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Basic Sedimentation
After we’ve learned about the three types of rocks in the Earth, we will focus on sedimentary rocks because these are rocks which can be reservoir rocks. In this article, we will start with...
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Clastic Sedimentary and Its Environments
Clastic sediment rocks are rocks which are formed from broken pieces of other pre-existing rocks by physical weathering. Then, rock particles are transported to lower lying areas. Mechanically eroded...
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Good Document – An Introduction to Oil & Gas Drilling and Well Operations
One of my friends shares this slide, An Introduction to Oil & Gas Drilling and Well Operations. This slide is the educational material from the IOM3 Oil and Gas Division, UK (http://www.iom3.org/)....
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Travelling Block Falling Down
Anything can happen in just a second while you working. This 1-minute VDO shows you what a catastrophe occurs in just a second. From the vdo, it seems like the break did not work properly so everything...
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Safety First
Safety is one of core values in oil and gas industry. There are a lot of emphasizing on safety while you are in a work place as drilling rigs, production facilities, oil offloading tankers, etc....
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Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Clastic deposition covers about 75% of the Earth’s surface and clastic sedimentary rocks can be categorized into 3 groups based on grain size. Table 1 demonstrates grain size and type of sedimentary...
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Upstream Oil & Gas Overview Slides
IOM3 (The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining) share another good presentation about upstream oil and gas overview. This is an excellent document which will help people understand more about...
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Geological Time Scales
Geological time scales help us to know the age of formations and three types of time scales are relative, absolute time and magnetic polarity scales. Relative time scale relates to an order in which a...
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Organic Matter to Form Source Rock
Oil and gas that we are drilling today comes from a biogenic origin and it is formed with proper time and temperature. Organic matter is one of the most important parts of hydrocarbon generation. This...
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Carefully Think About Oil and Gas Industry Before Boycott Us
We are working in oil and gas industry and many times we see many media, NGO’s, people want to ban oil forever. They make themselves look like heroes when they want to save the earth. However, this is...
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Spectacular Oilfield Calendar 2016 – Free Download
This year, 2015, is one of the toughest years in oil and gas industry because oil price drastically drops than anybody can imagine. We wish in 2016 this will be a great year for us. We create a...
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What is Kelly Rig?
This is the brief explanation of a Kelly rotating system on the rig. Kelly rig is on an old style rigs and nowadays it is mostly used on land operations. For offshore operation, a top drive system is...
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What was happened? Kelly was bent.
We just got photo from our friend sharing these images of Kelly which was bent from parted drillstring. This is the details. While working the stuck drillstem using the kelly rig system, maximum...
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Basic Understanding about 3D Seismic for Petroleum Exploration
3D seismic is one of the most important techniques to help geologists and engineers to find out where possible hydrocarbon is below thousands of feet below the earth surface. Without 3D seismic...
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Mud Weight and Its Importance in Drilling
Mud weight or mud density is a weight of mud per unit volume. It is one of the most important drilling fluid properties because it controls formation pressure and it also helps wellbore stability. Mud...
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Viscosity of Drilling Mud
Viscosity describes a substance’s resistance to flow. High-viscosity drilling mud is typically described as “thick,” while low-viscosity mud is characterized as “thin”. In the oilfield, the following...
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Yield Point (YP) of Drilling Fluids
Yield Point (YP) is resistance of initial flow of fluid or the stress required in order to move the fluid. It can be simply stated that the Yield Point (YP) is the attractive force among colloidal...
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Have You Seen How A Jack Up Rig is Launch into the Sea?
A jack up rig which is one of offshore mobile drilling units is widely used in shelf offshore drilling exploration and production. The unit consist of a buoyant hull fitted with jack up legs which can...
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Gel Strength and Operational Impact
The gel strength is the shear stress of drilling mud that is measured at a low shear rate after the drilling mud has been static for a certain period of time. The gel strength is one of the most...
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What is Top Drive System?
A top drive is a big motor system which is hoisted in a derrick or mast of a drilling rig. A top drive is a modern rotating system which has been popular for many drilling contractors and oil...
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