Headed back to redo a well

[1stTimeCaller]

They weren't able to get the casing to the bottom of the last well I was on so we're going back out there tomorrow to drill a new hole. They will set a whipstock and then we'll go from there.

I sure do feel sorry for any mineral owners that decided to participate in this well.:texan:

[Widescreen]

Well yeah. I mean you can't go any further without the whopstick. That's critical to these kinds of things. Or something.

[1stTimeCaller]

It really ties the hole together

[soonerboomer93]

ah, fun fun fun...


you didn't offer fo stick your casing in the hole?

[1stTimeCaller]

Nobody asks me anything, rightfully so, but I would have told them last time not to exceed 120 ft/hr on the ROP. There is no advantage to drilling 300 ft/hr vs. 120 ft/hr. Also, they had problems on the #21 well, I was on and am going back to #22.

The operator has to be ****ed with H&P out there charging about $20k per day. Hopefully some of that money will make its way onto the streets of Tulsa and the city will one day be like OKC.

[Mongo]

Why are they setting a whipstock? I'd thought they would have just cement and redrill.

[1stTimeCaller]

I have no idea. That's just what the coordinator told me. Hopefully they will have trouble setting the whipstock. <crosses fingers>

We kicked of about 7600 MD and TD'd it at 10200 MD on the last one.

[Mongo]

I have been on this well since 65 days so far, and got another 6-8 weeks left.

set whipstock, do two lower laterals. Set ANOTHER whipstock higher above the last, and do 3 more laterals

[1stTimeCaller]

you MWDing it now or still logging that mud?

[Mongo]

Still logging for now. There had been some firings and internal hiring going on the last month. Just letting things cool down for a while before I apply there.

[SoonerBorn68]

We kicked of about 7600 MD and TD'd it at 10200 MD on the last one.


Pfffft. We got out here at 669 ft.--and will TD at about 12K.

;)

[SoonerBorn68]

Hey Mongo, 65 days with another 56 to go. That. Is. The. Succ. Of. All. Succs.

[Mongo]

Hey Mongo, 65 days with another 56 to go. That. Is. The. Succ. Of. All. Succs.


It is in the city. 10 miles from my house, it aint that bad. Plus, I am making a killing on this well.

[Mongo]

Oh, and we lost circulation, I am just logging ROP. No gas or sample work.

[soonerboomer93]

this is why I build platforms and don't do field work

[1stTimeCaller]

Our whipstock, motors and MWD tools just showed up. Our surface gear (computers and sensors needed to depth track and decode pulses) did not. The office tried to tell me that they were still out here from the nudge that was done. Even after I told them I was here for the nudge and the rest of the well and that I saw them get loaded onto a truck headed for OKC a week ago they still wanted me to walk around to see if they weren't still here. :(

I called back and my boss apologized to me. I kinda felt bad with him apologizing. Let's hope I have enough time to get everything setup and working before the rig is ready for us.

Oh yeah, my night hand is a West Pointer. He got out as a Captain. I got out as an E-4.
OU > West Point and Enlisted > Officers. ;)

[Petro-Sooner]

Whats a whipstock?

[Mongo]

Whats a whipstock?


rookie:D

[Petro-Sooner]

rookie:D

Hell man I'm a rock licker. Thats what the engineers believe we do. :D I dont know that other stuff.

[Mongo]

Look here

http://www.weatherford.com/weatherford/groups/public/documents/intervention/ice_whipbackconventional.hcsp

[1stTimeCaller]

http://www.slb.com/images/services/resources/oilfieldreview/ori2004a/illustrations/MillingCasing_print2.jpg


An inclined wedge placed in a wellbore to force the drill bit to start drilling in a direction away from the wellbore axis. The whipstock must have hard steel surfaces so that the bit will preferentially drill through either casing or rock rather than the whipstock itself. Whipstocks may be oriented in a particular direction if needed, or placed into a wellbore blind, with no regard to the direction they face. Most whipstocks are set on the bottom of the hole or on top of a high-strength cement plug, but some are set in the openhole.
http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/files/OGL05027.gif

there ya go

[Petro-Sooner]

I read it but still cant figure out the use. In laymans terms its some type of plug?


EDIT: Ahh I see.

[Petro-Sooner]

So this is what they use to kick off and go horizontal? I always wondered how in the world they did that.

[1stTimeCaller]

we normally don't use a whipstock. We usually just let the bend in the motor and the weight on bit kick it off. They had to cement in the last well we just drilled so they are using a whipstock being as we are cutting a window in the casing.