Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A member of the drilling engineering team
• A drilling supervisor

How we build your confidence

• Practical demonstrations of all the key principles using models and simulations in the classroom
• Mixed, instructor-led delivery of theoretical content with blend of PowerPoint overview, whiteboard explanations of detail and class interactive exercises
• A narrative that runs through the course where each topic is inter-related and built on the previous learnings
• Extensive allowance for class-led questioning within the course delivery

The benefits from attending

• How the drilling industry monitors drilling performance and lost time
• How to optimise cost control in the drilling process and how to set focussed key performance indicators (KPI's) to monitor the performance of the well construction process
• How to avoid the high cost 'train wrecks' caused by stuck pipe events, lost circulation and fishing operations
• How to use drag modelling and drag monitoring at the rigsite to identify problems before they escalate into catastrophic events
• Drilling fluids and hydraulics design for the well accounts for each source of pressure loss and how to ensure good wellbore cleaning
• Fundamentals of Geo-mechanics
• Casing and cementing selection and design
• The well control system, equipment and operational practices
• Well productivity and 'skin' damage to the reservoir during drilling
• Directional well planning from a trajectory design perspective and how the trajectory impacts with all aspects of the well design
• The drilling team and how human factors influence the costs and safety of well construction
• Well bore monitoring and using the key parameters to determine the risks in the well and optimise the ROP's to the actual well conditions

Topics

• Understanding drilling as a process
• Exercise on generic connection procedures
• Understanding variance from standard procedures
• Human factors in drilling practices
• Building robust competent drilling practices
• Tripping pipe
• Hole cleaning practices
• T&D practices planning and operations
• Ensuring compliance with agreed practices
• Practices to mitigate shock and vibration from planning to operations
• Non-productive time management
• Invisible lost time management
• Defining KPI's and understanding technical limits
• Using geomechanics as a base to build best practice
• Practices to manage wellbore stability
• Protecting wells from drilling induced skin damage