Kick simulator improves well control engineering and planning

A kick simulator, developed with input from a joint industry project, models gas and oil kicks in vertical and in inclined wells to improve well control engineering and training and decision making during real kicks. The simulator can help improve the safety margins during well control problems in o...

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Published in:The Oil & gas journal 1994-08, Vol.92 (34), p.64-71
Main Author: ROMMETVEIT, R
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
030300 > Natural Gas-- Drilling, Production, & Processing
ACCIDENTS
ANALOG SYSTEMS
Applied sciences
BLOWOUTS
Completion equipments and methods. Casing. Cementing. Tests and measurements in wells
Computer based modeling
CONTROL
Crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products
Decision making
Design engineering
DISSOLVED GASES
DRILLING
DRILLING FLUIDS
Drilling. Casing. Preparing wells for production
Energy
Exact sciences and technology
Experiments
FLOW RATE
FLUID FLOW
FLUIDS
Fuels
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GAS FLOW
GASES
High temperature
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MOMENTUM TRANSFER
Natural gas industry
NATURAL GAS WELLS
OIL WELLS
Oilfield equipment & services
Petroleum industry
PROCESS CONTROL
Process planning
Prospecting and production of crude oil, natural gas, oil shales and tar sands
Risk reduction
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
Simulation
SIMULATORS
SOLUTES
Technological change
Training
TWO-PHASE FLOW
Velocity
WELL DRILLING
Wells
WELLS 020300 > Petroleum-- Drilling & Production
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Summary:A kick simulator, developed with input from a joint industry project, models gas and oil kicks in vertical and in inclined wells to improve well control engineering and training and decision making during real kicks. The simulator can help improve the safety margins during well control problems in oil-based muds, with shallow gas kicks, and in high-pressure, high-temperature wells. The need for an advanced well control planning tool which could help minimize the risks during drilling was identified by industry. During the last decade, the RF Kick Simulator has been developed from a tool for research on kick problems to a well control engineering tool. The growing awareness for the environmental consequences possible from severe well control problems has pushed this development.
ISSN:0030-1388
1944-9151