Drilling Fluids
Candidates:
Drilling supervisors and engineers, Well Engineers, Mud Engineers, Forman and other technicians.
Summary:
This course aims to familiarize the participants with the primary types of drilling fluids, functions of drilling fluids, testing of both water-base and oil-base drilling fluids, and the associated problems involved with drilling fluids.
Contents:
- Introduction to drilling fluids
- Functions and testing of drilling fluids
- Engineering data and calculations
- Water-base drilling fluids
- Flow characteristics, rheology, and chemical treatment
- Filtration control
- Low solids drilling fluids
- Inhibitive drilling fluids
- Oil-base drilling fluids
- Solids control
- Associated problems
- Lost circulation-stuck pipe-Influx to wellbore