Well Completion Design Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Define a completion design basis from reservoir, fluid, production, injection, and intervention requirements on Day 1.
• Select a completion architecture, including open hole or cased hole, single or multizone, and lower and upper completion.
• Apply nodal analysis to select tubing size, considering erosion, liquid loading, and future artificial lift.
• Select completion fluids based on density, crystallization temperature, and formation compatibility.
• Define tubing load cases for production, injection, shut-in, stimulation, and pressure testing.
• Analyze piston, ballooning, buckling, and thermal effects on tubing and calculate packer forces.
• Assess annular pressure buildup and select tubing materials and connections for corrosive service.
• Select production packers, subsurface safety valves, landing nipples, sliding sleeves, and artificial lift interfaces.
• Design perforating strategies, including gun systems, shot density, phasing, and underbalanced or overbalanced perforating.
• Predict sand production risk and select sand control methods, including screens, gravel packs, and frac packs.
• Design multizone and intelligent completions with interval control valves, inflow control devices, and downhole monitoring.
• Prepare and review a complete completion design, including risks and the well barrier schematic, by the end of Day 5.

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Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Prepare a completion design basis for new and existing production and injection wells.
• Select a suitable completion architecture for the reservoir and well type.
• Size production and injection tubing using inflow and outflow performance and nodal analysis.
• Select completion fluids that suit the well and reservoir.
• Define tubing load cases and apply appropriate design factors.
• Calculate tubing movement, packer forces, and buckling effects.
• Recognize annular pressure buildup risks and practical mitigation options.
• Select tubing materials and connections for corrosive service.
• Specify packers, safety valves, nipples, and sliding sleeves for the well conditions.
• Design a perforating strategy that minimizes perforation damage.
• Select sand control methods based on reservoir and well conditions.
• Evaluate when intelligent completions and inflow control devices add value.
• Review completion designs critically and identify key risks before installation.

Course Outline