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Drill String Components – VDO Training
This is a great VDO Training about drill string components. We also added the detailed transcripts so you can learn from the VDO effectively. Please give us comments if you think this is useful for...
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Why Shale Gas is The Future for Energy Source?
We are always looking for more sources of natural gas and the best way to find natural gas currently is b looking in shale deposits. We are doing this with a process called hydraulic fracturing or...
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Learn The Basic About Drilling Rig Types from VDO Training Plus Transcript
This is another training VDO that is very good for entry level personnel who are working in the oilfield industry especially drilling part. This VDO will give the over view regarding rig types and...
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What Did You Do With Santa?
How do you get an F-104 for a yard art display?! The site is near the Oak Creek Bridge on the St. Michael’s Road, on the eastern shore of Maryland (down the road from Delaware). The folks who own the...
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Deepsea Aberdeen Rig Sank at the DSME shipyard in South Korea on Saturday
This is bad news “ Deepsea Aberdeen Sank at the DSME shipyard in South Korea on Saturday 28-Dec-13. (Reuters) – A rig under construction at a Daewoo shipyard in South Korea, ordered by Norway’s Odfjell...
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Basic of Drillpipe Tensile Capacity and Its Calculation
This article demonstrates basic knowledge understanding of tensile capacity of the drill pipe and some calculation. First of all we need to know basic of material strength and for our case is strength...
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Basic Knowledge of Mud Pumps VDO Training
Mud pump is one of the most critical equipment on the rig; therefore personnel on the rig must have good understanding about it. We’ve tried to find the good training about it but it is very difficult...
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Free Useful Well Control Spread Sheet – All Important Well Control Formulas...
There are a lot of people who are interested in well control and we would like to help them learn and make their life easier by sharing the well control spread sheet. The image (Figure 1) below is the...
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What is Closing Ratio in Blow Out Preventor (BOP)?
People asked me about what the closing ratio is and what it tells us. Closing ratio is defined as the cross sectional area of the ram piston (cylinder) divided by the cross sectional area of the ram...
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Casing Shoe Pressure While Circulating Influx in Well Control Situation
Many people ask us a lot of questions regarding shoe pressure while circulating kick (wellbore influx) out of the wellbore. We will summarize all the scenarios to help you get clearer picture. There...
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Oilfield Wallpaper Andriod App
We create a FREE android application showing several awesome background images in oilfield theme. There are a lot of beautiful pictures as drilling rig (land, jack up,semi, tender), pump jack,...
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Basic Pressure Control – VDO Training
As you know well control is very important subject in drilling industry and in order to understand it clearly, you need to understand basic principle. This time we would like to share this excellent...
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API Ring Gaskets Used in BOP Connections
There are several API types of ring gaskets used in BOP connections and this is very important to personnel involving in drilling operation to know about it. API 6A: Specification for Wellhead and...
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Why Do We Need To Minimize Influx (Kick)?
As you know, we’ve always been trained or told to minimize influx (kick). Nowadays, there are several tools and procedures guiding us to prevent large influx; however, interestingly there are quite a...
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Basic Blow Out Preventer – VDO Training
Blow Out Preventer is one of the most critical equipment on the rig therefore it is very important that you need to understand it. This VDO demonstrates the basic of BOP with a lot of colorful pictures...
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Buoyancy Factor Table Free Download
Buoyancy factor is the factor that is used to compensate loss of weight due to immersion in drilling fluid and you can find the calculation from here...
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How To Free Stuck Pipe (Oilfield)
This article is a summary of how to free stuck pipe caused by three main mechanisms which are wellbore geometry, differential sticking and packing/bridging off. It will give you some ideas which you...
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Increase In Mud Weight Due To Cutting
Cutting generated while drilling will increase drilling fluid density and it will finally affect equivalent circulating density while drilling. In this topic, we will talk about how to determine mud...
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Maximum ROP Before Fracture Formation
In this topic, we will apply the effective mud density formula to determine maximum ROP before fracturing formation. Figure 1 – Max ROP before Fracturing Formation These two equations that will be...
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How Does Deep Water Drilling Work
Nowadays deep water drilling is one of vital players for oil and gas exploration and production industry and there are many people who would like to know how deep water drilling works. We’ve found one...
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