Basic Well Engineering

This course is intended for trainee Drilling/ Well Engineers or as an introduction to Well Engineering for other professionals (e.g. Geologists).

At the end of this 2 week course attendees should be able to:

Identify different types of drilling rigs and their applications.
Identify critical drilling equipment on the rig and explain how each component works.
Basic knowledge of drilling fluids, including its physical properties as and application in well control incidents.
Be familiar with downhole formation evaluation technology, data acquisition systems and gas and pressure monitoring systems.
Have a good understanding on primary and secondary well control; be able to perform simple well control calculations.

Basic geological structures and reservoir architecture, origins of petroleum.
Type of drilling rigs, basics of the drilling process and critical rig equipment (e.g. drill bit, drill pipe, TopDrive, mud pumps).
Subsurface definitions i.e. pore pressure, fracture gradient, seismic interpretation, subsurface target, lithology.
Types and functions of drilling fluids, additives, fluids mechanics, mud test properties and mud circulating system.
Objectives of cementing, cement recipes and additives, cementing process and cement calculations.
Basic knowledge of main operations such as running casing, completions, well testing, fishing, coring.
Well control calculations.
Basic well design such as casing design and selection, trajectory modeling, offset well reviews, cost tracking.
Practical site visit to local manufacturer, service companies, and Miri outcrop field trip (optional).

Miri Outcrop Field Trip