Drilling Technology Detailed Syllabus for B.Tech third year second sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Drilling Technology B.Tech 2016-2017 (R16) third year second sem is as follows.
B.Tech. III Year II Sem. L/T/P/C
Course Code: PE601PC 4/0/0/4
Prerequisites: Elements of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics
Course Objectives:
- To understand various aspects involved in drilling a well including completion.
- To understand the plan of drilling a well, the process of drilling and various equipment used for drilling and design of the drill string.
- To know the drilling fluid importance and its properties and hydraulics.
- To understand different types of casings lowered in a well, the requirement of cementation in a well and cement slurry design.
- To understand different tools used for directional drilling and various techniques, fishing, stuck pipe and well control concepts.
Course Outcomes: The students will be able to
- apply the drilling concepts of a well from planning to rig mobilization to the location
- apply the concept of a drill string design for drilling
- decide the suitable drilling fluids during drilling
- do Casing and Cementation design
- carry out Directional drilling
- manage rouble shoot well control, stuck pipe and fishing problems to select the proper drilling equipment.
UNIT – I Overview of drilling: Drilling plan- GTO -Types of drilling, Rotary bit technology- Drilling
string basics. Drilling fluid properties- Drilling fluid hydraulics calculations- Bit Hydraulics Optimization-
Swab & Surge-pressures- Mud hydraulics analysis report- Lost circulation. Disposing of the drilling fluids waste and drill cuttings waste.
UNIT – II Hydrostatic pressure, Pore pressure, Causes of abnormal pore pressure, abnormal pore
pressure evaluation- Mud logging methods – Measurement while drilling & logging while drilling data-Direct measurements of pore pressure. Formation integrity tests – Fracture gradient determination – Theory of wellbore – FIT procedural Guidelines – Predicting fracture gradient HPHT well design.
UNIT – III Wellbore stability–Determination of the magnitude and direction of the in situ stress
Determination of rock properties, Failure criteria – Stress distribution around a wellbore Procedure for determining safe mud weights to prevent hole collapse Preventing borehole instability Gas behavior in a well – Kick tolerance How to calculate kick tolerance – Influence of FG on kick tolerance – Kick tolerance while drilling – Kick tolerance graph – Modifying the calculate kick tolerance – Use of kick tolerance to calculate wellbore pressures.
TEXT BOOKS:
- Petroleum Engineering: Drilling and Well Completion, Carl Gatlin, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960.
- Drilling Engineering, J.J. Azar and G. Robello Samuel, Pennwell Books, 2007.
- Working Guide to Drilling Equipment and Operations, William Lyons, Gulf Publishing, 2009.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
- Oil Well Drilling Engineering: Principles and Practice, H. Rabia, Graham & Trotman, 1985.
- Drilling Engineering: A Complete Well Planning Approach, Neal Adams, Tommie Charrier Pennwell, 1985.
- Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual, Steve Devereux, Pennwell, 1998.
- Primer of Oil Well Service, Workover and Completion, Petroleum Extension Service, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.
- Formulas and Calculation for Drilling, Production and workover, Norton J. Lapeyrouse, 2ndEdition, Gulf Publishing, 2002.
- Applied Drilling Engineering, Adam T. Bourgoyne Jr., Keith K. Millheim, Martine E. Chenevert and F. S. Young Jr., Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1991.
- Well Engineering and Construction, Hussain Rabia, Entrac Consulting, 2002.
- Drilling Fluids Processing Handbook, ASME Shale Shaker Committee, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2005.
- Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering, Robert F. Mitchell, Stefan Z. Miska, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2011.
For all other B.Tech 3rd Year 2nd Sem syllabus go to JNTUH B.Tech Petroleum Engineering 3rd Year 2nd Sem Course Structure for (R16) Batch.
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