COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DRILLING GEOTHERMAL WELLS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GTE 5005 DRILLING GEOTHERMAL WELLS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Geothermal Energy
M.Sc. Geothermal Energy (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

To define chemical properties and environmental impacts of the geothermal fluids and to teach geochemical methods upon reservoir temperature estimation and aquifer chemistry calculations

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Prepare well drilling program
2   Sludge material and know basic tests
3   Knows parameters affecting drilling performance and the relationship with each other.
4   Know and calculate the loads coming to the protection tube Know and calculate the loads coming to the protection tube
5   Know well control

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Drill, drill types
2 Factors affecting the performance of drilling and relationships
3 Well planning, drilling mud
4 HOMEWORK
5 Burr drill
6 Protect pipes, weight pipes, drill pipes
7 Salvage and its tools
8 Drilling fluid, annuals velocity, cullet handling
9 Drilling hydraulic, pressure loss
10 Cementing, prepare a mixture of cement, additives
11 Cementing, plug cementing, casing cemented
12 Protection tubes,its types, pipe loads, protection tube design
13 Well control equipment, well comtrol
14 MIDTERM EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

IADC,2000 . IADC Drilling Manuel (e-book vesion V.11). Technical Toolboxes, Inc., Houston, pp. 1463.
Rabia, H., 2002. Well Engineering & Construction. Entec, pp. 789.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assignment, midterm exam

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

niyazi.aksoy@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

IADC,2000 . IADC Drilling Manuel (e-book vesion V.11). Technical Toolboxes, Inc., Houston, pp. 1463.
Rabia, H., 2002. Well Engineering & Construction. Entec, pp. 789.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 3 14 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Design Project 1 75 75
Preparing assignments 1 55 55
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 190

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.155
LO.25
LO.35
LO.455
LO.555