This course provides a comprehensive knowledge of artificial lift, workover implementation and killing procedures for a producing well.
Public :
Participants attending the training program “Drilling & Completion Engineering”.
Level :Knowledge
Prerequisite :
Basics in production engineering, well operations or well performance.
Course Content
ARTIFICIAL LIFT BY CONTINUOUS GAS LIFT
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Duration : 1 Day
Continuous gas lift: principle, well unloading, operating procedure and troubleshooting, field of application.
ARTIFICIAL LIFT BY PUMPING
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Duration : 1 Day
Sucker rod pumping, Electrical Submersible centrifugal Pumping (ESP): principle, specific completion equipment, operating procedure and troubleshooting, field of application.
TYPES & MEANS OF INTERVENTION ON PRODUCING WELLS
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Duration : 1 Day
Mains types of intervention: measurement, maintenance, workover.
Main means (wireline unit, coiled tubing unit, snubbing unit, workover rig): principles, area of application.
GENERAL PROCEDURE OF A WORKOVER
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Main operation steps: chronology, more tricky operations from a safety point of view, main operations.
Case of depleted reservoirs: losses and formation damage, kick-off after the workover.
WELL KILLING PROCEDURE FOR A PRODUCING WELL
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Duration : 0.75 Day
Killing the well by circulation: area of application, basis procedures (direct or reverse circulation), elaboration of the forward-looking pumping diagram.
Killing by squeeze: area of application, basis procedure, elaboration of the operating program, case where the injectivity test is unsatisfactory, squeeze and bleed-off method.
Final killing phase: observing the well, operations to run after packer “unsetting”.
CASE STUDY: WORKOVER PROGRAM
KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
understand the well performance & identify the need for artificial lift,
describe the downhole & surface equipment for the different techniques of artificial lift,
select the adequate artificial lift method with regard to some specific operational problems,
select the adequate well intervention method with regard to some specific operational problems,
define a well killing program (pumping diagram).
Ways & Means
Exercises on key parameters of artificial lift.
Design of a pumping diagram for killing a well.
Case study for a workover program with an interactive game.
Application to a real case (project) for the participants in the “Drilling & Completion Engineering” training course.
Learning assessment
Quiz.
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Additional information :Kindly refer to the following complementary courses which might be of interest: “Artificial Lift: Gas Lift”, “Artificial Lift: Pumping” and “Well Servicing & Workover”.
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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