Non-Conforming Product - Project to drill a well

[pilchard]

I would start

With the proposed well parameters, make the well schematic and then list all processes @ set control points in the well schematic including services that will be provided.

If the process or service does not meet required parameters per schematic is a good start.:mg:

 

[Wes Bucey]

I may just be having one of my lazy days, but why reinvent a well-drilling contract or even "industry standards?" I know for a fact many states in the USA have very specific rules and regulations about drilling for various types of substances (water, gas, oil, geothermal, etc.)

These often include very specific safeguards against contaminating the underground supply, the type of casing to use, etc. Other regulations cover labor safety and prevention of contaminating above-ground environment.

My point is: why not research to see who else has already done this and learn from their successes and failures?

 

[pilchard]

spud that well

I may just be having one of my lazy days, but why reinvent a well-drilling contract or even "industry standards?" I know for a fact many states in the USA have very specific rules and regulations about drilling for various types of substances (water, gas, oil, geothermal, etc.)

These often include very specific safeguards against contaminating the underground supply, the type of casing to use, etc. Other regulations cover labor safety and prevention of contaminating above-ground environment.

My point is: why not research to see who else has already done this and learn from their successes and failures?

Yes the regulations are gimmies, I am not talking about HS or E and all the equipment has industry standards, but if your drilling mud is not performing, too heavy not heavy enough, part the casing becasue of a thread problem, wrong liner hanger or packer was put in or the slips did not work in that casing, your sssv does not test, your pipe gets stuck in the hole,the logging was bad and the formation is 100ft from where it should be, perforating guns do not go off or measurements were wrong and they shot holes too high or low, all of this cost's rig time, of the tune of $200,000 a day and that is a low figure.

And this is a small list of nonconformances that happen every day while drilling a well.

Research is a good Idea, but if you are drilling a well you have become a competitor to other well drillers, so information is scarce unless you have your own well logs from previous wells your company has drilled, and that is how you get your parameters to build the well schematic.