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Drilling Mechanics: Advanced Applications and Technology
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Product Details
Overview
Master the principles and practices of modern drilling mechanics
This in-depth guide offers complete coverage of drilling mechanics with a focus on the horizontal drilling of shale plays and offshore wells. The book lays out drilling engineering fundamentals and clearly explains the latest technological developments. Written by a team of seasoned educators, Drilling Engineering: Advanced Applications and Technology covers every key topic, including geo-mechanics for drilling applications, well construction techniques, wellbore hydraulics, and optimization. You will enhance your understanding of drilling operations, improve your designs, and plan for more productive and cost-effective wells.
Coverage includes:
- Well construction and hydraulics
- Drillstring mechanics and casing design
- Drilling hydraulics
- Cuttings transport
- Geomechanics
- Fundamentals of rock mechanics
- Wellbore stress, stability, and strengthening
- Coupled fluid flow—stress formulation
- Drilling optimization methods
- Vector and tensor analysis
- Principles of deformable materials
- Elasticity concepts








