DE0985 : Introduction to Drilling

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Introduction to Drilling. It covers the role of drilling in upstream operations including drilling rig components and classification; the drilling location selection, well trajectory planning and casing and cementing plan; the drill string components, drilling fluids (mud) and drilling process and operational sequence; the wellbore stability and pressure management including casing and cementing operations; the reasons for directional drilling, deflection tools, and wellbore positioning, dogleg severity and trajectory control; and the Recognize drill bit types and selection criteria, drilling problems and troubleshooting. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the blowout prevention and well control, well shut-in and pressure monitoring and rig safety and risk management; the drilling optimization and KPI monitoring covering rate of penetration (RoP) improvement, mechanical specific energy (MSE), drilling performance metrics and non-productive time (NPT) tracking; the measurement while drilling (MWD) and logging while drilling (LWD); the managed pressure drilling (MPD), surface backpressure and dual-gradient systems; the drilling automation and digital technologies; and the environmental and regulatory considerations.