In addressing of the importance of rock mechanical aspects of drilling and well construction, this course will emphasize on various applications related to wellbore stability during drilling and well construction.
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PPH 203 | 17 – 20 Mar 2025 | Online | 1990 |
| PPH 203 | 6 – 9 Oct 2025 | Online | 1990 |
| PPH 203 | 3 – 6 Feb 2025 | Stavanger | 3990 |
| PPH 203 | 15 – 18 Sep 2025 | Oslo | 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!
In addressing of the importance of rock mechanical aspects of drilling and well construction, this course will emphasize on various applications related to wellbore stability during drilling and well construction. The course addresses basic rock mechanical issues, including shale physics, wellbore stability evaluation, and is fully covered by case studies and a short field-case exercise.
The objective of this course is to provide participants with a competency in geomechanics and will addresses the rock mechanical aspects of drilling and well construction. Participants will be taken step by step through the basics of geomechanics followed by various applications related to wellbore stability during drilling and well construction. A part of the course involves hands on exercises addressing typical wellbore instability issues. The course will address fundamentals of rock mechanics, application areas, building a geomechanical model including analysis of laboratory and log data, physics of wellbore instability, wellbore stability prediction techniques and field cases, where different approaches to ensure wellbore stability during drilling will be discussed.
o Introduction to geomechanics
o Fundamentals of rock mechanics
o Borehole instability mechanisms
o Geomechanical model
o Laboratory and log data analysis
o Basic shale physics
o Wellbore instability mechanisms
o Wellbore stability time dependency
o Well fracturing & losses
o Wellbore stability prediction models
o Lithology effect on wellbore stability
o Wellbore stability field cases
o Practical approaches
o Group discussions
o Field case study
Johan Tronvoll holds M.Sc. in petroleum engineering and Ph.D. ingeomechanics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Master of Management from the Norwegian School of Management BI-Executive School. Johan has experience from North Sea drilling operations, and worked within subsurface R&D at SINTEF Petroleum Research in Norway as Senior Scientist later Research Director.
He has several years experience working for operators through private companies ORMIS (as co-founder), Weatherford (former ResLab) and co- founded Kyaw Tin Htay International Energy Services in Myanmar. Johan has +30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and has experience in geomechanics, drilling, completion, production, reservoir management and P&A. Johan published about 50 technical articles and papers in international journals and conferences. He has performed numerous field studies within geomechanics, wellbore stability and sand production and has given several in-house training courses to E&P operators and service providers.
The course is designed for petroleum engineers, geologists and drilling engineers with basic knowledge and experience in mechanics or geology. The objective is to establish a background for the participant to be able to participate in well planning and drilling operations related to well design and drilling process optimization with respect to wellbore instabilities.
o Intermediate to Advance
The participants will learn:
o The basics of rock mechanics
o How to derive rock mechanics data
o The physics of wellbore stability
o Basic wellbore stability mud weight limits and directional dependency
Kindly bring your own LAPTOP (have Excel and Access pre-installed) to run software.
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