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Behavior of Gas in a Horizontal Well Kick
Gas kick behavior in horizontal wells is different from the gas behavior in normal wells (vertical and deviated wells). Gas follows Boyle’s gas law when it moves up to the shallower section of the...
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Abnormal Pressure Caused By Faulting
Fault is a discontinuity in a geological structure and it sometimes can create abnormal pressure. Hence, you need to really understand how the geological fault can cause higher pressure even though it...
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Adriatic IV Blowout and Platform Burning
Adriatic IV Blowout incident is one of the worst oilfield incidents happened in our industry. We need to learn and understand about it so we can prevent this incident to reoccur again in the future. In...
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What You Need To Know About Drilling Bit Balling Up and How To...
Bit balling is one of the drilling operational issues which can happen anytime while drilling. This issue can cause several problems such as reduction in rate of penetration and surface torque,...
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Drill Bits VDO Training
Drilling bits are one of the key tools to achieve good performance drilling and there are several types of bits. Therefore, personnel need to understand in order to use the right bits for the task....
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Mud Gas Separator (Poor Boy Degasser) Plays A Vital Role in Well Control...
Mud gas separator located at downstream of the choke manifold is one of the important well control equipment that you need to focus. It separates gas out of the mud after the gas comes out of hole. Gas...
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17 Mind-Blowing Oil Drilling Rig Photos – Get Inspired For Oilfield People
Many people works on the oil rigs both offshore and onshore operation and a lot of people may get bored with the rig. Therefore we would like to share some spectacular drilling rig images. There are...
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Know about Swabbing and Well Control
There are several situations when a kick is induced by swabbing effect. Today, we are going to discuss swabbing and well control situation. Swabbing is a condition when the string is pulled out of the...
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Fatality Drilling Rig Accident, Oilfield Worker was Knocked 6 feet to the floor
This is the oilfield incident resulting in our friend working on the rig got killed. It is very important that we need to heavily focus on the safety. Every year, people get injured due to several...
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Trip Tank and Its Importance to Well Control
Trip tank is a small tank which has a capacity of 20 – 50 bbl and its shape is tall and shallow because it can effectively detect volume changes. The trip tank system has the ability to continuously...
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Dull Bit Grading Handbook – Great for Your Reference
Dull bit grading is a standard method to grade the bit and it will also help personnel to understand bit performance better. However, it is sometimes very difficult to understand the meaning of the...
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Arabdrill 19 Collapse Incident
Expect for unexpected. Arabdrill 19 incident is one of the oilfield disasters which you should learn from it. I would like to share you about this because it will help you learn from the past. It is...
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Dropped Top Drive and Travelling Block Incidents – Where Were They Happened?
My friend, Robert, forward my an email chain about dropped Top Drive and Travelling Block. It was scary and I felt deeply sorry for everybody. I would like to know where there were happened and their...
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Fatality Incident in Colorado- Fracking Accident Kills 1 Halliburton crew...
My condolences to the Family regarding this bad incident (Fatality Incident in Colorado- Fracking Accident Kills 1 Halliburton crew member and two were injured at Weld County Site). We’ve seen a lot of...
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Learn about Maximum Surface Pressure in Well Control (MASP, MISICP and MAASP)
There are several terms/acronyms about maximum surface pressure in well control such as MASP, MISICP and MAASP. These terms sometimes confuses a lot of people hence this article will explain each term...
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Magnetic and Gravity Toolface and How To Interpret The Meaning For...
Magnetic and gravity tooสface are terms in directional drilling world to describe the direction of the well. They are different in meaning and application therefore this article will teach you about...
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You Need To Watch This – Dropped Casing Incident
Dropped object is one of the most dangerous accidents on the rig therefore we would like to share this footage so you need to watch this. This short VDO can change your life. You really need to watch...
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Determine Bottom Hole Pressure from Wellhead Pressure in a Dry Gas Well
Gas behaves differently from fluid therefore you cannot use a simple hydrostatic formula to determine reservoir pressure. Gas is compressible but fluid is incompressible. The formula to determine the...
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Oilfield Salary Survey and Comparison Study Based on Q3 2014
We’ve collected salary information from the most trusted oilfield website, rigzone.com, about salary and compensation for Q3 2014. At this time, we have the comparison between Q1 salary and Q3 salary....
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Something wrong while pulling out
This is a few second vdo showing how fast the unexpected can be happened on the rig floor while tripping. What was happened? These are the possible causes. Parted pipe Stuck pipe Bail failure Trapped...
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