Drilling & Well Completion Operations Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the well construction process and its impact on field development cost, well productivity, and integrity on Day 1.
• Apply well planning principles, including subsurface data review, pore and fracture pressure prediction, casing seat selection, and well trajectory design.
• Describe rig types and rig systems, including hoisting, rotating, circulating, power, and well control systems, for onshore and offshore operations.
• Select drill string components, bottomhole assemblies, and drill bits for different formations and objectives.
• Apply drilling fluid selection, properties, and hydraulics, including equivalent circulating density management.
• Explain directional drilling methods and tools, including mud motors, rotary steerable systems, and measurement and logging while drilling.
• Apply casing design principles, including burst, collapse, and tension, and cementing design, placement, and evaluation.
• Apply well control principles, including kick detection, barriers, blowout preventers, and kill methods.
• Prevent and manage common drilling problems, including stuck pipe, lost circulation, wellbore instability, and kicks.
• Design well completions, including completion types and components such as tubing, packers, safety valves, nipples, sliding sleeves, and artificial lift interfaces.
• Apply perforating, sand control, completion fluid, and well integrity management practices across the well life cycle.
• Evaluate drilling and completion performance, cost, non-productive time, safety, and digital technologies to improve well delivery by the end of Day 5.

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Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain each stage of well construction and how they fit together.
• Contribute effectively to well planning and design.
• Describe how drilling rigs and their systems work.
• Select suitable drill strings, assemblies, and bits.
• Understand how drilling fluids and hydraulics affect drilling performance.
• Explain directional drilling tools and methods.
• Review casing and cementing designs.
• Apply well control principles and understand barrier requirements.
• Recognize and respond to common drilling problems.
• Select appropriate completion types and components.
• Apply perforating, sand control, and well integrity practices.
• Identify opportunities to reduce non-productive time and cost.

Course Outline