Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A petroleum or production engineer, a development geologist, reservoir modeller or field engineer keen to develop your knowledge on these areas
• A production manager, field manager, drilling manager, etc.

How we build your confidence

• Instructor-led delivery focusing both on theoretical concepts and practical onsite experience
• Videos and case studies

The benefits from attending

• The fundamentals of cementing operations and all implications on production efficiency
• How to select and design acid systems for Sandstone and Limestone formations in order to remove formation damage and restore and/or improve a well's productivity
• How to monitor and identify well integrity problems and technical procedures available for their mitigation

Topics

• Introduction to cementing operations and job design
• Importance of cement job quality
• Cement evaluation tools
• Calculations for cement jobs
• Mud removal and displacement techniques
• Washes and spacers
• Cement additives
• Displacement rates
• Lost circulation
• Liner cementing
• Two stage cementing
• Squeeze cementing
• Special cement systems (light weight systems, salt cementing, foam cementing)
• Casing centralisation
• Cement bond logs (CBL-VDL)
• Well schematics and basic design

• Problems caused by poor cementing:
• SAP pressures / Cross flow / comingling production / uncontrolled release of oil and gas
• HSE and risk assessment
• Review of reservoir engineering principles
• Overview of carbonate and sandstone acidizing
• Skin analysis
• Skin and productivity index
• Basic nodal analysis and flow assurance
• Acid selection guidelines
• Acid fracturing overview
• Importance of candidate selection
• Acidizing additives
• Laboratory testing
• Causes of failure of matrix treatments
• Job design for carbonate formations
• Acids used for carbonate formations and for sandstone formations
• Stimulation operations with CT
• Pre and post acidizing production logs
• Quality control

• Artificial lift methods and flow assurance
• Flow assurance and CT techniques
• Pressure deployment
• Inflatable packers and bridge plugs
• Well kick-off
• Fill cleaning
• Scale removal
• Water / gas shut-off
• Plug and abandonment
• Sand placement
• CT technical definitions
• Friction pressures drop curves

• Well integrity management and flow assurance
• Well integrity standards
• Well integrity failures
• Well heads (monitoring and leak repairs)
• Well barriers philosophy
• The importance of SC-SSSV and control line monitoring
• CO2 corrosion and CO2/H2S metal loss regimes
• SAP concerns
• Monitoring annulus pressures
• Evolution of burst and collapse pressures

• Consequences of well integrity degradation
• Forms of corrosion
• SSC sulphide cracking and its prevention
• CO2 corrosion
• Corrosion logs
• SAP monitoring and mitigation
• Three corrosion modules and MAASP evolution
• Surface casing repairs
• Well heads and X-mas trees: the importance of integrity of WH seals, to avoid communication between different casings
• Temporary well abandonment
• Downtime and maintenance costs
• Well maintenance and managing risk
• Well integrity in a nutshell
• Hazop & risk assessment