3 Day

Stuck Pipe Prevention

Dr. Qamar J. Sharif
B.Sc Mining Engineering
M.Sc Petroleum Engineering
PhD. Petroleum Engineering

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This 3-Day course is designed with the simple phrase in mind: “Prevention is Better than Cure”. The course
provides a comprehensive understanding of three stuck pipe mechanisms, causes leading to each mechanism,
and recognition of warning signs. Participants will learn how to perform the trend analysis and learn to “listen to
the well” by understanding the “language of the well.”
The course includes a stuck pipe mechanism identification table and recommends the first actions for each
mechanism. Stuck pipe case histories are included to enhance the learning. The course also covers knowledge
of the formations and borehole instability problems and recommends guidelines to empower the driller on best
tripping practices. We recommended that the course is taken by the rig team together, as a team building
exercise as well as an opportunity to improve communication skills.
This operations-oriented training emphasizes a proactive approach to stuck pipe prevention. It teaches how to
“listen to the well” and perform trend analysis. The course also focuses on how to detect the causes leading to
stuck pipe at an early stage and what preventive actions to take before full sticking occurs.
What will this course cover?
The course emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs at an early stage and taking PREVENTIVE
actions before the sticking takes place. It is designed to increase the knowledge and competency of the drilling
crews. It empowers the drilling crew to perform correct diagnosis, improve communication, and take the correct
“First Actions” to prevent stuck pipe incidents. Studies have shown that about 90% of stuck pipe incidents can
be freed with appropriate “First Actions” within the first 4 hours of sticking. The course also includes the effective
use of drilling jars and understanding of pump open force.

What will you learn? Who will benefit?

On completion of this course you will be able to fully The following oil and gas company personnel will benefit
understand how to: from the knowledge shared in this course:
• Identify the three sticking mechanisms and their causes • Drilling crews
• Recognize the sticking causes at an early stage and • Rig Managers
what preventive actions to take before full sticking • Drilling Foreman
develops • Drilling engineers
• Understand the fundamentals of hole cleaning • Mud engineers
• Discover techniques of stuck pipe prevention • Wellsite geologists
• Learn to “listen to the well” • Directional drillers
• Perform trend analysis of drilling parameters • Drilling contractors staff
• Read a stratigraphic column with identification of
potential problem formations
• Review case histories with in-depth analysis.
• Understand the workings of drilling jars, pump open
force, and jarring load calculations
• Appreciate the team approach and the need for good
communication
• Identify the sticking mechanism and what “First Actions”
to take to free a stuck pipe

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INTRODUCTION TO OIL & GAS DRILLING DRILLING JARS WELL IS TALKING ECONOMICS OF FISHING
• Oil and gas development • Types of drilling jars • Drilling parameters recording • Time value of money
• Formations, rock pressure, fluid traps • How jars work • “Learning to Listen” – trend analysis • Probability model
• Fundamentals of petroleum • Pump-open force • Geolograph exercise • Time limit for fishing operations
• Basic geology • Calculation of jarring loads WELLBORE GEOMETRY • Stuck point determination, pipe stretch
MAJOR CAUSES OF LOST TIME • Why jars don't work • Second mechanism method
• Definitions • Jars placement • Causes CONSOLIDATION
• Global statistics • Exercise • Key seating • Team work
• Stuck pipe causes and mechanisms HOLE PACK-OFF / BRIDGING • Ledges and doglegs • Implementation of learning
ROCK MECHANICS • First mechanism • Under-gauge hole • Recommendations
• Stratigraphic column • Causes • Collapsed casing
• Deviated and horizontal wells • Drilled cuttings - bit • Junk
• Wellbore stresses and instability • Caving - not from bit • Shoe joint back-off
• Drilling window • Causes of insufficient hole cleaning • "First Actions" FIRST ACTIONS
• Drilling fluid properties and mud weight • Annular velocity • Exercise
• Video • Hole angle DIFFERENTIAL STICKING
IDENTIFICATION OF STICKING • Boycott effect • Third mechanism
MECHANISMS • Pipe rotation • Fire prevention triangle and differential
• Use of identification table • Video sticking prevention square
• Hole pack-off / bridging • Hole cleaning guidelines • Calculation of differential sticking force
• Wellbore geometry • "First Actions" • Causes
• Differential sticking • Exercise • Preventive measures
• “First Actions” • Causes of bore hole instability • "First Actions"
• Exercise • Tripping guidelines • Exercise
 Dr. QAMAR J. SHARIF
Dr. Sharif is a petroleum engineering specialist with Saudi Aramco. He has over 35 years of
practical experience in the oil and gas industry, including academia. He has diversified
background in drilling, workover and completion operations, research, technology
development and implementation, field development planning, well cost estimation,
contracts and contracting strategy for oil and gas operations. He started his career on a
steam-powered rig as a trainee drilling engineer in 1980. He worked as Assistant driller, driller
and tour pusher on offshore drilling rigs in Abu-Dhabi, U.A.E.

After working 11 years in operations he joined graduate school and earned his MS and PhD in Petroleum Engineering
from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He has a unique blend of hands-on field operations and academic
knowledge. He worked with Shell International Exploration and Production (SIEP) in Houston and was a recipient of
the Shell President Award for premier performance for design and implementation of multi-string steam injection well
design at Bakersfield, California.
Dr. Sharif has been involved in new joint ventures startup, product line development, commercialization strategy for
Enventure GT, an Expandable Tubular Company (a JV between Shell and Halliburton). He deployed the first expandable
casing, downhole.
He worked with Shell Nigeria, Farcodus Yokri Project, Warri and reduced well completion time by more than 50% for
dual completions. He has expertise in developing novel ideas and transforming them into robust and practical
solutions. He has been teaching stuck pipe prevention and lost time reduction course and conducted an awareness
campaign for offshore drilling department. He has been involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Petroleum Engineering Department, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
He brings out the best in his students.
He served as Curriculum Advisor - Well Construction discipline, representing Saudi Aramco with PetroSkills.
EDUCATION
• B.Sc Mining Engineering, M. Sc Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA & PhD Petroleum
Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
PORTFOLIO OF COURSES
• Offshore and Deep-Water Drilling
• Drilling Operations
• Stuck Pipe Prevention
• Drilling Operations Optimization
• Advanced Drilling Engineering
• Drilling Hydraulics Design
PUBLICATIONS
• Fiber Glass Lined Tubular as completion string for corrosion protection
• Application of Drilling-with-Casing (DwC) Technology
• Meeting Economic Challenges of Deepwater Drilling With Expandable Tubular Technology
• Strategic Cost Leadership - reduction of completion time by more than fifty percent
• Probability of getting stuck while drilling and probability of freeing the pipe, if stuck
• Unconventional Methods for Shallow Water Flow Conductor Installation
• Carbonated Water Imbibition Flooding for fractured reservoirs
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Cambodia, Australia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, London, Houston, Mexico, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
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