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Drilling Operations Overview
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Oil and gas are produced from
the formations deep within the earth. Operators spend the time and
money locating these
hydrocarbons and investing in the technology to bring them to the
surface.
This is done by safely boring
a hole in the ground to the depth that the hydrocarbons are trapped.
The product is then produced
and sent via pipeline to refineries and markets.
Everything is large in the oil
field as are the drilling bits used drill the holes. The bit is on the
end of a string
of pipe created from
individual 'joints' that screw together. The pipe is hollow. Drilling
fluid is pumped down
the pipe to the bit as the bit
is rotated via the 'rotary' table. As the bit turns, it cuts through
the dirt and rock
and creates a hole. The
cuttings are removed via the drilling fluid which goes down the pipe
and comes
back up inside the annulus
(area between the outside of the pipe and the walls of the well bore).
Thus, the fluid replaces the
earth that is removed from the hole by the rotary drilling process.
The fluid returning from the
hole follows a flow line which sends the fluid to surface equipment
that
cleans undesirable solids
(dirt) from the 'mud'. The mud passes through the 'solids removal
equipment'
and collects in surface pits.
The fluid moves from a settling pit to a mixing pit, and finally, to a
suction pit.
The rig pumps deliver the
fluid from the suction pit back into the hole via the hollow pipe,
completing
the continuous loop of
drilling fluid from the suction pit, to the pipe, to the bit, back to
the surface,
into the pits, and finally,
back to the rig pumps to be re-circulated once again.
This
is a technical, professional, World-Wide occupation.
Drilling Fluid Technicians do not sling iron,
tote sacks, or turn
valves.
As a
Drilling Fluids Technician, your job is to properly analyze & maintain
the
drilling fluid properties as planned and presented in the
Drilling Fluids Program (your road map) for the well(s) you are assigned to...
Your
job is challenging, rewarding, and specifically professional.
Professional
Fluids Technicians
are required all
over the world
by
every drilling operation on the face of the earth.
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