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Course Description
This course is designed to address how to optimize drilling performance from all aspects of the drilling process. The course will address bit performance diagnostics, technical limits, and the way that a real time data analysis can reveal drilling performance shortcomings and safety issues.
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Training Objective
By the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Identify causes of poor drilling performance
- Understand the main drilling dynamic behaviors, and how to dissipate them and avoid them.
- Determine best possible drilling performance for any given lithology
- Determine drilling efficiency in real time and
- Interpret real time data for possible bit malfunctions
Target Audience
Drilling Engineers, Senior Drilling Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, Workover Engineers, Petroleum Engineers, Completion Engineers, Tool Pushers, Reservoir and Senior Reservoir Engineers, Geologists, Production Engineers & Technologists, Wellsite Engineers, Lifting Personnel, Maintenance Engineers, Foremen, Industry Personnel
Training Methods
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
Daily Agenda
Drilling Mechanics
- Definitions
- Drilling efficiency
- Bingham Evaluation
- Symptoms of poor drilling performance
- ROP models
- The factors that affect drilling rate
- Drilling fluids effects
- Drill solids type and concentration
- Weight on bit
- RPM
- Others
Drilling Dynamics
- Definitions and introduction to drilling vibration
- Causes, prevention, and cure of axial, rotational, and whirl vibration
- Case studies
- Real time diagnosis using downhole and surface measurements
- Real-time diagnosis from bits wear pattern
- Guidelines and best practices
Bit Performance Optimization
- Types of bits and selection
- PDC bit selection and performance
- Time to pull a bit
- Mechanical specific energy
- The “d” exponent
- Drill off tests interpretations and practical guidelines
- Bit performance diagnostics in real time
- Drill off test analysis with different levels of hydraulic
System Optimization
- Drilling fluid
- Solids control
- Drilling window
- Wellbore stability
- Hydraulics
- Minimum circulation rate
- Drill string
Other Topics in Drilling Optimization
- Limitations to drilling optimization
- Pore pressure
- Maximum cuttings load (for a given ROP)
- Technical limit drilling
Course summary
Accreditation
BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.
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