Trouble-Free Drilling

This book is intended to help drilling personnel improve their understanding of the down hole mechanics of drilling. The focus of this book is the physics of stuck pipe.The mechanics of what causes stuck pipe is explained in great detail.Warning signs, preventive measures, and various freeing procedures are also discussed.Some of this material is based on personal observations and experiments and has never been presented before.Most of the information, however, is based on the hundreds of technical papers I researched while writing this book.

The drilling industry has devoted a lot of effort to the problem of stuck pipe in research facilities around the world.The first technical paper on this subject was written in 1937; today, the topic of stuck pipe appears in more than 8,000 technical papers and books.Unfortunately, most of the men and women working on rigs are not even aware that this research exists.This information is of no use if it does not reach the people in the field.The primary goal of this book is to get this information to rig-based engineers and supervisors in an easy-to-understand format.