Introducción

El propósito de este manual es proporcionar información referida a técnicas de formulación, testeo y análisis de las propiedades de fluidos de perforación y cementación de pozos. Y segundo, familiarizarlos con las prácticas de perforación y control de pozos. El manual está dividido en dos partes donde encontraran siete practicas para determinar propiedades físicas de los fluidos de perforación y cinco sesiones de laboratorio con simulaciones de perforación y control de pozos.

Introduction

The purpose of this manual is two fold: first to acquaint the Drilling Engineering students with the basic techniques of formulating, testing and analyzing the properties of drilling fluid and oil well cement, and second, to familiarize him with practical drilling and well control operations by means of a simulator. To achieve this objective, the manual is divided into two parts.

The first part consists of seven experiments for measuring the physical properties of drilling fluid such as mud weight (density), rheology (viscosity, gel strength, yield point) sand content, wall building and filtration characteristics. There are also experiment for studying the effects of, and treatment techniques for, common contaminants on drilling fluid characteristics. Additionally, there are experiments for studying physical properties of Portland cement such as free water separation, normal and minimum water content and thickening time.


In the second part, there are five laboratory sessions that involve simulated drilling and well control exercises. They involve the use of the DS-100 Derrick Floor Simulator, a full replica of an actual drilling rig with fully operations controls, which allow the student to become completely absorbed in the exercises as he would in an actual drilling operation. The simulator has realistic drilling rig responses that are synchronized to specific events, like rate of penetration, rotary table motion, and actual rig sounds such as accumulator recharge, break drawworks, etc.