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Figure 1. Conventional drilling vs. casing while drilling technology.
Figure 2. Conventional drilling BHA vs. casing while drilling BHA.
Figure 3. Drill lock assembly.
Figure 4. Retrievable and non-retrievable CwD BHA (modified from Ref. [3]).
Figure 5. Tesco’s CwD practice.
Figure 6. Annular space of the conventional drilling (a) versus CwD (b).
Figure 7. Plastering effect in the casing while drilling operation[22].
Figure 8. Illustration of plastering effect.
Figure 9. (a) Conventional drilling, and (b) CwD wellbore geometry[22].
Figure 10. Radial flow model.
Figure 11. Schematic diagram of wellbore.
Figure 12. Comparison between conventional and CwD methods.
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