PetE 364
Drilling Engineering
Description
Rotary drilling systems, elements of rock mechanics, properties and field testing procedures of drilling fluids, drilling fluids hydraulics, drill bit hydraulics and mechanics, well control, factors affecting rate of penetration, drill string mechanics, fundamentals of directional drilling.Prerequisites: CH E 312 or equivalent and CIV E 270.
Learning Outcomes
Recognize major components of drilling machinery, how they work and what are the design criteria for their selection and operation.Evaluate accumulated work done by the drilling lines (i.e. ton-mile calculation) and conduct proper slip and cut program to ensure drilling lines are kept in good working conditions at all times during well drilling operations.
Develop a well control procedure for safely circulating the gas kick out of the well using Driller’s and Engineer’s methods and determine the kill mud weight, safe circulating drillpipe pressure and drillpipe pressure schedule to be used while circulating the gas kick out of the well.
Determine the optimum outer diameter, unit weight and length of drill collars as part of the bottom hole assembly design required for trouble free drilling at given drilling operational conditions.
Determine, as part of the design efforts for minimizing drilling cost, appropriate bit selection for initial and subsequent bit runs based on off-set well data, the minimum cost/ft criteria, performance of various drilling bits, and well formation.
Determine optimum drill string composition by considering safe operation conditions, minimum overall drill string weight and the cost.
Determine drilling fluid rheological properties (such as plastic viscosity, yield point, gel strength) using lab measurements conducted by using API field testing procedures of drilling fluid properties.
Determine, as part of an individual open-ended project, required pressure, volumetric flow rate and horsepower capacity of mud pumps used for drilling fluid circulation.
Design, as part of an individual open-ended project, a bit hydraulics program to maximize the drilling rate in a vertical well.
Design, as part of a group project, optimum well locations and wellbore trajectory for an off-shore field development drilling campaign plan using directional wells.
| Lecture | Seminar | Lab | Credits | Total AU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1/1 | 3/2 | 4.25 | 53.55 |
| M % | NS % | CS % | ES % | ED % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 |
None defined
- A knowledge base for engineering
- Investigation
- Use of engineering tools
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Undergraduate Program(s)
| 2024/2025 - Fall - Pete-coop - Year 4 |
| 2024/2025 - Fall - Pete - Year 3 |
| 2023/2024 - Fall - Pete-coop - Year 4 |
| 2023/2024 - Fall - Pete - Year 3 |
| 2022/2023 - Fall - Pete-coop - Year 4 |
| 2022/2023 - Fall - Pete - Year 3 |
| 2021/2022 - Fall - Pete-coop - Year 4 |
| 2021/2022 - Fall - Pete - Year 3 |
| 2020/2021 - Fall - Pete-coop - Year 4 |
| 2020/2021 - Fall - Pete - Year 3 |
| 2019/2020 - Fall - Pete-coop - Year 4 |
| 2019/2020 - Fall - Pete - Year 3 |
Sections & Respective Instructors
| A1 - 2024/2025 - Fall - Huazhou (Andy) Li & Shanshan Yao |
| A1 - 2023/2024 - Fall - Ergun Kuru |
| A1 - 2022/2023 - Fall - Ergun Kuru |
| A1 - 2021/2022 - Fall - Ergun Kuru |
| A1 - 2020/2021 - Fall - Ergun Kuru |
| A1 - 2019/2020 - Fall - Ergun Kuru |