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Directional & Horizontal Drilling CertificationDRIL/FDTDHE

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Who should attend?

  • This course provides a comprehensive knowledge to prepare efficiently and succeed in drilling a directional well.
Audience :
  • Drilling engineers, supervisors, tool pushers.

Level : Proficiency

Course Content

  • GENERALITIES

      • Applications, terms and definitions.
      • Well profiles, coordinates’ system.
      • Trajectory control.
      • Uncertainty calculation, anti-collision.

  • DIRECTIONAL DRILLING EQUIPMENT

      • Specific drilling equipment: downhole motors, rotary steerable system.
      • Measuring equipment: MWD.

  • DRILLING ENGINEERING

      • Well planning.
      • Limits of use of a drill string: buckling.
      • Drill string design.
      • Torque and drag calculation.
      • Drilling fluids and cementing program.
      • Logging.
      • Well control.

  • HORIZONTAL & ERD

      • ERD, multilateral and short radius.

  • CASE STUDIES

  • KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT

Learning Objectives

  • Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
  • know about the equipment needed for directional drilling,
  • design a directional well,
  • calculate the trajectory of a deviated well in 2D,
  • design the drill stem, with regard to a well's profile, in order to reach a target.

Ways & Means

  • Exercises.
  • Application to a real case (project) for participants in the “Drilling & Completion Engineering” training course (page 154).

Certification

  • An international recognition of your competencies.
  • A Advanced Certificate is delivered.
  • An expertise confirmed in Directional & Horizontal Drilling .
  • Ready-to-use skills.