Course Description

High Pressure (HP) (>10,000 psi) and High Temperature (HT) (>300°F) conditions are becoming more routine drilling targets worldwide in the pursuit of deep gas reserves. This course delivers a comprehensive review of HPHT well design, engineering and drilling requirements to help drilling engineering professionals understand the technologies, terminology, challenges, concepts, processes, and equipment used to drill High Pressure and High Temperature oil and gas wells. The course follows a typical HPHT operation and provides an understanding of the geological settings through well planning, drilling operations and well control challenges to the completion challenges in HPHT wells. Critical HPHT challenges are addressed in detail during the course. At the end of the course, the participants should understand the complexities associated with HPHT operations and will gain an understanding of issues that must be addressed when drilling HPHT wells.
 

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

• Identify and eliminate the drilling hazards and risks within HPHT wells to as low as practicable.
• How to translate and sustain HPHT drilling case-study findings, success and failure learnings into future drilling projects.
• Awareness of key issues that exist in HPHT design, engineering and drilling operations.
• Increased proficiency with ability to address the key hazard and risks impacting HP HT drilling project delivery.
• Specific knowledge to skillfully control HPHT drilling problems as they arise, yet realize the importance of having necessary contingent mitigation in place for unexpected situations.
• Appreciate technical challenges and difficulties that exist, with new awareness to risk reducing and adaptive technologies being used and applied for specific HPHT drilling applications.

Who Can Benefit

Drilling Engineers, completion engineers, exploration supervisors and managers concerned with HPHT well drilling.