Leaving Time Calculator for Oilfield Personnel
I’ve got a very funny Excel spreadsheet – Leaving Time Calculator for Oilfield Personnel. Basically, the file will plot a hump curve showing where you are in your working hitch. Figure 1 – Leave...
View ArticleHole Monitoring Procedures While Tripping
This is the example of hole monitoring procedure while tripping and this will give you some ideas only. You need to adjust it to suit with your operation Perform pre-job safety meeting with personnel...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon Investigation Reports
Deepwater Horizon is one of the worst well control incidents in oil and gas industry and this situation results in losing of life and damaging environment. Therefore, it is worth to learn from this...
View ArticleHole Monitoring Procedures While Running Casing or Tubing
This is the example of hole monitoring procedure while running casing and this will give you some ideas only. You need to adjust it to suit with your operation. Perform pre-job safety meeting with...
View ArticlePipe Blown Up While Pumping
Working with pressure is one of the high risk tasks in oil and gas industry because enormous force can damage equipment and harm people life. In this 15-second vdo, it shows how quickly thing can turn...
View ArticleHow To Determine Seriousness of Drops Incident By Using the Drops Calculator
Drop incident is one of the worst incidents in oil and gas industry and DROPS is a company which comes up with the Drops Calculator. For example, you want to know what the potential hazard...
View ArticleWell Control Procedure for Non-Shearable String
There are many cases when non-shearable string is across the BOP therefore blind shear rams will not be able to shear the string to secure the well if needed. The special procedure must be in place to...
View ArticleVolumetric Well Control Example Calculations
This example demonstrates the calculations and the steps of the volumetric well control which will help you understand about what calculations according to the volumetric procedures. Gas kick at the...
View ArticleOuija Board Directional Drilling Excel Spreadsheet
Ouija Board is a method that directional drillers use to calculate inclination and azimuth at the bottom or distance and tool face to drill at required direction. Figure 1 is an Ouija board. Figure 1 –...
View ArticleUsing Hi-vis Sweep to Clean Hole while Drilling
Sweep is a mud which has higher rheology and/or more mud weight than current mud property. It is used to carry cutting that set at low side of a wellbore and it is widely used for Sea water drilling....
View ArticleOil and Gas Production Handbook Review
Today, we would like to recommend you to read this book – Oil and Gas Production Handbook which is one of the best free ebooks for oilfield personnel . Oil and Gas Production Handbook An Introduction...
View ArticleAvoid These Deadly Resume Mistakes to Get Perfect Oilfield Resume
With the current oil price environment today, it is very important that all oilfield job seekers are aware of the importance of writing quality oilfield resume. By quality resume we mean those which...
View ArticleLubricate and Bleed Example Calculations
This example demonstrates the calculations and the steps of lubricate and bleed which will help you understand about what calculations according to lubricate and bleed procedures. Gas kick migrates to...
View ArticleReview Fracking Primer EBook by API
Hydraulic Fracturing Primer is published by American Petroleum Institute (API) to help people understand about fracking correctly. In this ebook, it contains a technical detail about Fracking for...
View ArticleOnly 21 Seconds Can Change Your Life – Fingerboard Incident
One of my colleague shared this vdo in the HES meeting and I was stunning on how quick of this incident happening. This is very short VDO only 21 seconds but it is worth to learn to prevent this same...
View Article5 Ways NOT to Get the Attention of Hiring Managers in Oil and Gas Jobs
The increasingly competitive oil and gas career of today has made it quite difficult to stand out among large numbers of applicants all boosting same qualifications and skills. For this reason, the job...
View ArticleVibration Mechanisms In Drillstring by SperrySun
Vibration in drillstring is one of major downtime associated with drilling operation. Therefore, it is very important to learn and understand what each vibration mechanism is. This VDO created by...
View ArticleReview Offshore Book 2014 – an overview of the offshore oil & gas industry
The “Offshore Book – an overview of the offshore oil & gas industry” is one of the best ebook about offshore oil and gas industry. This book is belong to http://www.offshoreenergy.dk/. This book is...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between a hazard and risk?
You may have heard about hazard and risk all the time while you are working either in the office or in the field. Do you really know what the differences between these two terms are? Is it easy...
View ArticleShock and Vibration in Drilling VDO
This is one of excellent VDO demonstrating shock and vibration in the drillstring by Schlumberger. In this VDO, you will learn about mechanisms of shock and vibration, types of whirls and how these...
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