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Version 4 is Available!!
WELLCON is Maurer by Petris’s well-control program developed to assist drilling personnel to better control gas kicks. The program simulates gas kick-in and circulation processes for water- and oil-base drilling fluids. The program calculates kill-mud weight, the drill-pipe pressure schedule, and the kill sheet. It predicts pressure changes and equivalent circulating densities (ECDs) at a variety of locations in the well. Maximum ECD along the wellbore is also calculated and compared with pore- and fracture-pressure gradients. The new Kill Sheet utility calculates all kill information and prepares a drill-pipe pressure schedule.
 View QuickTour of WELLCON
Advanced Engineering Features
- Simulates both gas kick-in and circulation processes
- Designed for both water- and oil-based muds
- A convenient well kill sheet generator is provided
- Accounts for the effects of gas slippage and gas solubility
- BHP during kill procedures can be customized to maintain over- or underbalance pressures
- A leak-off test feature calculates the maximum allowable mud weight for comparison with kill mud weight
- Three-dimensional wellbores, both on land and offshore
- Either single bubble or one of four two-phase flow correlations
- Both Driller’s and Engineer’s well-control methods
- Calculates kill mud weight and choke pressure schedule
- Kick tolerance sensitivity analysis
- Predicts pressure changes and ECD’s at the choke, casing shoe, wellhead, bottom-hole, and any other point
- Accepts directional well plans and surveys
- ECD’s along the wellbore compared to pore and fracture gradients
Cost Saving
- Prevents disasters such as blowouts
- Enhances well control operations
- Enhances operational efficiency
Easy to Use
- Step-by-step problem solving approach
- Can link to databases such as DIMS
- Can create MS Office reports
- Advanced graphics can be exported to any Windows program
- S.I., Oilfield and mixed units
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Pressure vs. time or number of strokes is shown at critical points along the wellbore.
The Kill Sheet table and graph summarize the final schedule for killing the well.
The Animation window depicts the process of circulating out the kick. |