Gas Blowout

&
Casing Design
Eng: Tawfik A. Tawfik

In drilling a high pressure gas bearing zone which was

encountered at depth 12,000 ft. Where a kick occurred, a part of

drilling fluid was blown-out of the well. The blown out fluid was
occupied a portion of the casing string 3000 ft long. The reservoir
pressure of gas bearing zone was 10,000 psi and the density of
drilling fluid was 80 lb/cu.ft.
* Calculate: The pressure held on the BOP.

The min. length of intermediate casing shoe which is necessary

to prevent subsurface blowout, (assume formation fracture
gradient was 0.875 psi/ft)
Pressure just below casing shoe.

PBOP Pf Ph Pf 0.052 * * (h he)

10000 0.052 *10.69 * (12000 3000) 5000 psi
PCB Pf 0.052 * * (h hc)

he
3000 ft

PBOP 0.052 * * (hc he)

Pit gain

Gfr * hc
Pf 0.052 * * h 10000 0.052 *10.69 *12000
hc

10430 ft
G f r 0.052 *
0.875 0.052 *10.69

hc
?

PCB 10000 0.052 *10.69 * (12000 10430) 9310 psi

Ph
PCB

TVD = h
12,000 ft

Casing String
Design
Eng: Tawfik A. Tawfik

Surface

Conductor
casing
Surface
casing
Immediate
casing

Production
casing

Production
liner

Hole Size

36
26

Casing Size

Stove casing
Conductor casing

30
20

17 1/2

Surface casing

12 1/4

Intermediate casing 9 5/8

8
6

Production Liner

13 3/8

7
5

API Casing Specifications

1. Length of joint: average 22 31 42 ft
2. Outside diameter: OD 36 4.5 tubing less than 4.5
3. Nominal Weight per foot & wall thickness & inside diameter
& drift diameter: 53.5 lbs./ft
4. Grade of steel, e.g. L-80:

yield, collapse and burst

5. Thread connection: Round, Buttress, ..

Short thread connection (STC)

Long thread connection (LTC)
Buttress thread connection (BTC)
Extreme line (EL) - Hydril VAM new VAM

Casing Loads
Tension

Internal

External

Designing A Combination Casing Strings

Design a 7" combination string to be run to the depth
of 3500 m.
External pressure is created by a mud with the
density 1.25 g/cc;
Internal pressure corresponding to the hydrostatic
head of the mud;
The casing is empty;
The design factor are :
fc = 1.125 (for collapse)
ft = 1.80
(for joint strength)
fi = 1.10
(for burst)
The buoyancy is neglected;
The effect of tensile load on collapse resistance is
neglected ;
The string should not contain more than 4 different
grades.

Grade

N.W kg/m

Collapse
Resisitance,
kg/cm2

Joint Strength,
Kg

Internal
Pressure,
kg/cm2

C-75,32

47.6

505 Pc1

288000

C-75,29

43.2

430 Pc2

255000

C-75,26

38.7

351 Pc3

222000

C-75,23

34.2

275 Pc4

189000

420

1- Collapse Design

Pc min = 0.1 H fc = 0.1 * 1.25 * 3500 * 1.125 = 492 kg/cm2

So the first grade will be C-75,32 with length of L1

Pc2 = 0.1 (H L1) fc
Pc2

L1 = H - ---------------- = 440 m

0.1 fc
Pc3
L2 = H - L1 - ---------------- = 560 m L3 = 545 m
0.1 fc

L4 = H L1 L2 L3 = 1955 m

2- Check for tensile

length, N.wt,
Joint
sec
m kg/m wt, kg cum wt strength
L1
L2
L3
L4
L4
L5
L5'
L6

440
560
545
1955
1133
822
472
348

47.6
43.2
38.7
34.2
34.2
38.7
38.7
43.2

20944
24192
21092
66861
38749
31812
18344
15034

20944
45136
66228
133089
104977
136790
123321
138355

288000
255000

222000
189000

189000
222000
222000
255000

Pj 4 ( w1L1 w2 L2 w3L3) ft
L4'
w4 ft
L5 L 4 L4'

ft
13.8 OK
5.6
OK
3.4
OK
1.4
No
1.8 OK
1.6
No
1.8 OK
1.8 OK

3 Check for bursting

For the weakest section of casing grades

Internal pressure

Fi = --------------------------- > 1.1

0.1 Hi

safe

Interval
m

Grade

0-348

C-75,29

348-822

C-75,26

822-1955

C-75,23

1955-2500

C-75,26

2500-3060

C-75,29

3060-3500

C-75,32

Hi

Design 7" graduated production casing string to be set at

depth of 10,000 ft in a hole full of 90 lb/cu.ft mud, using
conventional safety factor. The effective collapse resistance at
different tensile loads (T.L) is given in the following table for
different casing grades:

Grade
N-80, 32 lb
N-80, 26 lb
N-80, 23 lb
J-55, 23 lb
J-55, 20 lb
H-40, 20 lb

Effective Collapse Resistance, psi

T.L, lb
T.L, lb
T.L, lb
T.L, lb
0
100,000 200,000 300,000

Joint
strength,
lb

7400
5620
4300
3290
2500
1900

505,000
402,000
350,000
300,000
254,000
191,000

6880
4850
3850
2850
2100
1490

6280
4290
3310
2250
1550
960

5600
3600
2690
1500
980
------

Tensile stress

Collapse resistance

1- Collapse Design
Pc min = 0.1 H fc

m
BF 1
s
W 1 B nw1 H

Pc 2

L1
W 2 BF (nw1L1 nw2( H L1))
L2

Pc 3

2- Check for tensile

B*
depth, length, N.wt,
cum Joint
sec ft
ft
lb/ft wt, lb cum wt wt strength
1
2
3
4
5
6
4'
5
5'
6

2735
1901
1631
1218
990
1525
1289
2444
1479
965

32
26
23
23
20
20
23
23
23
26

87520
49426
37513
28014
19800
30500
29647
56212
34017
25090

87520
136946
174459
202473
222273
252773
204106
260318
238123
263213

71460
111816
142446
165319
181486
206389
166652
212550
194427
214913

505,000
402,000
350,000
300,000
254,000
191,000
300,000
350,000
350,000
402,000

ft
7.067
3.595
2.457
1.815
1.400
0.925
1.800
1.647
1.800
1.871

Drill String
Design
Eng: Tawfik A. Tawfik

Derive an equation for determining the length of drill

collar required during drilling a well. If weight on bit
50,000 lb, total well depth to be drilled is 10,000 ft, mud
density 12 ppg.
Calculate lengths of D/C and D/P to be used.
Steel density = 489.5 lb/ft3
D/P (19.5 lb/ft)

5 in O.D.

4.276 in I.D.

D/C

8in O.D.

2.812 in I.D.

(150 lb/ft)

80 90% wt of d / c WOB
0.9 lc wc B WOB
WOB
lc
.... ft
0.9 wc B
lc
no.of Jts
........Jts
42
the actual length lc ' no.of Jts * 42
length of d / p H lc ' ...... ft
lp
no.of Std
.........Std
91
the actual length lp ' no.of Std * 91
net length H lp ' lc ' ....... ft
( for bit and stabilizer s,...)