Glossary of Terms

Ref. No. DE/Glossary, Version 1.1 Date of issue

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Overview of Drilling Operations

Ref. No. DE/1, Version 1.1 Date of issue

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Rig Components

NFf
FD

N=8

Ff
Fd

(a) Free body diagram of traveling block

Ref. No. DE/2, Version 1.1 Date of issue

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(b) Free body diagram of crown block

The Drillstring

Ref. No. DE/3, Version 1.1 Date of issue

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Drilling Bits

Spear Point
Nose Row

Carbide Tooth
Compact

Milled
Tooth
Guage
Surface
Middle Row

Shirttail
Heal
Row
Shirttail
Hardfacing
Shank
Jet Nozzle

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Shank
Shoulder

Formation Pressures

3
Surface
Casing
4

Intake

Area

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Excess Pressures

Surfac
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Protective

Potentiometric
Casing

Mud
Weight

Re

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Subnormal Pressures

Surface

rv

oi

True Vertical Depth, Thousand Feet

Calculated
Fracture
Gradient

oc

Oil Pool

"A"

10

Protective

Liner

Predicted
Pore Pressure
Gradient

11

10

12

14

16

Equivalent


Mud

Weight, ppg

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Discharge

Area

S u rf a c e

18

20

Oil Pool

"B"

Well Control

Pann 2
Pann 1

1000

2000

3000
2

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000
Large

9000
Light mud
Invaded fluid

Small

Pressure in 1000 PSI

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Casing

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Cementing

Circulating
mud

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Pumping spacer
and slurry
Top
cementing
plug
Bottom
cementing
plug

Centralizers

Slurry

Spacer

Original
mud

Float
collar

Shoe

Plug release pin in

Plug release pin out

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Displacing

Displacing

Displacing
Fluid

End of job

Drilling Fluids

Deflection (degrees)

o 600

o 300

slope = PV

intercept = YP

300

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600

RPM

setting

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Hydraulics

0.1

9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2

Friction factor, f

0.01

0.001

1
9
8
7
6
5
4

n=1.0
0.8
0.6

3
2

0.4
1
9
8
7
6
5

0.2

Plate moving at velocity (v)

Force F

3
2
2

5 6 78 91

5 6 7 8 91

V2

5 6 7 8 91

5 6 7 89

0.0001
100

1000

10000
Y
Reynolds Number, NRe

100000

100000
Velocity Distribution

Stationary Plate

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Directional Drilling

2000'

R
X

4000'

6000'

8000'

10000'

T
d
1000'

2000'

Ref. No. DE/11, Version 1.1 Date of issue 10 / 3 / 99

3000'

Displacement

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Directional Surveying

Ref. No. DE/12, Version 1.1 Date of issue 10 / 3 / 99

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Measurement While Drilling

Rotary
valve

Motor

Standpipe pressure

Phase shift or remain

Bit
Bit
value value
(1)
(1)

Bit
value
(1)

Time

Rotating disc

Mud

Valve

Actuator

Standpipe pressure

hole
tool

Pulse presence or absence

Bit
Bit
value value
(1)
(1)

Bit
value
(1)

Time

Actuator

Bypass
Valve
Mud

Standpipe pressure

Mud

Bit
Bit
value value
(1)
(1)

Time

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Bit
value
(1)

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Subsea Drilling

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Examination and Model Solutions

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Date:
B3a

Subject:

Calculate displacement of target:

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

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1. Complete the sections above but do not seal until the examination is finished.
2. Insert in box on right the numbers of the questions attempted.

3. Start each question on a new page.

4. Rough working should be confined to left hand pages.

5. This book must be handed in entire with the top corner sealed.
6. Additional books must bear the name of the candidate, be sealed and be affixed to
the first book by means of a tag provided

PLEASE READ EXAMINATION REGULATIONS ON BACK COVER

y
x

Displacement =

30002 + 35002

= 4610 ft

a.

DRIFT ANGLE:
2.5 R = 360
100