ONLINE: Advanced Drilling Technologies (DRI914)

To be announced for 2024

Description

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices of advanced drilling engineering, enabling participants to decide which technology is most appropriate for their business.
It is an introduction to advanced drilling topics such as High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) drilling, modern drilling technologies (i.e. casing drilling, unconventional drilling methods), special well design, drilling problems and their solutions. Advanced drilling techniques such as casing drilling or coiled tubing drilling are also covered as are tools and techniques used in casing or tubing drilling such as surface equipment, bottomhole assemblies (BHA), etc.

Course Structure: 10 modules of 2 hours each, delivered over 5 days
Each day will consist of 2 modules which will be no more than 2 hours in length with multiple breaks.

Course Level: Skill / Advanced
Duration: 5 days
Instructor: Catalin Teodoriu

Designed for you, if you are...

A drilling, production or operations engineer, field supervisor, manager or technical support personnel with a good understanding of the principles of drilling engineering

How we build your confidence

The course is constructed as a live instructor-led training with case studies, videos, and exercises presented during class.
Exercises will be provided in a dynamic format using case studies and real data. Some presentations will include real time videos of experimental setups which are used to better understand the topic.

The benefits from attending

By the end of the course you will feel confident in your understanding of:

Drill string mechanics: loads, cause of failure, design concepts
Mechanised drilling operations: make-up of tubular, mechanised drilling rigs
Drilling problems: stuck pipe situations, fishing operations
Advanced drilling technologies - casing drilling, HPHT, coiled tubing drilling
Proper selection of drilling technology for shale gas, geothermal drilling, etc.
Non-conventional drilling methods and equipment including environmental aspects of drilling activities
Drilling through gas hydrates

Topics

Day 1

Drilling engineering - a short review
Drilling methods and drilling technologies
Drillstring mechanics
Mechanised drilling operations

Day 2

Drilling problems and their solutions in modern drilling operations
Coiled tubing drilling technology
Casing drilling technology and casing fatigue
Expandable tubular and their applications

Day 3

Drilling HPHT wells
Drilling fluids for HPHT environment
Wellbore hydraulics
Drill bit optimisation and selection
Non-conventional drilling methods

Day 4

High performance drilling concepts
Drilling through gas hydrates
Drilling Simulators an overview
Aspects wellbore construction and wellbore integrity

Day 5

Drilling vibrations: a practical approach
Low frequency and high frequency drilling vibrations
Use of machine learning to understand drilling vibrations
Stick slip detection and mitigations

Customer Feedback

"Useful knowledge about drilling engineering was presented in this course. Also some new technologies and new and useful concepts such as DWC, MSE etc. were introduced." - Engineer at Chengdu Best Diamond Bit Co.