Casing and Liners for Drilling and Completion

by Ted G. Byrom

Overview

The Gulf Drilling Series is a joint project between Gulf Publishing Company and the International Association of Drilling Contractors. The first text in this Series presents casing design and mechanics in a concise, two-part format. The first part focuses on basic casing design and instructs engineers and engineering students how to design a safe casing string. The second part covers more advanced material and special problems in casing design in a user-friendly format. Learn how to select sizes and setting depths to achieve well objectives, determine casing loads for design purposes, design casing properties to meet burst, collapse and tensile strength requirements and conduct casing running operations safely and successfully.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780127999814
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/25/2013
Series:	Gulf Drilling Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	381
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Ted Byrom is a Consulting Engineer with over 50 years of experience in the industry, primarily in drilling, completion, and well intervention. After completing his BSc degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M, he began his professional career with Unocal eventually becoming a district drilling superintendent. He later earned his MSc and PhD degrees in aerospace engineering, both from Texas A&M University, while teaching numerical methods and finite element methods at Texas A&M and doing research at NASA Langley Research Center, University of Virginia and the Center for Mechanics of Composites. After working with Oryx as Drilling Technology Consultant, he formed his own consulting agency in 1994, and is also currently a course designer and instructor for Petroskills developing and teaching courses on horizontal well technology, coiled tubing, cementing, and casing design. Byrom has co-authored one other textbook on finite element methods and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas, a member of ASME, a Legion of Honor Member of SPE, and a recipient of an SPE Outstanding Technical Editor Award for the SPE Drilling and Completion Journal.

Table of Contents

1. Oil-Field Casing
2. Basic Calculations and Hydrostatics
3. Casing Depth and Size Determination
4. Casing Load Determination
5. Design Loads and Casing Selection
6. Running Casing
7. Beyond Basic Casing Design
8. Casing Design Performance
9. Casing in Directional and Horizontal Wells
10. Special Topics

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent book in a leading and complex topic of casing and liners for drilling and completion. This book has so much to offer to a wide community of drilling, geotechnical, mechanical and production engineers as well as research students." --Reza Looyeh, Project Manager

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