Practical Drilling Skills

Practical Drilling Skills

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Drilling engineers, company men, supervisors, toolpushers, drillers and technical managers responsible for improving drilling performance at the rig site.

COURSE OUTLINE

• Pore pressure determination
• Well control procedures: mudlogger data, killing well, barite plugs
• Hole cleaning and rheology
• Drilling fluid: polymers, biocide, water-base, oil-base
• Controlling drilling solids to reduce drilling problems and waste volumes
• Pressure integrity tests
• Hydraulic optimization (onsite “ocho” technique)
• Optimized weight-on-bit/rotary speed (onsite)
• Hole problems: ballooning, hole stability, pipe sticking, lost returns
• Operation guidelines
• Operation problems
• Drilling trends and new technology