Well Design and Engineering

This is a 10-day workshop integrating all major well design technologies from pre-spud to TD. Participants are actively engaged in every aspect of the technical activities required to deliver a cost-effective well plan while also gaining valuable perspective on how the overall process should be managed in a dynamic team environment. The workshop content is often customized to address technologies and practices that may be specific to a project or operational situation.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the responsibilities of a well planner as a designer and project manager.
• Review offset analysis and data gathering.
• Understand the influence of completion design and production requirements on well design.
• Identify trajectory design issues and their influence on torque and drag, wellbore stability, and future intervention.
• Develop specific casing design skills including:
  • Casing point selection
  • Design load case development
  • Burst, collapse, and tension calculations
  • Controlling load and safety factor determination
  • Select appropriate size, weight, and grade
• Perform cement slurry and displacement volume calculations.
• Complete drill string and BHA designs for each hole section. Review both low-angle and high-angle well applications.
• Understand different bit types and applications. Perform calculations to support bit run economics.
• Optimize hydraulics for each hole interval based upon wellbore, fluids and drill string configurations.
• Compile risks to well delivery. Develop mitigations and contingency plans.
• Present and defend a well plan to management.

Who Should Attend

Participants are typically operator, drilling contractor and service company engineers with less than 5 years of experience and drilling supervisors and superintendents, especially those new to their position. Class size is typically limited to 18-20. This is an intensive technical workshop. A calculator is required and a laptop is strongly recommended.

Instructors

Our instructors are degreed engineers with a wealth of well design and on-site operational experience. Two instructors normally team-teach these sessions.

Duration

Typically 10 days