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Introduction
To drill a well, a hole in the ground is
excavated with a drilling bit at the
bottom of a drill stem which consists of
several sections of drill pipes up to the
drilling rig. Drilling fluids pumped down
the drill stem flows through the bit and
brings the rock fragments (drilling
cuttings) up outside the drill stem and
out of the wellbore. The space outside
the drill stem is called the annulus or
annular volume. The term annulus can
be used for any space between two
concentric objects in the wellbore.
Annulus can be between the open hole
and the outside of the drill stem, the
open hole and the outside of the casing,
two casings with different sizes or inside
of the casing and outside the drill stem
or production tubing.
Laboratory Procedure
Today three different wellbore diagrams
will be constructed. But before we start
lets go through the overview of the iHandbook chapter with the software
open and follow each step closely to
learn how to use the software. Then go
through the example given in the chapter
wellbore schematics with i-Handbook.
After you have gone through the
example and understand how to make
wellbore drawings you are free to leave
the class or continue with the lab.
2nd part of this lab is to finish
constructing the two wellbores and
answer the questions given in wellbore
#1 and wellbore #2.
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column in Figure 2) are required. The ID
(inner diameter in in) is given in column
4. The three columns to the right are
related to casing strength and will be
addressed in the casing design lectures.
Casing 2. Chapter
Figure 2 shows the casing data listed in
the handbook. To specify the casing the
OD (outer diameter in in), weight
(pounds per foot), and steel grade (3rd
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diameter and
combinations.
weight
per
foot
First click on the wellbore hardware
icon. When a new pop-up window with
wellbore hardware appear select open
hole with the mouse and while holding
the mouse button drag the cursor with
the mouse over to the wellbore diagram.
A red rectangle will appear and when
you held the cursor over the red
rectangle release the mouse button and
the open hole properties window will
pop-up (Figure 5). Change diameter to
12 in and the depth to bottom to 1000
ft (Figure 5).
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steel grade. Click on the casing and hold
the mouse button and drag the casing
over to the wellbore diagram window.
Change the casing properties to 1000 ft
depth to bottom.
Wellbore 1
First wellbore schematic to be
constructed is for a deep Rocky
Mountain vertical wellbore for gas
production. The actual well was drilled
in 2007 in the Leduc field in the
Canadian Rockies foothills. The total
depth of the well is 16,000 ft. The
surface hole was drilled down to 2,000 ft
with a 26 in drill bit. The surface casing
is a 20 in, 94 lbm/ft J-55 casing. The
first intermediate wellbore section is
drilled with a 17 in drill bit down to
8,000 ft. The intermediate section has a
13 3/8 in, 68 lbm/ft M-65 casing. The
second intermediate wellbore section
was drilling with 9 7/8 in drill bit to
13,500 ft and cased with 7 5/8 in, 39
lb/ft N-80. The production casing is
drilled with a 6 1/2 in drilling bit and the
production casing is 5 in, weight of 15
lbm/ft and steel type C-90.
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Determine the volume between the first
intermediate casing and the intermediate
hole and surface casing. Normally the
lower casings are not cemented to the
surface. How much volume of cement is
required if the intermediate casing is
cemented just up to the bottom of the
surface casing?
Wellbore 2
Wellbore 3
For the final wellbore draw a wellbore
schematic of a 15,000 ft well including
four sections, a surface hole with casing,
two intermediate holes with casing and a
production hole with casing. The
wellbore requires a 5 in production
casing. You have to select casing depth,
hole sizes and casing diameters. You can
select any sizes you want but you have
to ensure that you have enough
tolerances between the casing and the
hole sizes.
References
1. I-HandbookTM, www.slb.com