1. depleted reservoirs
2.Casing drilling has been employed in many countries as an effective method of reducing the overall drilling costs by reducing drilling time and drillstring problems encountered during conventional drilling process. In addition to the productive drilling time lost to tripping, unscheduled events during tripping can make the drilling process even more inefficient and even lead to loosing the well. While the potential savings from reducing drill-string tripping and handling times are important, the savings from reducing hole problems may be more significant. There are many situations where problems such as lost circulation, well control incidents, and borehole stability problems are directly attributed to tripping the drill-string and other situations where these problems prevent the drill-string from being tripped. Since the CDS process provides a continuous ability to circulate the well, it is inherently safer than leaving the well static without a means of circulating it while a conventional drill-string is tripped.
Reduced pipe tripping with the CDS should also reduce surge and swab pressure fluctuations.
There are two basic methods of drilling with casing (Fisher et al., 2004):
3. A short wireline retrievable bottom hole assembly (BHA) consisting of at least a bit and expandable underreamer (Fig. 1) are used to drill a hole of adequate size to allow the casing to pass freely.