DESIGN A GUIDANCE FOR WELL CONTROL IN DRILLING PROCESS

• Main Author: YAKUP, MUHAMMAD HAMZI
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10343/1/2011%20-%20Design%20a%20guidance%20for%20well%20control%20in%20drilling%20process.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10343/

This report focused on well control aspects and well control issues happened in oil and gas industry. The objective that will be achieved through this project is to design a guidance for control the well during drilling process that describes well control activities and system to ensure minimal operational time and risk exposure to personnel, process, production and equipment. The scopes of study for this project revolved around simulate the well control scenario and evaluate the performance of different kind of well control procedures during kick and blowout. The area of study involved fundamental principles of well control, kick causes, kick indicators, shut-in procedures, well control equipment and procedures. After running the simulation, the result obtained were analyzed and discussed. The investigation revolved around effectiveness of driller's method, time for execution the whole kick-killing procedure, kill rate, flow check analysis, estimate circulation density and kick tolerance. The project methodology and activities have been designed to achieve the objective. The required simulation software and equipment also have been described in this report in methodology part. The project simulation work design and procedures were explained. All the result data, analysis, findings and lastly some recommendations presented at the end of this report.