This is one of books in the rotary drilling series from Petroleum extension service, University of Texas at Austin. It contains a lot of basic knowledge regarding diesel and electric power for drilling rig. As you may know, it is not easy to understand all about basic details about engines used in the drilling rigs because there are so many details.
A Primer of Oilwell Drilling: A Basic Text of Oil and Gas Drilling
For new persons who don’t have much idea about drilling, A Primer of Oilwell Drilling is a good book to start with. The wording in the book is written in a simple way so people can read and understand details regarding a drilling business.
The book covers every aspect of basic drilling knowledge and what people will learn from this book is listed below:
• History of rotary drilling
• Cable tool and rotary drilling
• Rig types (land and offshore rig)
• People involving in drilling industry
• Basic of geology as how oil and gas occur, hydrocarbon reservoirs, type of wells, etc.
• Drill site – how to select the drill site and how to manage the drill site
• Rig component, power system, hoisting system, etc
• Basic drilling operations such as drilling, tripping, running completion, circulating, cementing, etc
• Formation evaluation – wire line logging, mud logging, drill stem test, coring
• Completion basic – setting production casing, perforating, running tubing, etc
• Safety on the drilling rig.
As new personnel in the oil field, you may be struggle of many wordings and terminologies of this industry. The better way to learn meaning of petroleum industry is to use a special dictionary. Today I would like to recommend you the oil filed dictionary named “A Dictionary For The Oil And Gas Industry” which is published by the University of Texas at Austin.
Why is this book good?
• The dictionary of petroleum has e a lot of useful oilfield terms which is over 11,000 words and slangs.
• The terms contained in the book come from wide range of professionals in the industry as reservoir engineering, production engineering, geologist, geophysics, drilling and completion, law, marine engineering, etc.
• It is very good especially new personnel in the petroleum industry. It will make the life a lot easier when taking with people in oil field term.
• There are a lot of neat images which will help people fully understand what they are looking for. I just take a sample photo of this dictionary as you can see at the image below.
• Even though you are experienced hand, you may not know everything like me. This book is good for reference for experienced people as well.
• Not only are there tons of petroleum words, but there are also a lot of oil field abbreviations.
Where to buy it?
Amazon offers good price and delivers it word wide. Please check it out.
