7 Ways to Strengthen a Wellbore

Strengthen a wellbore while drilling is the most effective technique to do to the wellbore before bad losses will be happened. Techniques of wellbore-strengthen are similar to lost circulation concepts. The wellbore-strengthen techniques emphasize on lost circulation prevention, increase in overall formation fracture gradient and elimination of fracture elongation. However, the lost circulation concepts focus on preventing losses of drilling fluid. In the drilling industry, 7 effective ways to strength the wellbore are as follows;

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Well Control Acronyms

I would like to share some well control acronyms so you will be more understanding about content in well control.

ACF = Annular Capacity Factor

BHP = Bottom Hole Pressure

BOPE = Blow Out Preventer Equipment

BPUTS = Bring Pumps Up To Speed

CLF = Choke Line Friction

CMW / OMW = Current Mud Weight / Original Mud Weight

CP = Casing Pressure

DPP = Drill Pipe Pressure

ECD = Equivilant Circulating Density

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Shut in the well and get pressure data (driller’s method)

As per previous topic, driller’s method well control, it stated about overall of driller method and this post will show the detailed of driller’s method and describe in term of operation stand point as well. I separates all detailed-step of driller method into several blog post because I want to add a lot of details for each topic so you will clearly understand about driller method and you also can apply with your real life operation.

Today I will start with the first one is to shut in well and obtain pressure information

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Float Bumping Procedures To Get Shut In Drill Pipe Pressure

In order to get the correct value of drill pipe pressure, you need to have the correct floating bumping procedure. In this section, I will show you how to bump the float correctly.

These following procedures will demonstrate you how to bump the float correctly in order to get SDPP.

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