How to be a Roughneck

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Drilling 101

Drilling 101
Drilling Lingo
Rigs
Tools or What you Drill with
Drilling & Casing
Time Required to Plan
Typical Costs

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Words Drillers Use

POOH pull out of hole

RIH run in hole
BHA bottom hole assembly
Jewelry pieces of the BHA
Dope gunk they put on pipe connections to create seal
DD directional driller
Monkey Board ledge for rig hand to stand on when handling top
of pipe
Shack- Atco-type building on site where DDs, MWD, Geologists,
Company Men, etc. sit, live, work.
Doghouse shack on rig floor
Tight Hole confidential
BOP blow out prevention equipment
Makin Hole drilling
Hand, you pickin up what Im puttin down do you understand
what Im telling you?
Mud drilling fluid
Fishing searching for something that is lost down hole, never a
good thing
KOP kick off point, where you change from vertical to
directional
Sidetrack when something goes wrong and you back up and
change direction

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Types of Rigs we see in

Western Canada

of well

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Chosen based on location and type

Land Rigs
Land based light, medium and heavy duty

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Slimhole Rigs
Slimhole for small diameter wells < 6

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Coiled Tubing
drillpipe in continuous coil, saves time
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making/breaking connections, mostly used

for re-entry

Parts of the Rig

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Catwalk

(not for the fall Prada

show!)

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Monkey Board, Pipe Rack

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Top Drive and Rotary Table

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Doghouse and Drilling Console

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Slips to wedge pipe in place while

making a connection

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Making or Breaking a
Connection
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Types of Wells

horizontal in reservoir to expose more open

hole to the oil
Multi-Lateral allows multiple reservoirs to be
tapped from one surface location
Extended Reach used mostly offshore to
reach far away without having to move
platform
SAGD two horizontal wells in parallel (oil
sands)

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Vertical straight down

Horizontal starts out vertical, turns

Vertical and Horizontal Wells

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Multilateral and Extended

Reach Wells
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SAGD Wells
Drilled in Horizontal Parallel Pairs

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What do you drill with?

Drillstring; drillpipe and (BHA)

bottom hole assembly
Drillpipe
Heavy Weight
(Crossover, Jar)
Stabiliser
Drill Collars
Bottom Hole
Assembly (BHA)

Stabiliser
Drill bit

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Drill Pipe

Drillbits
Different
types;

Roller cone,
mill tooth

Roller cone,
TCI

Fixed cutter,
PDC

Fixed cutter,
natural
diamond

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Motors, MWD, LWD Tools

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Stabilizers

Run within the

BHA to;

1. Control

2. Minimize

dynamic
buckling &
fatigue
damage.

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directional
performance.

Drillcollars
Thick walled pipe, able to withstand high buckling forces.
Used to;

1. Put weight on the drill bit

while keeping the
drillpipe in tension.

2. Control directional
performance.

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Drillpipe

Pipe body

Tool joint box (female)

Tool joint pin (male)

The tool joints allow the pipes

to be screwed together,
forming a pressure tight
connection which can transmit
very high levels of torque and
tension

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3 component parts;

Drilling Fluids (mud)

A complex fluid of specific physical

and chemical characteristics.

2.
3.
4.
5.

the annulus.
Cleans and cools the bit, lifts cuttings
to the surface.
Density provides primary well control
without fracturing formations.
Avoids reservoir damage.
Maximizes bit performance.

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1. Pumped down the string, returns up

Mud Tank, Pumps and Drill

String
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Surface, Intermediate, Production

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Casing and Cement

Casing and Cementing

Summary
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Time for well design

Evaluate offset well . 2-4
days / well
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Gather relevant data ... 1-5

days
Directional plan .... 0-5
days
Casing Design inc cement specs & mud density .
3-15 days
Wellhead configuration . 0-3
days
Draft design

2-5
Simple
development well, 3 offsets
days

13

Complex well could exceed 40 man-da

Review & finalise design .. 1-4

A man-day of work is a full working
days

day

Costs
Costs ~ $30 000 - $60 000/ day to drill in
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Western Canada
Costs ~ $400 000 - $500 000/ day to drill off
the East Coast
Obviously they will spend more money in
an offshore environment to minimize rig
time
Butopportunities to optimize smaller
drilling programs are huge as there are
currently numerous wells being drilled in WC
and only a few offshore.

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Questions?