Advanced Directional Drilling
Course
In Ealing
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Advanced
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Location
Ealing
Facilities
Location
Start date
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Reviews
Course programme
Objectives
Attendees will learn UTM and grid coordinates, how to design directional wells, horizontal and multilateral wells, understand BHA's, MWD, surveying equipment, survey calculations and error quantification.
Course Content
• Reasons for directional wells
• Declination And Convergence
• UTM & Grid coordinates
• Factors Affecting Hole Deviation Including Formation And Drillstring Factors.
• Bottomhole assemblies. Placement of stabilisers.
• Survey Reference Points
• Calculations And Wellpath Plotting
• Surveying Tools And Accuracy
• Types Of Directional Wells: types 1,2 and three and calculations.
• Kick Off Points, Build Up And Drop Off Rates
• MWD And LWD
• Drillstring design
• Directional Drilling Techniques: Wellpath Design Calculations, Course Corrections, Tools
• Designing horizontal wells: kick off points, tangent and landing sections
• Long-, Medium-, & Short-Radius Wells; Extended Reach Wells, S-Bend Wells. Multi lateral designs. Joints integrity.
• Complete Well Planning Exercises
• Cluster Wells
• Collision Analysis
• Survey Errors, Quantification Of Error Sources
• Ellipsoid Descriptive Equations
• Spider plots & travelling cylinder
• Drillstring Design: Drill Pipe Selection, Drill Collar Selection
• Buoyancy Factor Method: Procedure For Selecting Drillcollars
• Heavy-Walled Drillpipe (HWDP),Stabilisers,Drilling Jars, Shock Subs
• Drillstring Design Criteria, Dogleg Severity Analysis
Advanced Directional Drilling