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Open Industry Face to Face Courses Offered
Drill String Design for Well Engineers
Casing Design for Well Engineers
Well Control for Well Engineers
Completions Design Workshop
Tubing Design for Completions Engineers
Drill String Management
Stuckpipe Mechanisms
Jarring Equipment and Jarring Operations
Basic Hydraulics and Well Trajectory Calculations
Geology for Well Engineers
Drill String Design for Well Engineers
This is a three day course designed to take Engineers up to the level where they can confidently perform a hand calculation based design of a drill string. This will give a good understanding in interpreting the outputs of torque and drag software. Topics covered include vertical and deviated well string design, selection of BHA to provide the required WOB, selection of HWDP and DP and calculations required to check the string can withstand loads and fatigue resistance checks. The course involved a number of calculations that are also useful for understanding string loading in stuckpipe cases and situations where buckling is likely to occur.
Casing Design for Well Engineers
This is a 5 day course designed to take Well Design Engineers up to the level where they can confidently perform a hand calculation based casing design. Starting with an understanding of the metallurgy and chemical environment that casing has to withstand, covering casing seat selection based on pore pressure and fracture gradient then moving on to casing tube and connection selection based on hand calculation of uniaxial loads. Tri-axial load analysis is explained but no Tri-Axial calculations are performed on this course. There are a significant number of worked examples to try.
Well Control for Well Engineers
This 3 day course is aimed at Well Design Engineers and Operations Engineers who will be required to have a higher level of understanding of the calculations involved in Well Control operations that can be encountered during drilling a well. Starting where IWCF Level 4 finished this course allows engineers to experience calculating annulus pressures as well as string pressures. Covering drilled and swabbed kicks, and resolving them via circulation and volumetric kill or combined stripping. There are many example calculations and case studies to work through.
Completions Design Workshop
This 5 day workshop aims to cover the relevant topics required to gain an understanding of the basic concepts of Completion Design and Well Intervention. The workshop is interactive and is delivered as a series of short refresher presentations and group discussions followed by class exercises that reinforce key points and require participants to apply their knowledge and use any relevant calculations. The material supports the WEC Programme content for Completion Design and Well Services Well Control.
Tubing Design for Completions Engineers
Tubing Design and Tubing Stress Analysis Workshop: Metallurgy, Load cases, Post installation loads, Hanger type affect on post installation loads.
Drill String Management
Management of drill strings requires some knowledge of how parameters can be changed and inspection frequency need to be adjusted depending on use of a drill string. This short course will assist logistics and management in drilling contractors and well engineers and drilling supervisors within the operator to understand how best to plan utilisation of the drill string and how to plan for inspection based on severity of use. Exactly what the inspection tell you and their limitations. How you can maximise the usable parameters of the drill string by specifying slight changes to the way the inspections are made.
Stuckpipe Mechanisms
Aimed at drilling Engineers and Senior members of the rig team, this two day course covers the various mechanisms that cause stuckpipe, the physics of which are discussed in a way suitable for well engineers to gain an understanding of how each mechanism impacts well operations. The three main areas covered are Solids sticking, Geometrical Sticking and Differential Sticking. The signs of each mechanism category are discussed with the Initial actions that are available to the rig team for dealing with each covered on slides and by discussion. Jar operation is explained for available types of Jar. Jar and accelerator positioning and calculations are covered. Some case studies are included in the course material to illustrate what can happen and what the data can show us at the time of sticking or during an after action review.
Jarring Equipment and Jarring Operations
This short course covers the knowledge needed by users of Jars and Accelerators. How they work, where to place then and why. What calculations you need to be able to perform to make the base use of the jars. How to use the presence of the jar to help establish well parameters that you need for other operations such as slide drilling and backing off.
Basic Hydraulics and Well Trajectory Calculations
A one day course covering the basics of hydraulics calculations, well bore trajectory calculations. To enable a drilling engineer or other wells team member to understand the key items involved in hydraulics and in converting from Measured depth to TVD. This is required knowledge for drill string design and well control courses.
Geology for Well Engineers
This course is particularly focussed towards Well Engineers on the WEC (Well Engineering Competency) Programme, and creates a bridge between the Well Engineering and Geology disciplines. The Geology for Well Engineers course provides an introduction to geological principles and processes and the
formation of petroleum reservoirs and source rocks. Covering of minerals and rocks, plate tectonics, geological timescale, weathering & erosion, deposition, diagenesis, petroleum reservoirs, structural geology, origin, migration and trapping of petroleum.
• To understand how, why, where and when oil and gas accumulates in sedimentary basins.
• To explain exploration techniques and workflows.
• To provide an awareness of how fields are appraised and developed to production.
• To raise geological considerations for the Well Engineer.
