This course provides a comprehensive overview of completion and well intervention operations.
Public :
Engineers and technicians, from operating or service companies, interested but not involved in well completion or servicing: geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, drillers, production and process staff, platform designers, economists, etc.
Level :Awareness
Prerequisite :
No pre-requisistes are necessary to follow this course.
Course Content
NECESSARY FUNDAMENTALS OF RESERVOIR ENGINEERING FOR COMPLETION
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Duration : 0.75 Day
Introduction: area concerned by completion, main steps.
Geological trap, rock properties.
Fluid behavior.
Reservoir characterization, well testing.
Recovery mechanisms.
NECESSARY FUNDAMENTALS OF DRILLING FOR COMPLETION
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Drilling and casing program, casing cementing.
Wellhead and safety equipment (BOP).
INTRODUCTION TO COMPLETION
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Concerned area, main steps (for memory).
Main factors influencing completion design.
Completion configurations: requirement, main configurations.
WELL PRODUCTIVITY & RESERVOIR-WELLBORE INTERFACE (Part 1)
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Duration : 0.75 Day
Overall approach of the well flow capacity:
Inflow and outflow performance.
Need for artificial lift.
Drilling (and casing) of the pay zone: specific aspects.
Problems linked to restoring the cement job.
Perforating: principle, main methods.
EQUIPMENT OF NATURALLY FLOWING WELLS
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Duration : 1 Day
Functions to be carried out and corresponding pieces of equipment, main configurations of production string(s).
Technology and handling of main pieces of equipment: production wellhead, tubing, packer, downhole devices, subsurface safety valve.
Sucker rod pumping and electrical submersible pumping: principle, main components, factor to consider for design, operating problems.
Continuous gas lift: principle, factors to consider for design, unloading, operating problems.
Field of application.
WELL SERVICING & WORKOVER
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Main jobs: measurement, maintenance, workover.
Operations on live wells: wireline, coiled tubing, snubbing.
Operations on killed wells: workover.
KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
recognize the connection between reservoir and completion,
distinguish between the main configurations and techniques of completion,
review advantages and issues of various techniques,
understand the techniques & means of well intervention,
communicate efficiently with Oil & Gas service companies and equipment suppliers.
Ways & Means
Well control on a simulator.
Equipment and cutaway tools display.
Exercises, role-playing sessions, project and case studies.
Summary notes prepared and presented by the participants.
Learning assessment
Discussion of the summary notes prepared and presented by the participants.
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Additional information :Kindly refer to the following complementary courses which might be of interest: “Introduction to Reservoir Engineering”, “Drilling Fundamentals”, and “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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