Horizontal Drilling.

Catalog description

PR: MATH 261 and MAE 243 with a minimum grade of C- and PNGE 310 with a minimum grade of C. Fundamental concepts of horizontal drilling technology are introduced, which include: application of directional drilling, design of directional well trajectory, determination of well trajectory from survey data, methods and tools of controlling wellpath while drilling, calculation of torque and drag force in drill string design, application of geomechanics in directional drilling, and borehole stability analysis.