Oil & Gas Well Life Cycle
The course will cover: well lifecycle, drilling rigs and types, well completion (design, objectives, classification), completion components, wellhead and Xmas trees, reservoir characteristics, reservoir drive mechanisms, reservoir calculations and laws, production stage, well classification as per production methods, well and reservoir management, well testing and sampling, reservoir monitoring plan.
Description
The course will cover: well lifecycle, drilling rigs and types, well completion (design, objectives, classification), completion components, wellhead and Xmas trees, reservoir characteristics, reservoir drive mechanisms, reservoir calculations and laws, production stage, well classification as per production methods, well and reservoir management, well testing and sampling, reservoir monitoring plan.
Well intervention: wireline including slick line, braided line, e-line), coiled tubing applications.
Well kill methods: reverse circulation, forward circulation, bull heading, bleed and lubricate.
Cement plug using CT.
Well logging and types.
HSE principles and procedures.
Skin effect and formation damage.
Barrier theory and types.
Oil production phases.
Incident prevention and incident examples.
Abandonment.
Course Syllabus:
Day - 1
Introduction to oil and gas wells
Well lifecycle, drilling rigs and types, well completion (design, objectives, classification), completion components
Wellhead and Xmas trees, reservoir characteristics, reservoir drive mechanisms, reservoir calculations and laws
Production stage, well classification as per production methods Well and reservoir management, well testing and sampling, reservoir monitoring plan
Day - 2
Well intervention: wireline including slick line, braided line, e-line
Coiled tubing applications
Well kill methods: reverse circulation, forward circulation, bull heading, bleed and lubricate
Cement plug using CT Well logging and types
Day - 3
HSE principles and procedures
Skin effect and formation damage Barrier theory and types
Oil production phases: primary, secondary, tertiary
Macondo incident
Day - 4
ADCO H2S incident
Problems that can occur in the well: hydrates, paraffin wax, asphaltenes
Abandonment
Review and assessment