Geothermal Drilling

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What is Geothermal Drilling :
A process that cuts or enlarge the holes of circular cross section for hard materials is known as Drilling.The process of creating bore holes in the earth to extract earth’s heat is known as Geothermal Drilling.Generally a drill bit is used in drilling as rotary cutting tool. From hundreds to thousands of rpm the drill bit is rotated and pressed against the work piece. This makes the cutting edge to remove chips from hole. In drilling the resource is stored in the form of volcanic or hard sediment rocks.
We may often come up with the names Drill bit and Drill Rig. Lets have a brief discussion on it.
Drill Bit: These are used as cutting tools which create circular holes. These are of many sizes and comprises of many uses. These are fixed in a tool called drill which rotates them and provide force to create holes. Some bits are available which are used for non cylindrical shaped holes.
The important part of drill bit is shank. It is present at the other end of the drill bit.
There are many types and kinds of drill bits. Each drill bit has its own specification.
Drill Rig :
A massive structure or a machine which create holes and also used to drill water,oil wells or natural gas extraction wells.These wells can also be small and can be moved manually by one person.
Drill Rig Selection :
Drill rig selection will be based on well parameters like diameter,depth and casing design.With the parameters criteria we will determine what kind of drill rig should be used.

Factors determining the hole diameter :
• Logging tools - logging tools will fit into almost any reasonable hole size, but if more complex tools, especially imaging tools such as a formation micro-scanner they defines minimum hole size.
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Hole Enlargement :
Here the hole size is very large than expected and needed and the problems related to these are

 Hydraulic erosion
 Mechanical abrasion caused by drillstring
 Inherently sloughing shale
Fracture
It happens when the wellbore drilling-fluid pressure crosses the formation-fracture pressure. The associated problems are lost circulation and kick occurrence.
Collapse
Borehole collapse occurs when the drilling-fluid pressure is very less to maintain the structural integrity of the drilled hole. The associated problems are pipe sticking .
Ref : http://petrowiki.spe.org/Borehole_instability#Types_and_associated_problems

Lost Circluation :
It is the partial or complete loss of drilling fluid. When hydrostatic pressure is greater than breaking strength, create cracks and fluid gets leaked and flows.

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