Drilling Mud Weight Losses

    In this earlier post we talked about scaling, which can cause salts to drop out of the completion fluid and the resulting loss of well control weight in a high temperature workover situation. Drilling muds can also lose weight unexpectedly when solids...

Overbalance with Preexisting Fracs

In safety training, especially well control, can there be too much of a good thing? For the constant bottom hole pressure well control method–there is when weighting up mud to kill a kicking well. EAGLE FORD SHALE The Eagle Ford is a shale and, as such,...

Embrittlement PSM Considerations

In most San Antonio H2S programs, personal safety is given an emphasis specifically by focusing on PPE, hazards awareness, communications, worker training and certification, and pre-job planning. The importance of these factors towards personal safety cannot be...