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Well Casing Design Concepts & Techniques
Course Description
Casing design is an integral part of a drilling engineer’s work scope. This course focuses on casing design, both from engineering and operational perspective. Design concepts are provided for a wide range of straightforward and hostile environments. It examines the nomenclature of casing design, manufacturing processes, materials and properties. The theory of burst, collapse and axial loading is discussed along with design policies and procedures. A thorough review of API specifications is performed along with a review of the theory behind these specifications and their limitations. Connections and special cases, including HPHT and sour service are discussed.

This course provides an overview of the design process, emphasizing the working stress approach currently used in the industry. On completion of this course, successful candidates will be able to select casing points, identify tubular requirements and loads, design and specify the required casing string.

This course provides an overview of the design process, emphasizing the working stress approach currently used in the industry. On completion of this course, successful candidates will be able to select casing points, identify tubular requirements and loads, design and specify the required casing string.

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

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

Introduction

Material and mechanical properties of steel

Stress-strain and deformation

Oilfield tubular nomenclature
 

API/ISO ratings and formulas

  • API Yield Stress
  • Barlow Equation for tubular burst
  • Internal yield of couplings
  • Casing thread dimensions
  • Thread leak resistance
  • Collapse formulas
  • Collapse with axial load
  • Collapse with internal pressure
  • Tension yield of pipe body
  • Tension strength of threaded connections

Steel Testing

Tubular manufacturing specifications

  • Chemistry
  • Material properties
  • Heat treating
  • Testing

Introduction to sour service considerations

Design concepts

Design philosophy

Design factors

Life of well considerations in design decision

Wear

Corrosion

Triaxial Loading

Formulas and calculations

Casing Design Concepts

  • Temperature
  • Bending
  • Corrosion
  • Sulfide stress cracking
  • NACE guidelines for sulfide stress cracking

Corrosion resistant alloys

Tubular Failures Buckling

Connections

Thread design

Thread types API and proprietary

Thread leak resistance

Connection make-up

Casing setting depth determination

Pore pressure and fracture gradient importance

Kick tolerance

Casing setting depth for kick tolerance

Service life models

 Load cases

  • Load types
  • Axial
  • Burst
  • Collapse

Base Case

  • Develop load cases for burst, for collapse, for axial

Procurement

  • Planning
  • Specifications
  • Quality assurance

Inspection

  • Inspection types
  • Marking
  • Acceptance criteria

Load design for burst

Load design for collapse

Load design for axial load

Storage and handling

Thread compounds

Storage compounds

Pipe storage facility

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
DE169-02
2026-05-10
Cairo
USD 5450
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DE169-03
2026-09-13
Dubai
USD 5450
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DE169-04
2026-12-07
Istanbul
USD 5950
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