Stuck Pipe Prevention- One day refresher course
Date: TBA | Location: TBA
Course Duration: 1 Day
- What is stuck pipe?
- Team work
- Stuckpipe mechanisms
- Shale Problems
- Shale hydration
- Bit balling
- Mud types
Stuckpipe Mechanisms
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- Settled cuttings
- Warning signs of inadequate hole cleaning
- Hole cleaning
- Shaker evidence
- Flow rates: vertical and horizontal wells
- Packing off
- First actions
- Freeing stuck pipe in a packed hole
- Unconsolidated formation
- Fractured rocks
- Cement blocks
- Wet cement
- Junk
Other Stuckpipe Mechanisms
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- Key seating
- Cement blocks
- Green cement
- Junk
- Ledges and doglegs
- Collapsed casing
- Undergauge hole
- Differential Sticking
- Basic facts about rocks: porosity and permeability
- Factors affecting differential sticking
- Warning signs
- Prevention
- Freeing mechanisms