Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of directional drilling and surveying. It covers the directional drilling fundamentals and terminology; the fundamentals, applications and limitations; the terminology, well objectives and target issues; the well planning positioning and coordinating systems; the proper surveying and advanced well planning; the survey calculation methods; the anti-collision and well planning; and the surveying tools, MWD, LWD, mudlogging and downhole equipment. During this interactive course, participants will learn the drilling tools and deflection methods; the drilling motors overview; the BHA design and rotary steerable systems; the well planning and path design; the directional well path design; the horizontal well planning and calculations; the horizontal drilling planning and drill string design; the torque, drag, shocks and vibrations; the hole cleaning and wellbore stability; and the multilateral wells, geosteering and directional drilling problems and solutions.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30