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Drilling Fundamentals (Part -1)

1. What is Directional Drilling ?
Directional drilling is the science of deviating a wellbore along a
planned path to a target located at a given lateral distance and
direction from vertical. This includes drilling as vertically as possible
from a given TVD.
The figure below shows a vertical well and a deviated well.
As a starter one can consider that any well which gets deviated
from the vertical axis to achieve the desired target (hydrocarbon
reserve in our case) may be termed as deviated well (or Directional
well).
What are the concepts one should have a knowledge of
before moving ahead to Directional Drilling study ?
As per my experience, to get a clear concept of Directional Drilling
one should have a strong basic of conventional drilling methodology.
entioned below are some of the basic !uestion one should be able
to answer before moving ahead to Directional Drilling Technology.
"#. $hat is Drilling%
"&. 'ow do we drill a well to the desired target%
"(. $hat is a drilling )ig%
"*. $hat are the components of a drilling )ig%
"+. $hat are drilling tubulars%
",. $hat is -ottom 'ole Assembly%
".. $hat is a Target /one%
"0. $hat is easered Depth (D) and True vertical Depth (TVD) %
"1. $hat are Drilling 2arameters%
"#3. $hat is Drilling 4luid%
"##. $hat are the Drilling 4luid 2arameters%
"#&. $hat is spud%
"#(. $hat is tripping% Trip5in% Trip5out%
"#*. $hat is 6hort Trip and $iper Trip%
"#+. $hat is 7irculation and ud 7onditioning%
"#,. $hat is 7asing%
"#.. $hat is 7ementing%
"#0. $hat is wellhead and $ellhead fitting%
"#1. what is 7ement Drill%
"&3. $hat is 8ea95off Test%
"&#. $hat is -low :ut 2reventor (-:2)%
"&&. $hat is 2rimary, 6econdary and Tertiary 7ontrol%
"&(. $hat is 8ea9 off Test%
"&*. $hat is Drilling -rea9%
"&+. $hat is 9ic9%
"&,. $hat are downhole problems%
"&.. $hat is the difference between 7asing and 8iner%
"&0. $hat is drilling ;ar%
"&1. $hat is <eo Technical :rder (<T:)%
"(3. Terms used to write a Drilling 2rogress )eport (D2)) and the
other abbreviations used in :il = <as industry%
> guess if one is able to answer these basic !uestions or gains
9nowledge on these topics, he?she can switch over to Directional
Drilling at ease.
>n my next post >@ll answer these !uestion in the simplest possible
way to ma9e the learning more en;oyable A
Posted by Deepak Choudhary at 11:36:00 AM
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