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Horizontal and vertical drilling / Byron Davenport.

By: Davenport, Byron.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1992Description: x, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0070154910.Subject(s): Horizontal oil well drilling | Oil well drillingDDC classification: 622.3381
Contents:
A typical oil and gas transaction -- The AFE -- Drilling contracts -- The drilling prognosis -- Key rental items -- Rig-up, spud-in and setting surface casing -- Nippling up the BOP stack -- Setting up the bottom hole assembly -- Drilling out surface casing, tests, and squeeze jobs -- Drill bits -- The mud program -- Drilling ahead -- Produce-while-drilling (PWD) equipment -- Key maintenance -- Special problems during vertical drilling -- Fishing tools -- Drill stem tests -- Coring the well -- Logging the well and accompanying problems -- The intermediate string, liners and testing -- Finding the horizontal zone to drill -- The horizontal directional driller and MWD tools -- Drilling the curve -- Special problems during horizontal drilling -- Setting the packer in a horizontal well -- The long string and the cement job -- Finishing the well and the paperwork -- Plug-and-abandon procedures -- Blowout control and calculations -- Oilfield firefighting -- Completing a horizontal well.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A guide and reference manual for solving some of the major problems encountered while drilling oil or gas wells. Davenport writes "to give engineers an insight into the reality of rig operations and at the same time to give roughnecks, drillers, and toolpushers a better understanding of how engineers think." Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes index.

A typical oil and gas transaction -- The AFE -- Drilling contracts -- The drilling prognosis -- Key rental items -- Rig-up, spud-in and setting surface casing -- Nippling up the BOP stack -- Setting up the bottom hole assembly -- Drilling out surface casing, tests, and squeeze jobs -- Drill bits -- The mud program -- Drilling ahead -- Produce-while-drilling (PWD) equipment -- Key maintenance -- Special problems during vertical drilling -- Fishing tools -- Drill stem tests -- Coring the well -- Logging the well and accompanying problems -- The intermediate string, liners and testing -- Finding the horizontal zone to drill -- The horizontal directional driller and MWD tools -- Drilling the curve -- Special problems during horizontal drilling -- Setting the packer in a horizontal well -- The long string and the cement job -- Finishing the well and the paperwork -- Plug-and-abandon procedures -- Blowout control and calculations -- Oilfield firefighting -- Completing a horizontal well.