Combining diagnosis of the casing and tooljoint wear in mud fluid while drilling

A ground monitoring system was developed to diagnose casing and tooljoint wear in a well during drilling by combining the analysis of wear debris with detection of the tooljoints. The result shows that the wear debris concentration in the circulating drilling mud in a well reflects the total wear rate of the triboelements in the well, while the wear detection of a tooljoint can indicate its wear loss between two contiguous times of drill-pipe lifting. A diagnosis method that integrates the two types of information was developed to identify severe wear regions in well casing. Theoretical analyses and field test show that the severe casing wear region can be located relatively accurately by the integrated method. This method presents a new ground casing wear diagnosis approach with good real-time results.