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Auxiliary System
Drilling fluid maintenance system
There are two types of auxiliary systems associated with the basic circulating
system: the drilling fluid maintenance system and the well pressure control system.
The drilling fluid maintenance system includes the shale shaker (a set of rotating or
vibrating screens, which removes the larger drill cuttings from the returning mud and
serves as the sampling point for drill-cuttings analysis); mud guns and mud-pit
agitators for maintaining a uniform content of mud solids; cone-type desanders,
desilters, and centrifuges to remove contaminants that would not otherwise settle
out; and a mud-gas separator and vacuum degasser for removal of entrained gases.
Auxiliary System
Drilling fluid maintenance system
Shale Shaker
Auxiliary System
Drilling fluid maintenance system
Desilters and Desanders: The desilters/desanders must be equipped with
centrifugal pumps capable of providing sufficient pressure to the hydrocyclones to
allow them to operate in the desired pressure range.
Auxiliary System
Drilling fluid maintenance system
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Auxiliary System
Well pressure control system
The main components of the well pressure
control system is the blowout preventers
(BOPs), which are located under the rig
floor on the casing head. A blowout
preventer is a large, specialized valve
used to seal, control and monitor oil and
gas
wells.
Blowout
preventers
were
and
uncontrolled
flow
BOPs
A ram-type BOP uses a pair of opposing steel
plungers, rams. The rams extend toward the
center of the wellbore to restrict flow or retract
open in order to permit flow. The inner and top
faces of the rams are fitted with packers
(elastomeric seals) that press against each
other, against the wellbore, and around tubing
running through the wellbore. Outlets at the
sides of the BOP housing (body) are used for
connection to choke and kill lines or valves.
BOPs
Pipe rams (Annular preventer) close around a drill
pipe, restricting flow in the annulus between the
outside of the drill pipe and the wellbore, but do not
obstruct flow within the drill pipe.
Blind rams which have no openings for tubing, can
close off the well when the well does not contain a
drill string or other tubing, and seal it.
Shear rams cut through the drill string or casing
with hardened steel shears.
Kill line: permits mud to be pumped down to the
annulus to restore a pressure balance
Choke line: Annular pressure relief lines
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Prepared by: Tan Nguyen
Mud Pumps
The mud pumps are the heart of the
circulating system, providing power
to move the fluid at the required
pressure and volume. Mud pumps
are either duplex (two-cylinder) or
triplex
(three-cylinder).
Triplex
The pump factor for a single-acting pump having three cylinders becomes
dr
Thus, the total volume displaced per complete pump cycle by a pump having two
cylinders is given by
Example
Consider a triplex pump having 6-in liners and 11-in strokes operating at 120
cycles/min and a discharge pressure of 3000 psig. Compute
1.Pump factor in units of gal/cycle at 100% volumetric efficiency
2.Flow rate in gal/min
3.Pump power developed
Example
1. Pump factor in units of gal/cycle at 100% volumetric efficiency
2.
3.