Mud Motor Specifications & Selection

Motor selection is a function of the well requirements. This article will introduce the drilling mud motor selection for its specification. At the same time, the drilling engineer cannot make a proper selection without a full understanding of the drilling mud motor specifications and limitations. And we, of course, shall cover them all. In brief, …

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Anti-Collision In Drilling Directional Wells

There is only a small distance between slots on multi-well projects, mainly offshore. To eliminate the risk of collisions directly beneath the platform (platform rigs), a proposed well path is compared to existing and other proposed wells. The distances between other wells and the proposal are calculated frequently in the critical section. These anti-collision calculations …

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Well Trajectory Calculation: Pro Tips and Tricks

This article aims to show the directional well trajectory calculation methods required for all well profile design planning, including build, hold, and drop sections, and to show the utilization of trajectory and directional survey calculation methods by designing the well path of two wells. Please note that this article is one of our Directional Drilling …

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Directional Drilling Survey Calculation Methods Guide

This article aims to understand how to perform various directional drilling survey calculation methods and terminology. We will provide a simple Excel spreadsheet to help in your calculations as an average angle, radius of curvature & minimum curvature Directional surveying spreadsheet. Nowadays, you will find a lot of software for directional drilling survey calculation methods. …

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