This course builds a firm foundation of the principles and practices of well completion under the aspect of well integrity. A comprehensive overview of past and actual well integrity strategies will be shown and supported through schematics and animations. Calculations will be used to help you understand the relationship between well integrity and good engineering practice. The course will start with a review of well construction and well completion being followed by a thorough immersion in well integrity causes and ways to remedy them.
A drilling, production or operations engineer, field supervisor or manager
How we build your confidence
You will receive instructions how well construction and completion will contribute to achieve maximum well integrity based on existing case studies. Looking at the well design as a whole, basic applications and calculation for cement hardware selection as well as casing design and connection forces are covered in the course. A strong focus will be on how to achieve well integrity and how the best practice can contribute to select the best components such as packers, nipples, tubing and their connections, gravel pack, etc. As an independent course, it offers the most complete overview of connection make-up tools selection.
The benefits from attending
By the end of the course you will feel confident in your understanding of:
Well integrity concepts
The determination of the minimum number of downhole tools for best well integrity
Well integrity definitions and complexity
Critical well integrity issues
Interpretation of well barriers
Designing your string for improved well integrity
Tubing loads and their constraints
Well completion components and their failures
Intelligent well completions and their applications
Cementing equipment and its impact on well integrity
Long term well integrity
Topics
Well construction and completion
Definition of well integrity
Wellbore barriers and their role
Well integrity concepts
Defining risk associated with well integrity
Casing and tubing
Threaded connections and their well integrity role
Sealing tubular connection
Make-up of tubular goods
Selected hardware for make-up of tubular goods
Proper running procedure for casing and tubing
Tubing design and selection
Proper selection of casing and tubing and the associated connections
Casing hardware for cementing application
Impact of pipe centralisation on well integrity (mud removal by cement slurry, stand-off calculation, torque and drag considerations)
Pipe movement to improve cementation (reciprocation, rotation)
Proper centraliser selection and placement for individual applications
Special application of well integrity (underreamed sections, monobore)
Design wells for maximum well integrity (case studies)