kick detection

On the basis of safety performance results achieved through automation downstream, an operator set out to achieve the same advances in its upstream business.

This paper describes efficient detection of well-control events, in both underbalanced and overbalanced conditions.

Pressurized-mud-cap drilling (PMCD) and early kick detection (EKD) are two unconventional drilling techniques that have been used widely individually, mostly in relation to closed and pressurizable systems and to managed-pressure-drilling (MPD) applications.