
1402  Index 
Blowout 
(continued) 
causes of, 
1100 
prevention  equipment, 853 
during well  completion, 845-852 
corrosion failures,  1257 
subsea stack,  1369, 
1371 
surface stack, 1369 
Blowout preventer,  1101 
Body  (rigid body  mechanics),  137 
Boiling point, normal, 344 
Bolts, design specifications, 51 
1 
Boolean  data type,  124 
Boosters for air and gas drilling, 
BOP. 
See 
Blowout preventer 
Borehole  direction,  1079 
Borehole effect,  986 
Borehole pressure,  maximum, 
Bottomhole assembly 
856-859 
1112-1113 
for air or gas drilling, 846 
whirling,  1021 
Bottomhole location,  1079 
Bottomhole orientation sub, 1079 
Bottomhole pressure with air and 
Bourgoyne, 
A. 
T., Jr.,  1091 
Boyle’s  law,  337 
Bradenhead  technique,  1225-1226, 
Brake systems, 529 
Brooming  (wire), 593-594 
BSR. 
See 
Bending stress ratio 
Bubble point,  344 
Buckingham n  theorem, 373-376 
Buffer capacity of pit fluid, 
Buffer solution,  331 
Build-and-hold wellbore,  1079 
Buildup,  1079 
Bulirsch and Stoer method, 
88 
Bulirsch, 
R., 
68 
Bushings 
gas drilling, 852-853 
1227 
1354- 1355 
kelly,  626 
master, 623-626 
Butane, properties 
of, 
238 
C 
Cable-tool drilling lines, field care, 586 
Calcium chloride 
estimation, 662 
as a hydration  accelerator,  1199 
derivatives, 35-36 
high-order, 37 
partial,  37 
Calculus. 
See 
ako 
Integrals 
differential equations, 45-48 
differentials, 38-39 
finite difference, 60-63 
Fundamental Theorem of, 41 
Laplace transformation,  48-50 
maxima and minima,  37 
radius 
of 
curvature,  39-40 
Second Fundamental Theorem, 45 
Capacitance  (electrical), 281, 284 
Capacitor  motor, 404 
Capacitors,  282 
Carbon dioxide 
starting capacitance,  407 
corrosion caused by,  1303-1306 
detection 
of, 
1318 
thermodynamic properties of, 
221, 237 
Carnot engine efficiency, 217 
Cartesian  system, 150-151 
Casing 
care of  in hole,  1176 
cementing,  1177, 1180 
large-diameter casing, 1211-1215 
multistage,  12 16-12 
18, 
12 19 
normal single-state, 1201-1211 
collapse pressure,  1147-1155 
dimensions and weights, 1133-1139 
field makeup,  1174-1175 
inspection and maintenance, 
joint strength 
548-549 
buttress  thread,  1156-1157 
round  thread,  1156 
landing procedure,  1175-1 176 
manufacturing process,  1132 
offshore operations,  1367 
physical properties, 
1133 
program  design,  1128-1 132 
recovery of,  11 76 
running and pulling,  1164-1 167 
setting depth, 1129, 
1131 
troubleshooting,  1176-1 177 
types of,  1127-1128 
internal yield,  1155-1 156 
maximum, 
11 
11-1 
112 
combination 
Casing pressure 
Casing string