Well Design Workshop

Well Design and Construction Engineering

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Trainee drilling engineers, petroleum engineers and specialist service company engineers

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1

• Overview of Drilling Operations
• Exploration & production licenses, Drilling personnel and Rotary drilling equipment
• The drilling process onshore and offshore
• Drilling economics
• Rig Components
• The Drillstring
• Design of the drillstring
• Drilling Bits
• Design of PDC and Roller Cone Bits, selection of bits, grading of dull bits, assessing and improving the performance of drill bits.

Day 2

• Formation Pressures & Well Control
• Introduction to origin and representation of pore pressures and fracture pressures
• Origin, prediction and detection of abnormal pressures
• Drilling problems associated with abnormal pressures
• Prediction and confirmation of formation fracture pressures
• Principles of primary & secondary well control
• Warning signs of kicks
• Well killing procedures
• BOP equipment and BOP stack arrangements.

Day 3

• Drilling Fluids, Hydraulics and Casing
• Functions, properties, design/selection of various types of drilling fluid
• Wellsite tests performed on drilling fluids
• Design of a solids control system
• Introduction to pressure losses in the drilling system
• Optimization of bit hydraulics
• Major functions and properties of casing and casing string configurations
• Casing running operations
• The casing design process

Day 4

• Cementing and Directional Drilling
• Functions and properties of cement, single and multiple stage cementing operations
• Designing a cementing operation
• Assessing the quality of the cement sheath
• Introduction to directional drilling
• Designing the trajectory for a directional well
• Directional drilling tools and BHAs
• Introduction to wellbore surveying
• Calculating the trajectory of a directional well based on survey data
• Directional surveying tools

Day 5

• Measurement While Drilling and Subsea Drilling
• Introduction to MWD and the value of real time data
• MWD data collection and transmission techniques
• Introduction to tools and equipment used to drill from a floating drilling rig
• Course review