Managing Wellsite Operations (On Demand Only)

Date: TBA | Location: TBA

Course Duration: 4 Days

Objectives

This is the most intensive course in our portfolio and is intended for those who want to learn, succeed and be the best.

This course has been attended by every major oil company in the North Sea, Middle East and many oil and service companies from around the world. The repeat running of this course and the many excellent reviews indicate that this course is one of the best technical courses available in the petroleum industry.

Audience: - This course is suitable for Drilling Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, and Toolpushers.

The participant should have a basic understanding of the oil industry and should have a University or equivalent education.

Learning Outcome:

The participant will be able to assemble well data from various sources, understand their relevance, produce a well design fit for purpose including rig inspection, rig move, well spudding, well preparation, wellsite equipment ,casing, drillbits, BHA designs, drilling fluids and cementing.

Course Content

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