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| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* | DRL 303 | 1 – 5 And 8 – 12 Jun 2026 | Online | 6600 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 303 | 2 – 6 And 9 - 13 Feb 2026 | London | 8800 |
PetroTeach offers a ten-day course in Applied Drilling and Well Engineering designed to provide well engineers with advanced and practical insight into the well design and well construction process. The course approaches well construction as an integrated design process. It can also be tailored and delivered as an intensive five-day program, depending on client requirements. Structured around the design of an actual well, the course combines theoretical concepts with practical applications to strengthen both technical understanding and operational awareness. As the program progresses, increasing levels of complexity are introduced, requiring participants to reassess design objectives and adapt to new conditions and constraints. The course covers all aspects of well design and well operations, including activities typically performed by contractors. Each participant develops a comprehensive drilling program that includes cost estimation, scheduling, risk assessment, and contingency planning. Upon completion of the well design, the program is used to evaluate operational management strategies and identify optimization opportunities.
o Well types and planning
o Risk analysis
o Estimating drilling duration and well costs
o Pore pressures and fracture pressures
o Temperatures and geomechanics
o Ballooning/ wellbore breathing
Exercise: Pressure safety margins,
o Well trajectory directional planning
o Torque and drag
o Tortuosity
o Anti-Collision
o Casing and conductor design
o Casing running operations
o Cementing: Slurries, additives, testing and placement
Managing cementing operations
o Drillstring design and failures
o Bits and bit selection
o Classification system for bits
o Grading bits
o Drilling fluids
o Solid control, hydraulics and rheology
o Hydraulic optimization
o Hole cleaning
o Surge and swab
o Drilling challenges
o Down hole and surface equipment failures
o Stuck pipe and Losses
o Drillstring failures hole collapse
o Well control and barriers
o Kick tolerance and detection
o Secondary well control
o Kick circulation
o Non-conventional well control
o Bullheading
o Losses, kicks and plugged equipment
o Tertiary well control
o Blowouts and relief wells
o Managing drilling operations
o Drilling economics and contracts
o Rig selection
o Drilling optimization
o Risk management/ Risk analysis
Contingency planning
Steve Nas holds a Master’s degree in Drilling Engineering from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and has accumulated more than 40 years of experience in drilling engineering. He began his career in 1977 as a mud logger with Geoservices before becoming a wellsite drilling engineer in 1980. He initially worked on rigs across the Middle East and Africa, and later joined Shell in the UK North Sea. In the mid-1990s, Steve became heavily involved in coiled tubing and underbalanced drilling operations, and subsequently in managed pressure drilling. After obtaining his Master’s degree in the late 1990s, he began teaching well engineering and has since delivered numerous courses at various levels, including to MSc students. He has also developed a wide range of specialized training programs in drilling and well engineering. Currently working as an independent consultant, Steve provides well engineering training courses and offshore coaching, particularly on technically challenging wells.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The participants will learn and understand:
o Objectives and creating a basis of design for each activity before working the details of their well program.
o Participants are made aware of the complexities and interaction between various components of well design.
o Well design aspects.
o Operational management, the risk management and mitigation aspects of well design and well operations.
o Participants can go back to their operational roles after the course with a better understanding of the well design process.
Registration is now OPEN!
Ph.D. students, group and early bird registrants are eligible to DISCOUNT!
For more details and registration please send email to: register@petro-teach.com
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