24-Pet-A4 Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Completion
Worked solutions to 5 past sittings (2013–2018), 25 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Well Control (4 sittings): May 2018 Q2 · May 2016 Q3 · May 2015 Q5 · December 2014 Q4
- Production Casing Design (3 sittings): May 2015 Q1 · December 2014 Q3 · May 2013 Q5
- Bit Hydraulics (2 sittings): May 2015 Q4 · December 2014 Q2
- Driller's Method (2 sittings): May 2018 Q2 · December 2014 Q4
- Engineer's Method (2 sittings): May 2016 Q3 · May 2015 Q5
- Hoisting System (2 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · May 2016 Q1
- Maximum Bit Hydraulic Horsepower (2 sittings): May 2015 Q4 · December 2014 Q2
Questions by sitting
May 2018
- Question 1: Hoisting System — Maximum Depth and Hoisting Speed
- Question 2: Well Control — Driller's Method
- Question 3: Bourgoyne & Young Drilling-Rate Model
- Question 4: Tapered Drill-String Design
- Question 5: Directional Drilling — Dogleg Severity and Tool Face
May 2016
- Question 1: Hoisting System — Maximum Drilling Depth
- Question 2: Bit Selection by Cost per Foot
- Question 3: Well Control — Engineer's Method
- Question 4: Drill String Design
- Question 5: Directional Trajectory Correction
May 2015
- Question 1: Production Casing Design
- Question 2: Mud Pump Liner Selection for Cuttings Transport
- Question 3: Weighting Up Drilling Fluid with Barite
- Question 4: Bit Hydraulics — Maximum Bit Hydraulic Horsepower
- Question 5: Well Control — Engineer's Method
December 2014
- Question 1: Rig Selection and Drilling Line Sizing
- Question 2: Bit Hydraulics — Maximum Bit Hydraulic Horsepower
- Question 3: Production Casing Design
- Question 4: Well Control — Driller's Method
- Question 5: Bit Economics — Run the Used Bit or a New One?
May 2013
- Question 1: Minimum Drilling Line Size
- Question 2: Mud Level Drop While Tripping Dry and the Onset of a Kick
- Question 3: Bit Selection by Minimum Drilling Cost per Foot
- Question 4: Circulating Bottomhole Pressure, Fracture Safety and Bit Nozzle Sizing
- Question 5: Production Casing Design — Burst, Collapse and Tensile