Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Abstract

Assessment of Mechanical Specific Energy Aimed at Improving Drilling Inefficiencies and Minimize Wellbore Instability

Afshin Davarpanah*, Mojtaba Zarei and Mehdi-Nassabeh SM

Mechanical specific energy is equivalent to the proportion of all the input energy to the bit to output penetration rate. By using this parameter, it can be used to optimize drilling performance, the performance of bit and minimize wellbore instability. By analyzing these parameters, the costs of drilling operations by increasing the rotational speed of drilling equipment, maximizing bit life, and will be reduced. In all parts of the Iran’s South Pars field numerous wells have been drilled. But research activity that could be a major step in the evaluation of the mechanical specific energy and reduction of inefficiencies during the drilling operation has not taken place. The purpose of this research using mechanical specific energy is to analyze drilling parameters performance such as bit rotation speed, bit penetration rate in the formation due to rock and fluid properties. According to high costs of hiring drilling rigs and importance of mechanical specific energy for increasing drilling velocity and costs reduction, several researches in many ways for optimizing mechanical specific energy had been studied. However, by using SPSS software in middle formations of one of the phases of Iran’s South Pars field statistical studies has been done, which contains formations such as Hith, Surmeh, Neyriz, Dashtak and Kangan.