Maximizing Well Potential: Well Completion and Workover Operations Training Course

Introduction

After the complex process of drilling, a well must be "completed" to enable the safe and efficient flow of hydrocarbons from the reservoir to the surface. This critical phase involves installing specialized equipment and establishing a secure connection to the producing formation. Throughout a well's operational life, production may decline or issues may arise, necessitating "workover" operations – interventions designed to restore, enhance, or alter the well's performance. Both completion and workover operations are highly specialized, requiring meticulous planning and execution to ensure well integrity, optimize productivity, and maximize economic recovery.

This intensive training course is meticulously designed to equip participants with a comprehensive and practical understanding of well completion and workover operations. From exploring various completion types and their design considerations to mastering the techniques for well intervention, stimulation, and problem diagnosis, you will gain the expertise to manage the entire well lifecycle effectively. This empowers you to optimize production, extend well lifespans, ensure well integrity, and strategically contribute to the efficient and safe development of hydrocarbon assets.

Target Audience

  • Completion Engineers and Supervisors.
  • Workover Engineers and Supervisors.
  • Production Engineers and Technologists.
  • Drilling Engineers and Well Planners.
  • Well Services and Intervention Personnel.
  • Petroleum Engineers and Reservoir Engineers.
  • Field Superintendents and Operations Managers.
  • Technical Staff from Service Companies.

Duration: 10 days

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the fundamental principles and objectives of well completion.
  • Grasp the various types of well completion designs and their applications.
  • Analyze the components and functions of downhole completion equipment.
  • Comprehend the purpose and different types of well workover operations.
  • Evaluate various well stimulation techniques (acidizing, hydraulic fracturing).
  • Develop practical skills in planning and executing well interventions.
  • Navigate common well problems and implement effective diagnostic and remedial solutions.
  • Formulate robust strategies for optimizing well performance and maximizing hydrocarbon recovery throughout the well's life.

Course Content

  1. Introduction to Well Completion
  • Definition and purpose of well completion.
  • Role of completion in the well life cycle.
  • Key objectives of completion design: maximize productivity, ensure well integrity, enable future interventions.
  • Interface with drilling and reservoir engineering.
  • Overview of completion types and their selection criteria.
  1. Well Completion Types and Design Considerations
  • Open hole completions: advantages, disadvantages, applications.
  • Cased and perforated completions: techniques, perforation design.
  • Liner completions and horizontal well completions.
  • Multilateral and intelligent well completions.
  • Factors influencing completion design: reservoir characteristics, fluid properties, well trajectory.
  1. Downhole Completion Equipment
  • Production tubing: types, materials, design considerations.
  • Packers: types (mechanical, hydraulic, swellable), functions, setting procedures.
  • Flow control devices: sliding sleeves, nipples, safety valves.
  • Wellheads and Christmas trees: components, pressure ratings.
  • Sand control equipment: screens, gravel packs, frac packs.
  1. Perforating and Zonal Isolation
  • Principles of perforating: shaped charges, gun types, perforating techniques.
  • Perforation design: shot density, phasing, penetration.
  • Cement bond logging (CBL) and variable density logging (VDL) for cement evaluation.
  • Remedial cementing (squeeze cementing) for zonal isolation.
  • Ensuring effective communication with the reservoir and preventing unwanted fluid entry.
  1. Introduction to Workover Operations
  • Definition and purpose of workover operations.
  • Reasons for workovers: declining production, equipment failure, wellbore damage, change of objective.
  • Types of workovers: routine, major, rigless operations.
  • Workover planning and feasibility studies.
  • Safety and risk management in workover operations.
  1. Well Intervention Techniques
  • Wireline operations: slickline, electric line for logging, perforating, setting plugs.
  • Coiled tubing operations: drilling, logging, stimulation, cleanouts.
  • Snubbing (hydraulic workover) operations.
  • Through-tubing interventions.
  • Selecting the appropriate intervention method based on well conditions and objectives.
  1. Well Stimulation Techniques
  • Formation damage: causes and prevention.
  • Matrix acidizing: principles, acid types, application methods.
  • Hydraulic fracturing: principles, proppants, frac fluids, fracture design.
  • Fracturing unconventional reservoirs.
  • Production enhancement through stimulation.
  1. Common Well Problems and Remedial Solutions
  • Sand production: causes, sand control methods (screens, gravel packs, chemical consolidation).
  • Scale deposition: types of scale, prevention, removal methods.
  • Paraffin and asphaltene deposition: causes, prevention, removal methods.
  • Corrosion: types, prevention, monitoring.
  • Water and gas breakthrough: diagnosis, shut-off techniques.
  1. Well Control in Workover Operations
  • Well control principles review: primary, secondary, tertiary control.
  • Kick detection and warning signs during workovers.
  • Well control equipment: BOPs, choke manifold, auxiliary equipment.
  • Well killing methods and procedures.
  • Barrier management and well integrity during interventions.
  1. Advanced Completion and Workover Technologies
  • Intelligent and Smart Well Completions: downhole sensors, remote control valves.
  • Expandable tubulars and solid expandable technology.
  • Fiber optic sensing (DTS, DAS) for real-time monitoring.
  • Underbalanced drilling and completion.
  • Digitalization and automation in well intervention.

CERTIFICATION

  • Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with Macskills Training and Development Institute Certificate

TRAINING VENUE

  • Training will be held at Macskills Training Centre. We also tailor make the training upon request at different locations across the world.

AIRPORT PICK UP AND ACCOMMODATION

  • Airport pick up and accommodation is arranged upon request

TERMS OF PAYMENT

Payment should be made to Macskills Development Institute bank account before the start of the training and receipts sent to info@macskillsdevelopment.com

For More Details call: +254-114-087-180

 

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