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(UBD)
Lesson 1
Introduction
Chapter 1
Course Syllabus
Texts
What is UBD
Why Drill Underbalanced
Techniques and Limitations
Historical Perspectives
Underbalanced Operations”.
Signa Engineering Corp., Houston, 1998.
“Mudlite Air/Mist/Foam Hydraulics Model”.
Maurer Engineering Inc., Houston, 1988
Selected papers and texts.
contain a surfactant.
Mist Operations:
Intentionally drilling with a
two-phase fluid having a gas
as the continuous phase.
The liquid in this fluid system
is suspended in the mixture as
droplets.
Natural Gas
drilling in
West
Texas.
Year
Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering
Growth in Horizontal Drilling
Total Lightweight Fluid Wells
Year
Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering
Until 1987 the maximum
working pressure rating of
rotating heads was 150-300
psi.
Analysis.
Improved Hydraulics Analysis.
Percussion Tools.