Production & Completion Engineering

Production and Completions Engineering

OBJECTIVES

• Gain insight into typical geological models, including unconventional heavy oil, shale gas, and shale oil
• Design and properly select well completion mechanical equipment
• Evaluate the flow capacity of a well
• Achieve successful well casing primary cementing and remedial casing cement repair techniques
• Select equipment and engineer alternate methods for perforating operations in varied down hole well environments including underbalanced procedures
• Utilize alternate well intervention techniques of applied wireline operations and coiled tubing methods
• Recognize harsh well producing environments leading to potential corrosion and erosion failure, scale formation, and related downhole deposits
• Choose proper wellbore completion and workover fluids, fluid solids control, and fluids filtration standards and best practice methods
• Distinguish the characteristics and types of mechanical artificial lift systems
• Ascertain why and how formations become damaged and how to interpret, prevent, and correct reservoir damage
• Collect data to categorize options to choose an optimum well stimulation plan
• Understand the causes of and the best approach to managing sand production
• Understand how to properly acidize a carbonate or a sandstone reservoir
• Understand the proper use and effects of surfactants and their presence in the oilfield in order to benefit from their use and avoid problems mis-application
• Manage organic paraffin and asphaltene field deposits in tubing and surface facilities
• Understand modern fracture stimulation and productivity improvement, including multistage horizontal well shale gas and shale oil massive frac job design and operations
• Review heavy oil development and extraction including mining operations and current modern thermal processes
• Choose proven technology for cased hole production logging tools and interpretation methods
• Select mechanical and / or permeability altering chemical methods to attempt downhole water shut off
• Recognize, prevent, and manage corrosive conditions and typical common soluble and insoluble scales
• Apply technologies including: expandable tubulars and screens, intelligent well completions, wellbore fiber optic data gathering and transmission, interval control valves, multi-lateral completions, and elastomer swellable tubulars

COURSE OUTLINE

• Importance of the geological model
• Reservoir engineering fundamentals in production operations
• Well testing methods applicable to production operations
• Understanding inflow and outflow and applied system analysis
• Primary and remedial cementing operations
• Well completion design and equipment
• Completion and workover well fluids
• Perforating design and applications
• Production logging
• Artificial lift completions
• Problem wells
• Formation damage
• Acidizing
• Corrosion control
• Scale deposition, removal, and prevention
• Surfactants
• Paraffin and asphaltenes
• Sand control
• Hydraulic fracturing