The Practical Handbook of Well Control

This text teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling engineering. It covers fundamental aspects of well control and includes procedures and well control/kill methods. It features a wealth of questions to commonly encountered problems and comprehensive answers to test reader comprehension of each topical discussion.

The Practical Handbook of Well Control teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling well engineering. Offering an applied and scientific point of view, it covers fundamental aspects of well control and includes practical procedures and well control methods for land and offshore operations. It features a wealth of questions to commonly encountered problems and comprehensive answers at the end of each topical discussion to test reader comprehension. Written in a concise, accessible way by experienced oilfield and academic expertsCovers all related technical subjects of well controlDescribes modern aspects of well control, including automatic well control, advances in outflow measurement, artificial intelligence and IoT techniques for early kick detection, mud gas separators, and riser gas modelingIncludes case studies to familiarize readers with real-world problems and solutionsOffers a full explanation of each problem to familiarize readers with commonly faced issuesFeatures sample exercises with comprehensive answers useful for IWCF and IADC examsThis handbook serves as a valuable reference and workbook for field drilling and workover engineers in the energy sector.