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INDEX

A barite, 127, 214
barite plug, 258
abandon rig drill, 337 basket and washover tools, 324–325
abandoning well bell nipple, 56
making well safe into future, 83 bentonite, 159, 210, 214, 310
overview, 83 biaxial effect, 204
removing test string, 83 biogenic gas, 22
active mud system, 126–128 bits. See drill bits
aerated muds, 157, 163–164 bit sub, 61
air drilling, 157, 163 black shale, 23
amorphous, 11 blind drilling, 309
annular preventer, 259–260 blind rams, 260
in blowout preventer stack, 259 blind-shear rams, 260
rubber and piston, 259 blocks, 33–34
annular velocity (AV), 59, 229 block line, 56
annulus, 56 blowout, 14
API class G cement, 209, 210, 211 internal, 272
appraisal drilling, 91 blowout preventer (BOP), 16, 17, 53
approval for expenditure (AFE), 295 bag-type preventer (annular
as low as reasonably practical (ALARP), preventer), 259–260, 262
329 choke valves, 263–264

assistant driller (AD), 287, 350 closed on influx, 257
automated singles rig, 112–114 land rig, 262
azimuth, 67, 91 latched onto wellhead housing, 94,
95
overview, 258–259
B ram-type preventer, 260–263
stack, 258–267
backup tongs, 139 subsea systems, 266–267
bag-type preventer, 259–260 blowout preventer control systems
in blowout preventer stack, 262 elements of hydraulic, 264–265
balanced method, 274 land rig, 265
barge overview, 264–265
drilling, 118–119 borehole geometry log, 244
swamp, 122–123 bottom plug, 76, 218
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