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INTRODUCTION TO DRILLING ENGINEERING (DRL 300)

COURSE OVERVIEW

This five-day comprehensive course is designed to provide in-depth knowledge and practical skills in well test analysis and interpretation for petroleum engineers. It covers key concepts, methodologies, and advanced techniques required to evaluate well performance, determine reservoir properties, and optimize production. The course combines theoretical instruction with hands-on exercises, allowing participants to interpret real-world well test data and apply their knowledge to complex field scenarios.

The program begins with an introduction to drilling engineering, geology, and reservoir fundamentals within the oil and gas industry. On the second day, the focus shifts to the well planning process, including cost estimation, contracts, services, logistics, and safety considerations necessary to complete a well design.

The third day covers drilling fluids, well hydraulics, and directional drilling principles. This is followed by sessions on casing design and cementing, as well as formation evaluation techniques such as logging and coring. The final day introduces well control fundamentals and concludes with key concepts in well completion.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Code Date Location price (€)*
DRL 300 2 – 6 Mar Online 2490
DRL 300 2 – 6 Feb Bangkok 4990

COURSE OUTLINE

5 days
Day 1: Review of Basic Concepts

Day 1: Geology

o Introduction to drilling operation

o History of the oil and gas industry

o Geological time

o Petroleum rock properties

o Pressure regimes in the reservoir

o Exploration and production process

Day 2: Introduction to Well Test and its Applications

Day 2: Well Design and Safety

o Planning the well

o Planning team and costs

o Contracts and services

o Logistics

o Safety alerts and risk management

o Handling major incidents

o Rig types and systems

o Drilling equipment’s

Day 3: Application and Extension for Well Test Interpretation: Part 1

Day 3: Directional Planning

o Rig and equipment requirements

o BOP specifications

o Rig and equipment requirements

o HPHT choke manifolds

o Mud gas separator sizing

o Temperature safety aspects

o Mud testing requirements

o Hydraulics and ECD

o Barite mixing requirements

o olids control and Barite Sag

oPit discipline and finger printing the well

o Fluid compressibility & density

o Gas solubility

Day 4: Application and Extension for Well Test Interpretation: Part 2

o Well control for HPHT

o Ballooning, wellbore breathing

o Temperature monitoring

o Drilling and tripping operations

o Data collection and MWD/LWD

Day 5: Bounded Reservoir Behavior and Integrated Well Test Interpretation

o Well testing practice

o Material selection and metallurgy for tubing and wellheads

o Wellhead seals

o Well testing well control aspects

o Drilling with casing

o HPHT completions, tubing movement

o Corrosion and flow control equipment

o Sand production

Reservoir depletion

INSTRUCTOR

Instructor Profile

Instructor holds master degree in drilling engineering from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and has accumulated over 40 years of drilling engineering experience. Steve started in 1977 as a mud logger with Geoservices before becoming a wellsite drilling engineer in 1980. In the mid 1990’s became heavily involved in coiled tubing and underbalanced drilling and later into managed pressure drilling. He has been teaching well engineering since obtaining his master’s degree in the late 1990’s and has taught numerous courses at all levels including MSc students and developed a large number of training courses. Now working as an independent consultant he provides a number of well engineering related courses and offshore coaching on challenging wells.

FAQ

DESIGNED FOR

 

This course is in the basic level and is intended for personnel associated and involved with the drilling and well construction operations. This course is suitable for logistics staff, HR, contracts,  finance, Legal, IT and the other support services involved in oil and gas operations.

COURSE LEVEL

o Basic

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The participants will learn and understand:

o Drilling process from geology, selection of a drilling location, well design, and rig types.

o The process, the people, the  equipment and terminology.

o Basic understanding of geology,  reservoirs, process of exploration and  exploitation a reservoir.

o Well design process, rig types, rig systems, drilling tools, bitts and drill string, drilling fluids and directional drilling.

o Casing and cementing process, drilling challenge, well control, completions and workover.

REGISTER

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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