Offshore and Deep Water Drilling
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Offshore and Deep Water Drilling Course
Introduction:
This 5-Day course provides a comprehensive, hands-on workshop on the fundamentals of offshore drilling. If you're new to offshore drilling, and looking for a comprehensive overview of how it all really works, the brand-new 5 Day MBA in Offshore Drilling is designed with you in mind. This hands-on training course will walk you through offshore drilling operations, technology, and costs, as well as taking you through issues such as health and safety and environmental concerns.
Course Objectives:
Participants will learn how to:
- Get to grips with the fundamentals of offshore drilling and find out how it differs from land drilling
- Learn all you need to know about the drilling rig, basic well design, drilling bits, routine drilling operations, and much more
- Find out how to carry out a drilling cost analysis
- Discover how to estimate drilling costs, calculate the daily rig rate, and account for variable costs
- Consider the reasons for directional drilling, as well as looking at the tools and measurements involved
- Find out how to select and evaluate a drilling bit, as well as optimizing your drilling hydraulics
- Learn all about the role of weather conditions, supply vessels and seaport facilities
- Explore health, safety, and security in the offshore drilling environment
Who Should Attend?
The following oil & gas company personnel will benefit from the knowledge shared in this course.
- Drilling engineers
- Drilling superintendents and foremen
- Reservoir Engineers
- Petrophysists
- Geoscientists
- Economists and planners
- Facilities planning engineers
- Accountants
- Mid-level management
Course Outlines:
Big Picture of the Oil & Gas Industry
- Meaning of petroleum
- Typical oil and gas company objectives
- Industry streams
- World reserves and production
- Peak oil
- Production management
- Quotas and capacities (OPEC/Non-OPEC)
- Market distribution and dynamics
- Role of IOCs, NOCs and regulatory bodies
- Glossary of terms
Fundamentals of Drilling
- The drilling rig: types and components
- The drilling team
- Drilling fluids (mud) and circulating system
- Basic well design
- Drilling bits
- Directional and horizontal drilling
- Routine drilling operations
- Well monitoring
- Well control
- Wellbore problems and preventions
- Special drilling operations (coring, fishing, etc.)
Case Studies: Mud weight window, rig horse-power and drilling depth
Offshore Drilling
- Differences between land and offshore
- Water depth and rig types (deep water MODUs – Mobile Offshore Drilling Units)
- Sea bed preparation
- Fixed platform
- Floating drilling and station keeping
- Motion compensation
- Conductor casing (jetting/riserless drilling)
- Subsea BOP stack
- Marine/production riser for various deep water applications
- Slip joint
- Rotating head
- ROVs
Drilling Cost Analysis
- Drilling cost estimation
- Authorization for Expenditure (AFE)
- Daily rig rate
- Fixed operating costs
- Variable costs
- Drilling contingencies
- Non-productive time
- Drilling performance and optimization
Case Studies: Cost per foot, bit performance
Directional/Horizontal Drilling
- Reasons for directional drilling
- Definitions
- Directional tools
- Well trajectories
- Directional drilling measurements
- Hole cleaning
- Extended reach wells (case study)
Drilling Bits
- Types of bits
- Rock failure mechanisms
- Bit selection and evaluation
- Factors affecting rate of penetration
Drilling Hydraulics
