Part 3 of Introduction of Petroleum Drilling Engineering

Part 3 of Introduction of Petroleum Drilling Engineering
Author	Zifeng Li
Published	2010
Pages	78

Part 3 of Introduction of Petroleum Drilling Engineering is part of the introductory material for an English-language petroleum drilling-engineering course prepared by Zifeng Li, professor of petroleum engineering at Yanshan University. The introduction is issued here in three parts; this is Part 3.

This material belongs to Li's professional work as a petroleum engineer, and is unrelated to the relativity criticism for which he is separately known on this wiki; this is the mainstream, technical body of work. See Zifeng Li for the fuller account.

The course

The drilling-engineering course of which this page is one part is organised as an introduction followed by eight chapters:

Introduction to drilling engineering (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Chapter 1 — Engineering geology of drilling
Chapter 2 — Drill tools (Part 1, Part 2)
Chapter 3 — Drilling fluids
Chapter 4 — Optimization of drilling parameters
Chapter 5 — Design and control of well trajectory
Chapter 6 — Well control
Chapter 7 — Well cementing and completion
Chapter 8 — Other drilling operations

What the introduction covers

The introduction sets out what drilling engineering is and how an oil or gas well is constructed — the rotary drilling rig, the circulation of drilling fluid, and the stages of drilling, casing and completing a well. Part 3 concludes that overview, following Part 1 and Part 2.

Note on this page

The stored text of this page, as uploaded, consisted of a mangled bilingual table of contents — the Chinese chapter titles corrupted on import to strings of question marks, followed by their English translations — rather than the content of the section itself, and no source file was linked. The clean chapter list above is reconstructed from the surviving English titles. If a copy of the underlying course document becomes available, the section's real content can be added.

The course

What the introduction covers

Note on this page

See also