Description
SUITABLE:
Engineers with a good understanding of the principles of drilling engineering.Participants should have a fair understanding of MS Excel, which will be used for the course exercises extensively.
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, delegates will:
- Be able to develop an understanding of the fundamental principles and perform calculations to experience the behavior of the drilling system in practical terms.;
- Be able to design a trajectory, select an adequate drill string for the problem, considering drilling string tension and compression (buckling);
- Be able to determine system pressure losses, annular velocities to evaluate cuttings transport, as well as ECD in comparison with a pore pressure and fracture gradient, etc
SUMMARY:
- Review drilling fundamentals
- Directional drilling
- Torque and drag
- Hydraulics
- Complex trajectory design
- Drill string and BHA design
- Hydraulics optimisation
- Review of fundamental measurements on the rig to perform real-time monitoring and analysis of the above discussed parameters
