DURATION: 5 days

 

LEVEL: Skill

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DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE...

·     A petroleum engineer, production engineer, CT supervisor or operations supervisor

·     A manager wanting to get more familiarized with stimulation and CT

·     A reservoir engineer, petrophysicist or foreman connected with stimulation operations and miscellaneous field operations

 

HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE

·     The course will be presented using PowerPoint slides, some with animation and several videos on relevant issues

·     Teaching methods include calculations on related issues

·     Several examples of actual stimulation programs will be presented

 

THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

By the end of the course participants will feel confident in their understanding of:

·     Production operations

·     Investigation of SAP pressures

·     Well intervention

·     Well heads main components, operations and testing

·     Slickline and wireline operations

·     Investigation of tubing leaks

·     Corrosion investigation (corrosion Logs)

·     Packers, cement retainers, retrievable bridge plugs

·     Through tubing plugs (water and/or gas shut off)

·     Well interventions with CT and hydraulic workover

·     Basic well testing

 

TOPICS

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Production Operations and Well Intervention

·     Main reasons for monitoring annulus pressures

·     How to manage annulus pressures

·     Wireline and slickline operations

·     Well intervention, well control

·     Wireline and slickline equipment

·     Applications

·     Barrier principles

·     General contingency procedures

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Well Heads and Xmas Trees, Operations and Testin

·     Casing heads

·     Casing spools

·     Tubing heads

·     Tubing hangers

·     Slip and seal assemblies

·     Tubing head adapters

·     Pressure testing wellheads

·     Casing hangers and well pressure control

·     Testing instructions

·     Leak path determination

·     Xmas trees

·     Well heads safety control systems

·     Investigation of CBL/VDL cement bond logs 

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Coiled Tubing as a Major Tool on Well Intervention

·     Main CT applications

·     Water control 

·     String limitations (pressure and tension)

·     Principal CT stresses

·     CT well control equipment

·     BOP features

·     Common down hole tools used on CT

·     CT well intervention

·     Types of well work– drilling, stimulation, pumping, fishing, milling, scale removal

·     Perforating, data acquisition, depth control, fill clean-out, artificial lift

·     Well completion design and production issues

·     Production problems

 

Well Intervention with Hydraulic Workover

·     What is Hydraulic Workover unit (HWO)?

·     Advantages of a snubbing unit

·     HWO equipment

·     BOP control systems

·     Barriers in snubbing

·     Snubbing forces and balance point

·     Emergency response

·     Review of a SAP investigation (field case)

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Production Operations and Well Integrity

·     Construction of a well with integrity

·     Leak detection

·     Injectivity testing

·     Corrosion monitoring

·     Corrosion mechanism

·     Corrosion logs examples

·     Cathodic protection

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Fishing with CT

Fishing operations

·     Fishing tools

·     Types of fish

·     Fishing tools and techniques

·     Safety

·     Review of a fishing program with coiled tubing (field case)

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Completion Equipment

·     Sub-surface Safety Valves (SSV)

·     Landing nipples

·     Pump through plugs

·     Flow coupling / blast joints

·     Side pocket and gas lift mandrels

·     Sliding sleeves

·     Production packers

·     Retrievable packers

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Well Testing Basics

·     What well tests can identify

·     Reasons to test and analyse

·     Types of tests

·     Multiphase metering - the Multiphase Flow Meter (MFM)

·     Well testing with MFM

·     Data from well tests

·     Equipment required for well tests

·     Drill Stem Tests (DST)

·     DST packers

·     Review of a SAP investigation (field case)

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Well Completions

·     Artificial lift methods

·     Beam pumps

·     Progressive cavity pumps

·     Electric submersible pumps

·     Gas lift

·     Hydraulic Pumps (piston and jet pumps)

·     Advantages and disadvantages of each

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Surface Facilities

·     Basics of crude oil separation and stabilisation

·     Central gathering station

·     Line heaters

·     Crude oil separators

·     Oil processing – solids waxes

·     Sand handling hydrocyclones

·     Three phase separators

·     Onshore and offshore production facilities

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Digital Oilfield

·     Data integration from several sources

·     SCADA