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Well Completion Design and Management
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Well Completion Design and Management Course
Introduction:
In the development of a hydrocarbon reservoir, many wells are drilled and required to be completed, to allow the structure to be depleted. However, the drilling and completion operations are crucial to the long-term viability of the wells in meeting the specified objectives.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:
- Evaluate for a given reservoir scenario the bottom hole completion options and make a recommendation based on well integrity and reservoir management requirements
- Identify, evaluate and recommend functional capability of completion strings for a variety of situations
- Describe the purpose and generic operating principles for major completion equipment components
- Identify the limitation of well completion schematically designs and potential failure mechanisms/operational problems with equipment
- Assess well safety requirements and capabilities inherent in well design
- Describe the integration of the various stages of completing a well
- List and flow chart a general procedure to run a completion string
- Describe the requirements to pressure test and retain well control throughout the completion process
- Define the need for full and accurate reporting and records to be kept
Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Asset Managers
- Petroleum Engineers
- Production Technologists
- Production Personnel (Production Operators, Maintenance Supervisors)
- Drilling and Well Servicing Personnel (Drilling Manager, Drilling/Well Engineers, Completion and Well Service Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, Rig Manager, Toolpusher, Drillers)
Course Outlines:
Well Completion Design, Practices and Strategies
- Introduction of Reservoir Drive Mechanism
- Introduction to Artificial lift methods and their application.
- IPR and Productivity Index
- Vertical Lift Performance
- Well Outflow and Inflow Systems
- Typical Vertical Lift Performance (VLP) for various Tubing Sizes
- Matching VLP curves with an IPR curve
- Well Completion Design Considerations
- Reservoir Considerations
- Mechanical Considerations
- Classification of Completions
Lower & Upper Completion String Components & Selection Consideration
- Production Packer functions
- Packers Types
- Packers Generic Mechanisms
- Permanent and Retrievable Packers
- Locator Seals and Anchor Seals
- Applications for Permanent and for Retrievable Packers
- Setting Packers
- Inflatable Packer applications
- Sliding side door function
- Gas lift mandrel
- Running the completion
- Perforation methods and perforating equipment
- Perforation selection and conveying methods
Wellheads/Sub-Surface Safety Valves & Flow Control Equipment
- Wellheads components, function, and types
- Subsurface safety valves function
- Safety valves types
- Setting depth of subsurface safety valves consideration
- Surface control subsurface safety valves.
- Flow control devices
- Nipple profile types and plug selection.
- Workover reasons.
- Well killing operations technique and consideration
- Example for workover operations (Gas lift wells, Natural gas well, ESP well )
Overview of Sand Control Completion
- Sandstone Formation Properties and Geology
- What causes Sand Production?
- Consequences of sand production downhole and on surface
- What is the mean of sand control?
- Perforation system for non-sand control completion
- Sand control options
- Chemical Consolidation
- Mechanical sand control methods
- Cased Hole Gravel Pack
- Open Hole Gravel Packing
- Expandable Screens
- Gravel Pack Design, Gravel Sizing, and Slot Sizing
- Placement Methods
- Carrier Fluid Concept
- Choosing the appropriate method of Sand Control
- Losses controlling during sand control operations
- Perforating system for sand control.
- Standalone screen applications
Fundamentals of Rigless Operations Theory & Stimulation
- Coiled Tubing surface and subsurface components
- Coiled Tubing applications
- Cleaning operations with CT
- Well backflow (nitrogen lift)
- Wireline types and application
- Surface and subsurface components of a wireline
- Formation damage mechanisms and their remediation
- Stimulation design considerations
- The most important production logging (PLT)
- Well barrier philosophy during well interventions
