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A complete Picture-Guided tutorial on how to use Halliburton eRedBook Software.


This tutorial covers all of the features you need to get started using Halliburton eRedBook such as Well-Design, Well Completions and much more. Although knowledge of how to navigate in a Windows environment is helpful, this tutorial was created for the computer beginner. Halliburton eRedBook is derived from the Halliburton Cementing Tables, the industrypreferred data reference for calculations used in drilling, cementing and/or completing oil and gas wells.

With the Halliburton eRedBook you can:


Have instant access to key dimensions and strengths for pipe, including collapse pressure, inner diameter and weight. Look up specifications for your most frequently used tubulars to quickly calculate capacity and annulus volumes with just a few touches. View volume measurements and calculations in Metric or English British Imperial units. Calculate total volumes in a large range of units (barrels, cubic feet, gallons, cubic meters, liters and more). Calculate volume per distance in multiple units (barrels per foot, gallons per foot, liters per meter, and more). Copy results with a single click. The result line will flash blue once copied. You can then paste your results in any other application or email.

eRedBook is simple to use and indispensable for field engineers, business development, and engineering students.

Simple steps to construct simple things:

1. Open the software. Double-Click on the shortcut from your desktop or from the location you stored it in your hard-drive. Something similar as shown below should open on your computer screen.

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2. Click on wellbore geometry.

3. You should see something like this.

4. Now to build a simple well we can follow the following simple steps. Suppose we need to assemble the following components of a well (Total Depth: 3500 ft.) using the software which satisfies the below mentioned specifications and complies with API specifications. All specifications of components are selected on the basis of Collapse Pressure of Casing and Tubing. Components to assemble: 1. Surface Casing: OD - 16 inches.

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API Grade: LS-65. Depth: 1500 ft. 2. Intermediate Casing: OD 10.75 inches. API Grade: K-55. 3. Tubing: OD 4.5 inches. API Grade: L-80. 4. Float Shoe (Wherever appropriate),Perforation, One Drillable Bridge Plug, 3 Landing Nipples at the Depth Intervals of 500 ft, Fluid in Tubing. 5. First we will install the surface casing. For that we will click on casing as

shown below and drag the casing to the white space or the work-space.

Drag here

6. Now you should get something like this.

It will ask you to input the outside diameter and API Grade and Weight and Inside Diameter and depth of the casing. But do not worry too much or scratch your head , as this software makes it relatively easy to find and input these datas which will comply with API specifications. Just follow the following steps. 7. Go back to the software window which you saw when you first opened the eRedbook. On the bottom part you will get an option called Calculators as shown below. Click there.

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8. You will be greeted with a new window. Select CT Collapse pressure (As per requirements of our problem well design).

9. You will be greeted with a window like this. Click on the magnifying glass icon you can see here. You will be greeted with another window shown in the next step.

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10. So this is what you have been searching for. Voila. Just find your need and select whatever specific specification you need for Casings, Tubings, Coiled Tubings, Drill Pipes.

11. Get the parameters you need from this calculator and input these in the window you needed when you had to input the parameters to build the casing and other components of the well. In our problem we required to input outside diameter and

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weight as we already had OD - 16 inches, API Grade: LS-65, Depth: 1500 ft. We can select weight between available options and also to required ID.

12. Input the parameters in the Casing editor and hit enter.

13. Voila ! You have your surface casing ready as per API Guidelines. Repeat the process for other pipes and you will have your well ready.

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14. Get your pipes ready and it should look something like this which will include a surface casing, an intermediate casing and a tubing string.

15. Now insert other equipments from the euipment section.

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16. You will get all host of equipments here. Select those required and drag them to the correct place by giving the correct parameters. After dragging and placing all euipments your well should look somewhat like this.

17. Now you are almost done with your well and equipment. Experiment as much as you want and save your file to open it and edit it later. There are numerous sectors that

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you can experiment and build fascinating things using this software. You will learn more only when you experiment more. Always remember the mantra KISS- Keep It Simple Stupid . Also you will get various Technical Data and tables here. Use them to your requirements.

HAPPY EXPERIMENTING!!!!
Legal Notice:
Halliburton, eRedBook and the eRedBook Logo, Halliburton Logo are trademarks of Halliburton Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. All steps shown here are just arbitrary examples. It does not resemble any actual WellProfiles. Any resemblance found herein is unintentional and coincidental. FPE does not guarantee the correctness of the datas used in the tutorial.

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