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step in controlling the well.
10. Once the kick is out and the heavier mud in, the drilling crew makes a few
checks to ensure that the well is back under control, and drilling operations resume.

7 Fill in the gaps.

a) drill pipe d) tools g) crew
b) fish e) drilling h) grapples
c) overshot f) junk i) drill

А 1)_____is a piece of equipment, a tool, or a part of the drill string that the crew
loses in the hole. 2)_____personnel call small pieces, such as a bit cone or a wrench,
"junk." Whenever 3)______ or a fish exists in a hole, the crew has to remove it, or fish it out.
Otherwise, it cannot continue to 4)______. Over the years, fishing crews have developed
many ingenious 5)_______ and techniques to retrieve fish. For example, the crew can run
an 6)________into the hole to the fish. Crew members make up the overshot on
7)_______ and lower the overshot over the fish. 8)_________ in the overshot latch onto
the fish firmly. Then the 9)_______ pulls the overshot and attached fish out of the hole.

8 Scan the text and correct spelling and grammar mistakes.

For our purpeses, special drilling operations are included directional drilling,
fihing, and well control. Directionale drilling are intentionaly drilling the hole off-
vertical for various reason. Fishing is the operation crew members implment to
retrive an object in the wellbore that don't belong there and impede drilling.

9 Translate the following expressions at a quick pace.

Кільцевий превентор, штучно викривляти свердловину, клапан високого
тиску, телеметричний супровід буріння, герметичне ущільнення для
роботи під тиском, герметизувати затрубний простір, розвідувати
продуктивний пласт, герметичне ущільнення для роботи під тиском.

10 Translate the following sentences from English into Ukrainian
1.Well controlis the techniques crew members use to regain control of the well
should formation fluids inadvertently enter the well.
2. Then they kick off, or deflect, the hole so that the bottom may end up
hundreds of feet or metres away from its starting point on the surface.
3. Segmented pipe is very flexible and can bend a great deal without breaking.
4. Unlike an overshot, which the crew places over the fish, a spear grips inside
the fish and allows the crew to retrieve it.
5. On land rigs and on offshore rigs that are not floaters, such as jackups, crew
members nipple up (attach) the BOPs to the top of the well below the rig floor
6. In many cases, fluids in the blowout ignite and reduce the rig to a melted pile

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