By Gary Ganson, CIH, CSP Drilling crews can become complacent when the majority of the time they leave the job site without incident. The Earth’s crust contains all the hydrocarbons we know as fossil f.
[pdf] Drill bits wear and tear like most any other piece of equipment. Once a bit becomes too worn to drill at an adequate rate or make a full-gauge hole, or if the bearings are thought to be near failure, a trip is undertaken to replace the bit. A trip is not considered a bit trip when the purpose of replacing the bit is to change sizes. This is only done when the crew "sets surface, intermediate or longstring. OverviewTripping pipe (or "Making a round trip" or simply "Making a trip") is the physical act of pulling the out of the and then running it back in. This is done by physically breaking out or disconnecting (when pulli. .
A fishing trip is when a crew is forced to trip pipe to retrieve loose items in the . This can result from something being dropped in the hole, i.e. a tool, that would cause damage to the bit if the crew attempted t. The process of pulling the drillstring out of the wellbore for the purpose of changing a worn or underperforming drill bit.
[pdf] A trip tank is a low-volume, calibrated tank that can be isolated from the remainder of the surface drilling fluid system and used to accurately monitor the amount of fluid going into or coming from the well.
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