Course overview
The course covers the fundamentals of drilling engineering and well completion. In the area of drilling; the following are covered: the drilling process; equipment and performance; well pressure control and buoyancy; fluid design; well casing design and cementing techniques; overview of drilling operations. Well Completions addresses: concepts and types of well completion design; overview of well performance; tubing string sizing and design; specialised components: wellheads, packers, expansion joints, subsurface safety valves etc; introduction to well stimulation.
Course learning outcomes
- Effectively describe petroleum well drilling and completion principles, including key features of various components, and use these descriptions in appropriate for design, design analysis and evaluations
- Understand identify key design parameters, and estimate them appropriately
- and solve the relevant problems through analysing, evaluating and synthesising information
- Ability to approach problems in a logical way, be able to formulate an optimum solution and decide what data / information is relevant from a range of sources, how these relate to each other and identify inconsistencies
- Ability to work as a part of the team through successful completion of a group project
- Ability to work clearly and concisely, and be able to communicate findings in a variety of ways (on paper, electronically)