Directional, Horizontal, and Multilateral Drilling - DHD

Extensional structural styles and their plate, tectonic habitats; Models for rifting and passive continental margin evolution; Transtensive structures; Detached and basement-involved styles; Map patterns; Half grabens and full grabens; Footwall uplift; Pre-inversion normal faults; Ramp-flat and listric-fault related structures; Rotated block with keystone graben style; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration and predication; Vertical and oblique simple shear; Rigid-block restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Effect of detachment-zone thickness; Transition from horizontal to vertical displacement; Extensional drape folds; Trishear models of drape folds; Sequential restoration of growth structures; Fracturing in extensional structures

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Extensional structural styles and their plate, tectonic habitats; Models for rifting and passive continental margin evolution; Transtensive structures; Detached and basement-involved styles; Map patterns; Half grabens and full grabens; Footwall uplift; Pre-inversion normal faults; Ramp-flat and listric-fault related structures; Rotated block with keystone graben style; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration and predication; Vertical and oblique simple shear; Rigid-block restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Effect of detachment-zone thickness; Transition from horizontal to vertical displacement; Extensional drape folds; Trishear models of drape folds; Sequential restoration of growth structures; Fracturing in extensional structures

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Extensional structural styles and their plate, tectonic habitats; Models for rifting and passive continental margin evolution; Transtensive structures; Detached and basement-involved styles; Map patterns; Half grabens and full grabens; Footwall uplift; Pre-inversion normal faults; Ramp-flat and listric-fault related structures; Rotated block with keystone graben style; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration and predication; Vertical and oblique simple shear; Rigid-block restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Effect of detachment-zone thickness; Transition from horizontal to vertical displacement; Extensional drape folds; Trishear models of drape folds; Sequential restoration of growth structures; Fracturing in extensional structures

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Extensional structural styles and their plate, tectonic habitats; Models for rifting and passive continental margin evolution; Transtensive structures; Detached and basement-involved styles; Map patterns; Half grabens and full grabens; Footwall uplift; Pre-inversion normal faults; Ramp-flat and listric-fault related structures; Rotated block with keystone graben style; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration and predication; Vertical and oblique simple shear; Rigid-block restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Effect of detachment-zone thickness; Transition from horizontal to vertical displacement; Extensional drape folds; Trishear models of drape folds; Sequential restoration of growth structures; Fracturing in extensional structures

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Extensional structural styles and their plate, tectonic habitats; Models for rifting and passive continental margin evolution; Transtensive structures; Detached and basement-involved styles; Map patterns; Half grabens and full grabens; Footwall uplift; Pre-inversion normal faults; Ramp-flat and listric-fault related structures; Rotated block with keystone graben style; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration and predication; Vertical and oblique simple shear; Rigid-block restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Effect of detachment-zone thickness; Transition from horizontal to vertical displacement; Extensional drape folds; Trishear models of drape folds; Sequential restoration of growth structures; Fracturing in extensional structures

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing