Drilling
Drilling
Drilling
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Description
DESIGNED FOR
Secretarial, administrative, management, field support, accounting, purchasing, economics, legal, finance, human
resources, drafting, land and data processing personnel, as well as investors and royalty owners
Participants involved at the technical level of the industry, particularly engineers, technicians or others with
mathematics background through basic calculus, should register for the Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices
course.
COURSE CONTENT
○ Reservoir fluid properties
○ Petroleum geology
○ The petroleum reservoir
○ Unconventional gas (“tight shale” gas)
○ Exploration technology
○ Drilling technology
○ Well completion and workover
○ Production operations
○ Recovery
○ Surface processing
○ Offshore operations
Exploration and Production Process Basics: Understanding the Petroleum Industry Value Cycle -
EPB
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Newly-hired engineers and geoscientists
COURSE CONTENT
• Opportunity identification
• Elements of petroleum environment
• Play to prospect to field technologies
• Concessions and contracts
• Find and define an asset
• Appraise an opportunity
• Build a field development plan
• Facilities: gas, oil, design, construction, processing, maintenance, decommissioning
• Building an effective team
• Company/industry processes and procedures
Discipline: Geology
Level: Basic
Instructors: Mr. John F. Dillon, Dr. D. Andy Link, PetroSkills Specialist
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Description
DESIGNED FOR
Petroleum industry personnel in need of basic geological training, including engineering, geophysical, technical
support, and administrative personnel
COURSE CONTENT
○ Minerals and rocks
○ Plate tectonics
○ Geological times
○ Weathering and erosion
○ Deposition
○ Diagenesis
○ Reservoirs
○ Structural geology and petroleum
○ Origin, migration, and trapping of petroleum
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Petroleum and Production Engineers, Completion Engineers, Geoscientists, Managers, Technical Supervisors,
Service and Support Personnel, Entry Level Drilling Engineers, Drilling Operations Personnel, Drilling Office
Support Staff.
Equipment and procedures involved with drilling oil and gas wells are described for those who are interested in
understanding the drilling process regardless of the academic background. During the first day, the overall drilling
process is presented along with definitions and descriptions of drilling equipment. During the remainder of the
week, the various components are discussed in greater detail with explanations of the basic science concepts which
guide these processes. Subjects include descriptions of drill bits, directional drilling, drilling fluids, solids control,
cementing, casing, well bore stability, well control, measurement-while-drilling techniques, stuck pipe, lost
circulation, and well bore hydraulics.
Some technology enhancements are included to improve understanding of drilling operations for all participants,
with or without a science background. An understanding of clay mineralogy helps understand well bore instability
and drilling fluids. A discussion of pressure and pressure effects helps explain many of the procedures and problems
associated with drilling wells. Rocks behave differently under pressure and understanding this behavior helps
understand drilling performance. The art and science of drilling are explained in simple terms.
After all of the various components and procedures are discussed, the information contained in morning reports is
explained and used as a summary of the course content.
COURSE CONTENT
• The overall drilling process and equipment
• MWD
• Drill strings
• Well control
• Cementing
• Casing design
• Well control
• Safety
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Technical, field, service, support and supervisory personnel desiring to gain an introductory overview of these topics
and how they interrelate. Excellent for cross-training of other technical disciplines such as reservoir and surface
facility engineers plus geoscientists, and anyone who interacts with drilling, completion or workover design
engineers such as technical supervisors and technical service personnel.
This is not a fundamental course for training engineers seeking a career in drilling or workovers (for these,PO1 is
recommended).
COURSE CONTENT
Overview of the drilling process:
○ Overall drilling practices
○ Language of drilling
○ Reservoir rock and fluid properties
○ Rigs & rig equipment
○ Drilling string components & design
○ Bits
○ Drilling fluids & hydraulics
○ Rig operation
○ MWD
○ Well control
○ Hole problems & stuck pipe
○ Drilling risks
○ Cores and coring
○ Casing design & installation
○ Primary cementing
○ Directional, horizontal, multilateral & under-balanced drilling
○ Wellhead & trees
Overview of the completion process:
○ Zonal isolation
○ Tubing, packers & completion equipment
○ Safety & flow control devices
○ Open hole completions
○ Basic completion types
○ Perforating
○ Open & cased hole logging
○ Formation damage & treatment
○ Completion fluids Multiple completions
Overview of workover techniques:
○ Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing & deep perforating
○ Formation & sand control: creens, chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new & novel
techniques
○ Scale & corrosion
○ Paraffin & asphaltenes
○ Recompletions
○ Reworks
○ Sidetracking
○ Deepening
○ Coiled tubing
Drilling Practices - DP
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Drilling supervisors, drilling engineers, toolpushers, managers and technical support personnel
Examples
For in-house courses, the instructors of this course will accept examples from your company for analysis in the class
as one of the demonstration exercises. Please contact PetroSkills Training for a list of the information and support
data required, as well as the necessary lead-time.
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Drilling supervisors, drilling engineers, tool pushers, managers and technical support personnel involved with
drilling operations
COURSE CONTENT
○ Composition and properties of water-based drilling fluids
○ Analysis of API water-base mud and non-aqueous drilling fluid report
○ Identification and treatment of drilling fluid contaminants
○ Composition and properties of water-based and non-aqueous drilling fluid systems
○ Selection of water phase salinity for borehole stability
○ API water-based and non-aqueous drilling mud tests
○ Adjustment of non-aqueous drilling fluid properties
○ Managing invert emulsion fluid systems: rig preparation and displacement
○ Non-aqueous drilling fluids designed for environmental compliance
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Operating and service company personnel responsible for planning, designing, laboratory testing, overseeing, and
executing cementing operations
COURSE CONTENT
○ Basic cements
○ Cement additives
○ Laboratory Testing
○ Casing Hardware
○ Blending equipment
○ Mixing equipment
○ Primary cementing
○ Remedial cementing
○ Plug cementing
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Entire drilling and completions team, including operator, drilling contractor, and service companies. Agendas are
typically customized to address topics relevant to the team.
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Drilling, production and operations engineers, field supervisors, toolpushers, managers and technical support
personnel
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
○ Make survey calculations
○ Interpret TVD, polar and rectangular coordinates and vertical section
○ Interpret dogleg severity and the problems associated with dogleg severity
○ Plan a two-dimensional directional well
○ Plan horizontal wells based on the objectives of the well
○ Determine the best multi-lateral completion for an application
○ Determine declination and non-magnetic drilling collar selection
○ Apply the best survey instrument for the job
○ Directionally drill with rotary BHA's, jetting, whipstocks, motor, steerable motors, and rotary steerable systems
○ Drill horizontally underbalanced
○ Interpret torque and drag and determine what factors will affect the torque and drag
○ Determine cementing requirements for directional wells
COURSE CONTENT
○ Applications for directional drilling
○ Directional profiles
○ Extended reach wells
○ Survey calculations and accuracy
○ Dogleg severity calculations and problems associated with doglegs
○ Planning directional and horizontal wells
○ Horizontal drilling methods and applications
○ Logging high angle wells
○ Hole-cleaning
○ Multi-laterals
○ Types of survey instruments
○ Tools used to deflect a wellbore
○ Torque and drag calculations
○ Cementing
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Experienced drilling personnel, drilling engineers, company men, supervisors, tool pushers, drillers and technical
managers responsible for improving drilling operations at the rig site.
• Minimize drilling costs and decrease visible and invisible non-productive time.
This course concentrates on providing methods to optimize drilling performance while drilling. The purpose is to
make any rig perform to its maximum capability. Initially, hydraulics are optimized from measurements made on the
rig floor. Nozzles and flow rate will be selected which provide the maximum hydraulic impact or the maximum
hydraulic power at the bottom of the well. Theoretical calculation of pressure losses in a well bore require
knowledge of fluid properties at the various temperatures and the shear rates as the fluid flows though each interval
of a bore hole. These values are not usually available on most drilling rigs. Measurements can be made on the rig
floor can provide answers that computer programs cannot.
After hydraulic optimization, the bit flounder point will be determined so the bit can drill with the maximum
efficiency. Techniques and procedures are discussed to apply the best bit loading for the lowest cost footage.
On-site observations will permit the drilling fluid rheology to be adjusted to provide good hole cleaning and remove
the maximum number of cuttings from beneath the drill bit. This requires an analysis and an adjustment of drilling
fluid rheology, solids control, and proper drilling fluid processing.
This course is designed to help you ‘listen to the well’. Experienced drillers seek to drill at the lowest cost by
eliminating downtime and optimizing rig performance. They do that by responding to indicators present on most
rigs. This course is designed to help experienced drilling personnel listen to the well.
Completion of the PetroSkills BDT course is highly recommended before taking this course. Participants with
several years rig experience will benefit from the procedures discussed; but participants who are not familiar with
drilling rigs and drilling processes will probably not understand some of the procedures.
Course Content
• Selecting proper bit loading (weight on bit and rotary speed) for the fastest, cheapest hole
• Hole problems (such as, stuck pipe, lost circulation, and ballooning)
• Borehole stability
• Operating guidelines
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Operations managers, drilling managers drilling superintendents, drilling supervisors, wellsite drilling engineers, rig
managers, rig superintendents, contract drilling engineers
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Operating company and service company personnel responsible for planning, overseeing, and executing cementing
operations
COURSE CONTENT
○ The overall cementing operation
○ Primary cementing
○ Remedial cementing
○ Plug cementing
○ The use of cement additives
○ Laboratory testing
○ Casing hardware
○ Cement sheath integrity
○ Cement sheath evaluation
○ Mixing equipment
○ Special cement systems
○ Cement guidelines
○ Current documents
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Participants are typically operator, drilling contractor and service company engineers, drilling supervisors and
superintendents. This is an intensive technical workshop. A calculator is required and a laptop is strongly
recommended. Class size is typically limited to 18-20.
COURSE CONTENT
• Drill String and BHA Failure Prevention
• Low-Angle Design Applications
• High-Angle Design Applications
• Torque, Drag, and Casing Wear Mitigation
• Vibration Monitoring and Avoidance
• Drill String Handling and Inspection
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Drilling Rig Personnel, Drilling Engineers, Drilling Rig Supervisors, Tool Pushers, Drilling Managers, Operating
Company Personnel, Reservoir Engineers, and Service Company Personnel
COURSE CONTENT
• Analysis of different aspects of drilling which are affected by drilled solids
• Solids transport capabilities of a drilling fluid
• How shale shakers separate drilled solids
• The new API shaker screen designation and how it works
• Types of motion of shale shakers
• How hydrocyclones and centrifuges separate drilled solids
• How equipment should be arranged on a drilling fluid processing plant
• Selecting the proper centrifugal pump impeller
• Mud tank agitation
• Mud gun placement
• Degasser operation and objective
• Guidelines for effective drilled solids removal
• Trip tank operation
• Calculating Solids Removal Efficiency
• Evaluating mud cake compressibility
• Developing a thin, slick compressible filter cake in a well bore
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Engineers in operating companies interested in advanced design concepts applied to casing and tubing
design.
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
○ Use traditional WSD (Working Stress Design) and new RBD (Reliability Based Design)
methodologies for casing and tubing.
○ Understand the new ISO TR 10400 document which replaces API 5C3.
○ Understand proper material applications for critical well design.
○ Use practical tools for preparing well designs for HPHT, Deepwater and other critical wells at
extreme pressure and temperature.
ABOUT THE COURSE
This course is a hands-on course focused for engineers responsible for designing critical wells. WSD and
RBD design techniques will be taught. RBD will be coupled with a Limit and Serviceability State approach.
Material applications and selection for brittle fracture will be examined in detail. Several advanced casing
and tubing special problems will be covered including APB (Annular Pressure Build-up,), Steam Well
Design, Deepwater Conductor Design, Wellhead Growth, Designing with Expandables, Thermal Loading,
Buckling / Post Buckling Behavior, and Casing Wear.
COURSE CONTENT
○ Introduction to casing and tubing design
○ Failure criteria and theories of strength
○ Limit and serviceability states following ISO TR 10400
○ Combined loading
○ Probabilistic design
○ Load combinations for standard and non-standard loading
○ Working stress design
○ API and Proprietary connections following ISO 13679
○ Selection of materials for casing and tubing applications
○ Fundamentals of corrosion
○ Fracture mechanics applied to environmental cracking
○ Buckling and post buckling behavior of casing and tubing
○ Annular pressure build-up and mitigation methods
○ Casing wear and impact on strength
○ Thermal cycling and loading design
○ Wellhead growth
○ Deepwater conductor design
○ Designing with expandables
Upcoming Sessions
Description
DESIGNED FOR
Completion, production, reservoir, and research engineers; geologists; managers in completion, production, drilling,
and exploration; others involved in various phases of horizontal and multilateral wells or interested in gaining an
interdisciplinary up-to-date understanding of this continually evolving technology
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
• Successfully design and optimize horizontal and multilateral well completions
• Engineer wells, taking into account limitations imposed by well bore stability and borehole friction
• Determine the appropriate zonal isolation methods for horizontal and multilateral wells
• Hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells
• Design damage removal, stimulation, and workover operations
COURSE CONTENT
• Reservoir characteristics for horizontal and multilateral well applications
• Well performance prediction
• Wellbore stability of horizontal wells
• Stress field effect on drilling, completion, production and stimulation
• Geosteering
• Multilateral well structure, junction and application
• Formation damage and its effect on horizontal well performance
• Well completion and its effect on horizontal and multilateral wells
• Intelligent completion: downhole monitoring and control
• Well trajectory and completion optimization
• Horizontal well fracturing
• Acidizing of horizontal wells
• Other stimulation methods