Practical Drilling Skills
Practical Drilling Skills
OBJECTIVES
- Review drilling data and plan the well
- Incorporate completion plans into the drilling plan
- Drill a well cost effectively and maximize penetration rate
- Evaluate stuck pipe problems and avoid potential problems
- Evaluate and maintain drilling fluids
- Optimize hole cleaning
- Design casing, drill string and BOP/wellheads
- Evaluate and implement cementing programs
- Design and implement bit and hydraulics programs
- Incorporate directional drilling and deviation control
- Recognize and evaluate well control problems
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Drilling supervisors, drilling engineers, toolpushers, managers and technical support personnel.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation
- HSE at the rig site
- Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate
- Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations
- Drilling fluids
- Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD
- Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig
- Bit selection and application
- Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment
- Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics
- Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling
- Pressure control, routine and special problems
- Project post analysis