Designed for: Technical, field, service, support and supervisory personnel desiring to gain an introductory overview of these topics and how they interrelate; Excellent for cross-training of other technical disciplines such as reservoir and surface facility engineers plus geoscientists, and anyone who interacts with drilling, completion or work-over design engineers such as technical supervisors and technical service personnel.

Course Content:

- Overview of the drilling process.
- Overall drilling practices.
- Language of drilling.
- Reservoir rock and fluid properties.
- Rigs & rig equipment.
- Drilling string components & design.
- Bits.
- Drilling fluids & hydraulics.
- Rig operation.
- MWD.
- Well control.
- Hole problems & stuck pipe.
- Drilling risks.
- Cores and coring.
- Casing design & installation.
- Primary cementing.
- Directional, horizontal, multilateral & under-balanced drilling.
- Wellhead & trees.
- Overview of the completion process.
- Zonal isolation.
- Tubing, packers & completion equipment.
- Safety & flow control devices.
- Open hole completions.
- Basic completion types.
- Perforating.
- Open & cased hole logging.
- Formation damage & treatment.
- Completion fluids Multiple completions.
- Overview of work over techniques.
- Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing & deep perforating.
- Formation & sand control: creens, chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new & novel techniques.
- Scale & corrosion.
- Paraffin & asphaltenes.
- Recompletions.
- Reworks.
- Sidetracking.
- Deepening.
- Coiled tubing.