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Syllabus Course Content: 1. Sticking Mechanism Categories

This document outlines the course content for a syllabus on stuck pipe prevention and remediation. It covers categories of sticking mechanisms, technical issues related to hole cleaning, best practices for prevention, use of jars and accelerators, communication protocols, and appendices with examples and calculation formulas. The key topics include different formation types that can cause sticking, monitoring cuttings returns, tripping guidelines for deviated holes, preventing drill string failures, secondary freeing procedures using tools like jars, and positioning of jars in vertical versus deviated wells.

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Syllabus Course Content: 1. Sticking Mechanism Categories

This document outlines the course content for a syllabus on stuck pipe prevention and remediation. It covers categories of sticking mechanisms, technical issues related to hole cleaning, best practices for prevention, use of jars and accelerators, communication protocols, and appendices with examples and calculation formulas. The key topics include different formation types that can cause sticking, monitoring cuttings returns, tripping guidelines for deviated holes, preventing drill string failures, secondary freeing procedures using tools like jars, and positioning of jars in vertical versus deviated wells.

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SYLLABUS COURSE CONTENT

1. STICKING MECHANISM CATEGORIES


1.1 SOLIDS INDUCED PACK-OFF

1.2.1 PACKING OFF - FIRST ACTIONS


1.2.2 UNCONSOLIDATED FORMATIONS 1.2.3 MOBILE FORMATIONS 1.2.4 FRACTURED & FAULTED FORMATIONS 1.2.5 NATURALLY OVER-PRESSURED SHALE COLLAPSE 1.2.6 INDUCED OVER-PRESSURED SHALE COLLAPSE 1.2.7 REACTIVE FORMATIONS 1.2.8 HOLE CLEANING 1.2.9 TECTONICALLY STRESSED FORMATIONS

1.3 DIFFERENTIAL STICKING 1.4 MECHANICAL & WELL BORE GEOMETRY


1.4.1 OTHER STUCK PIPE TYPES - FIRST ACTION 1.4.2 KEY SEATING 1.4.3 UNDERGAUGE HOLE 1.4.4 LEDGES AND DOGLEGS 1.4.5 JUNK 1.4.6 COLLAPSED CASING / TUBING 1.4.7 CEMENT BLOCKS 1.4.8 GREEN CEMENT

2. TECHNICAL ISSUES
2.1 HOLE CLEANING 2.1.1 MONITORING CUTTINGS RETURNS AT THE SHAKERS 2.1.2 HOLE CLEANING 2.1.3 GENERAL FACTORS EFFECTING HOLE CLEANING 2.1.4 RIG SITE MONITORING 2.1.5 VERTICAL AND NEAR VERTICAL WELLS 2.1.6 HIGH ANGLE, EXTENDED-REACH WELLS

3. BEST PRACTICE
3.1 PREVENTION OF STUCK PIPE DURING ROUTINE OPERATIONS 3.1.1 REAMING & BACKREAMING GUIDELINES 3.1.2 TRIPPING - DEVIATED HOLE 3.1.3 CONNECTION GUIDELINES 3.1.4 SURVEYING -- STUCK PIPE AVOIDANCE WHILE SURVEYING 3.1.5 DRILLING 3.1.6 CASING & CEMENTING 3.1.7 LOGGING 3.1.8 CORING 3.1.9 WELL CONTROL 3.1.10 LOST CIRCULATION 3.1.11 AIR/FOAM DRILLING 3.1.12 DRILLING WITHC OILED TUBING. 3.2 PREVENTING DRILL STRING FAILURES - A CAUSE OF STUCK PIPE 3.2.1 CARE OF TUBULARS 3.3 SECONDARY FREEING PROCEDURES 3.3.1 FREEING FLOWCHART 3.3.2 PIPE RELEASE AGENTS (PRA) 3.3.3 ACID 3.3.4 FRESH WATER PILLS 3.3.5 FREE POINT INDICATORS (FPI) 3.3.6 BACK-OFFS 3.3.7 INFORMATION REQUIRED BEFORE FREEING OPERATIONS START

4. JARS & ACCELERATORS


4.1 GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF JARS. 4.2 FORCES REQUIRED TO FIRE JARS
4.2.1 PUMP OPEN FORCE

4.3 JAR DESCRIPTIONS


4.3.1 WEIR HOUSTON 4.3.2 BOWEN JARS 4.3.3 COUGAR & IPE 4.3.4 DAILEY JARS

4.4 PROPER HANDLING OF SMALL DRILLING / FISHING JARS (DAILEY)


4.4.1 DELIVERY TO LOCATION 4.4.2PICKING UP AND LAYING DOWN OF JARS 4.4.3 STAND BACK PROCEDURES FOR DRILLING/FISHING JARS (DAILEY) 4.4.4 ROUTINE MAINTENANCE OF DRILLING/FISHING JARS IN THE STRING

4.5 ACCELERATOR DESCRIPTION


4.6 JAR AND ACCELERATOR POSITIONING

4.6.1 GUIDELINES FOR USE OF JARS IN VERTICAL WELLS 4.6.2 GUIDELINES FOR USE OF JARS IN DEVIATED & HORIZONTAL WELLS

5. COMMUNICATION
5.1.1 MEETINGS 5.1.2 HANDOVERS 5.1.3 REPORTING

6. APPENDICES
6.1 STUCK PIPE INCIDENT REPORT 6.2 PIPE STRETCH CALCULATION EXAMPLE 6.3 TORQUE AND PULL CALCULATION EXAMPLE 6.4 JARRING CALCULATION FORMULAE

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