Sustainable Natural Gas Drilling: Technologies and Case Studies for the Energy Transition

Sustainable Natural Gas Drilling, the latest release in The Fundamentals and Sustainable Advances in Natural Gas Science and Engineering series, delivers many of the technical fundamentals needed in the natural gas industry with an additional sustainability lens. Introductory topics include underbalanced technologies, well integrity, and well trajectory. Advanced applications include utilizing nanoparticles to reduce environmental impact, and techniques to drill for underground gas storage and carbon capture operations. Supported by corporate and academic contributors along with two well-distinguished editors, Sustainable Natural Gas Drilling provides today’s natural gas engineers the knowledge to adjust current drilling practices in a more environmentally sustainable way. Accelerate emissions with case studies and visuals to illustrate how new principles can be applied in practical situationsUnderstand innovative advances that are leading to improved environmental performanceBridge from theory to application with worldwide contributors representing academia and industry INDICE: Preface Section One: Drilling Techniques Tailored to Meet the Challenges 1. Natural gas drilling: overview of sustainability challenges 2. Deep and horizontal drilling technologies for natural gas 3. Water management challenges for tight reservoir fracture stimulation Section Two: Wellbore Planning and Control 4. Well control and kick tolerance in extended reach drilling 5. Wellbore Stability and the Establishment of a Safe Mud Weight Window 6. Real-time monitoring and optimization of drilling performance using artificial intelligence techniques: A review 7. Multiphase flow and pressure control in wellbores during underbalanced drilling operations 8. Directional wellbore trajectory optimization incorporating cubic Bezier curves and collision-avoidance constraints 9. Hole cleaning technology for unconventional gas horizontal wells Section Three: Drilling Fluids and Environmental Impacts 10. Applications of chemical and isotopic tracers to optimize well placement and monitor for contamination by reservoir-derived fluids 11. Gas-aphron drilling fluids enhanced with silica nanoparticles and biosurfactant 12. Characteristics and Applications of Solids-free Drilling Fluids for Coalbed Methane Exploitation Section Four: Drilling for Unconventional Gas Resources 13. Minimizing coalbed methane formation damage by biodegradable chelating agent flooding 14. Drilling of gas hydrate reservoirs: recent technological developments and solutions to drilling problems 15. Horizontal well drilling technology for shale-gas formations 16. Multi-well pad drilling technology for shale gas reservoirs: progress and perspectives Section Five: Drilling Innovations 17. Innovations in drilling and well construction technologies in gas reservoir drilling 18. Progress on drilling innovations for natural gas hydrate 19. Well Integrity for Underground Gas Storage Relating to Natural Gas, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen

• ISBN: 978-0-443-13422-7
• Editorial: Elsevier Science
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 628
• Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés