By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Understand geological history and its connection to offshore drilling and production industry
• Explain the employment of the different methods of exploration for oil and gas
• Describe the different equipment and methods for well testing and logging
• Explain why and how cutting of formation core samples is undertaken
• Calculate pressures and pressure gradients in drilling and production wells
• Explain the construction of the different well control systems and equipment, and how they operate
• Employ methods and procedures for well control in a simulated environment
• Explain the most common drilling operations, and the tools and equipment involved
• Describe the most common floating and fixed installations and their main systems for operation
• Explain the construction of a well, including the use of casings, wellheads and cementing methods and techniques
• Explain the installations of hydraulic/pneumatic/electrical systems for control of drilling and well maintenance operations
• Explain methods for completing production wells
• Describe construction of a production well with production tubing wellhead and x-mas trees
• Explain the main principles of sub-sea completions and operations

Exploration

• Search for oil & gas
• Terms and nomenclature of geology used in oil industry
• Petroleum: How it is formed and trapped, geology of the suitable rocks for favorable deposition of hydrocarbons

Introduction to Drilling Technology

• Drilling methods
• Technical Definitions
• Rotary Drilling practices
• Well Construction and Design of Casing String
• Drilling fluids
• Well control Equipment
• Fishing and fishing Tools
• Offshore drilling Practices
• Safety on the rig

Well Completion and Testing

• Reservoir engineering aspects for well completion
• Phase behaviour
• Performance Evaluation
• Production inflow performance
• Types of well completion
• Corrosive high pressure completion
• Tubing less well completion
• Horizontal and multilayered completion
• Open hole completion
• Slotted liner completion
• Special completion
• Packer completion
• Perforation Techniques
• Over balanced and under balanced
• Well head equipment
• Down hole tools
• Classification of well production tests
• Transient pressure testing: well testing strategy
• Production testing tools
• Drill stem Test
• High pressure and high temperature testing
• Testing of sour wells
• Well activation and flow measurements

Artificial Lift

• Artificial lift
• Need for artificial lift
• Various modes of lifts
• Selection criterion and design of suitable lift
• Trouble shooting
• Optimization

Reservoir Pressure Maintenance through Water / Gas Injection

• Reservoir pressure maintenance
• Need for reservoir health management
• Types of water injection methods, peripheral and spot injection
• Frontier areas of EOR
• Compatibility of injection fluids
• Monitoring

Work-over Operations, Well Stimulation & Sand Control

• Work over rig components
• Introduction
• Rig components
• Draw works
• Hoisting System
• Rotary equipment
• Mud Pumps
• Prime over
• Work over Jobs
• Major Repair Jobs
• Casing Damage repair
• Fishing
• Well Stimulation
• Formation Damage
• Various stimulation techniques
• Gravel packing
• Activation

Production, Storage, processing & Transportation

• Production
• Design of GGS/GCS/ EPS
• Design of CTF
• Sour component handling
• Demulsification and desalting
• ETP- design
• Transportation
• Introduction to Offshore Technology especially Deep water
• Offshore Practices
• Introduction to offshore technology
• Deep water: frontier area of technology
• Case Studies
• Discussions

Drilling Engineers, Senior Drilling Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, Petroleum Engineers, Completion Engineers, Tool Pushers, Reservoir and Senior Reservoir Engineers, Geologists, Production and Completion Engineers, Foremen, Industry Personnel.