Pore Pressure Prediction
This course is essential for every technical professional involved in exploration, risk assessment, development, monitoring, and production of oil and gas.
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- Intermediate
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- Course
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About Training
This course is essential for every technical professional involved in exploration, risk assessment, development, monitoring, and production of oil and gas. Sealing integrity and hydrocarbon retention capacity of a prospective structural closure are the consequence of the subsurface geo-pressure compartmentalization. Successful drilling to the targeted formation is a result of accurate prediction of pore – fracture pressure and the drilling tolerance window.
This course covers the essentials of geo-pressure compartmentalization in relation to pore pressure development with depth. The basic geological building blocks are used as the foundation for pore pressure predictions. The course is an introduction to developing concepts, models, measurements, predictions, calibrations, and appraisals. Moreover, the course brie y covers the process of calibrating pore and fracture pressures and predicting models before, during, and post drilling. This course will teach you the fundamental skills required to estimate and predict geo-pressure. It will also introduce you to the basics of wellbore stability to help manage your planning for all types of well locations and designs This course will focus on providing the methodologies and techniques available in evaluating formation pressure both qualitatively and quantitatively. Topics will include methods of pre-well prediction using seismic and basin modeling as well as evaluation using trend analysis techniques and pore pressure indicators.
The course describes the background to, and the prediction and evaluation of, overburden, pore and fracture pressures. While the emphasis is on practical evaluation, the course also describes how formation pressures in uence hydrocarbon generation and migration
Training Objectives
- GAIN the knowledge about the origins of geo-pressure and the basic physics of geological environments
- UNDERSTAND the concepts of hydrostatic, overburden and eff ective stresses.
- LEARN various type of data needed and its quality.
- DETERMINE the appropriate level of detail required for geo-pressure prediction and analysis.
- Able to MANAGE the drilling operations through the correct application of wellbore stability principles.
- UNDERSTAND diff erent bit types and applications.
- OPTIMIZE hydraulics for each hole interval based upon wellbore, uids and drill string configurations
Audiences
This course is speci cally designed for, but not limited to employees in the oil and gas industry who holds the following roles:
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Drilling Managers
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Drilling Supervisors
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Drilling Superintendents
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Senior Drillers
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Drilling Engineers
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Operation Engineers
- Project Engineers
Instructor
Fayez Makkar
Fayez Makkar is an independent drilling and workover consultant having more than 36 years of experience in Petroleum industry. He has extensive background in workover, completion design and logging interpretation in directional and horizontal wells. He also has experience in all types of drilling operations including deep wells on both offshore and onshore oil, gas and H2S wells. His teaching experience began since 1992 and at the moment he has taught more than 25 courses. He conducted several courses through TPS and NExT in Turkey.
Daily Aims
Day One
- Introduction - Pore Pressure Evaluation Techniques
- Geo-physical & other surface methods
- Drilling Parameters
- Drilling Exponents
Day Two
- Drilling Exponents
- MWD Logs
Day Three - 20th Aug 2014
- Factors A ffecting Formation Pressure Evaluation
- Fracture Pressure
Day Four - 21st Aug 2014
- Additional Fracture Pressure Applications
- Estimation of Fracture Pressure
- Estimation of fracture pressure
- Zero tensile strength concept
- Example calculation
Day Five
- Subsurface Stress States
- Selection of Casing Seats Leak O Tests
- Pressure Related Problems
Training Schedule
No upcoming session is scheduled yet. Send a quick inquiry and we will let you know the next date.
Why Choose This Training
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Practical application of concepts through real world scenarios.
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Hands on calculations and decision making for FFS outcomes.
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