Stuck Pipe Prevention and Fishing Operations
For drillers, assistant drillers, toolpushers, drilling supervisors and drilling engineers. It covers the three mechanisms of stuck pipe, how to read torque, drag, pressure and returns, and the hole cleaning and tripping practices that prevent sticking. It then covers how to identify the mechanism and take the first actions when the pipe sticks, how jars, spotting fluids, freepoint and back-off work, and how to plan a fishing job.
- Modules
- 8
- Max students
- 20
- Language
- EN
What it usually covers
- 1
Orientation: Stuck Pipe, Its Cost and Its Mechanisms
- What Stuck Pipe Is and What It Costs
- The Three Mechanisms of Sticking
- Reading the Loads at the Rig Floor
- When and Where Pipe Gets Stuck
- Roles, Communication and Standing Instructions
- 2
Hole Pack-Off and Bridging
- Settled Cuttings and Cuttings Beds
- Shale Instability
- Unconsolidated and Fractured Formations
- Cement and Junk
- Pack-Off Warning Signs and Prevention Together
- 3
Differential Sticking and Wellbore Geometry
- How Differential Sticking Happens
- Differential Sticking: Signs and Prevention
- Keyseating
- Undergauge Hole, Ledges and Doglegs
- Mobile Formations and Micro-Doglegs
- 4
Reading the Signs
- Torque and Drag Trends
- The Torque and Drag Model in Outline
- Pressure and Hookload Signals
- Cuttings and Cavings at the Shakers
- Putting the Signals Together
- 5
Hole Cleaning and Tripping Practices
- Hole Cleaning in Vertical Wells
- Hole Cleaning in Deviated and Horizontal Wells
- Circulating Before a Trip and at Connections
- Trip Sheets and Tight Spot Handling
- Pumping Out or Back-Reaming: Making the Call
- 6
When the Pipe Sticks: Diagnosis and First Actions
- The First Minutes
- Identifying the Mechanism: The Stuck Pipe Worksheet
- First Actions for Pack-Off and Bridging
- First Actions for Differential Sticking
- Spotting Fluids and Reducing Hydrostatic Pressure
- First Actions for Wellbore Geometry
- 7
Jars, Freepoint and Back-Off
- How Drilling Jars Work
- Jar Placement and Accelerators
- Jarring Practice and Safety
- Finding the Freepoint
- Back-Off and Cutting the String
- 8
Fishing Operations and Learning from Stuck Pipe
- Fish or Sidetrack: The Economics
- Fishing Tools That Catch the Fish
- Junk Tools, Mills, Washover and Impression Blocks
- Planning and Recording a Fishing Job
- Stuck Pipe Prevention Programmes and Learning
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