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dc.contributor.authorVaaland, Gisle
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-04T09:23:25Z
dc.date.available2010-10-04T09:23:25Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/181963
dc.descriptionMaster's thesis in Industrial economicsen_US
dc.description.abstractEven with all the talk about finding an alternative fuel, the demand for fossil fuel will not decrease for years to come. As the major oilfields are depleting and aging, this demand forces wells to be drilled in more hostile environment both with regards to location, where wells have to be drilled at deeper water depths, and the environment experienced in the reservoirs that allow for lesser margin of error. Such advanced and difficult wells are forcing the use of more advanced technology, as automated drilling and Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD). Common to both technologies are the use of hydraulic models or down hole pressure estimators to calculate down hole conditions, such as pressure, temperature, fluid density, etc. The calculations performed by these models does not always mirror the down hole measurements, and as a compensating factor, the hydraulic models is adjusted by a not fully understood factor to correlate the model to “reality”. This factor is not always related to a specific source. The aim of this thesis is therefore to find a way of splitting the adjustment factor into a stand alone factor for each of the contributing frictional terms, thereby provide more accurate input data for the hydraulic model that might reduce the need for such a factor. Real time data from a well drilled in MPD mode on the Gullfaks field in 2009 was used for determining how much each of the drilling parameters contributed to the bottom hole pressure change experienced during start-up and break-up procedures. As the absolute pressure change most likely will be dependent on depth, the contributions to the bottom hole pressure change caused by the different drilling parameters was found as percentage of the total bottom hole pressure change for each run. This provided a basis for finding a mean value with a corresponding standard deviation of how much each of the drilling parameters contributed to the pressure build-up and decrease for the start-up and break-up cases respectively. After these mean values were established, simulations performed in the simulating software Drillbench © was used to help verify which surrounding factors that could govern the distribution of how much each drilling parameter contributed to the bottom hole pressure change. It was found that it was the magnitude of flow rate and RPM that most likely were the governing factors, and that the depth and whether there was cuttings present or not did not seem to affect the distribution of which drilling parameters that contributed the most.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Stavanger, Norwayen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMasteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2010;
dc.subjectindustriell økonomien_US
dc.subjectcase studyen_US
dc.subjectGullfaksen_US
dc.subjectmanaged pressure drillingen_US
dc.subjectbottom hole pressureen_US
dc.subjectdrilling parametersen_US
dc.titleVisualization and verification of how static and dynamic drilling parameters contribute to the bottom hole pressure while drilling a wellen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210en_US
dc.source.pagenumber137 p.en_US


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