Drilling Engineering

The Well Construction Process 

• Drilling purpose, where it fits into the Exploration and Production (E&P) process and its value.
• Exploration, appraisal, and development drilling
• The drilling Team, TvD and AFE 
• Rig types
• Rig systems      

On the first day, participants will learn about the well construction process.  This will cover topics such as where drilling fits into the E&P process, what information can be obtained from drilling, and the exploration, appraisal, and development of a well.  Well costing, AFE, and drilling operation procedures will be discussed as well.  

 In the afternoon, we will continue with the different type of rigs and will continue with the description of the Rig systems, key variables to design the hoisting, rotary, circulation, power and well control systems. Further the automation system, we'll drive the student through digital Intelligence concepts and robotics applied to the rig.

Directional Drilling, Well trajectory, Drillstring components and drill bits

• Trajectory Design
• Directional Drilling
• Drill String components 
• Drill Bits Overview
  

The day will continue with the basics about well trajectory design and key concepts about drilling surveying and the drill string components and drill bits overview. 

Drilling Fluids and hydraulics

• Functions of drilling fluids
• Composition of different type of fluids
• Hydraulics
• Rheology

The third day will focus on the basics of drilling fluids.  Participants will learn about the functions of the different drilling fluids as water based, oils based, synthetic based , air based, Air/water and Air/polymer.  Drilling hydraulics and rheology will also be covered on this day, key for an optimal engineering.

Casing Design and Well Control

• Casing Manufacturing Process
• Casing Properties
• Casing Design
• Wellheads
• Well Control

This day will focus firstly on casing design, both from an engineering and an operation perspective.  Design concepts will be covered for a wide range of straightforward, as well as hostile environments.  The course will examine the nomenclature of casing design, manufacturing processes, material properties and material selection.  The theory of burst, collapse, and axial loading will be discussed, along with design policies and procedures.  Important API specifications and other industry standards will be discussed in order for the participants to become familiar with these documents.  Casing setting depths and depth design concepts will also be covered, key for an optimal engineering.

This day fill follows with Wellheads, Well kicks, basic calculations required to kill a well, and the main functions of the BOP system will also be covered.  The day will end with participants learning about the difference between a blow out and a well control situation.

Cementing, completions and introduction to fishing

• Cement purpose and additives
• Primary and secondary Cementing
• Casing hardware
• Completions introduction
• Drilling problems and introduction to fishing operations

The importance of effective cement placement will be taught, as well as the hardware used to accomplish quality primary cement jobs.  Cementing additives, Mud removal methods, techniques, and systems will be covered so that the participants will be able to recommend appropriate methods for their wells.

At the end of the day, we'll make an introduction about completions and introduction to fishing operations.