Oil and Gas Well Drilling Technology
Professional development
Education in English language
Description:
Topic 1
- A brief overview of developments in drilling technology, current challenges and technology perspectives
Topic 2
- Oil and gas wells, their elements and functions in petroleum exploration and production. Classification of wells. Well design and well planning
Topic 3
- Methods of oil and gas well drilling (cable drilling, rotary-percussion drilling, rotary drilling, drilling with bottom hole engines and top drives, coil tubing, underbalanced drilling, rotary steerable systems, casing drilling). Advantages and disadvantages of these drilling methods
Topic 4
- Casing and bit size program
- Well design for particular conditions
- Construction of the casing string, the types of casing pipes. Operational requirements to casing strings, general approach to casing string strength evaluation
Topic 5
- Physical and mechanical properties of sedimentary formations (strength, elasticity, hardness, plasticity, creep, abrasiveness) and their influence for selection of drilling bits
Topic 6
- Modern drilling bits (polycrystalline diamond bits, modern roller bits, diamond bits), their construction and features. Efficient fields of their application. Bit wear. International Association Drilling Contractors (IADC) classification
Topic 7
- Drilling practices
- Drilling parameters: weight on the bit, RPM, flow rate, mud properties. Effects of these factors on the rate of penetration, trip rate, cost per meter, bit life
- Criterions of drilling practices optimization
- Mathematical models of drilling process
Topic 8
- Drill string, its elements and their functions
- Drill pipes. Heavyweight drill pipes
- Drill collars
- Drill string design
- Drill string calculation. Drill string vibration and its influence on drilling process and its performance
Topic 9
- Drilling fluids. Main properties of drilling fluids and equipment for its definitions. Modern drilling fluids
- Preparation of drilling fluids and control of their properties. Solids control. Choosing proper drilling fluids for particular conditions
Topic 10
- Lost circulation; oil, gas and water shows; shale instability; pipe sticking
- Blowouts, accidents with drill string and bits and measures to prevent or eliminate complications and accidents while drilling
Topic 11
- Straight holes drilling. Undesirable deviation of bore holes and its causes
- Types of the bottom hole assembly and its design
Topic 12
- Directional drilling. Application of directional drilling. Methods of directional drilling
- Kickoff equipment
- Horizontal and multilateral drilling
Topic 13
- Cementing. Objectives and methods of well cementing. Cementing outfit. The ways of improving cementing quality. Testing cementing operations
- Well construction quality
Topic 14
- Well completion
- Drilling in pay zones. Choice of proper mud fluid
- Methods for opening up a pay zone and construction of a bottom well zone
- Formation testing
- Drill stem testing and its stages
- Casing perforation
Topic 15
- Characteristic features of offshore drilling engineering and technology. New trends of development offshore drilling technology
Duration: 40 academic hours (1 ac.h = 45 minutes)*
Dates: by agreement
Cost (for group):
- 1 840 000 рублей - очно (в аудиториях ЦИК)*
*(cost and duration specified for the group of 15 persons and more, otherwise it could be changed)
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диплом установленного образца для ведения нового вида деятельности для программ профессиональной переподготовки от 250 часов(дипломы государственного образца по программам ДПО не выдаются с 01.09.2013 в связи со вступлением в силу Федерального закона от 29.12.2012 N 273-ФЗ (ред. от 31.12.2014) "Об образовании в Российской Федерации")