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over water work, 338 pore fluid sampling, 238–239

overview, 338 pore pressure prediction, 19–20
tank entry, 338 porosity, 10, 24
personal protective equipment (PPE), Portland cement, 208
340, 341 potassium chloride (KCI), 170

personnel certification, for well control, prejob safety meeting, 332–333
282 prespud meetings, 330–331
persons on board (POB) list, 336 pressure coring, 236
petroleum. See oil pressure curve, 252–253
phase 1, 273 pressure regulator, 265
deviated well kill, 278 pressure testing, 238–239
vertical well kill, 273 pretour meetings, 332
physical sampling at surface primary migration, 25
mineral attributes, 229–232 primary well control, 255–256
mud logging, 232–233 restoring, 257–258
overview, 227, 228–229 principal stresses, 13–14
physical sampling down hole production casing, overview, 200–201
bottomhole coring, 234–236 production hole section drilling, 77–79

coring classifications, 233–234 production testing, 227
explosive sidewall coring, 237–238 choke, 251
overview, 227, 233 derivative curve, 252–253

pore fluid sampling and pressure drawdown, 251–252
testing, 238–239 information produced by, 250–251
rotary sidewall coring, 238 overview, 249–253
pilot hole, 58 pressure curve, 252–253
pin, 138 transient test, 252
pipe body, 62 well pressure vs. time during
pit drill (kick drill), 337 drawdown graph, 251
pit volume totalizer (PVT), 128, 268 production testing (land well)
plan view, 49 killing the well after, 83
plate tectonics, 4–6 overview, 80
platform perforating well, 82
overview, 121–122 preparing for test string, 80–81
self-contained rig package, 121 running test string, 81–82
tension leg platform, 122 testing well, 82

plug. See also cement plugs prospect identification, 33–34
diesel oil bentonite, 310–311

flow, 168, 169
gunk, 310 R
polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC)
bits, 103, 141, 143–144, 145 radio operator, 287
core bit, 235 radioactivity tools, 243
showing nozzles, 149 ram-type preventer
polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) blind rams, 260
drilling, 103 blind-shear rams, 260
polymers, 159–160 in blowout preventer stack, 262
pontoons, 115 casing shear rams, 260

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