Course - Drilling Engineering 3 - TPG4242
TPG4242 - Drilling Engineering 3
About
Examination arrangement
Examination arrangement: Home examination
Grade: Letters
| Evaluation form | Weighting | Duration | Examination aids | Grade deviation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home examination | 100/100 | 4 hours |
Course content
Review of mechanisms that create pore pressure, and use of these for reservoir applications. Wellbore stability theory such as fracturing and wellbore collapse and practical application of these. Normalising and modeling of drilling data to create prognosis for new wells. Application of pore- and fracture pressure for well design. Mud design such as mud weight, circulation losses, hydraulic optimization and hole cleaning.
Establishing design premises for wells using design examples for production wells and HPHT wells. Review of drilling operations and their time consumption for a typical subsea well. Review of other aspects such as wellbore friction, analytical methods for stuck pipe, and review of well components causing well integrity problems.
Conventional well control, pressures while circulating out a kick. Alternative methods such as managed pressure drilling (MPD), underbalanced drilling (UBD) and coiled tubing drilling(CTD).
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
The student should understand:
- Pressure integrity of a well.
- How to handle a well control situation.
- Methods to reestablish well control.
- Gas behavior in wells.
- Wellbore stability regarding fracturing and wellbore collapse, and its relevance for well construction.
- Design premises for well construction.
Skills:
The student should master:
- The use of subject-specific digital tools including programming where relevant.
- Design methods for drilling into high pressure hydrocarbon reservoirs.
- Circulating out unwanted inflow, both conventional and unconventionally.
General competence:
Design skills and ability to assess drilling risks.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures and compulsory exercises. The lectures will be held in English if international master's students attend. Exercises also includes the use of programming tools (e.g. MS Excel and Python). Course evaluation is undertaken using reference group.
Compulsory assignments
- Exercises
Further on evaluation
80% of the exercises must be approved before the exam. The exam counts 100%.
If the teaching is given in English, the examination papers will be given in English only. Students are free to choose Norwegian or English for written assessments. If there is a re-sit examination, the form of assessment may be changed from written to oral examination.
Specific conditions
Exam registration requires that class registration is approved in the same semester. Compulsory activities from previous semester may be approved by the department.
Recommended previous knowledge
Basic topics in drilling engineering.
Course materials
Modern Well Design Second Edition, by Bernt S. Aadnøy, CRC Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-88467-9.
SPE Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering, 2011, Chapter 2: Introduction to geomechanics in drilling. This chapter will be supplied free of charge.
Supplementary materials.
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPG4205 | 6.0 | 01.09.2015 | |
| TPG4220 | 1.0 | 01.09.2015 |
No
Version: 1
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: SPRING 2021
No.of lecture hours: 4
Lab hours: 1
No.of specialization hours: 7
Language of instruction: English
Location: Trondheim
- Petroleum Engineering - Drilling Engineering
- Technological subjects
Department with academic responsibility
Department of Geoscience and Petroleum
Phone:
Examination
Examination arrangement: Home examination
- Term Status code Evaluation form Weighting Examination aids Date Time Digital exam Room *
- Summer UTS Home examination 100/100 INSPERA
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Room Building Number of candidates -
Spring
ORD
Home examination (1)
100/100
Release 2021-05-21
Submission 2021-05-21
Release 09:00
Submission 13:00
INSPERA -
Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
- 1) Merk at eksamensform er endret som et smittevernstiltak i den pågående koronasituasjonen. Please note that the exam form has changed as a preventive measure in the ongoing corona situation.
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