Audience
This practical seminar is directed at exploration, engineering, and drilling personnel concerned with drilling, well engineering, completion, reservoir management, workover, and rig foremen. All participants should benefit from attending this course.
Course Content
- Completion Relationships
- Economic Life of a Field
- Field Development Plan
- Drilling Sequence
- Reservoir Characteristics
- Geology and Geophysics, Petrophysics, Drive Mechanisms, Fluid Flow, Formation Damage, Stimulation, Multiple Zones, GOR/Watercut Development
- Well Design
- Target, Casing and Cement, Hole Size, Deviation, Drill-in Fluids, Multiple Boreholes
- Completion Components
- Tubing, Packers, Nipples and Locks, Regulating Devices, Side Pocket Mandrels, Sliding Sleeves
- Tubing to Packer Joints, Pumping Devices, Instruments, Retrievable Control
- Completion Concepts
- Simple Completions
- Monobore Completions
- Commingled Flow
- Dual Completions
- Artificial Lift
- Sand Control
- Intelligent Completions
- Permanent vs. Retrievable
- Production Problems
- Formation Fines
- Gas/Emulsion Blocking
- Scale
- Wax/Asphaltenes/Hydrates
- Pressure Loss
- Crossflow
- Equipment Failure
- Ignorance
- Light Intervention
- Slickline
- Electric Line
- Monitoring
- Perforating
- Hole Cleaning
- Flow Controls
- Inflatables and Expandables
- Stimulation
- TFL
- Heavy Intervention
- Coiled Tubing
- Snubbing
- Workover