This intensive course provides a comprehensive overview of drilling and completion techniques and operations.
Public :
This course is dedicated for all the professionals interested but not involved in drilling operations for Oil & Gas, geothermal and storage wells (i.e. geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, completion, production and process staff, platform designers, economists, etc.).
Level :Awareness
Prerequisite :
No pre-requisistes are necessary to follow this course.
Course Content
ORGANIZATION OF DRILLING OPERATIONS
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Drilling principles.
Cost, duration of a drilling job.
Different people involved, types of contracts.
Safety.
DRILLING PRINCIPLES - EQUIPMENT
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Duration : 1.25 Days
Different types of bits.
Drilling string.
Drilling rig:
Hoisting function and equipment.
Pumping function and equipment.
Rotating function and equipment.
Power function.
Safety function and equipment.
Mud and solid treatment.
WELL ARCHITECTURE
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Reservoir notions.
Functions of different casings.
Parameters to be taken into account to determine well architecture.
Examples of architectures.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS
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Duration : 1.25 Days
Cementing operations.
Wellhead.
Directional drilling.
Well control.
Fishing jobs.
Wireline logging, well test (DST).
DRILLING ON A SIMULATOR (Pau)
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Use of a well control simulator to show the drilling operations (tripping, drilling, running of casings).
OFFSHORE DRILLING OPERATIONS
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Different types of rigs.
Problems related to their use.
WELL COMPLETION
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Reservoir-wellbore interface.
Equipment for flowing wells.
Well intervention.
TECHNOLOGIES IN USE FOR ENERGETIC TRANSITION
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Geothermal wells.
Underground storage wells.
Hybrid-powered rig equipped with battery Energy Storage System (ESS) to reduce emissions.
Utilization of production associated gas to power gas turbine to reduce the carbon footprint.
Environmental technology (i.e. oilfield waste disposal control and decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations).
VISIT OF A DRILLING SITE*
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
recognize the vocabulary specific to drilling,
understand the basics of well design,
define the functions of drilling fluids (mud & cement),
identify and describe drilling operations and equipment used,
identify the different professionals involved in drilling and learn about their roles and responsibilities.
Ways & Means
Videos and animations.
Exercises.
Visit to a drilling site*.
* When the course is delivered in Rueil-Malmaison, practical illustration is provided by video.
Learning assessment
Continuous evaluation: exercises and oral questions.
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Additional information :Refer to the following complementary courses which might be of interest: “Introduction to Reservoir Engineering”, “Well Completion & Servicing”, “Oil & Gas Field Processing”.
Coordinator :IFP Training instructors, with expertise in the field and trained in modern teaching methods adapted to the specific needs of learners from the professional world.
To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding.
Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com
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