WHEN THINGS DON'T GO WELL WITH WELL DRILLING
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2012
- Have you ever wondered why they call it a well when so many things do not go well when drilling? And what do you do when you're in a foreign country and can't buy the tools you need to recover your bit and your drill pipe when they break off in the hole? And when you are very low on financial resources, you know you can't pay for a tow truck to come out every day (the video will explain this and the meaning of the title A Day with the Tow Truck) to pull you out .
We spent 12 hours a day for 3 weeks trying to get something to hook our equipment in a blind hole (good thing we're volunteers and non profit) before we could call for the truck... but it was like fishing without a pole. We couldn't see anything down the hole because of the water level. We thought of a new idea every day and said on the way to the well site, "Surely, God will give us success in getting this stuff out today, right?" We created, modified, adapted again and again different "fishing tools", always thinking "This has got to work". Well, you will see the tools that failed and ask yourself "Why did they use that?" What the video doesn't show is a very large retracting devise, used in other successful recoveries, that became logged in the hole on day one in our first attempt of hooking the pipe. It blocked everything beneath it. Oh, when things go wrong.
Enjoy the video.
I’m glad you got most of it out. I lost about 30’ and a well point and it still bothers me.
Reminds me of Transocean at the inpex fields
One of many reasons we didn't drill another well is what was mentioned. We had thousands of dollars worth of pipe and a bit in that borehole that we couldn't afford to lose. We were grateful to have recover most of it.
David Catherina you should of had mu mom their, no joke! she knows about this stuff, and she is almost 80!!!!, im not shitting you!
Each trip each drill stem should have a tag bar in it.
Then you just have to drop another stem down in the hole with a tag bar tool to catch it.
If you need drill stem or other components alibaba's probably the best way to go. The cost of pipe is about a tenth of what it would cost in the US.
If you don't know what a tag bar is you can look at oil and gas industry in Canada and then you'll know what we're talking about
1000s of dollars? Really? What was you down about 14 miles?
David Catherina i dropped a 3k lb collar and bit assembly 300 ft down a 20 inch hole. We made a 16 inch tophat type overshot. Worked first time....
After we spemt 3 12 hour days missing
I live in Colombia South America and had a similiar problem with even a smaller drilling rig. our "weld "came undone at the coupling at 14 meters. we grabbed our shovels and dung all the way down and got our bit out. With us like you it was at the time my only bit. It's not easy to do this type of work with little or no money, I feel your pain.
Wow, that is a long way to dig. Our bit is still down at 18 meters.. but we did recover our drill pipe.
Why didnt you just buy some new pipe and make a new hole if you had to get those truck that probubly costed more.
Drill pipe is very expensive and hard to get in this country.
I have made many of that corkscrew fishing tool on my cable tool rig. Usually for fishing out soil sampling barrels that fell of the sampling jars.
Multi-use tool? LOL
We would use a casing spear to fish casing over 6" in diameter. Drill stem we would fish with an overshot. the overshot was usually a piece of pipe with an inter diameter an inch to half inch greater than the outer diameter of the fish. By heating up the pipe with a torch and hammering dimples in the pipe progressively deeper from top to bottom you have a cheap overshot.
Home made overshot. Badass
there is an excellent reason why many highly experienced drillers prefer cable tool rigs, especially when working in developing nations. Highly dependable, easy to fix in the rare situation when something needs repair when resources are very limited and very low purchase price, low cost tooling, straight wells. Rotary rigs and their alleged faster drilling rate are considerably overblowen and far more expensive to operate. Big monthly payments. Cable rigs, low cost and usually no monthly payments.
Thomas, you are right on so many accounts but once we went this direction there was no turning back. Thanks for your input.
Sand lock your bit in the broke pipe and then pull your drill rods until the casing appears
Great information, most people cut the bad part out of the video, but you guys made the video all about trouble. Maybe we will see a new wave of videos about the troubles people have in their day to day work. I know I could of made a lot of videos if you know what I mean.
I do know what you mean but we have had success in drilling wells in a country that didn't have a rig like this within hundreds of miles. I guess many of those that made comments didn't read why we did what we did and I get the testosterone thing that they think they can do better, maybe the reason for so many thumbs down? I'm not sure because the suggestions are stuff that we tried or was absolutely impossible do in a country with so little resources. It was why we were there. So I guess I say all that because I appreciate your comment and that you realized that I wasn't looking for help. I was just being honest about having a few bad days. Thanks for your insights
Successful fishing
My old well had a cast iron venturi set up....never was able to get that thing out...so...I drilled a new well.
Capt BlackEagle Yeah, that must have been frustrating. So many things can go wrong with wells, mostly because you're flying blind - you can only imagine what's going on in the borehole.
U need more water or mud to keep the overburden/ rock washed out of the hole while drilling otherwise you'll be hung up in the hole every time also dont drill dont move up or down dont do nothing until u have water/ drillmud circulating out the bit and up out the top of the casing.
...and run stabilizers,mostly if using small pipe and large diameter holes.
where is the part II????????????????????
My experience is limited to oil, but did you try an overshot to fish the pipe? They might not be all that cheap, but i bet it would have been cheaper to rent an overshot tool vs losing weeks worth of time
fockingclassy Read how I did make my own overshot and it ended up blocking access to our pipe. Ugh!
I read below that you made your own overshot. The ones we had in the oilfield have a set of grapples inside that slip over the end of the parted pipe, and when you pull up into the pipe they bite the pipe super tight. There's also another fishing tool called a spear that goes inside of the parted pipe. The tolerances for these tools to work is pretty tight though so you have to know the ID/OD of what you're trying to fish to a really close measurement. I believe you can get a solid description of these tools from the Schlumberger website.
When pipes hard to take out need to take in the same hole put new pipes without drill bit only using water and flushing to the bottom when sand no going take out 2 pipes in same time no need recovery trucks
A two and a half foot fine tapered find threaded dart would of got it out first shot
If there is a next time, which I hope there isn't, I'll try that. Tx
Check out the size of those slips
When this happen to you again you could drill another well jus near by the first well to get the drill pipes out of the well
redouane bouras
Marcella Graber what king of pump were you using was the pump the cause?
Grand Jardin Lakou no, it was all about in adequate drillstem
Very sad to watch people who absolutely have no business operating equipment let alone heavy and extremely dangerous equipment. It almost seems like they watched a video, and thought it's as easy as that.. but they definitely learned a hard lesson.
why would you drill a 10 inch hole with such small pipe !!!!????....for one ,.....no torsional strength !!!.....two ,.....that small of an I.D on the drill pipe could not ever create enough annular velocity to properly clean the hole !!!!...that is why you got stuck !!!!......holy crap !!!!
As far as cleaning the hole it wasn't a problem as we checked the cuttings coming up constantly and the hole remained clear. We weren't stuck but the drill pipe snapped in the middle. You are right about the size of the drill pipe being too small because the downward pressure on the bit caused the pipe to wobble in the middle of the bore hole. You can probably picture it as like when you want to break a piece of wire and you twist it around and around or back and forth it creates such frictions it will eventually break. This is what happened at one of our tool joints. We learned a big lesson... thanks for your interest.
No problem...been in the drilling industry since 1978.....air drilling...fluid drilling...aereated mud...deep ..as in 25,000 ft..shallow as in 18 ft....oil,gas,water,geothermal....small ID...1.75", all the way up to 48". Hammers, tricone,PDC. One of those been there done that type of people...34 different countries.
What was your ROP ?
I would not ask that.
Sounds much too personal.
You would laugh at how slow our ROP was in this project and this is because of our lack of resources - the right equipment and the material we were drilling through. Here's my email address as I'd like to have yours because I may have a question or two in the future if you don't mind. You sound like a good resource.
Does anyone know the manufacturer's name of the trailer drilling rig with the drilling mud box? The multi-million dollar rigs are out of my league, even used ones.
David Null my boss is trying to sell his ingersol rand drill rig for 240k if you’re serious pm me and I’ll give you his number
man id be using at least 2 7/8 drill pipe with rotary table rig for a 10" bore hole
I agree with you hundred percent but when you're cutting corners because of cost some decisions just can't be reverse after you have made them. We have drill many successfully wells with the rig but it does have its shortcomings when it comes to penetrating rock and drilling larger boreholes. Thanks for your feedback
And how much money did cutting those corners cost you? Never cut corners on anything that can hurt you or you can't pick up with one hand.
cris has no no idear of this prossessssssss
I know nothing about drilling, except metal. Most comments suggest what I initially thought to myself: "that is a pretty small pipe for that size of hole, must be good shit!" Until I read the comments, but you must have had good experience with the equipment...so...what ever.
ObsessionPC Your deduction was right, it was too small of pipe but we had been successful before. This time the material (some kind of slate) we were going through was just too hard for our machine and bit. Live and learn, thanks for your comment.
ah cool, thanks for the detail on that. Can't ever know too much!
What,there is more?
Did all that cost the land owner any more ? HOW do y'all do it to stay in business? Be blessed guys there is a God.
We refunded all the cost back to the land owner so it was a loss all around.
😂😂😂😂😂😂y?. lucky no one got hurt🙈
This is one instance when i would say I hate fishing! Good job though!
Why didn't you just start a new well? I don't understand why you went through all of the trouble of pulling such little pipe up. Was that your only bit?
Good question. We couldn't afford to lose that much equipment and everyday we thought that this will be the day we succeed, but day after day passed in failures. Not in our wildest dreams did we think we would be doing this for weeks.
David Catherina Is it producing water now?
+Nooch Martin
No. We recovered our drill pipe but lost our only bit at the time. Other circumstances led us to abandon the well completely and that's why sometimes things don't go well with wells. I wish in this case it would have had a better ending.
what i see here.. the pipe stack in hole.. i have also experience like that.. end i try to use excavator in fist time then susses but the second time can't cause to hard.. then i try to use jet water and put the pvc pipe in hole. so everything easy to come up...
How deep was the hole.... I would have just moved over and drilled again.... 2 weeks is complete waste of time.... Time is more valuable..... I could drill that well 100 feet deep with plastic pipe... And do it in 3 to 4 days.... Just need water and compressor
Weeks of resources lost. If I would have been in charged? No way. I would have abandon pipes and bits. Next hole
As explained in several comments that time was the only resource lost because we’re volunteers. Wish we had the resources to abandon the hole but we were working in some of the poorest areas of Mexico. We were hundreds if not thousands of miles away from buying more drilling equipment and didn’t have the money for it anyway. Thanks for your interest in the project.
Lost my share of steel down hole, just cable rig junk
Where's the end of the story then ?
Hell inall that time and what you spent you could have drilled a new well
Yeah that would be the logical thing to do but without our only drill pipe and losing that particular bit left us no choice. We had no other equipment and this area in Mexico is in the mountains far from a "store".
David Catherina you were an idiot to take on this job considering available resources.
JohnstonPettigrew as he stated it was volunteer work
Bobby Douglas yeah, I see that in the explanation, but even volunteering, you have to bring the right tools, or you waste everyone's time. But ok.....it looks like it was a humanitarian effort.....so, my apologies for the comment.....just bring more tools next time.
Can you say Bowen Overshot? I thought you could;)
We did make our own and as stated in the description, it ended up blocking our way as it disconnected. I'm sure your wondering how this could happen. Flawed design - We had never seen one before and other reasons that would seem like weak excuses. I blew it...but I did know how to make the next one. Live and learn, right?
A real rig dont need a tow truck. Klemm! American amatures!
Move rig, redrill.
What kinda rig is that? That thing is tiny haha
Also if H2S starts to pour out everyone is dead wtf no safety at all
This small rig that I designed and built has gone into small spaces that no big rig could. It was only cable of going 300 ft which worked most of the time for what we needed. There’s no OSHA in Mexico so maybe we were a little lacking in safety measures which other contributors have mentioned.
thats what happens,when you havent got the right equipment,rig is too small to do proper bores,no slide head,otherwise slide the head a few inches and drill another hole right besides the first one,piece of cake,or use overshot pipe to clean the original hole pass de stuck pipe,but don't spend weeks pissfarting over a drill hole,in the end,you go broke,and the mud pump?? that is a joke,you need either a positive displacement pump,or otherwise a much more higher horse power pump you need not only uphole velocity,but also volume,and as for the thousands of dollars worth of pipe in the hole?are you joking?piddle pipe like that does not cost much,I would say $300/10 foot.
Wormy..
The guy in the red shouldn't ever be that close to the chain when pulling like that. He had his face inches away and even touched it with his hands. Apparently he's never seen a load rated lifting chain snap. It woulda killed him or disfigured him. The rest of y'all were too close for comfort too and no one had any protection on. I seriously wish y'all the best but y'all need to get your shit together before someone dies. That's some amateur shit
the tow truck would have cost more ,than the pipe stuck in the hole..
gonzo gonzalez we're talking Mexico not California LOL
Metal....pipe....chains....under tension.
And no hardhats. You would have some other "expenses" had something happened.
Called Medical Expenses.
You're right and we did have hard hats available. Its a practice that we need to exercise all the time. I think that's good for other people to hear.
Is it really that much of a loss to go through all the trouble to fish it out? Why not abandon the tools and the hole and drill a new hole?
That would suck.
tow truck ,,,not tow tuk,, speak properly ,,boy
not unusual ,,, just stupid , contact me ,,I'll tell u how to fix it,, duhh
is this in USA ? dont use metric system,not all of us are as prolific in math as you!? ill watch again but translate!!!
Actually it is in another country and you may notice that other viewers come from countries that use metric. So maybe I should state it with both. The US is one of the few countries that doesn't use metric. Well, thanks for your interest.
not too bright...