Key Features
* 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.
Description
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.
Readership
Reservoir engineers, drilling engineers, tool pushers, derrickmen
The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, 1st Edition
Forward
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Overview
Chapter 2 Communication and Avoiding Haxards
Chapter 3 Economics of Fishing
Chapter 4 Cardinal Rules in Fishing
Chapter 5 Pipe Sticking
Chapter 6 Determining Stuck Point
Chapter 7 Parting the Pipe String
Chapter 8 Catch Tools
Chapter 9 Jarring Stuck Pipe or Tools
Chapter 10 Washover Operations
Chapter 11 Loose Junk Fishing
Chapter 12 Mills and Rotary Shoes
Chapter 13 Wireline Fishing
Chapter 14 Retrieving Stuck Packers
Chapter 15 Fishing in Cavities
Chapter 16 Sidetracking Methods
Chapter 17 Section and Pilot Milling
Chapter 18 Repair of Casing Failures and Leaks
Chapter 19 Fishing in High Angle Deviated and Horizontal Wells
Chapter 20 Plug and Abandon Operations
Chapter 21 Miscellaneous Tools
Chapter 22 Thru-tubing Standard Tools
Chapter 23 Thru-tubing Fishing
Chapter 24 Thru-tubing Fishing Jars and Accelerators
Chapter 25 Thru-tubing Debris Catchers
Chapter 26 Thru-tubing Workover Motors
Chapter 27 Thru-tubing Milling
Chapter 28 Thru-tubing Underreaming
Chapter 29 Coiled Tubing Conveyed Tubing and Drill Pipe Cutting
Chapter 30 Thru-tubing Impact Drilling
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Quotes and reviews
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. - Offshore Engineer, October 2004
