Description
Sustainable Natural Gas Drilling, the latest release in The Fundamentals and Sustainable Advances in Natural Gas Science and Engineering series, delivers many of the technical fundamentals needed in the natural gas industry with an additional sustainability lens. Introductory topics include underbalanced technologies, well integrity, and well trajectory. Advanced applications include utilizing nanoparticles to reduce environmental impact, and techniques to drill for underground gas storage and carbon capture operations. Supported by corporate and academic contributors along with two well-distinguished editors, Sustainable Natural Gas Drilling provides today's natural gas engineers the knowledge to adjust current drilling practices in a more environmentally sustainable way.- Accelerate emissions with case studies and visuals to illustrate how new principles can be applied in practical situations- Understand innovative advances that are leading to improved environmental performance- Bridge from theory to application with worldwide contributors representing academia and industry
Table of Contents
PrefaceSection One: Drilling Techniques Tailored to Meet the Challenges1. Natural gas drilling: overview of sustainability challenges2. Deep and horizontal drilling technologies for natural gas3. Water management challenges for tight reservoir fracture stimulationSection Two: Wellbore Planning and Control4. Well control and kick tolerance in extended reach drilling5. Wellbore Stability and the Establishment of a Safe Mud Weight Window6. Real-time monitoring and optimization of drilling performance using artificial intelligence techniques: A review7. Multiphase flow and pressure control in wellbores during underbalanced drilling operations8. Directional wellbore trajectory optimization incorporating cubic Bezier curves and collision-avoidance constraints9. Hole cleaning technology for unconventional gas horizontal wellsSection Three: Drilling Fluids and Environmental Impacts10. Applications of chemical and isotopic tracers to optimize well placement and monitor for contamination by reservoir-derived fluids11. Gas-aphron drilling fluids enhanced with silica nanoparticles and biosurfactant12. Characteristics and Applications of Solids-free Drilling Fluids for Coalbed Methane ExploitationSection Four: Drilling for Unconventional Gas Resources13. Minimizing coalbed methane formation damage by biodegradable chelating agent flooding14. Drilling of gas hydrate reservoirs: recent technological developments and solutions to drilling problems15. Horizontal well drilling technology for shale-gas formations16. Multi-well pad drilling technology for shale gas reservoirs: progress and perspectivesSection Five: Drilling Innovations17. Innovations in drilling and well construction technologies in gas reservoir drilling18. Progress on drilling innovations for natural gas hydrate19. Well Integrity for Underground Gas Storage Relating to Natural Gas, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen
