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How Much Force Applied to Rig Tong To Get The Right Torque at The Connection
One application of the rig tong is to use to make up connection. The question is asked about how to get the right torque value to the connection if you use the rig tong because you will not see the...
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Rig Engine Power Consumption and Engine Efficiency
In this article, we will focus on the rig engine power consumption and overall engine efficiency and there are few examples for you to get more understand on how to use the formulas as well. Input...
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Sedco 135F – IXTOC I Blowout and Oil Spill
We learn from the past in order to prevent the bad incidents to be happened. This time we would like to discuss about Sedco 135F – IXTOC I Blowout and Oil Spill. The Sedco 135F was perforating and...
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How Does 1029.4 Come From?
1029.4 is used in several calculations in the oilfield and we’ve been asked about what is 1029.4, how it comes from, why it needs to be this figure so in this article, we will show you how 1029.4 comes...
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Oil & Gas Well Cementing VDO Training
Cementing is very critical step of well construction. Bad cement job can lead to bad situations as well control, low productivity, gas channeling in annulus, etc. Therefore personnel in oilfield should...
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Block and Drilling Line Calculation
This article will focus on block and drilling line calculations as block efficiency, drilling power input/output, etc. Additionally, there are some examples which will help you understand how the...
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Free Cross Over Generator Excel Spreadsheet for Oilfield Use
You may have a problem regarding ordering the cross over to use on the rig because there are so many threads used for the operation. For example if you have just only three threads (3-1/2” IF, 4-1/2”...
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Ekofisk Bravo Blowout Oilfield Incidents
Ekofisk Bravo blowout incident happened when performing workover operation. If you study in the oilfield industry about well control incidents, there are several cases when the well was unable to...
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Fracture Gradient Reduction Due to Water Depth
Fracture gradient is one of the critical information which drilling engineers need to know in order to design drilling programs. For the well control stand point, the fracture gradient directly affects...
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Can Women Work in the Oilfield (Oil and Gas Industry)?
Women nowadays are dominating the world of men especially when it comes to jobs. They work side by side with males in a man’s industry, which is considered as a great achievement. Back in the days,...
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Introduction To Underbalanced Drilling VDO Training
Underbalanced drilling becomes very famous in several places of the world because there are some advantages over normal drilling operations. Today we would like to share the basic underbalanced...
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Hard Shut-In Procedure while Drilling with a Subsea BOP Stack
Nowadays, deepwater drilling is one of the important parts of drilling in the world and there are a lot of ongoing deepwater operations. Our team will start focus on subsea well control and this topic...
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Enchova Central Blowout Oilfield Disaster
Learning from the past oilfield disaster will help you realize about well control, safety management, etc which you can apply to mitigate the future catasrophe. Today, we would like to share the...
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Shut-In Procedure while Tripping with a Subsea BOP Stack
After we publish this article “Hard Shut-In Procedure while Drilling with a Subsea BOP Stack”, there are some people asking us about what about the shut-in procedure while tripping with a subsea stack....
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Driller’s Method or Wait and Weight Method – What is The Practical Well...
Driller’s method and wait and weight method (engineer’s method) are widely used to circulate wellbore influx while maintaining bottom hole pressure constant. There are a lot of opinions regarding which...
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Introduction To Well Control for Horizontal Wells
Currently, horizontal wells are widely drilled around the world because the production from the horizontal wells is outperform normal vertical or deviated wells at the same location. The productivity...
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Kick Scenarios in Horizontal Wells For Well Control
Drilling horizontal wells are always in the development phase and people know the geological area pretty well. Additionally, they can accurately determine reservoir pressure of the target sand for the...
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Kick Prevention for Horizontal Wells
After we’ve learnt several topics in regard to horizontal well control, today we will talk about how to prevent well control situation both while drilling and while tripping. Since the horizon well...
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Drill string valves and IBOPs VDO Training
Drillstring valves and IBOPS are one of the most critical well control equipment on the rig. This VDO training will teach you about drillstring valves and iBOPs. After watching this, you will fully...
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How To Get into Oil and Gas Industry
The standpoint for employment in the industry of oil and gas today has been consistently vehement. Most people are expecting a “crew shift” transformation because today a lot of existing employees are...
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