DRL 303
Applied Drilling and Well Engineering
PetroTeach offers 10 days course in applied drilling and well engineering to provide well engineers with an advanced and practical insight into the well design and well construction process.
Applied Drilling and Well Engineering
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 303 | 3 – 6 Jun 2025 | Online | 3590 |
| DRL 303 | 5 – 7 Feb 2025 | London | 6990 |
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
COURSE OVERVIEW
PetroTeach offers 10 days course in applied drilling and well engineering to provide well engineers with an advanced and practical insight into the well design and well construction process. This course approaches well construction as a design process. This course can be tailor made and delivered in 5 days with an intensive outline.
The course is scheduled around an actual well and it is combined with practical examples to enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge of the candidates. As the course progresses, complexity is increased, requiring the candidates to re-evaluate objectives as new conditions are introduced. The course addresses all aspects of well design and well operations including aspects that are generally conducted by contractors. Each of the participants will work and create a detailed drilling program, which will include costs, timings, risk assessments and contingency planning. Once the well design is completed the program will be used to review operational management and optimization opportunities.
COURSE OUTLINE
10 days
Day 1
o Well types and planning
o Risk analysis
o Estimating drilling duration and well costs
Exercise: well objectives, Basis of design for the well, Drilling program contents, Time and cost estimation
Day 2
o Pore pressures and fracture pressures
o Temperatures and geomechanics
o Ballooning/ wellbore breathing
Exercise: Pressure safety margins, Effects of Pressures and temperatures related to the well design.
Day 3
o Well trajectory directional planning
o Directional control
o Torque and drag
o Tortuosity
o Anti-Collision
Exercise: Trajectory planning and anti-collision
calculations
Day 4
o Casing design
o Conductor design
o Wellheads
o Casing running operations
Exercise: Casing Design setting depth selections and tensional, burst and collapse calculations
Day 5
o Cementing: Slurries, additives, testing and placement
o Managing cementing operations
Exercise: Cementing calculations for casing strings including job design
Day 6
o Drillstring design and failures
o Bits and bit selection
o Classification system for bits
o Grading bits
Exercise: Drillstring design calculations and drillpipe and drill collar sizing as well as jar placement calculations with bit selection
Day 7
o All about drilling fluids
o Solid control, hydraulics and rheology
o Pressure losses
o Hydraulic optimization
o Hole cleaning
o Surge and swab
Exercise: Mud volume estimation, Hydraulic calculations, pressure losses and hydraulic
optimization. Calculations of hole cleaning and surge and swab calculations.
Day 8
o Drilling challenges
o Shallow gas
o Down hole and surface equipment failures
o Stuck pipe and Losses
o Drillstring failures hole collapse
Exercise: Overpull and stuck pipe calculations. Impact review on timings and costs
Day 9
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 and kicks and plugged equipment
o Tertiary well control
o Blowouts and relief wells
Exercise: Kick tolerance and relief well calculations
Day 10
o Managing drilling operations
o Drilling economics, contracts and tenders
o Rig selection, acceptance and inspection
o Drilling optimization
o Risk management / Risk analysis
o Contingency planning
Exercise: during this last day of the course, the candidates will present drilling programs and compare costs and time estimates for the well and
INSTRUCTOR
Steve Nas
Steve Nas 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. Initially working rigs as a wellsite drilling engineer around the Middle East and throughout Africa before working for Shell in the UK North Sea. 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 intended for the disciplines listed below, as well as anyone with a specific interest
in the topic:
o Drilling Engineers and Service Providers
o Drilling Contractor Supervisory Personnel
o Other Relevant Technical and Operational Staff
COURSE LEVEL
- Intermediate to Advanced
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The participants will learn and understand:
o Participants gain a solid understanding 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 and the subsequent well operations.
o Participants will gain a good understanding of well design aspects provided by contractors, they will also gain an understanding of the data requirements for the contractor work scopes.
o Participants gain a better understanding of the operational management, the risk
v Management and mitigation aspects of well design and well operations and the influence these have on well objectives.
o Participants can go back to their operational roles after the course with a
better understanding of the well design process.
REGISTER
Registration is now OPEN!
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
For more details and registration please send email to: register@petro-teach.com
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