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10-Day Well Design and Engineering

July 14-25, 2008 • Sheraton Suites Galleria - Houston

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PetrEX International, Inc.
Houston, Texas USA
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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.

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.