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1. PETE 689 Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) Lesson 1
Introduction
Read: Underbalanced Drilling Manual
Chapter 1
3. What is UBD
Why Drill Underbalanced
Techniques and Limitations
Historical Perspectives
4. PETE 689:
Special Topics in Underbalanced Drilling
Prerequisites: Graduate Classification
Credit: 3 hours
5. This course provides an introduction and application of techniques that can be utilized in underbalanced drilling. It will cover topics such as BOP equipment, the types of drilling fluids used (air, mist foam, etc.), flow drilling, and mud cap drilling.
6. Underbalanced Drilling Manual
Gas Research Institute, GRI,
Chicago, 1997.
May be able to get it at the TAMU Bookstore.
Can be purchased online from the SPE, IADC, and other Petroleum Publishing Companies.
7. A project Management Approach To Underbalanced Operations.
Signa Engineering Corp., Houston, 1998.
Mudlite Air/Mist/Foam Hydraulics Model.
Maurer Engineering Inc., Houston, 1988
Selected papers and texts.
42. PETE 689 Underbalanced Drilling (UBD)