Learning Outcome:

Course Content

1. Site preparation.
   • Water wells, water storage and water supply.
   • Site levelling and banding
   • Cellar construction.
   • Safety considerations.
   • Camp site readiness.
   • Reporting
2. Rig move-in.
   • Rig Mobilization to site.
   • Reporting.
3. Rig up operations.
   • Rig up progress and monitoring.
   • Ordering drilling tangibles and intangibles.
   • Safety considerations.
   • Reporting.
4. Rig commissioning prior to spud-in.
   • Rig Inspection.
   • Rig standard test.
   • Rig tubulars and fishing tools.
   • Compliance of rig with operator regulations.
   • Safety considerations.
   • Regulatory and operator approvals.
   • Water well testing and storage.
   • Reporting.
5. Inventory of Drilling equipment, materials, and procedures prior to spud.
   • Essential material availability prior to spud-in.
   • Rig operational procedures.
   • Testing operability of rig equipment.
   • Emergency response review.
   • Emergency procedures review
   • Safety procedures Review
   • Rat hole and mouse hole preparation.
   • Material orders.
   • Reporting
6. Spudding the well in.
   • Procedures for spud-in
   • Top hole drilling problems.
   • Mixing of spud mud.
   • Spud-in BHA
   • Reporting.
7. Conductor hole drilling operations.
   • Drilling the conductor hole.
   • Preparing the conductor casing.
   • Conditioning hole for conductor casing.
   • Cementing the conductor casing.
   • Installing wellhead equipment & testing (Diverter).
   • Well control equipment and testing.
   • Clean out conductor casing.
   • Preparation to drill surface hole.
   • Materials availability for the next section.
   • Mixing drilling fluid for next section.
   • Reporting.
8. Surface hole drilling operations.
   • Procedures for drilling surface hole.
   • Material availability for surface hole.
   • Bottom hole assemblies for the surface hole.
   • Anticipated drilling problems in the surface hole.
   • Drilling surface hole.
   • Preparing surface casing.
   • Running Surface casing.
   • Cementing Surface casing.
   • Wellhead installation and testing.
   • Well control equipment and testing.
   • Surface casing clean out.
   • Surface casing pressure testing.
   • Materials availability for the next section.
   • Mixing drilling fluid for next section.
   • Reporting.
9. First intermediate hole drilling operations.
   • Procedures for drilling first intermediate hole.
   • Material availability for first intermediate hole.
   • Bottom hole assemblies for the first intermediate hole.
   • Anticipated drilling problems in the first intermediate hole.
   • Testing surface casing.
   • Drilling first intermediate hole.
   • Preparing first intermediate hole.
   • Running first intermediate hole.
   • Cementing first intermediate hole.
   • Wellhead installation and testing.
   • Well control equipment and testing.
   • First intermediate casing cleans out.
   • First intermediate casing pressure testing.
   • Materials availability for the next section.
   • Mixing drilling fluid for next section.
   • Reporting.
10. Second intermediate hole drilling operation.
    • Procedures for drilling Second intermediate hole.
    • Material availability for Second intermediate hole.
    • Bottom hole assemblies for the Second intermediate hole.
    • Anticipated drilling problems in Second intermediate hole.
    • Drilling Second intermediate hole.
    • Preparing Second intermediate casing.
    • Running Second intermediate casing.
    • Cementing Second intermediate casing.
    • Wellhead installation and testing.
    • Second intermediate casing cleans out.
    • Second intermediate casing pressure testing.
    • Materials availability for the next section.
    • Mixing drilling fluid for next section.
    • Reporting.
11. Production hole drilling operations.
    • Procedures for drilling the production hole.
    • Material availability for drilling the production hole.
    • Bottom hole assemblies for the production hole
    • Anticipated problems in production hole.
    • Drilling production hole.
    • Coring production hole.
    • Logging production hole.
    • Preparing production casing/liner.
    • Reaming Production hole.
    • Run production casing/Liner.
    • Cementing Production casing /Liner.
    • Clean out production casing/Liner.
    • Pressure testing production casing/liner.
    • Preparing completion fluid.
    • Displacement of drilling fluid.
    • Lay down tubular.
    • Run in hole tubing string.
    • Displace hole to completion fluids.
    • Installing X-mas tree and testing.
    • Reporting.
12. Rig release.
    • Return of operator’s materials.
    • Rig release procedures.
    • Safety consideration.
    • Lay down rig equipment.
    • Reporting.
13. Rig move out.
    • Rig equipment move out of location.
    • Safety considerations
    • Reporting