Sweep is a mud which has higher rheology and/or more mud weight than current mud property. It is used to carry cutting that set at low side of a wellbore and it is widely used for Sea water drilling.
Ouija Board is a method that directional drillers use to calculate inclination and azimuth at the bottom or distance and tool face to drill at required direction. Figure 1 is an Ouija board.
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This example demonstrates the calculations and the steps of the volumetric well control which will help you understand about what calculations according to the volumetric procedures.
There are many cases when non-shearable string is across the BOP therefore blind shear rams will not be able to shear the string to secure the well if needed. The special procedure must be in place to deal with this situation. This is an example of well control procedure for non-shearable string. If you want to use it for your rig, it must be modified to match with your rig operation.
Drop incident is one of the worst incidents in oil and gas industry and DROPS is a company which comes up with the Drops Calculator.
For example, you want to know what the potential hazard classification should be if 3 lb of object drops from 15 ft height. This is the Excel based program that gives you a benchmark about the classification of the potential consequences of a dropped object.
