Future in-situ lunar/martian resource utilization and characterization, as well as the scientific search for life on Mars, will require access to the subsurface and hence drilling. Drilling on Earth is hard – an art form more than an engineering discipline. The limited mass, energy and manpower in planetary drilling situations makes application of terrestrial drilling techniques problematic. Th...

This paper presents an application of an ontology based system for automated text analysis using a sample of a drilling report to demonstrate how the methodology works. The methodology used here consists basically of organizing the knowledge related to the drilling process by elaborating the ontology of some typical problems. The whole process was carried out with the assistance of a drilling e...

BACKGROUND Drilling is used in the medical field, especially in oral surgery and orthopaedics. In recent years, oral surgery involving dental implants has become more common. However, the risky drilling process causes serious accidents. To prevent these accidents, supporting systems such as robotic drilling systems are required. METHODS A telerobotic-assisted drilling system is proposed. An a...

a r t i c l e i n f o In many mining, civil, and petroleum engineering applications diamond bit drilling is widely used due to high penetration rate, core recovery and its ability to drill with less deviation. Recently, many research have been conducted to estimate the penetration rate of diamond drilling which can be considered as one of the most important parameters in project planning and co...

The drilling process is getting increasingly more complex as oil fields mature and technology evolves. At the same time, the amount of information is increasing in volume and fr equency. Although technology is advancing, failures do occur, leading to loss of valuable time. When ever the process is running smoothly or is failing , valuable experience is gained . However, experience attrition is ...

4 large hameter casing design was adopted for 34 vells drilled in the Philippines using 13-3/8” mduction casing in combination with 9-5/8’ slotted iner to improve well output and to reduce space equirement in collaring the wells. Well test results ndicate an increase in production by as much as !50% compared with wells using the usual string ambination of 9-5/8” and 7-518”. In the 600 MWe q t e...

The author designs a genetic algorithm for the layout of well drilling based on partial order relations and establishes a mathematical model for the algorithm. Based on this, ideal results are obtained. The results of numerical experiments show that the algorithm is highly precise and runs at a rapid speed.

The accurate prediction of wellbore temperature distribution helps to accurately estimate well pressure profile and bottom-hole pressure (BHP) which is important in the under-balanced drilling (UBD) operation. In this paper effect of temperature variation due to heat transfer of drilling fluid with the formation and also oil and gas production from the reservoir into the annulus in under-balanc...