CASING (by Ritesh)

Q1. Which of the following is not a function of casing?

a.) To keep the hole open and to provide support for weak, vulnerable or fractured formations.
b.) To isolate porous media with different fluid/pressure regimes from contaminating the pay zone.
c.) To provide a passage for hydrocarbon fluids.
d.) None of these.

Q2. Which of the following compensates the heaving motion in case of Marine Risers?

a.) Ball Joint
b.) Hydraulic Connector
c.) Telescopic Joint
d.) Bell Nipple

Q3. Well completion is performed through which of the following casings?

a.) Surface Casing
b.) Intermediate Casing
c.) Production Casing
d.) Conductor Casing

Q4. What is the most common sizes of intermediate casing?

a.) 26 or 30 in.
b.) 18 5/8 in. or 20 in.
c.) 9 5/8 or 10 in.
d.) 4 1/2, 5 and 7 in.

Q5. Which of the following Liner Systems extends upto the surface?

a.) Production Liner System
b) Tie- back Liner System
c.) Scab Liner System
d.) Scab Tie-back Liner System

Q6. Which of the following is not an advantage of using liners?

a.) Total costs of the production string are reduced, and running and cementing times are reduced.
b.) The length of reduced diameter is reduced which allows completing the well with optimum sizes
of production tubing.
c.) Ease in obtaining a good primary cementation due to the narrow annulus between the liner and
the hole.
d.) Complete wells with less weight landed on wellheads and surface pipe.





Q7. Calculate the collapse pressure for the following casing string assuming lost circulation at the
casing shoe, Current mud = 15 ppg; Casing was run in = 11 ppg; Casing Shoe Depth = 10,000 ft?

a.) 1070 psi
b.) 2310 psi
c.) Zero
d.) 11000 psi

Q8. Calculate burst pressure for the following well at the wellbore: CSD = 15000 ft; Pf = 8500 psi;
Packer fluid = 15 ppg?

a.) 7000 psi
b.) 11,725 psi
c.) Zero
d.) None of these

Q9. If the burst strength of casing is 6300 psi, what is the maximum burst pressure that this casing
should be subjected to in service?
Recommended DF = 1.1

a.) 6930 psi
b.) 5727 psi
c.) 6400 psi
d.) None of these

Q10. Shock loading in casing is mostly influenced by which of the following factor?

a.) Hole Angle
b.) Casing Weight
c.) Pipe OD
d.) None of these

Q11. When designing casing across salt sections, the effective collapse loading is calculated using:

a.) External mud pressure
b.) External and internal mud pressure
c.)1 psi/ft external pressure and internal pressure due to mud
d.) Highest casing available on the market (MUST CASING)

Q12. Calculate the bending force and buoyant force for the following casing string:
20 "casing, ID = 18.71 inch, 133 lb/ft; CSD = 2800 ft; Mud =10 ppg; Test Pressure =2500 psi; Dogleg =
0.75 deg/100 ft

a.) 315,423; 125,685
b.) 199,500; 687,349
c.) 125,685; 315,423
d.) 687,349; 199,500


Formation Damage (By Sumit Kr.)
Q1.Which mudwill lead to minimum risk of formation damage?
a.) Seawater/polymer WBM.
b.) KCl/polymer WBM
c.) OBM
d.) Fresh water/Gel WBM
Q2. Which mud will be better for cased and perforated completion?
a.) Mud-A, with thick filter cake but more permeable
b.) Mud-B, with thin mud cake but highly impermeable
Q3.Hot oil circulation is not a prevention method for which type of formation damage?
a.) Inorganic scale
b.) Organic scale
c.) Kill fluid invasion
d.) None of these
Q4. What is scale?
a.) Mud particulates deposited in the pore throat.
b.) Precipitation of organic or inorganic material triggered by chemical instability.
c.) Formation damaged due to gravel packing.
d.) None of these.
Q5. Which mud will lead to better production?
a.) Seawater/polymer WBM.
b.) KCl/polymer WBM
c.) OBM
d.) Fresh water/Gel WBM
Q6. A well completed on a 500 mD formation with a well spacing of 40 acres (re=745 ft). The
wellbore diameter is 7 7/8. Depth of invasion is 1.6 ft. If permeability of the damaged zone is 100
mD then what is the extent of formation damage (skin)?
a.) 6.5
b.) 7.1
c.) 7.5
d.) 0
Q7. Which process while casing and cementation increases the invasion of cement slurry?
a.) Removal of mud
b.) cleaning of mud cake
c.) drilling of bottom plug
d.) none of these

Q8. A higher porosity will lead to negative formation damage skin..true/false
Q9.In Horizontal drilling process, tail portion of the well will have higher skin than landing
section.true/false
Q10. Formation of scale is triggered by chemical instability ..true/false
Q11. Mud filtrates (acidic in nature) when comes in contact with formation fluids (basic in nature)
form scale..true/false