This course builds a firm foundation in the principles and practices of well completion. A comprehensive overview of past and actual well completion strategies will be shown and supported through schematics and animations.
Course Level: Foundation Duration: 5 days Instructor: Catalin Teodoriu
Designed for you, if you are...
A drilling, production or operations engineer, field supervisor, toolpusher, manager or technical support person
How we build your confidence
You will receive instruction on well construction and completion based on existing case studies. The basic applications and calculation for tubing selection or packer forces are also covered in the course. A strong focus will be on the well completion components such as packers, nipples, tubing and their connections, gravel pack, etc. As an independent course, we offer the most complete overview of tubing connection selection.
The benefits from attending
By the end of the course you will feel confident to:
Understand the differences between well construction and well completion
Plan a simple tubing completion
Determine the minimum number of downhole tools
Apply the best perforation technique
Understand the principles of various downhole tools
Interpret torque and drag and determine what factors will affect them
Design your tubing string for given well applications
Tubing loads and their constrains
Well completion and equipment (packers, screens, etc)
Intelligent well completions and their applications
Smart well components
Topics
Day 1 - Introduction to oil well drilling process - Well construction - Definition of well completion and its importance
Day 2 - Well perforation techniques - Completion fluids and their selection - Well completion concepts
Day 3 - Downhole tools: packers - Downhole tools: nipples and plugs - Downhole tools: Intelligent completions
Day 4 - Gravel Pack and its components - Horizontal well completions - Smart downhole tools (i.e. fiber optics monitoring) - Tubing design and selection - Proper selection of casing and tubing and the associated connections
Day 5 - Tubing loads and tubing string design - Special application of well completion (big bore, monobore, geothermal wells) - Design completions for maximum well integrity - Course review