Well Design and Construction Engineering
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Well Design and Construction Engineering Course
Introduction:
This is a workshop integrating 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 workshop content is often customized to address technologies and practices that may be specific to a project or operational situation.
Course Objectives:
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
- Balance the responsibilities of a well planner as a designer and project manager
- Review offset analysis and gather data
- Consider 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
- Perform cement slurry and displacement volume calculations
- Complete drill string and BHA designs and failure prevention assessment for each hole section
- Review for directional well applications
- Choose different bit types for specific applications. 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. Develop mitigations and contingency plans
- Develop minimum rig capability specifications to deliver well requirements
- Present and defend a well plan to management
- Use traditional WSD (Working Stress Design) and new RBD (Reliability-Based Design) methodologies for casing and tubing.
- Understand the new ISO TR 10400 document which replaces API 5C3.
- Understand proper material applications for critical well design.
- Use practical tools for preparing well designs for HPHT, Deepwater and other critical wells at extreme pressure and temperature.
Who Should Attend?
Drilling engineers, completion engineers, and drilling supervisors involved with drilling operations and well planning & Engineers in operating companies interested in advanced design concepts applied to casing and tubing design.
Course Outlines:
- Introduction to casing and tubing design
- Failure criteria and theories of strength
- Limit and serviceability states following ISO TR 10400
- Combined loading
- Probabilistic design
- Load combinations for standard and non-standard loading
- Working stress design
- API and Proprietary connections following ISO 13679
- Selection of materials for casing and tubing applications
- Fundamentals of corrosion
- Fracture mechanics applied to environmental cracking
- Buckling and post-buckling behavior of casing and tubing
- Annular pressure build-up and mitigation methods
- Casing wear and impact on strength
- Thermal cycling and loading design
- Wellhead growth
- Deepwater conductor design
- Designing with expendables
