COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DRILLING MUDS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SDJ 2027 DRILLING MUDS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Drilling Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

FERIDE ÖZYOL

Offered to

Drilling Technology

Course Objective

to teach fishing procedure an tools to drilling technologies department students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain circulation and drilling fluids
2   Define chemicals and their function used for preparing drilling mud
3   Know solid control systems and working principles
4   Prepare a mud which have requested properties.
5   Report mud properties while drilling

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Type of drilling fluids and their duty
2 Clay chemistry and structural properties
3 Drilling mud chemicals and functions
4 Mud experiments: Mud density, Viscosity an d pH measuremets
5 Fluied loss, Mud cake thckness and Sand ratio
6 Viscosity measurement by using rotational viscosimeter
7 Buyonce factor
8 Water treatment and mud preparing
9 Solid control
10 Shale shakers and mud tanks
11 Mid Term Exam
12 Desilter, Desander and Centifuruge
13 Mud densities and preparing mud which has requeste density
14 Waste Management

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): TPAO, 2007. "Sondaj Akışkanları Teknolojisi", Ankara.
Supplementary Book(s): ASME , Shale Shaker Committee,2005. "Drilling Fluids Processing", Elsevier,666 pp.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation, discussion and field observation format. Lecture gives subject and students discuss and prepare some presentation and all students discuss each other

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRC PRACTICE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Preparing assignments 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 40

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51