Managed Pressure Drilling: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications (Gulf Drilling Guides) - Softcover

Van Oort, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 032391649X ISBN 13: 9780323916493

Publisher: Elsevier, 2025

Synopsis

Managed Pressure Drilling Fundamentals, Methods and Applications, First Edition provides the basic infrastructure and extended support necessary for drilling engineers to apply managed pressure drilling to their operations. Enhanced with multiple new chapters and contributions from both academic and corporate authors, this reference provides engineers with the basic processes and equipment behind MPD. Other sections explain the latest technology and real-world case studies, such as how to optimize the managed pressure drilling system, how to choose the best well candidate for MPD, and how to lower costs for land-based operations. Packed with a glossary, list of standards, and a well classification system, this book is a flagship reference for drilling engineers on how to understand basics and advances in this fast-paced area of oil and gas technology.

• Demonstrates the value in safety improvement, time and cost savings, sustainability and reduced carbon footprint that adoption of MPD brings to well construction.
• Delivers a fundamental collection on managed pressure drilling equipment, methods, procedures, best practices, and field cases. 
• Presents a balance of information that ranges from historical details and background theory to practical application
• Includes multiple critical chapters dealing with all major MPD variants, MPD event detection, control systems and automation, how to plan and risk MPD, where MPD fits in the well delivery process, and its future outlook.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Eric van Oort became Professor in Petroleum Engineering and Richard B. Curran Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, after a 20-year industry career with Shell (Shell Research/KSEPL, Shell BTC & Shell Oil Company USA). He holds a PhD degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Amsterdam. He has (co-)authored more than 250 technical papers, holds 22 patents, is a former SPE Distinguished Lecturer, a SPE Distinguished Member, and the 2017 winner of the prestigious international SPE Drilling Engineering Award. He is the director of the RAPID industry consortium at UT Austin with 15-20 industry members annually, dedicated to drilling automation and optimization, data analytics, modeling and digital twinning, robotics, and sustainability issues such as geothermal & CCS well construction, well integrity, zonal isolation and permanent well P&A. He is also a co-founder of SPYDR Automation Inc. and Ultradeep Energy Co. LLC, and owns his own consulting company, EVO Energy Consulting.

From the Back Cover

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) technologies allow very challenging hydrocarbon, geothermal, hydrogen and carbon storage wells to be drilled more safely and efficiently. Improved safety means a significantly lower risk of harm to people and damage to the environment caused by an uncontrolled flow of formation fluids and gas to surface. Greater efficiency means a significantly lowered operational carbon footprint associated with better negotiation of the available drilling margin, preventing well control events, lost circulation, wellbore instability and stuck pipe, better reservoir productivity, and faster well construction times with a reduced number of casing strings, resulting in lower fuel consumption, lower GHG and other emissions to air, and a lower use of consumables (steel for casings, cement, fluids, etc.).

Managed Pressure Drilling Fundamentals, Methods and Applications delivers fundamental understanding and extensive practical details of the diverse MPD toolkit to a wide audience, ranging from students and junior drilling engineers new to MPD, to seasoned MPD professionals. This reference work is designed with dedicated chapters on the theoretical background and value of MPD, its equipment as well as its various methods, including surface back-pressure (SBP), continuous circulation (CC), dual gradient drilling (DGD), mud cap drilling (MCD), managed pressure cementing (MPC) and completions (MPComp), multi-phase MPD and other miscellaneous methods. It also includes an overview of MPD event detection, automation and control, MPD planning and risk assessment, remaining challenges and the future outlook for MPD. It discusses the latest understanding, applications and field cases, helping engineers bridge the gap from fundamental theory to field practice. Managed Pressure Drilling Fundamentals, Methods and Applications stands out as a flagship reference for drilling engineers to understand both the basics and latest advances in the fast-paced area of advanced well construction, with applications in constructing oil and gas wells, geothermal wells, as well as carbon storage wells.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 032391649X
• ISBN 13: 9780323916493
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1080