Introduction to Well Engineering
Overview
As of 2020, there are over 2,200 active wells in Malaysia which produce above 500,000 barrels per day. The need of maintaining the active wells is vital to ensure the sustainability of production. On top of that, with increase of energy demand, it is expected continuous exploration to be conducted and more wells to be constructed safely and effectively for new discoveries.
This introduction course is designed to provide non-drilling professionals with an understanding of how wells are designed, the people and roles involved, equipment and services used in well engineering.
Objectives
The objective of this Well Engineering course is to provide non drilling engineers with a practical insight into the well design process. Scheduled around an actual well and combined with practical examples we provide an overview into the well planning aspects that have to be considered.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the delegate will understand of:
- Objectives and creating a basis of design for each activity before working the details of their well program.
- Complexities and interaction between various components of well design and the subsequent well operations.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for new as well as non-technical personnel associated and involved with well engineering operations.
Methodology
The course method will be a combination of the following;
- Lectures (presentation)
- Discussions and exercises
- Real/field case and Demonstration
Broken down as follows;
- 45% Lectures and videos
- 20% Discussions
- 35% Case Studies & Practical Exercises
Course Outline
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- Welcome and Introduction
- Well Types
- Well Planning
- Objectives
- Basis of Design
- Standards and Guidelines
- Data Requirements for Well Planning
- Considerations in well planning
- Offset wells
- Drilling program
- Risk Analysis
- Estimating Drilling Duration
- Estimating Well Costs
- Well Pressures
- Pore Pressures
- Fracture Pressures
- Temperatures
- Well Trajectory Directional Planning
- Reference Systems
- Trajectory Planning
- Well Design
- Casing Design
- Selecting Setting Depths
- Casing Properties
- Load Cases Design Factors
- Coupling and Connectors
- Material Selection
- Cementing Design
- Cement Slurries
- Cement additives
- Cement Testing
- Drillstring Design
- Drilling Fluids
- Water based Fluids
- Oil Based Fluids
- Fluid Properties
- Testing of Drilling Fluids
- Solids Control
- Hydraulics
- Hole Cleaning
- Well Control
- Barriers
- Kick Tolerance
- Primary Well Control
- Secondary Well Control
- Non-Conventional Well Control
- Tertiary Well Control
About Expert Trainer
The expert trainer is an experienced well engineer and well engineering instructor with an MSc in Drilling Engineering and over 40 years of drilling and well engineering experience. Skilled in many facets of advanced well engineering such as Deepwater Managed Pressure Drilling, High Pressure – High Temperature, Geothermal, Well Integrity and Well Control.
He has experience working for operators, drilling contractors and service providers delivering a wide range of engineering solutions for complex wells. Developed and presented numerous training courses related to well design, managed pressure drilling, high pressure high temperature operations, casing design, advanced well control and well control emergency response planning. He has delivered trainings in Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.
The expert trainer is skilled in thermal and multiphase hydraulic modelling for geothermal and underbalanced drilling and blowout kill calculations. Experienced in engineering solutions for well abandonment, relief well planning and coiled tubing drilling.
He co-authored several SPE books and numerous SPE papers. He was also a SPE distinguished lecturer on underbalanced drilling.
Currently, he is an active member of SPE, ICOTA, IADC, the Energy Institute and Technical Advisor to IWCF.
