The Course provides personnel with a basic overview and understanding of oil and gas drilling operations. The course focuses on drilling technology, drilling rig components, basic drilling fluids, and hydraulics, cementing operations, downhole pressures, drilling problems, and solutions.

• Upon Completion of this course, participants will have a good understanding of:

•  Basic drilling operations both onshore and offshore

• Basic drilling rig components and functions, drilling economics, formation and fracture pressures, drilling problems, well control, cementing, directional drilling and basic logging operations.

1.      Formation Geology

2.      Rig components and drilling equipment

3.      Drill string and BHA components

4.      Directional drilling

5.      Measurement& Logging While Drilling

6.      Mud Circulation system

7.      Casing and cementing

8.      Surface and Subsea well control equipment

9.      Common drilling problems (stuck pipe, lost circulation)

10.   Blowout Prevention

11.   Shut-in Procedures

12.   Well Kill Methods