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Course Name	Turkish	Sondaj Mühendisliği
	English	Drilling Engineering
Course Code	PET 333E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	5	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mustafa Hakan Özyurtkan
Course Objectives		To introduce the student rotary drilling equipment and operational procedures, drilling cost evaluation, functions of drilling fluids, cemens, cement placement techniques, and cement job design, drilling hydraulics, drilling bits; selection, evaluation, factors affecting bit wear and drilling speed, bit optimization, casing and various types of casing strings, environmental effects of drilling.
Course Description		Drilling equipment. Rig systems. Drilling fluids and cementing in brief. Cementing and cement slurry design. Drilling hydraulics: Non-static well conditions, Rheological models, Laminar and turbulent flows in pipes and annuli, Basics of well control operations. Rotary drilling bits. Rock failure mechanisms. Drilling cost analysis. Formation pressure and fracture gradients. API Casing performance properties. Introduction to casing design. Essentials of directional drilling.
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