Course Description

This course integrates 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 course content is customized to address technologies and practices that may be specific to a project or operational situation. The course delivery is carefully balanced to integrate technical lectures and group discussion with roughly half of each day allotted for the teams to apply what they have learned on the project well design. A scientific calculator is required and a laptop computer is strongly recommended.
 

Course Goal

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and ability necessary to draw the linkages between the design topics and to understand that each decision has influence on those that follow. 
 

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participant will have covered:

• 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.
• Perform cement slurry and displacement volume calculations.
• Complete drill string and BHA designs and failure prevention assessment for each hole section, and review for directional well applications.
• Understand different bit types and applications, and 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, and develop mitigations and contingency plans.
• Develop minimum rig capability specifications to deliver well requirements.
• Present and defend a well plan to management.

Who Can Benefit

• Drilling Engineers.
• Completion Engineers.
• Drilling Supervisors Involved with Drilling Operations and Well Planning.