Description
SUITABLE:
Non-drilling personnel who work with drilling professionals (e.g. accounting, administrative, and support staff, environmentalists, land men, stock analysts, etc).
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, delegates will:
- Have an overview of the process of designing wells;
- Learn how the major systems of the rig operate and interact with each other;
- Learn the purposes of drilling fluids and the various fluid types, etc;
- Know how wells are evaluated to determine the presence and potential production of oil and gas;
- Know the difference between floating and “bottom founded” MODUs
SUMMARY:
- Overview of basic petroleum geology
- The “well construction” process – “bottom to top design”
- Drilling rig
- Drill fluids (“Mud”)
- Casing & cementing
- Type of offshore drilling units
- Special issues for offshore drilling operations
- Offshore testing & production
