Oil & Gas and Petroleum
Deepwater Drilling Operations and Well Control
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Deepwater Drilling Operations and Well Control Course
Introduction:
This course provides an overall view of deepwater drilling and well control. The goal of the course is to give the audience a basic knowledge of deepwater drilling operations. It will cover the deepwater drilling rigs and structures, station keeping, well equipment, fluids, casing design, cementing, deepwater hazards, and well control.
Course Objectives:
This course covers the operational aspects of deepwater well construction :
- The goal of the course is to give an appreciation of deepwater exploration and development drilling challenges and explain how to select "fit for purpose" tools, equipment, people and processes required to meet project objectives.
- Ways of preventing and mitigating deepwater drilling hazards, risks, drilling problems, and project delivery issues and lessons learned from several projects all over the world will be discussed.
Who Should Attend?
- Operator: drilling manager, drilling superintendent, drilling engineers, drilling supervisors and other interested disciplines
- Drilling contractor and service company personnel
Course Outlines:
- Introduction to Class,
- Deepwater Platforms
- Floating Drilling Vessels
- Types of Motion
- Station Keeping
- Wellheads and BOP’s
- Drilling Risers,
- Motion Compensation
- Special Problems in Floating Drilling;
- Shallow Water Flows
- Dual Gradient Drilling
- Deepwater Drilling Fluids
- Drilling Hydraulics
- High Pressure Risers
- Pore Pressure and Fracture Pressure Prediction
- Deepwater Casing Design and Running Procedures
- Deepwater Cementing
- Deepwater Well Control
