I got a question asking me about what the space out means.
Space out means that you stop your drill string at the proper location where all the BOP rams (annular and pipe rams) will not close against a tool joint. Please see the figure below for more understanding.
Let’s have one more test in order to remind you about the first circulation of driller’s method.
When you shut the well in, you record these following pressure readings.
Initial Circulating Pressure (ICP) = 1500 psi
Original Shut in Drill Pipe Pressure = 500 psi
After you circulate the 1 st step of driller’s method, you see drill pipe pressure and casing pressure reading like this image below.
What do you think about this well?
Before starting 1st circulation of driller’s method, you have this following information
Original Shut in Drill Pipe Pressure = 500 psi
Shut in casing pressure = 800 psi
After complete the 1st circulation, you shut down pumps and you see the drill pipe pressure and the casing pressure as this figure below
What do you think about this well?
You may confuse between Formation Integrity Test (FIT) and Leak Off Test (LOT).
They are different in this following aspect.
Leak Off Test – you pressure test shoe and formation until formation break down.
Let’s I explain more about it: Leak off Test is conducted in order to find the fracture pressure (fracture gradient) of formation and shoe. When conducting the LOT, you will pump drilling fluid to until you see the fracture trend of formation. Once formation is fractured, the first pressure that deviated from a trend is typically called Leak Off Pressure. We use the leak off pressure to calculate LOT.
Let’s take another quiz regarding driller’s method.
Before start the first circulating, you have the following information
Original Shut in Drill Pipe Pressure = 500 psi
Initial Circulating Pressure (ICP) = 1500 psi
After end of 1st circulation of Driller’s Method, the drillpipe pressure gauge and the casing pressure gauge shows that the circulating drill pipe pressure = 1500 psi and casing pressure = 500 psi (see the figure below).
What do you think about this well?
