Workover & Completion Operation

This course gives a technical overview of the science and art of workover operations, completion practices and post-completion wellbore enhancement or remedial workover techniques (well intervention). Reservoir Engineers will learn what can be done within open-hole and cased wells as they execute reservoir management. Drilling and completion personnel will learn how the producing reservoir can be damaged or stimulated by what they do. The participants learn to visualize what is happening “downhole”, discover what can be accomplished and gain an appreciation for wellbore risks and the possibility of damage to the formation; and how drilling and completion practices can alter reservoir interpretation and performance.

OBJECTIVE

1. How workover operation, completing and reworking a well affects its ability to produce
2. What can be done within open-hole and cased wells, as a part of reservoir management
3. How well intervention practices can damage or stimulate producing wells

OUTLINE

1. Overview of the drilling & workover process
2. Language of drilling
3. Reservoir rock and fluid properties
4. Rigs & rig equipment
5. Drilling string components & design
6. Bits; Rig operation
7. Drilling fluids & hydraulics
8. MWD; Well control
9. Hole problems and stuck pipe
10. Drilling risks
11. Cores and coring
12. Casing design & installation
13. Primary cementing
14. Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling
15. Wellhead & trees
16. Overview of the completion process: Zonal isolation
17. Tubing, packers & completion equipment
18. Safety & flow control devices
19. Open hole completions
20. Basic completion types
21. Perforating
22. Open & cased hole logging
23. Formation damage & treatment
24. Completion fluids
25. Multiple completions
26. Overview of workover techniques: Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating
27. Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques
28. Scale and corrosion
29. Side tracking
30. Paraffin and asphaltenes
31. Reworks; Recompletions
32. Deepening; Coiled tubing

PARTICIPANTS

Technical, field, service, support and supervisory personnel desiring to gain an introductory overview of these topics and how they interrelate. Excellent for cross-training of other technical disciplines such as reservoir and surface facility engineers plus geoscientists, and anyone who interacts with drilling, completion or workover design engineers such as technical supervisors and technical service personnel.