DE1028 : Well Design

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 well design, construction and engineering. It covers the drilling operations, exploration and production licenses, drilling personnel and rotary drilling equipment; the drilling process onshore and offshore, drilling economics, rig components, drillstring and drilling bits; the design of PDC and roller cone bits, selection of bits, grading of dull bits, assessing and improving the performance of drill bits; and the formation pressures and well control. 

Further, the course will also discuss the origin and representation of pore pressures and fracture pressures, formation fracture pressures, well control, warning signs of kicks, well killing procedures, BOP equipment and BOP stack arrangements; the drilling fluids, hydraulics and casing; the functions, properties, design and selection of various types of drilling fluid; and the wellsite tests performed on drilling fluids, design of a solids control system and pressure losses in the drilling system. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the optimization of bit hydraulics; the major functions and properties of casing and casing string configurations; the casing running operations, casing design process and cementing and directional drilling; the functions and properties of cement and single and multiple stage cementing operations; assessing the quality of the cement sheath functions; the directional drilling, designing the trajectory for a directional well and directional drilling tools and BHAs; the wellbore surveying and calculating the trajectory of a directional well based on survey data; the measurement while drilling and subsea drilling, MWD and the value of real time data, MWD data collection and transmission techniques; and the tools equipment used to drill from a floating drilling rig.