Rassmotreny problemy bureniya neftyanykh i gazovykh skvazhin, svyazannye s vozniknoveniem oslozhneniy v vide osypey gornykh porod, vodoneftegazoproyavleniy i pogloshcheniy burovogo rastvora. Privedeny rezul'taty laboratornykh i promyslovykh issledovaniy, ikh teoreticheskoe obosnovanie i novye tekhniko-tekhnologicheskie resheniya, povyshayushchikh effektivnost' stroitel'stva skvazhin i glushenie otkrytykh fontanov. Kniga pomozhet burovikam-praktikam raspoznavat' problemy, voznikayushchie pri bor'be s oslozhneniyami, ob"yasnit, kak prakticheski regulirovat' davlenie v skvazhine i reshat' zadachi po likvidatsii oslozhneniy, a takzhe okazhetsya poleznoy uchenym, zanimayushchimsya razrabotkoy i sozdaniem novykh tekhnologiy, povyshayushchikh effektivnost' i bezavariynost' pri provodke skvazhin v slozhnykh gorno-geologicheskikh usloviyakh, aspirantam pri reshenii nauchnykh problem.