Drilling Engineering: Advanced Applications and Technology, 1st Edition ✓ Most Recent [ Active ]

Master the principles and practices of modern drilling mechanics

This in-depth guide offers complete coverage of drilling mechanics with a focus on the horizontal drilling of shale plays and offshore wells. The book lays out drilling engineering fundamentals and clearly explains the latest technological developments. Written by a team of seasoned educators, Drilling Engineering: Advanced Applications and Technology covers every key topic, including geo-mechanics for drilling applications, well construction techniques, wellbore hydraulics, and optimization. You will enhance your understanding of drilling operations, improve your designs, and plan for more productive and cost-effective wells.

Coverage includes:

• Well construction and hydraulics

• Drillstring mechanics and casing design

• Drilling hydraulics

• Cuttings transport

• Geomechanics

• Fundamentals of rock mechanics

• Wellbore stress, stability, and strengthening

• Coupled fluid flow—stress formulation

• Drilling optimization methods

• Vector and tensor analysis

• Principles of deformable materials

• Elasticity concepts

Author: Stefan Z. Miska , Robert F. Mitchell , Evren M. Ozbayoglu