Basic Drilling, Completion & Work over Operations
Basic Drilling, Completion & Work Over Operations
OBJECTIVES
- About drilling equipment and how it is used
- Drilling terminology and abbreviations
- Keys to planning a successful well
- Common drilling problems and how to avoid them
- How to read a morning report
- Technology behind information in a morning report
COURSE OUTLINE
- Overview of the drilling process: Overall drilling practices
- Language of drilling
- Reservoir rock and fluid properties
- Rigs & rig equipment
- Drilling string components & design Bits; Rig operation
- Drilling fluids & hydraulics MWD; Well control
- Hole problems and stuck pipe
- Drilling risks
- Cores and coring
- Casing design & installation
- Primary cementing
- Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling
- Wellhead & trees
- Overview of the completion process: Zonal isolation
- Tubing, packers & completion equipment
- Safety & flow control devices
- Open hole completions
- Basic completion types
- Perforating
- Open & cased hole logging
- Formation damage & treatment
- Completion fluids
- Multiple completions
- Overview of work over techniques :Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating
- Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques
- Scale and corrosion
- Sidetracking
- Paraffin and asphaltenes
- Reworks; Recompletions
- Deepening; Coiled tubing