Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• An oil company geologist wishing to gain valuable background knowledge (especially recent hires)
• An oil company geologist who is required to get offshore experience as part of the training
• Someone wanting to join an oil company and who wants to get a good grounding for the role

The benefits from attending

• The fundamentals of drilling rigs and equipment
• How a well is drilled, including descriptions of bits, the mud circulation system and the importance of lag time
• Who does what on the rig? Personnel and service companies
• The importance of HSE and how it affects the geologist at the rig-site
• Depth, ROP and why they are so important data sets
• How wellsite samples should be caught, ensuring they are representative
• How samples and hydrocarbon shows should be properly described and interpreted
• Directional drilling – how it is performed and why
• The basics of well planning, execution and testing
• Coring and sidewall coring – how these processes are performed and why
• Activities of key wellsite geological contractors – mudlogging and LWD
• What the wellsite and operations geologists do. How do they fit into the organisation?
• Identifying the importance of data management and key data types

Topics

• Rig types
• Rig components
• Drilling components
• Personnel and services

• Health, safety and environment
• Depth
• Rate of penetration (ROP)
• Sample lag
• Samples and sampling
• Basics of logs
• Directional drilling
• Well planning
• Well testing and completion
• Coring and sidewall cores
• Mudlogging
• Logging while drilling (LWD)
• Formation pressure
• The operations and wellsite geology team
• Operations geology
• Wellsite geology
• Importance of soft skills and ability to communicate effectively
• Data management
• Sample description
• Show description
• Coring
• Sidewall coring

• Common drilling and geological abbreviations
• Glossary of drilling terminology. Useful equations