An overview of the tools and techniques of openhole fishing. Covers the major causes of fishing jobs; basic steps in fishing out a twistoff, stuck pipe, wireline, or junk lost in the hole; and the economics of fishing.
No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically. This practical guide is packed with illustrations and descriptions of fishing equipment and tools to help you solve just about any fishing problem. Foremen, engineers, and superintendents who write procedures, make drilling decisions, and supervise operations will find this handy book invaluable, and trainees will find it an excellent learning manual. Oilwell Fishing Operations tells how to free stuck pipe, part the pipe string, and repair casing. It describes the various types of catching tools, jars, mills, junk, baskets, and hydrostatic and rotating bailers, along with washover operations, wireline fishing, fishing in cavities, and fishing in high angle deviated and horizontal wells. The author's tips and warnings are sure to save you time and money in avoided misruns, downtime, and lost equipment.* Currently, there is no other book on the market focused only on oilwell fishing operations.* Covers all of the best practices for oilwell fishing operations and all of the latest equipment.* The first book in the "Gulf Drilling Guides" series, the first, last, and only stop for the drilling engineer with a problem to solve.
Unpredictable, unwanted, and costly, oil and gas well fishing is not a typical practice for drilling, workover and completion projects, but roughly one in every five wells experience this intervention. To stay on top, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition will keep fishing tool product managers, drilling managers and all other well intervention specialists keyed in to all the latest tools, techniques and rules of thumb critical to conventional and complex wellbore projects, such as extended reach horizontal wells, thru-tubing, and coiled tubing operations. Strengthened with updated material and a new chapter on wellbore cleaning, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition ensures that the life of the well will be saved no matter the unforeseen circumstances. Crucial aspects include: - Enhancements with updated equipment, technology, and a new chapter on wellbore cleaning methods - Additional input from worldwide service companies, providing a more comprehensive balance - Remains the only all-inclusive guide exclusively devoted to fishing tools, techniques, and rules of thumb - Remodeled with latest jars on the market, catch tools, and retrieving stuck packers with cutting technology - Improved with information on methods such as sidetracking and plug-and-abandon operations - Modernized with approaches and tactics on more advanced well projects such as high-angle deviated and horizontal wells and expandable casing technology to repair casing failure and leaks
A guide to fishing correcting downhole problems in oil or gas wells for foremen, engineers, and supervisors. Explains rotating bailers, a new family of tools that has come into use since the 1986 first edition, and such others as jars, mills, junk baskets, and mouse traps. Among the techniques discu
Offers one hundred concise methods of surviving dangerous situations based on the skills of military special forces operatives, covering such topics as evading ambushes, escaping confinement, and winning a knife fight.
In industry, miscommunication can cause frustration, create downtime, and even trigger equipment failure. By providing a common ground for more effective discourse, the Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing can help eliminate costly miscommunication. An essential resource for oil, gas, and petrochemical industry professionals, engineers, academic staff, and science and engineering students, the dictionary defines over 5,000 technical and commercial terms encompassing exploration, production, processing, refining, pipelining, finance, management, and safety. From basic engineering principles to the latest drilling technology, the text covers the fundamentals and their real-world applications. Alphabetically arranged for quick reference, it contains easy-to-understand descriptions and figures, as well as oil and gas SI units and metric equivalents. Industry newcomers and personnel with no technical background especially benefit from the book’s practical language that clearly demonstrates the concepts behind the definitions.
The Wilderness Within is a series of true adventures that decsribes man's journey into God's natural world. Author David Swendsen, having serves 21 years as a special agent for the Department of interior, amazes, edifies, and rewards readers; describing actual experiences and comic episodes that occured during his career as he dealt with all kinds of humans as they experienced their trips into Nature's outdoors. These actual wilderness journeys tell us of the interconnecting saga of all life on this planet. the author vividly describes some of the strange animal antics experienced; such as a loon that thought he was a fish, and a bass that flew out of water. When humans violate outdoor regulations, all their antics can backfire on them. Swendsen tells about the illegal hunter whose sweaty hads did him in, and the fellow officer who expected, and got, "special" treatment. To apprehend hardcore violators, the author says, "we win some, lose some", as he describes how dead fish can swim and how he is outrun by an old, habitual violator. Priceless deputies include fellow fish and game personnel, such as forest ranger Major (the real first name) Mellen and his 90 pound black lab Midnight.