.13 Installing Christmas Tree 116
4 Special Drilling Operations and Accident Maintenance 118
4.1 Introduction to Directional Well 118
4.2 Directional Drilling 120
4.3 Turbo-drill and Directional Drilling 123
4.4 Drilling Deep Well 126
4.5 Air Drilling 129
4.6 Fishing 131
4.7 Fishing Tools and Techniques(1) 134
4.8 Fishing Tools and Techniques(2) 136
5 Well Control 140
5.1 Blowout(1) 140
5.2 Blowout(2) 143
5.3 Well Control 146
5.4 Blowout Prevention(1) 149
5.5 Blowout Prevention(2) 152
5.6 Well-heads and Well Protection 156
6 Well Logging and Testing 160
6.1 Geophysical Well Logging(1) 160
6.2 Geophysical Well Logging(2) 163
6.3 Logging Car,Cable and General Mounting 167
6.4 Drilling-mud and Logging 169
6.5 Electric Logging Systems 171
6.6 Nuclear Logging 175
6.7 Acoustic Logging 178
6.8 Some Other Types ofLogs 180
6.9 Well Testing(1) 181
6.10 Well Testing(2) 185
6.11 Well Testing(3) 188
7 Advanced Drilling Technology 192
7.1 Modern Bits(1) 192
7.2 Modern Bits(2) 194
7.3 Air Drilling Has Some Pluses for Horizontal Wells 197
7.4 Downhole Motors of Air Drilling 199
7.5 MWD Equipment of Air Drilling 202
7.6 Hole Cleaning and Hole Friction of Air Drilling 205
7.7 Target Constraints of Air Drilling 208
7.8 New Cementing Technology——Converting the Drilling Mud into Cement 210
7.9 Development of Completion Methods 213
7.10 Computation of Blowout Rate 217
7.11 Minimize Blowout Loss 220
7.12 Introduction to Multilateral Technology 222
7.13 Business Drivers for Multilateral Technology 225
7.14 Completion Screening Variables for Multilateral Technology 228
7.15 Reservoir Screening Variables for Multilateral Technology 233
7.16 Geology Screening Variables for Multilateral Technology 237
7.17 Drilling Screening Variables for Multilateral Technology 241
7.18 General Screening Variables for Multilateral Technology 247
7.19 Design Criteria of Weighing Cost/Benefits 252
7.20 Pushing the Envelope-Extending the Limits of Current Drilling Technology(1) 254
7.21 Pushing the Envelope-Extending the Limits of Current Drilling Technology(2) 257
参考译文 260
练习参考答案 356