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Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) / WELL DRILLING - BOP - FLOW | | English term or phrase: KICK | - Wellbore pressures shut-in on a kick.
- Gas is highly compressible and is considered the most serious type of kick.
- Equipment to detect kicks must be on the rig and functioning correctly at all times.
- Kick Circulation Procedures
- increase the hydrostatic pressure on the kicking formation |
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| Reference: Kick, an attempt by an oil well being drilled to blow out
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Wikipedia
The downhole fluid pressures are controlled in modern wells through the balancing of the hydrostatic pressure provided by the mud used. Should the balance of the drilling mud pressure be incorrect then formation fluids (oil, natural gas and/or water) begin to flow into the wellbore and up the annulus (the space between the outside of the drill string and the walls of the open hole or the inside of the last casing string set), and/or inside the drill pipe. This is commonly called a kick. If the well is not shut in (common term for the closing of the blow-out preventer valves), a kick can quickly escalate into a blowout when the formation fluids reach the surface, especially when the influx contains gas that expands rapidly as it flows up the wellbore, further decreasing the effective weight of the fluid.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_%28well_drilling%29
|   Sangro
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Asker: thank you very much, sangro. well documented as if you were an engineer, so i believe you are. you explained it very clear to me. many thanks.
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| Aug 23, 2011 - Changes made by tagore: | | Term asked | KICK - POSSIBLE KICK GEOMETRY AT SHUT-IN => KICK |
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