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