Advanced HPHT Well Engineering Training
Gain comprehensive expertise in advanced HPHT Well Engineering through our systematic and in-depth training. Indonesia & Malaysia based 5-day course
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Intermediate
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About Training
This course is delivered as a scenario-based course to provide knowledge of High-Pressure and High Temperature (HPHT) well design, drilling, and completion operations to drilling and completion engineers. The course is specifically designed to provide an understanding of the challenges associated with the design and construction of HPHT wells. The course starts with an HPHT pressure profile and geology. Participants work through the various well design aspects. Working on a real case allows the participants to learn not only the theory, technicalities, and practicalities of drilling and completing HPHT wells but it also ensures that participants gain real experience in understanding the HPHT issues. If this course is provided to participants from a single client the course scenario can be provided by the client. This allows participants a real insight into the HPHT challenges from their own well.
Training Objectives
What is the Advanced HPHT Well Engineering training course objective?
The objectives of this course are to provide the participants with an understanding of the complexities associated with HPHT well design and associated drilling operations. All the topics in this course relate to high pressures and high temperatures. It is assumed that participants understand conventional well design and drilling operations. At the end of the course, the participants will understand and be competent in:
- Narrow Drilling Margins and effects on Kick Tolerance
- Predictions of Pore pressures and the challenges
- The impact of both high pressures and temperatures and significant changes in temperatures on the observed behavior of the well
- Understand the impact of temperatures and pressures on primary and secondary well barriers
- Well-design requirements for HPHT
- Understand Operational Planning and Operational Challenges associated with HPHT
- Rig equipment requirements
- Understand Well Delivery, fingerprinting, well bore breathing, and high-reliability drilling practices
- Well Control – practical well control for on-bottom, off-the-bottom, and out-of-whole well control, kicks, and losses
Audiences
Who should join the Advanced HPHT Well Engineering training course by PetroSync?
This course is intended for drilling engineers, completion engineers, and service providers that are about to be exposed to HPHT drilling operations and are trying to understand the complexities better.
Instructor
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Steve Nas
Experienced well engineer and well engineering instructor with an MSc in Drilling Engineering and over 40 years of drilling and well engineering experience. Skilled in many facets of advanced well engineering such as Deepwater Managed Pressure Drilling, High Pressure – High Temperature, Geothermal, Well Integrity, Well Control and Well Abandonment operations. Experience working for operators, drilling contractors and service providers delivering a wide range of engineering solutions for complex wells.
Developed and presented numerous training courses related to well design, managed pressure drilling, high pressure high temperature operations, casing design, advanced well control, well control emergency response planning and well abandonment.
Skilled in thermal and multiphase hydraulic modelling for geothermal and underbalanced drilling and blowout kill calculations. Experienced in engineering solutions for well abandonment, relief well planning and coiled tubing drilling.
Coauthored several SPE books and numerous SPE papers and Member of SPE, ICOTA, IADC, IWCF, Energy Institute.
Daily Aims
The course starts with an introduction to the HPHT environment and how it is defined. The course introduces the geological aspects of an HPHT environment and the course then presents a detailed look at the behaviors of the various components of a well with elevated pressures and temperatures.
- Welcome and Introductions
- Defining the HPHT Environment
- History of HPHT Drilling Operations
- Geological & Geophysical Aspects of Abnormal Pressures
- Challenges in HPHT Wells
- Behavior of Gasses with elevated pressures and temperatures
- Behavior of Liquids with elevated pressures and temperatures
- Behavior of Metals with elevated pressures and temperatures
- Behavior of Elastomers with elevated pressures and temperatures
Exercises: Gas calculations, Density Calculations
The second day of the course starts with a look at well design standards, well design for HPHT wells.
- Applicable well design, drilling standards, procedures and guidelines
- Well Design Basis of Design
- Pore and Fracture Pressures and pressure ramps
- Well trajectories
- Casing Design and their connections
- Well control aspects associated with casing design
- Wellheads and wellhead growth
- Primary Cementing / Remedial Cementing
- Drilling Fluids (Oil Based / Water Based / Formate Brines)
- HPHT Drill string Design
- HPHT Data Collection (LWD / MWD Tools / Drilling Data)
- Contingency Planning
Exercises: Tubular expansion, Drill string design, Fluid challenges.
The third day of the course starts with rig requirements for HPHT operations. This part of the course presents the surface equipment requirements for HPHT drilling.
- Rig and equipment requirements for HPHT Operations
- BOP specifications and test requirements
- HPHT Choke Manifolds
- Mud Gas Separator Sizing
- Temperature safety aspects
- Mud Coolers
- Mud Testing Requirements
- Hydraulics and ECD
- Barite mixing requirements
- Solids Control and Barite Sag
- Pit Discipline
- Finger Printing the well
- Fluid compressibility & density
- Gas Solubility
Exercises: Temperatures, Barite requirements, barite sag, Gas solubility
In the fourth day of the course the operational aspects of drilling an HPHT well are presented to the candidates.
- Well control for HPHT and differences with conventional wells
- Well Control Operations and challenges, Barriers
- Ballooning, wellbore breathing and super charging
- Temperature Monitoring
- Drilling and Tripping Operations
- Data Collection and MWD/LWD
- Casing and Cementing Operations
- Well Integrity
- Well integrity standards.
- Integrity specifications for HPHT
- Barriers and Barrier Elements
- Leaks
- Corrosion
- Annular Pressure
- Integrity Failures
- Failure analysis and FMECA
- Managed Pressure Drilling
Exercises: Well control, Dual Gradient Calculations
The last day of the course covers well testing and completion operations on HPHT wells.
- HPHT Well Evaluation Logging and coring operations
- Mud Logging
- Wireline logging
- MWD – LWD Tools
- HPHT coring operations
- Well Testing Practices
- Material selection and metallurgy for tubing and wellheads
- Wellhead Seals
- Well testing well control aspects
- HPHT completions
- Tubing Movement
- Corrosion
- Flow Control Equipment
- Sand Production
- Reservoir Depletion
- Workovers
Exercises: Material Selection, Reservoir Depletion, Workovers.
Training Schedule
| Code | Start Date | End Date | Locations | Cost | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PST0434-202301 | 11 Sep, 2023 | 15 Sep, 2023 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | USD 3495 | Steve Nas |
| PST0434-202401 | 19 Aug, 2024 | 23 Aug, 2024 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | USD 3550 | Steve Nas |
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