The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations: Tools, Techniques, and Rules of Thumb (Gulf Drilling Guides)

No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically. This practical guide is packed with illustrations and descriptions of fishing equipment and tools to help you solve just about any fishing problem. Foremen, engineers, and superintendents who write procedures, make drilling decisions, and supervise operations will find this handy book invaluable, and trainees will find it an excellent learning manual. Oilwell Fishing Operations tells how to free stuck pipe, part the pipe string, and repair casing. It describes the various types of catching tools, jars, mills, junk, baskets, and hydrostatic and rotating bailers, along with washover operations, wireline fishing, fishing in cavities, and fishing in high angle deviated and horizontal wells. The author's tips and warnings are sure to save you time and money in avoided misruns, downtime, and lost equipment. \* Currently, there is no other book on the market focused only on oilwell fishing operations. \* Covers all of the best practices for oilwell fishing operations and all of the latest equipment. \* The first book in the Gulf Drilling Guides series, the first, last, and only stop for the drilling engineer with a problem to solve.

Unpredictable, unwanted, and costly, oil and gas well fishing is not a typical practice for drilling, workover and completion projects, but roughly one in every five wells experience this intervention. To stay on top, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition will keep fishing tool product managers, drilling managers and all other well intervention specialists keyed in to all the latest tools, techniques and rules of thumb critical to conventional and complex wellbore projects, such as extended reach horizontal wells, thru-tubing, and coiled tubing operations.

Strengthened with updated material and a new chapter on wellbore cleaning, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition ensures that the life of the well will be saved no matter the unforeseen circumstances. Crucial aspects include:

• Enhancements with updated equipment, technology, and a new chapter on wellbore cleaning methods
• Additional input from worldwide service companies, providing a more comprehensive balance
• Remains the only all-inclusive guide exclusively devoted to fishing tools, techniques, and rules of thumb

• Remodeled with latest jars on the market, catch tools, and retrieving stuck packers with cutting technology
• Improved with information on methods such as sidetracking and plug-and-abandon operations
• Modernized with approaches and tactics on more advanced well projects such as high-angle deviated and horizontal wells and expandable casing technology to repair casing failure and leaks.

Unpredictable, unwanted, and costly, oil and gas well fishing is not a typical practice for drilling, workover and completion projects, but roughly one in every five wells experience this intervention. To stay on top, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition will keep fishing tool product managers, drilling managers and all other well intervention specialists keyed in to all the latest tools, techniques and rules of thumb critical to conventional and complex wellbore projects, such as extended reach horizontal wells, thru-tubing, and coiled tubing operations. Strengthened with updated material and a new chapter on wellbore cleaning, The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations, Second Edition ensures that the life of the well will be saved no matter the unforeseen circumstances. Crucial aspects include: Enhancements with updated equipment, technology, and a new chapter on wellbore cleaning methods Additional input from worldwide service companies, providing a more comprehensive balance Remains the only all-inclusive guide exclusively devoted to fishing tools, techniques, and rules of thumb Remodeled with latest jars on the market, catch tools, and retrieving stuck packers with cutting technology Improved with information on methods such as sidetracking and plug-and-abandon operations Modernized with approaches and tactics on more advanced well projects such as high-angle deviated and horizontal wells and expandable casing technology to repair casing failure and leaks "Since the first addition of the "The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations" was released in 2003 a few things have changed within our industry, we have seen an increase in horizontal drilling, a few technology updates have occurred but as always fishing is still around. (We have strived to update all technology within the second edition of the book, however, we would recommend to always talk to your local fishing tool provider to check on the latest technology updates). The use of coiled tubing has grown substantially with the increase in horizontal drilling and fracking in the North America market. However, what has not changed is the need for fishing tool supervisors and fishing equipment and sooner or later whether drilling a new well or doing a workover on an existing wellbore, the need for fishing will occur. The following reason still come into play when it comes to fishing; fatigue of equipment, hole conditions, planned jobs in workover operations and human error"-- Provided by publisher