Introduction to casing design and fundamental design principles

Casing damage and failures during fracturing.

Introduction to ESPs, best practices and failures

This calculator calculates the triaxial stress (VME) at a given depth.

This calculates AP collapse resistance for a specific pipe.

This calculator calculates the change in length of pipe hanging in the hole due to tension, ballooning, buoyancy and thermal effects.

This calculates AP collapse resistance for a specific pipe.

The recent global over supply of crude oil and soft demand has resulted in oil companies shutting wells in to prevent destroying value and to protect their balance sheets. The time frame, until production startup becomes economic, is uncertain and therefore, it is imperative that appropriate actions are taken to maintain and manage the integrity of shut-in wells and associated delivery systems.

The time frame, until production startup becomes economic, is uncertain and therefore it is imperative that appropriate actions are taken to maintain and manage the integrity of the available Installed Production Capacity during shut-in.

This GATEKEEPER article focuses on the prediction, prevention and remediation of liquid loading, including discussion of liquid loading analysis.

Triaxial evaluation of loads is used extensively for casing and tubing string design and analysis. The paper presents a method of determining the triaxially based collapse strength of casing and tubing subjected to simultaneous axial and internal pressure loads.

Efficient access to multiple permeable natural gas zones located in deep, over pressured, and extremely corrosive environments presents a challenge for South Texas operating companies.

Vacuum insulated tubing (VIT) has been used successfully to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of annular pressure buildup (APB). In a recent deepwater installation, the subject well had lost alternate APB mitigation capability through a series of events. VIT was then chosen as the only viable technology.

A method is presented such that two parameters can be used to fully describe the thermal characteristics of a tubing string undergoing an injection or production process.

Artificial lift methods transfer energy to the produced fluid with the objectives of reducing the fluid density and the pressure head or boosting the flowing pressure.

A finite difference model was developed and used to simulate transient heat transfer in wells undergoing injection and production processes.

The flow of metal during Friction Stir Welding is clarified using a faying surface tracer and a nib frozen in place during welding. It is shown that material is transported by two processes.

This paper was prepared for presentation at the SPE Applied Technology Workshop on Risk Based Design of Well Casing and Tubing held in The Woodlands, Texas, U.S.A., 7-8 May 1998.

Deepwater high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) drilling environments present difficult challenges to well engineers.

This work is a discussion of how the limit performance is being defined and quality systems are being revised for API connections in accordance with the objectives of the LRFD method for OCTG.