The Measurement/Logging While Drilling (M/LWD) system is a kind of sensors system which is used to help oil/gas drilling field technicians to steer well drilling. In M/LWD, several kinds of sensors are installed into drill string to measure the underground logging data during well drilling operations, and a sink within the drill string collects the logging data from the sensors and then transmi...

Piedmont tectonic belts are rich of oil and gas resources, however the intense tectonic stress and broken formation may cause great drilling problems in piedmont structures such as borehole collapse, lost circulation and gas cutting. Through analysis of in situ stress properties, bedding structure and mechanical characteristics, wellbore instability mechanism was expounded from rock mechanics, ...

Introduction: Impact structures are unlike most geologic features because there commonly is little or no surface manifestation of their complex crater-filling stratigraphy. Further, many impact structures lie completely buried by as much as several hundred meters of sediment. Frequently, the only means of accessing tangible material from within such structures is by drilling. Of the 172 proven ...

Horizontal directional drilling is usually used in drilling engineering. In a variety of conditions, it is necessary to predict the torque required for performing the drilling operation. Nevertheless, there is presently not a convenient method available to accomplish this task. In order to overcome this difficulty, the current work aims at predicting the required rotational torque (RT) to opera...

Two environmentally safe iron compounds (synthetic magnetite and ferrous gluconate) have been evaluated as sulphide scavengers at temperature conditions of 25 °C, 35 °C, 45 °C and 55 °C at pH of 12 in a sulphide-contaminated drilling mud. The ferrous complex was found to be a better scavenger than synthetic magnetite. It exhibited 100 % scavenging efficiency within the first 40 minutes of agita...

The data measured by well bottom sensors can be transmitted to the surface through the drilling mud during oil drilling operations. This article introduces a data processing scheme for a wireless data transmission application via mud. The detailed signal processing procedure is given, and several data processing techniques used are discussed, mainly including data encoding and signal integratin...

The increasing rental cost of drilling Rig and the associated painful downtime during operations are some major concerns oil & gas companies. Improper rheological properties mud may cause a variety problems including insufficient cuttings transport, limited solids suspension, poor hole-cleaning excess filtrate loss into formation. Facilitating design, cementing job design entire will save t...