This comprehensive 2-day programme provides participants a practical understanding of the drilling process – without being too technically intensive, focuses on logistical considerations, professional roles, costing and risk awareness involved in drilling operations.
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 328 | 2 – 3 Feb 2025 | Online | 850 |
| DRL 328 | 23 – 24 Apr 2025 | Stavanger | 1990 |
* 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!
This comprehensive 2-day programme provides participants a practical understanding of the drilling process – without being too technically intensive, focuses on logistical considerations, professional roles, costing and risk awareness involved in drilling operations. This course gives new engineers and non-drilling professionals familiarity with drilling language well operations and processes enabling them to facilitate productive, cross-functional projects.
The course discusses the fundamentals of drilling, types of rigs used, procedures and the people who make the drilling equipment work. It also provides an overview of the key issues involved in selecting drilling targets, well planning, evaluation and completion, while ensuring drilling safety and efficiency. Typical challenges in drilling operations are also examined, offering solutions to overcome the hazards and risk that can exist. Advanced drilling concepts, principles and latest technology are also covered.
o E&P Drilling Industry
o Drilling History, Well Life-cycles
o Design construct and engineer wells
o Drilling well life cycle video
o Petroleum Geology and Drilling Operations
o Hydrocarbons: Origin, Formation, Migration, Traps
oHow Reservoir ‘Targets’ are found
o Exp, App and Development Drilling
– Onshore and offshore drilling
– Drilling Rig Facilities
o Organisation of Drilling Operations
o People and team Involved in drilling
o Managing a drilling work scope
o Costing Hazards of a drilling project
o Contracting and the supply chain
o Quality control, and HSE aspects
o Drilling Fundamentals
o Sedimentary Geology and data acquisition basis
o Offset well analysis and FEL
o Pressure management
o Bits, BHA and drillstring design
o Introduction to casing design
o Completion and drilling tubulars
o Basic drilling engineering
o Drilling and cementing fluids design
o Preliminaries of Well Design
o Land Leasing, Contracting
o Site specific preparations
o Well design essentials
o Types of Wells (Directional Profile)
o Vertical, High-Angle, Horizontal
o Complex, Subsea well profiles
o Basic / Critical Drilling Equipment Used
o Basic Land Rigs – Light, Heavy and Specialized
o Fixed Offshore Rigs – Barge, Tender and Platform
o Mobile Drilling Units – Jack up, Semisubmersible,
Drillship
o The Drilling Process
o Preparing to drill
– Hoisting, Rotating, Circulating,
– Power, Well Control Systems
o Drilling Stages
– Spud, Drill to casing depth
– Wellbore evaluation (logging)
– Casing and cementing
– Pressure and wellbore stability
– Well control, learning from failure
Evaluating and Completing the Well
o Evaluation Methods
– Mud and Wireline Logging
– Coring, MWD and LWD, Testing
o Types of Well Completions
– Mechanical and Electrical Pumps
– Multiple, SMART completions
o Well completion components
o Well Integrity in Drilling Operations
– Well integrity (Ref Norsok D-010)
– Well suspension and Abandonment
– Decommissioning
o Well Cycle Problems / Operations Risks
o Drilling and workover problems
o Challenges, causes and solutions
o Drilling Cost Calculations – Well Costing
o Cost components of drilling a well
o Supply Chain considerations
o Prior to commencement of drilling
o During and after the drilling process
o New Technology Adaptation
o Narrow margin complex wells
o OBD, MPD, UBD and CWD
o Through tubing coiled tubing drilling
o Seabed drilling
o Technology transfer and QHSE
o Drilling cost drivers, $/bbl
Peter Aird C.Eng, CmarEng, FIMarEST, has 40 years’ experience as a drilling, well engineering and operations specialist. Peter worked in Shell International from 1980-1987 as a drilling supervisor, where he then worked in staff based positions from 1987-1993 with Shell & BP. He then developed further knowledge and experience working in global consultancy positions from 1993-2005 in Deepwater, HPHT, Exploration and Appraisal Frontiers and Deepwater Horizontal development drilling and more complex well’s projects. Areas worked included: South East Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, China), North Atlantic, West of Britain, Norway, Faeroes, Greenland, the Black Sea, South Atlantic, Europe Mediterranean, Red Sea and West Africa. From 2005 Peter was employed in senior staff, consultant and advisory based specialist drilling engineering leadership roles with operating companies including Kerr McGee, Maersk & Marathon Oil, Cairn Energy (UK), ONGC (India), Centrica (Norway), and Providence Resources (Ireland). Drilling specialities further refined on a variety of subsea, horizontal, platform in-fill, HPHT, deep and ultra-deep water drilling projects.
This 2 day programme benefits all professionals and non-drilling support executives requiring a comprehensive introduction to drilling and well operations. New Personnel and New Engineers requiring a solid grounding in drilling operations – such as Geologists, Reservoir Engineers, Completion, Production and Process Staff, Platform Designers.
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