Drilling Engineering

This book explains the fundamentals and field practices in drilling operations. This textbook is an excellent resource for drilling engineers, drilling supervisors and managers, and petroleum engineering students.

Key Features & Benefits:
• Full understanding of the rotary drilling process and its engineering design aspects
• Recognizing drilling problems and determining solution options
• Design, execution and post analysis of all drilling programs

Contents
Glosary of Terms
1 Overview of Drilling Operations
2 Rig Components
3 The Drillstring
4 Drilling Bits
5 Formation Pressures
8 Well Control
7 Casing
8 Cementing
9 Drilling Fluids
10 Hydraulics
11 Directional Drilling
12 Directional Surveying
13 Measurement While Drilling
14 Subsea Drilling