Well Drilling Equipments and Operation detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC654), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other petro 6th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Petro 6th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-II subjects do refer to Professional Elective-II. The detail syllabus for well drilling equipments and operation is as follows.
Course Objectives:
This course enables students to learn about the Drilling Process and Drilling Equipments.
Module 1
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Module 2
AIR AND GAS DRILLING – Bottomhole Pressure, Minimum Volumetric Flow Rate, Drill Bit Orifices or Nozzles, Injection Pressure, Water Injection, Saturation of Gas, Eliminate Stickiness, Suppression of Hydrocarbon Combustion, Aerated Drilling (Gasified Fluid Drilling), Stable Foam Drilling, Completions Operations, Compressor and Inert Air Generator Units, Highly DeviatedWell Drilling and Completions, Down hole Motors. DIRECTIONAL DRILLING – Glossary of Terms used in Directional Drilling, Dogleg Severity (Hole Curvature) Calculations – Tangential Method, Radius of Curvature Method, Deflection Tool Orientation, Vectorial Method of D. Ragland, Three-Dimensional Deflecting Model.
Module 3
SELECTION OF DRILLING PRACTICES -Health, Safety and Environment, Production Capacity, Well Planning and Implementation, Drilling Implementation, Post-Run Evaluation. WELL PRESSURE CONTROL – Introduction, Surface Equipment, When and How to Close the Well, Gas-Cut Mud, The Closed Well, Kick Control Procedures, Maximum Casing Pressure, Maximum Borehole Pressure.
Module 4
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Module 5
TUBING AND TUBING STRING DESIGN – API Physical Property Specifications, Running and Pulling Tubing, Preparation and Inspection before Running, Packers, Protecting the Casing. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR 8 L OPERATIONS – Introduction, Well Site, Environmental Regulations, Site Assessment and Construction, Environmental Concerns While in Operation. 1,
DRILLING 1
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course: Students will understand the concepts and techniques used in well drilling. They will learn the design requirements of well planning and construction. Students would be able to optimize the design of a drilling program
Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):
- Critical Thinking
- Problem solving
- Use of modern tools
- Life – long Learning
- Collaborative and multidisciplinary work
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
- There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Rabia.H. Oil Well Drilling Engineering, Principles And Practices’ Graham And Trotman Ltd. 1985.
- D.P Helander Fundamentals Of Formation Evaluation’.
Reference Books:
- Standard Handbook of Petroluem and Natural Gas Engineering, 2nd Edition, William C. Lyons, Gary C. Pilisga, Gulf Professional Publishing
- Working guide to Drilling equipment and Operations, William C. Lyons, first edition 2010 Published by Elsevier.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Petro, 2017 regulation do visit Petro 6th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation.
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