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Oil & Gas Well Casing – VDO Transcript
By the time the crew drills the well to depth, it usually has several strings of casing in it. These strings are called conductor casing, surface casing, intermediate casing and production casing.
Notice that cased well looks something like a telescope pulled out of full-length but it is as the crew drills the well deeper, the size of the whole and the size of the casing gets smaller in diameter. Almost always, the drilling contractor cannot begin drilling at the surface and go all the way to total depth in one step.
