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  title info:
    title: Subsea Kick Detection on Floating Vessels: A Parametric Study
  name:
    name part: Collette, Eric Peter
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Schubert, Jerome Jacob
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Well control in drilling operations is priority to personnel safety. Detection of kicks, or the unscheduled entry of formation fluids into the wellbore, is vital to well control. It has been determined that return flow rate is the parameter most sensitive to detecting kicks and lost circulation. One kick detection method associated with this parameter is delta flow early kick detection or simply the delta flow method. This method has limitations on floating vessels. Inaccurate readings can occur due to the heave motion of a vessel. This is a result of the sensor being downstream of the compensatory slip joint. Expansion and compression of this joint can result in return flow readings that are not representative of the actual value. Inaccurate readings could create situations in which a false kick or false lost circulation is detected. Other inaccurate readings could result in an actual kick or lost circulation situation not being detected. In the past, work has been done to address this by developing a sensor that adjusts for heave. This work supports a project aimed at removing the need for motion compensation by relocating the sensor to a location independent of this motion. A company is currently developing a delta flow early kick detection sensor to be placed at or near the seafloor. The stationary location of this sensor aims to remove the inaccuracy caused by slip joint compensation of vessel movement. This work will consist of a parametric study on the relationship of various drilling system and kick parameters at the seafloor using a well control simulator. The goal is to understand these relationships and determine the delta flow accuracy required based on a given kick size. As a result, this study found that a sensor capable of detecting a 10 barrel kick would require an accuracy of 2.4% and a 20 barrel kick would require a 4.6% accuracy for detection. This case was a shallow water, low kick intensity scenario. This accuracy and the others reported for the…
  note: by Eric Collette.
  note: "Major Subject: Petroleum Engineering"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Master of Science Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151098
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Petroleum Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Well Control
  subject:
    topic: Subsea
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151098
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140228
    record change date: 20151206092206.0
    record identifier: in00003444024
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng