DRL 329
HP-HT 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.
HP-HT Drilling Operations
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 329 | 3 – 7 Jun 2025 | Online | 1550 |
| DRL 329 | 4 – 8 May 2025 | London | 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!
COURSE OVERVIEW
This comprehensive 5-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.
COURSE OUTLINE
5 days
Day 1
o HP HT Definition, classification, challenges, essentials
and differences:
o Well construction, design, drilling rigs equipment and
HP HT operating systems
o Well equipment quality, material and failure issues
o Hazards and concerns
o Complicating factors
o Well integrity, casing design and tubular selection
o Well equipmeT and preventing HP HT failures
o Rig, well equipment, integrity, concerns:
o HP HT well control layout
o Rig, equipment audits, assurance
o BOP equipment and component details
oCement (kill) pumps, cement manifold, and hook
up details
o Surface well control equipment, mud gas separators, de-gassers
o Rig instrumentation
o HP drilling components and well-kill facility
o Downhole tools and equipment
o Group Excercise
Day 2
o Well Planning Design and Construction
o Planning and sequencingo Drilling Stages
o Well design, engineering issues, concerns
o Gas behavior in HP HT drilling fluids Ideal gas laws and importance of compressibility factor ‘Z’:
o Optimizing drilling and cement fluids
o HP HT case studies
o Wellbore Pressure and Stability Management
o Formation abnormal and subnormal pressures recap
o Wellbore stability fundamentals
o HP HT Transition and reservoir zone drilling
o Transition, reservoir zone well control
Day 3
o HP HT situational problems
o Prevention, quality control and assurance
o Surface and downhole equipment
o Life of well integrity and assurance
o Geological risks and uncertainties
o Formation damage
o QHSE and environment protection
o Logistics and supply chain
o Contingency, emergency
o Suspension and abandonment
Day 4
o Regulation, operating standards
o Roles, responsibilities of personnel
o QHSE, loss of control operations
Training and competency development
o Team work and communication
o Primary control, Early kick detection
o Finger printing
o Flow back, Supercharging, Bridging
o Best Practice checks to be performed
o Secondary control
Day 5
o Optimizing well design
o Wellbore strengthening
o Mono-bore wells
o Casing while drilling
o Managed pressure drilling
o Other technology adaptors
INSTRUCTOR
Peter Aird
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 specialties further refined on a variety of subsea, horizontal, platform in-fill, HPHT, deep and ultra-deep water drilling projects.
FAQ
DESIGNED FOR
The course targets any member of a project team: geo-scientists, engineers, technical, non-technical personnel at all levels. It also includes everyone involved in the design, construction, engineering, implementation and the drilling of HP HT wells. This course embraces drilling engineers with or without experience.
COURSE LEVEL
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
o Create an environment for a multi-disciplinary team to practically challenge HP HT standards, instruction, well integrity practices and develop new concepts to well safety and performance.
o Identify and eliminate the drilling hazards and risks within HP HT wells to as low as practicable.
o How to translate and sustain HP HT drilling case-study findings, success and failure learning into future drilling projects.
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!
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