Well Design
Candidates:
Fresh graduate drilling engineers, geoscientists, petroleum engineers, foremen, operators and technicians.
Summary:
This course is designed to provide participants with the fundamentals of planning and designing wells using the most up-to-date techniques. They will learn about the conceptual design and detailed engineering calculations involved in planning a well, the planning for vertical, directional and horizontal wells, the drilling fluids, bit selection, drill string design and casing program as well as the completion design of the wells.
Contents:
- Well planning processes
- Duties and responsibilities of the drilling engineer in planning stage
- Bit technology/design/applications
- Drill string/BHA design
- Circulation systems and fluids
- Casing and cementing
- Completions technology
- Directional drilling
- Engineering calculations
- Avoiding borehole problems