This course presents the basics of drilling and completion operations, plus post-completion enhancement (workovers). Participants will learn to visualize what is happening downhole, discover what can be accomplished, and learn how drilling and completion can alter reservoir performance. Learn to communicate with drilling and production personnel. No experience or prerequisites are required.

1. How to comprehend drilling and workover reports

2. What can be done within open-hole and cased wells, as a part of reservoir management

3. How drilling practices can optimize cash flow and ultimate recovery

4. How to communicate with drilling and production personnel

1. Overview of the drilling process

2. Language of drilling, completing, and well intervention

3. Drill string components: bits and accessories

4. Drilling fluids and hydraulics

5. Hole problems, stuck pipe, side-tracking and fishing

6. Cores and coring

7. Electric logging, MWD, LWD

8. Casing design and installation

9. Primary and remedial cementing

10. Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling

11. Wellhead equipment and trees

12. Options for completions and workovers

13. Tubing, packers and completion equipment

14. Safety and flow control devices

15. Open hole completions

16. Perforating

17. Coil tubing operations

18. Wireline techniques

19. Well stimulation - surfactants, solvents, acidizing, hydraulic fracturing

20. Formation and sand control - mechanical retention, chemical consolidation, and gravel packing

21. Scale and corrosion

22. Directional drilling and multi-laterals

23. Scale and corrosion

24. Paraffin and asphaltenes

Technical, field, service, support, and supervisory personnel desiring to gain an awareness of wellbore operations. Excellent for cross-training of other technical disciplines such as reservoir and facility engineers, geoscientists, supervisors, service personnel, and anyone who interacts with drilling, completion or workover engineers.