PetroTeach offers the scenario-based course to provide knowledge of high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) well design, drilling and completion operations to drilling and completion engineers. The course is specifically designed to provide an understanding of the challenges associated with the design and construction of HPHT wells.
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 306 | 15 - 18 Dec 2025 | Dubai | 3990 |
| DRL 306 | 2 – 5 Sep 2025 | Online | 3990 |
* 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!
PetroTeach offers the scenario-based course to provide knowledge of high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) well design, drilling and completion operations to drilling and completion engineers. The course is specifically designed to provide an understanding of the challenges associated with the design and construction of HPHT wells. Participants work through the various well design aspects on a real case and learn not only theory, technicalities and practicalities of drilling and completing HPHT wells but it also ensures that participants gain real experience in understanding the HPHT issues.
The course starts with an introduction to the HPHT environment introduces the geological aspects of an HPHT environment and presents a detailed look at the behaviors of the various components of a well with elevated pressures and temperatures. The second day starts with a look at well design standards, well design for HPHT wells. The third day starts with rig requirements for HPHT operations. This part of the course presents the surface equipment requirements for HPHT drilling. In the fourth the operational aspects of drilling an HPHT well are presented to the candidates. The last day of the course covers well testing and completion operations on HPHT wells.
o History of HPHT drilling operations
o Behavior of gasses, liquids, metals and elastomers with elevated pressures and temperatures
Exercise: Gas calculations, Density calculation
o Applicable well design, drilling standards, procedures and guidelines
o Pore & fracture pressures and pressure ramps
o Well trajectories
o Casing design and their connections
o Well control aspects & casing design
o Wellheads and wellhead growth
o Primary cementing /Remedial cementing
o Drilling fluids (Oil Based / Water Based )
o HPHT drillstring design
o HPHT data Collection (LWD / MWD Tools / Drilling Data)
o Contingency planning
Exercise: Tubular expansion, drillstring design, Fluid challenges
o Rig and equipment requirements
o BOP specifications and test requirements
o HPHT choke manifolds
o Mud gas separator sizing
o Temperature safety aspects
o Mud coolers and mud testing requirements
o Hydraulics and ECD
o Barite mixing requirements
o Solids control and Barite sag
o Pit discipline and finger printing the well
o Fluid compressibility & density
o Gas solubility
Exercise: Temperatures, Barite requirements, barite sag, gas solubility.
o Well control for HPHT
o Well control operations and challenges, Barriers
o Ballooning, wellbore breathing and super charging
o Temperature monitoring
o Drilling and tripping operations
o Data collection and MWD/LWD
Exercise: well control, Dual Gradient Calculations.
o Well testing practices
o Material selection and metallurgy for tubing and wellheads
o Wellhead seals
o Well testing and well control aspects
o Drilling with casing
o HPHT completions, tubing movement
o Corrosion and flow control equipment
o Sand production
o Reservoir depletion
Exercise: Material selection, Reservoir depletion, workovers.
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.
This course is intended for Drilling Engineers, Completion Engineers, service providers that are
about to be exposed to HPHT drilling operations and are trying to better understand the complexities
Intermediate
The participants will learn and understand:
• Narrow drilling margins and effects on Kick tolerance . Predictions of pore pressures and the challenges
• The impact of both high pressures and temperatures and significant changes in temperatures on the observed behaviour of the well
• Understand the impact of temperatures and pressures on primary and secondary well barriers
• Well design requirements for HPHT
• Understand operational planning and operational challenges associated with HPHT Rig equipment requirements
• Understand well delivery, fingerprinting, well bore breathing, high-reliability drilling practi
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* 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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