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Project Number 412
Date of Summary February 25, 2002
Subject Underbalanced Drilling Training for MMS Drilling Engineers
Performing Activity Maurer Engineering
Principal Investigator Tom Williams
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Completion October 2001
Description This effort was a seminar for MMS drilling engineers District Supervisors, workover engineers, and inspectors, to outline the basics of underbalanced (UB) drilling. The seminar focused on equipment; procedures; likely scenarios or applications for offshore use; potential problems, hazards, and risks; regulatory requirements in other jurisdictions; and case studies.
Progress

Training was completed in October 2001.
Report
AA (53 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Rehm, B. Williams, T. Schubert, J. "Underbalanced and Near Balanced Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico." New Orleans, LA. September 19, 2001.
 

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