Method of drilling around an existing casing pipe to regenerate

Details Method of drilling around an existing casing pipe to regenerate Method of drilling around an existing casing pipe to regenerate

1996-05-01

1997-12-09

Tsay, Frank

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Freeing stuck object, grappling or fishing in well

166 556, E21B 3116

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056950101

ABSTRACT:
A method of drilling the packing gravel and formation materials around an existing casing pipe in order to regenerate an old well. The method comprises the steps of sequentially filling the inside of the casing pipe of the old well with mud water, connecting drill pipe, which has an inside diameter greater than the outside diameter of the existing casing pipe of the old well and is furnished with a drill bit consisting of drill cutters and nozzles at the lower extremity, to an upper water swivel, setting the drill pipe in axial alignment with the existing casing pipe, rotating and lowering the drill pipe while sending pressurized drilling mud water through the annulus between the drill pipe and casing pipe, drilling the packing gravel and formation materials encountered surrounding the casing pipe with the drill bit, moving the cuttings up to the surface by the drilling mud water which ascends the annulus between the drill pipe and the borehole wall at the velocity greater than the descending velocity of the cuttings, separating the cuttings from the drilling mud water in a mud pit, and then circulating the pressurized drilling mud water in the annulus between the pipes for re-circulation.

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