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moving and assembling on location, logger, mud, 351
55–56 logging. See also electrical logging
standpipe manifold on, 126 directional drilling problems and,
substructure, 55 195
land well drilling, 52 engineer, 351
drilling first hole section, 61–65 fishing tools, 326

drilling first intermediate hole mud, 232–233
section, 70–72 offshore well, 103–104
drilling out casing and formation program, 46, 50
strength testing, 67–70 truck, 73
equipment ordering, 54 unit, 246–247
infrastructure checking, 54 logging (land well), 72–73
location preparation and conductor hole, 80
driving, 53–54 logging while drilling (LWD), 91, 249
logging, 72–73 tools, 104, 249
logging the hole, 80 logistics
production hole section drilling, coordinator, 285
77–79 overview, 298–300
rig moving and diverter attaching, losses, 62–63. See also lost circulation
55–57 curing total losses with cement,

running and cementing first 311–312
intermediate casing, 74–77 in heavily fractured or cavernous
running and cementing production formations, 310
liner, 80 moderate, 303
running and cementing surface in normally pressured, deeper
casing, 66–67 formations, 308–310
spudding well, 57–61 overview, 303–304
leak off, 68 seepage, 62, 303
lifeboat, on semisubmersible rig, 330 serious, 303
lifting equipment, 339 total, 303
light land rig, 111–112 losses in surface hole
limestones, 10–11 causes, 304, 305
liner, 78, 200 curing, 304–308
advantages, 200–201 fractures and, 304, 305, 307–308
disadvantages, 201 high permeability formations and,
running and cementing production, 304–307
80 lost circulation, 62. See also losses
lithology curing, 224
carbonates, 10–11 diesel oil bentonite plug and,
evaporites (salts), 11–12 310–311
overview, 7 overview, 303–304
sandstones, 9–10 lost circulation material (LCM), 304–
shales, 7–9 305
live well, 16
location preparation (land well), 53–54
locked assembly, 186
locked BHA, 71

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