COURSE OVERVIEW

 

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

Drilling is an essential, ubiquitous, and expensive part of the oil and gas industry. Improving the drilling operation carries the greatest interest by the oil and gas operating companies. Drilling operation improvements can fall in one of two categories: reducing the cost of conventional drilling processes, where “conventional” includes even high-risk, high-cost operations such as offshore horizontal drilling; or providing a revolutionary new capacity that did not exist, regardless of cost. 

The oil & gas drilling industry is changing rapidly in the areas of technology, safety, environment, management, contractual relationships, training, etc.  Drilling operators must confront and solve extremely difficult technical, safety, and control problems as they bore through layers of subsurface rock to access oil or gasbearing strata. Furthermore, drilling must be done in a way that protects the geologic formation, the ultimate productive capacity of the well, and the surface environment. Drilling problems must first be diagnosed using the information or data that is transmitted from the bottom of the well to the surface, where the information is collected on the rig floor. Drilling operations must be managed in an efficient manner by improving skills and developing new technologies and ways of working. 

This course is designed to provide participants with an up-to-date overview of advanced drilling practices and techniques.  The course covers well design, pre-completion and completion design, casing design, directional design, drilling programming, well control planning, directional planning, drillbit selection and hydraulics, drilling fluids program, casing running program, cementing program, formation evaluation, well control operations, drilling fluids operations, drilling problem solving, casing operations, cementing operations, drillbit operations & monitoring, directional drilling operations and reporting procedures. 

 

The course covers all aspects of drilling technology, emphasizing both theory and practical application. Today’s drilling personnel must have a working knowledge of all these disciplines in order to effectively drill a well. The course provides all the fundamentals necessary to drill a well whether it is a shallow well or a complex, high pressure well. Computer programs are used to design many aspects of the modern well and the course will also provide the participants with the theory behind most programs along with practical implementation. The course will also include advanced mud logging principles and operations.