There are not many books about drilling bits in the market. Today, I would like to share with you about this book, “The Bit” which is a very good book in the rotary drilling series.
The book is written in a simple language therefore everyone can understand this topic so easy.
Learning about drilling fluids, mud pumps and conditioning equipment is required basic knowledge which personnel working on the rig must understand. In the old day, you may need to take a lot of time to learn this knowledge. Nowadays, Petroleum Extension Service publishes the book named “Drilling Fluids, Mud Pumps, and Conditioning Equipment” which will provide learners a lot of essential thing regarding drilling fluids, mud pumps and equipment. Today, I would like to review this book so you will know what inside and what you will you get from it.
What will you learn from this book?
These are brief contents which you will learn from the book.
If you would like to learn about drilling engineering, this book, Applied Drilling Engineering – Spe Textbook Series, is my recommendation. The book contains various topics regarding drilling engineering.
What will you learn from this book?
Rotary drilling – basic of drilling rigs, rig power system, hoisting system, circulating system, etc.
Drilling fluids – Mud test, pilot test, water based mud and oil based mud.
Cements – composition of cement, cement testing, cement additives, and cement placement techniques used in the drilling field.
Drilling hydraulics – Hydrostatic pressure, annular pressure during well control operation, buoyancy factor, non static well condition, flow through jet bits, rheology models, laminar and turbulent flow, surge/swab pressure and particle slip velocity.
Rig components may not be a problem with experience people who have been working on the rig for awhile. However, new people will totally blind what each equipment is. I remember since I was a new hand on the rig. No one taught me what the rotary drilling is, how equipment works or even what the equipment is called. I took times several months to know the drilling rig and its components.
The Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production is the must book for someone who are nontechnical personnel or really new in the petroleum industry. There are several good points regarding this book as listed below:
• The author of this book, Dr Norman J. Hyne, explains complex subjects in the petroleum industry in very simple language. Moreover, what he wrote in the book covers all parts of petroleum starting from a geology phase to a production phase. You can see the table content of this book as listed below:
1. The Nature of Oil and Gas
2. The Earth’s Crust – Where We Find it
3. Identification of Common Rocks and Minerals
4. Geological Time
5. Deformation of Sedimentary Rocks
6. Sandstone Reservoir Rocks
7. Carbonate Reservoir Rocks
8. Sedimentary Rock Distribution
9. Mapping
10. Ocean Environment and Plate Tectonics
11. Source Rocks, Generation, Migration, and Accumulation of Petroleum
12. Petroleum Traps
13. Petroleum Exploration – Geological and Geochemical
14. Petroleum Exploration – Geophysical
15. Drilling Preliminaries
16. Drilling a Well – The Mechanics
17. Drilling Problems
18. Drilling Techniques
19. Testing a Well
20. Completing a Well
21. Surface Treatment and Storage
22. Offshore Drilling and Completion
23. Workover
24. Reservoir Mechanics
25. Petroleum Production
26. Reserves
27. Improved Oil Recovery
