Managed pressure drilling (MPD) systems connect to and enhance the capability of existing conventional rig elements.
On the other hand, underbalanced systems may completely replace many conventional elements of a rig's drilling system.
Two basic elements that MPD enhances are the drilling fluid and the circulation system which every drilling method uses to control bottomhole pressure (BHP).
As a field ages with production, pore pressure, wellbore stability, and fracture gradient can change to the point where more dynamic control is required.
Of the many different technologies and processes required to drill a well none are more central to a successful drilling operation than those that control BHP.A drilling system’s primary tasks are:
Transport the cuttings
Prevent influx and losses
Keep the drill pipe free, the hole open, and the well on target and budget
These tasks do not change as a field ages, they just get harder to do.
The collection of pressure control methods referred to as MPD complements the basic elements of drilling by adding more control to the BHP. MPD extends control over the BHP to operational phases when the rig pumps are off, improving wellbore stability, well control, and safety, and bringing into reach productive prospects too expensive to drill otherwise.
Stay Turned for next post ------
Monday, July 13, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Learning style
Different groups of psychologists have, over the decades, each come up with their own tests and methods for determining and classifying people's learning styles. Not all the systems of tests, methods and categorisations agree with one another.
Generally, however, people popularly accept that they may prefer to learn through spatial-visual, kinetic, language-oriented or logical styles (with this set of four categories often used to help child learners), or in visual, kinaesthetic or auditory styles (this set of three often being applied to adult learners).
Keeping things simple by ignoring the different sets, we'll just take a look at what all those terms might mean:
Spatial-visual
Learners who lean towards the spatial-visual style seem to absorb things better when they are shown, or can create, clear images, diagrams or illustrations of them. Colours and patterns interest them, and demonstrations of how things are done seem to be effective ways of imparting information to them.
Kinetic/kinaesthetic/tactile
"Kinetic" processes relate to movement. "Kinaesthetic", a word not found in traditional dictionaries, indicates something similar, and to touch (which is where "tactile" comes in). This learning style is essentially the preference for understanding something through touching it, walking through it, and generally getting hands-on with stuff.
Language-oriented
Language-oriented learners prefer to verbalise things, read to understand something or absorb information through clearly delivered lectures. They like playing with words, putting a problem into words to solve it, and grasping ideas set out in stories. They can learn quickly through handouts, reading material and good spoken delivery.
Logical
Individuals with a logical-learning preference like thinking through things, questioning others, and pondering abstract ideas. They enjoy understanding how things interrelate, and what purposes various ideas and experiments can serve. It helps if they understand the point of something before learning it or working on it.
Auditory
An auditory preference is seen in people who enjoy learning by listening to others, and discussing matters with others to understand the issue. Sometimes, what is said (the pure verbal aspect) may mean much less to such people than the tone of voice in which it is spoken. They may need to read something aloud to fully grasp it.
Understanding your preferred learning style can be useful because it can help you choose the approach that enables you to learn most quickly and effectively.
However, knowing one's preferred learning style/s can instead narrow some people's views of themselves and their abilities, if they start to dismiss or discount other styles of absorbing information. They may decide to label themselves ("I'm a visual type, so I can't possibly listen to this audio tape", or "Hey, I'm a kinetic learner - don't give me these textbooks"), and ignore their broader capacities.
Know yourself by all means, but do not use your learning preferences as an excuse for coddling your weaknesses. Very few people are so restricted by physical and mental challenges that they can learn in only one way, exclusively. Most individuals of normal mental and psychological capability are able to learn in all ways, just that they lean more towards one or two styles. These are preferences, not a disability.
People also grow and change, developing new interests and ways of seeing the world. Your learning preferences can change as you grow, and you may find yourself more flexible about applying different approaches to various situations when you are more mature - it does not have to be true that we become more set in our ways as we age!
Generally, however, people popularly accept that they may prefer to learn through spatial-visual, kinetic, language-oriented or logical styles (with this set of four categories often used to help child learners), or in visual, kinaesthetic or auditory styles (this set of three often being applied to adult learners).
Keeping things simple by ignoring the different sets, we'll just take a look at what all those terms might mean:
Spatial-visual
Learners who lean towards the spatial-visual style seem to absorb things better when they are shown, or can create, clear images, diagrams or illustrations of them. Colours and patterns interest them, and demonstrations of how things are done seem to be effective ways of imparting information to them.
Kinetic/kinaesthetic/tactile
"Kinetic" processes relate to movement. "Kinaesthetic", a word not found in traditional dictionaries, indicates something similar, and to touch (which is where "tactile" comes in). This learning style is essentially the preference for understanding something through touching it, walking through it, and generally getting hands-on with stuff.
Language-oriented
Language-oriented learners prefer to verbalise things, read to understand something or absorb information through clearly delivered lectures. They like playing with words, putting a problem into words to solve it, and grasping ideas set out in stories. They can learn quickly through handouts, reading material and good spoken delivery.
Logical
Individuals with a logical-learning preference like thinking through things, questioning others, and pondering abstract ideas. They enjoy understanding how things interrelate, and what purposes various ideas and experiments can serve. It helps if they understand the point of something before learning it or working on it.
Auditory
An auditory preference is seen in people who enjoy learning by listening to others, and discussing matters with others to understand the issue. Sometimes, what is said (the pure verbal aspect) may mean much less to such people than the tone of voice in which it is spoken. They may need to read something aloud to fully grasp it.
Understanding your preferred learning style can be useful because it can help you choose the approach that enables you to learn most quickly and effectively.
However, knowing one's preferred learning style/s can instead narrow some people's views of themselves and their abilities, if they start to dismiss or discount other styles of absorbing information. They may decide to label themselves ("I'm a visual type, so I can't possibly listen to this audio tape", or "Hey, I'm a kinetic learner - don't give me these textbooks"), and ignore their broader capacities.
Know yourself by all means, but do not use your learning preferences as an excuse for coddling your weaknesses. Very few people are so restricted by physical and mental challenges that they can learn in only one way, exclusively. Most individuals of normal mental and psychological capability are able to learn in all ways, just that they lean more towards one or two styles. These are preferences, not a disability.
People also grow and change, developing new interests and ways of seeing the world. Your learning preferences can change as you grow, and you may find yourself more flexible about applying different approaches to various situations when you are more mature - it does not have to be true that we become more set in our ways as we age!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
What make Timorese becoming special
Next few posting i would like to describe how we Timorese have been different with other citizens in other nations, and what had make us as extraordinary, hardwork and intelectual compare to other developed nations.
It has been 5 years I stayed in Malaysia for my study, i come across to know many people from different countries, knowing them along my journey in Malaysia, I have also jotted down some comparisson between us (Timorese) to other nations' citizens.
Believe or not we had a lot of talent that no doubt will bring our country forward in term of economic and social sectors, the only thing that hindrance us for been competing is that, we look ourself down compare to other people from other countries, or we just acknowledge our limitation by simply ignoring our blessed tallents.
I had many friends from African, middle east and sout east. And i have been with them for sometimes and i have known them as much as i can, and now i could say that we (Timorese) are much-much better compare to these people.
I would like to describe in the next posting... stay tunned.....
God Bless you all....
It has been 5 years I stayed in Malaysia for my study, i come across to know many people from different countries, knowing them along my journey in Malaysia, I have also jotted down some comparisson between us (Timorese) to other nations' citizens.
Believe or not we had a lot of talent that no doubt will bring our country forward in term of economic and social sectors, the only thing that hindrance us for been competing is that, we look ourself down compare to other people from other countries, or we just acknowledge our limitation by simply ignoring our blessed tallents.
I had many friends from African, middle east and sout east. And i have been with them for sometimes and i have known them as much as i can, and now i could say that we (Timorese) are much-much better compare to these people.
I would like to describe in the next posting... stay tunned.....
God Bless you all....
Friday, May 29, 2009
Offshore pictures
The wellhead adaptor
Hydraulic Workover Unit (HWU)
Blow out preventer (BOP)
The wellhead (X-mas tree)
The offshore oil platform in Samarang Platform
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Timor leste to be home for new Golf Resort
East Timor to be Home for New Golf Resort
The developer that built Malaysia's Sutera Harbour resort plan to build the first luxury resort in East Timor. Edward Ong, the principal of the Singapore-based Ock Group, will build the soon-to-be-named resort on a coastal setting outside East Timor's capital of Dili. The resort will consist of a 350-room hotel (the nation's first five-star hotel), a business park, and a 27-hole golf complex.
The resort will be modeled after the 348-acre Sutera Harbour resort in Sabah, Malaysia, which Ong opened in 2000. Sutera Harbour has two hotels (956 total rooms), a marina, a spa, and a 27-hole, Graham Marsh-designed golf complex.
East Timor, Asia's newest county, is in Indonesia, 400 miles northwest of Australia. It won its independence in 2002 after considerable violence and internal strife. The country is still struggling to build an economy - its unemployment rate is said to be 40 percent - and it lacks dependable electrical power and necessities such as a large airport and office space.
Initially, the resort will target business travelers. But Ong hopes East Timor will eventually generate enough tourism to warrant the construction of more hotel rooms and other attractions. "It's a virgin place that people have not explored yet," said Ong, who hopes to open the resort in 2012.
This story originally appeared in Asian Golf Business.
The developer that built Malaysia's Sutera Harbour resort plan to build the first luxury resort in East Timor. Edward Ong, the principal of the Singapore-based Ock Group, will build the soon-to-be-named resort on a coastal setting outside East Timor's capital of Dili. The resort will consist of a 350-room hotel (the nation's first five-star hotel), a business park, and a 27-hole golf complex.
The resort will be modeled after the 348-acre Sutera Harbour resort in Sabah, Malaysia, which Ong opened in 2000. Sutera Harbour has two hotels (956 total rooms), a marina, a spa, and a 27-hole, Graham Marsh-designed golf complex.
East Timor, Asia's newest county, is in Indonesia, 400 miles northwest of Australia. It won its independence in 2002 after considerable violence and internal strife. The country is still struggling to build an economy - its unemployment rate is said to be 40 percent - and it lacks dependable electrical power and necessities such as a large airport and office space.
Initially, the resort will target business travelers. But Ong hopes East Timor will eventually generate enough tourism to warrant the construction of more hotel rooms and other attractions. "It's a virgin place that people have not explored yet," said Ong, who hopes to open the resort in 2012.
This story originally appeared in Asian Golf Business.
Monday, March 23, 2009
How you dress
First of foremost i would like to apology for such a long time not updating this blog, due to i was busy this lately, but anyway i had a chance where probably i can restart to pen down my thoughts through this blog.
In today's post I wouldn't like to talk about the science or so-called Petroleum Engineering because too focus on science is not that terific anyway.
So i have decided to write something totally out of the contents of this blog, where it was meant to be engineering channel, where we can argu and yell at each other about the science.
The "How You Dress" probably something that very common in our lives, as we humanbeing so passionate about the our own image, where the Ego and Hyprocrites are taken place along the way as we move on.
Therefore, it is indeed important to each of us to think out side of the box, what the proper dress that you should wear and how you impress other with your unnatural apperance.
In the long way back people prefers to be a natural one which is a bless one, but that isn't applied anymore in current world, as we grew up in the midst of technology and that technology sometimes have been lead us, and sometimes our behaviour will follow the boosting of the technology.
And this is very appropriate to say that, one you dress up, you should know which part of your body that will the first sight that will be assessed at the first when you are meeting with your friends/strangers/guests. People think that people will focus onto the face seconds you shake hand, and i am the one that opposing it.
Actually most of people we meet be it western, asians or africans, the first thing that your patner will look will be your toe, that eventually will bring slowly up to your face. Thefore, if you wanna impress people try to wear nicest shoes and if possible makesure that the shoes that you are using must be branded one.
This will impress people to talk actively with you, if you want to be well entertained.
MY SHORT WORDS IS THAT WEAR THE NICEST SHOES FOLLOWED BY THE COOL PANTS AND SHIRT, AND YOUR FACIAL EXPRESSING NO LONGER AN ISSUE TO ATTRACT BUNCH OF FRIENDS IN JUST HOURS"
GOOD LUCK BUDDY....
IR.LUIS
In today's post I wouldn't like to talk about the science or so-called Petroleum Engineering because too focus on science is not that terific anyway.
So i have decided to write something totally out of the contents of this blog, where it was meant to be engineering channel, where we can argu and yell at each other about the science.
The "How You Dress" probably something that very common in our lives, as we humanbeing so passionate about the our own image, where the Ego and Hyprocrites are taken place along the way as we move on.
Therefore, it is indeed important to each of us to think out side of the box, what the proper dress that you should wear and how you impress other with your unnatural apperance.
In the long way back people prefers to be a natural one which is a bless one, but that isn't applied anymore in current world, as we grew up in the midst of technology and that technology sometimes have been lead us, and sometimes our behaviour will follow the boosting of the technology.
And this is very appropriate to say that, one you dress up, you should know which part of your body that will the first sight that will be assessed at the first when you are meeting with your friends/strangers/guests. People think that people will focus onto the face seconds you shake hand, and i am the one that opposing it.
Actually most of people we meet be it western, asians or africans, the first thing that your patner will look will be your toe, that eventually will bring slowly up to your face. Thefore, if you wanna impress people try to wear nicest shoes and if possible makesure that the shoes that you are using must be branded one.
This will impress people to talk actively with you, if you want to be well entertained.
MY SHORT WORDS IS THAT WEAR THE NICEST SHOES FOLLOWED BY THE COOL PANTS AND SHIRT, AND YOUR FACIAL EXPRESSING NO LONGER AN ISSUE TO ATTRACT BUNCH OF FRIENDS IN JUST HOURS"
GOOD LUCK BUDDY....
IR.LUIS
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