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Buoyancy Factor with Two Different Fluid Weights in The Well
Buoyancy Factor is the factor that is used to compensate loss of weight due to immersion in drilling fluid and you can find more information from this article > buoyancy factor calculation . In...
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Halliburton Red eBook App – It is a Useful App for Oilfield Personnel
The Halliburton Redbook (Figure 1) is a very useful for oilfield people because it contains a lot of useful information as tubular/drill pipe data, cementing information, some oilfield calculation,...
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Volume of Cutting Generated While Drilling
While drilling, cuttings are generated every footage drilled and this topic will demonstrate how to determine volume of cutting entering into the wellbore. Figure 1 - Cutting Generated While Drilling...
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Shale Gas Rig On Fire
This is information which I got from my friends and I would like to share with you in order to emphasize the important of well control. I am not sure about the rig name. See photos and details below;...
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Basic Understanding of Hydraulic Fracturing
Geologists have known for years that substantial deposits of oil and natural gas are trapped in deep shale formations. These shale reservoirs were created tens of millions of years ago. Around the...
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Basic Understanding of Sub Sea BOP VDO Training
Sub Sea BOP is one of the most critical well control equipment in deep water drilling and it is a good topic for everybody working on the rig to learn. Today, we would like to share a valuable VDO...
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Coring Cost Per Footage Drilled
Coring is a special process to recover wellbore rock in the well. Figure 1 - Core from the well. Credit – Wikipedia This article will demonstrate how to calculate coring cost per footage recovered....
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Oilfield Salary Survey as of Q1 2014
We’ve collect data from internet and summarize into simply formats for you to see oilfield salary in 2014. You will get an idea how much personnel working in the upstream industry make. All information...
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Solid Density From Retort Analysis Mud Calculation
Retort analysis is the method to determine solid and liquid components in the drilling fluid. In this article, we will adapt mass balance and retort analysis data to determine solid density in the mud....
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Basic Pressure Control In Drilling
Pressure under the earth is one of the most dangerous things that drilling personnel need to deal with. If the pressure does not take care properly, lost of the well can be occurred. Learning the...
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Basic Understanding of Oil Well Casing and Tubing
Oil well construction requires several casing string to reach a planned depth of a well therefore we will discuss about the basic of each casing string used in the oil wells. In this article, we will...
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Piper Alpha The Biggest Oilfield Catastrophe – Oilfield Incidents in The Past
Piper Alpha was basically a North Sea oil production platform, commencing production way back in 1976, run by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd, which initially started oil production and later gas...
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Casing Design Overview – Overall Process of How To Do Casing Design in Oil...
After understanding the basic of each casing string run in oil wells, we will go into casing design overview. This article will give you general ideas of casing design. Casing Design Objectives The...
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4-Way Valve Operation in Blow Out Preventer Accumulator (Koomey) Unit
4-way valves in the accumulator (Koomey) unit are used to control the position of Blow Out Preventer (BOP). Today we will go into the detail of 3 positions of 4-way vales in order to see how each...
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Basic Knowledge of Kelly and Top Drive VDO Training
Kelly or Top Drive is the drilling equipment which transfer both rotational and compression force to the bit in order to make a hole. This vdo training demonstrates the basic understanding for kelly...
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Casing Seat Selection – How To Select Casing Setting Depth
From the previous article, you’ve learnt about overall of casing design process and in this article we are going to discuss about how to select casing setting depth. The selection of casing string and...
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Petrobras P-36 Sinking – The Biggest Oil Rig Sinking In the Oilfield Industry
Petrobras P-36 – This incident cost several million us dollars and it’s worthy to learn from it. One of the biggest global floating semi-submersible oil platforms Petrobras 36 (P-36), which was owned...
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Casing Size Selection – How To Select Casing Size to Match the Drilling and...
We’ve learnt several topics in regard to casing design and this article will demonstrate you how to determine casing size in the well. Casing size selection is determined from the inside outward and it...
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Oil & Gas Well Casing – VDO Training
There are several articles discussing about casing design and we would like to share you this excellent VDO training in this topic “Oil & Gas Well Casing”. This VDO contains the basic over view of...
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Bullheading Well Control Method
Bullheading is one of the well control methods which may be utilized in some occasions in order to control the well. Concept of bullheading is to pump kicks back into formations by using kill weight...
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