Course Outline

Course Timings: Registration will be at 08:00 on Day One with the course commencing promptly at 08:30 each day and concluding at 17:00. There will be two short breaks and an hour for lunch each day.

Day One

Introductions

  • Defining the scope of the course.

The background processes and history of the Oil & Gas industry.

  • Brief history of Petroleum production.
  • The History of Oil Money and Cartels.
  • Today’s market place.

The need for exploration drilling

  • The E & P process and where drilling fits.
  • The environments that lead to exploration.
  • The history of drilling rigs.
  • What is an oil/gas well?

Interactive Learning Exercise

Drilling fundamentals

  • Location.
  • Land
  • Terra firma
  • Swamp
  • Jungle
  • Offshore
  • Inland sea
  • Ocean
    • i. Continental shelf
    • ii. Deep Ocean

The engineering required to designing a well

  • Details of the target.
  • Selection of drilling fluid.
  • Primary Classification
  • Mud properties and relevance to drilling
  • Waste management
  • Hydraulic optimization.
  • The geo-mechanical evaluation

Pore pressure and the control equipment

  • Determine pore pressure.
  • Determine and size the BOP.
  • Design casing size and setting depth.
  • Design the production casing.

Interactive Learning Exercise

Day Two

The rotary drilling process.

  • Preparing to Drill
  • Drill bits
  • Different types
  • Design features in modern bit design.

Drilling fluid purpose and development

  • History of drilling fluids
  • The purpose of drilling fluid
    • Different types of drilling fluid
  • Water based
  • Oil based
    • Environmental considerations.

Interactive Learning Exercise

Logistics shore bases and service companies

Evaluating and completing a well.

Interactive Learning Exercise

Day Three

The costing of drilling operations

  • The AFE.
  • The daily reckoning
  • Items in the cost record

Complications and over-runs.

  • Natural influences
  • Hole Problems
  • NPT.
  • Equipment design

Interactive Learning Exercise

Advanced drilling techniques.

  • Modern Drilling Rig
  • Measurement while drilling
  • Rotary Steering System
  • Extended Reach Drilling

Advanced drilling techniques (continued)

  • Managed Pressure Drilling
  • Under Balanced Drilling
  • Expanded casing
  • Dual gradient

Conclusion and question time.

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