Oil & Gas and Petroleum
Well Equipment and Operation for Production Engineers
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Well Equipment and Operation for Production Engineers Course
Introduction:
This course provides a comprehensive knowledge of well operations: from drilling, completion and artificial lift techniques and equipment to well intervention operations.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- grasp the fundamentals of drilling techniques,
- draw the architecture of typical well completion and explain the technology of the equipment used,
- understand the operating principle and technology of artificial lift pumps,
- comprehend operating principle, monitoring and technology of gas lift systems,
- Review main well servicing and workover operations (objectives, principles, equipment
Who Should Attend?
Production engineers and other professionals interested in well operations.
Course Outlines:
FUNDAMENTALS OF DRILLING
- Drilling and casing program: the function of the different casings, how to determine the drilling and casing program.
- Principle of drilling: different types of bits, drilling string, hoisting and pumping functions and material, mud and solid treatments, wellheads.
- Drilling methods and special operations: drilling parameters, turbo drilling, coring and logging, casing and cementing operations, directional drilling, well control, fishing jobs.
- Offshore drilling operations: different types of rigs, specific offshore problems.
FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPLETION OF NORMALLY FLOWING WELLS
- Operations involved in well completion.
- Main factors influencing a completion design.
- Connecting the pay-zone to the borehole: open hole and cased hole, drilling and casing of the pay zone, evaluating and restoring the cement job, perforating.
- Equipment of naturally flowing wells: functions to be carried out and corresponding pieces of equipment, technology and handling of the main pieces of equipment (production wellhead, tubing, packer, downhole services, subsurface safety valve).
WELL PRODUCTIVITY - NEED FOR ARTIFICIAL LIFT
- The overall approach of the well flow capacity: inflow and outflow performances.
- Need for artificial lift.
- Main artificial lift techniques.
ARTIFICIAL LIFT BY PUMPING
- Techniques to be covered:
- Sucker Rod Pumps.
- Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP).
- Progressing Cavity Pumps (PCP)…
- Jet pumps.
- For each of these techniques, the following points will be highlighted: principle, the technology of the involved pieces of equipment, operating procedure and troubleshooting, installation design, applications, advantages and drawbacks.
- How to improve performances and run-life duration?
ARTIFICIAL LIFT BY CONTINUOUS GAS LIFT
- Operating principle.
- Specific completion equipment.
- Factors to consider for design.
- Unloading, operating problems and selection criteria.
WELL SERVICING & WORKOVER - WELL INTERVENTION
- Main jobs: measurement, maintenance, stimulation, workover.
- Operations on killed wells (workover).
- Operations on live wells (well intervention): wireline, coiled tubing, snubbing.
