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Importance of Choke Drill and Its Procedure
By DrillingFormulas.Com | June 19, 2012 12:04 pm | Drilling Operation, Well Control 6 Comments
Choke drill is one of well control drills that will improve crew competency in driller’s method. The
advantages from the choke drill are as follows:
• Get more familiar to practice controlling the pressure via a choke on the rig
• Get more understanding about lag time
• Practice the procedure to obtain the shutin drill pipe pressure
• Ensure the surface well control equipment as pressure gauges, choke, BOP is ready for work
• Get more practices when attempting to bring the pump up to kill speed, slow the pump down and change
the pump rate
Choke Drill Steps are listed below:
1. Trip in hole above top of cement
2. Fill the pipe and circulate seawater or mud around for few minutes
3. Close annular preventer or upper rams preventer
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4. Pressure up annulus to 200 psi (the pressure may be different depending on the company policy.)
5. Line up the pump
6. Pump slowly to bump the float and obtain shut in drill pipe pressure
7. Bring the pump to kill rate by holding casing pressure constant – personnel need to adjust the choke
8. Measure lag time for the drill pipe gage after the adjustment of choke is made.
9. Change circulation rate by holding casing pressure constant. Crew needs to adjust choke to achieve this.
10. Shut the pump down by holding casing pressure constant.
11. Bleed off pressure and line up for drilling operation
Reference book: Well Control Books
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Do you have too much slug in the well?
By DrillingFormulas.Com | June 11, 2012 8:02 pm | Applied Drilling Calculations, Drilling Fluid Calculations, Drilling Fluids Formulas,
Drilling Operation 5 Comments
Slug is heavy drilling mud that is used to pump when you want to pull pipe dry. However, excessive volume
of slug in the well can create higher mud weight and cause the problem. Today I would like to share my
experience regarding slug in the well.
The situation happened on the drilling rig like this.
The well was TD with 13.0 ppg mud and circulation was conducted until the shale shakers. After that we pull
10 stands wet and pumped 40 bbl of 15.0 ppg slug and came out of hole without any problem. Then we run
the logging and we got stuck. We picked the fishing gear and grabbed the fish. We pulled out 10 stands wet
and hole was taking proper fill. We pumped same amount of slug 40 bbl of 15.0 ppg and came out of hole.
The decision was made by town to trip in hole to do the wiper trip.
Tripping was done with caution and break circulation was conducted every 3000 ft to break the gel. Prior to
TD 100 ft, we made up top drive and slowly washed down to TD. While we were circulating, the mud weight
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