Orientation Webcast

Approx. 1 hour virtual, instructor-led

Onshore Convention Well Completion

Approx. 4 hours online learning activities

For conventional plays in onshore situations, you will learn:

• The purpose and basic operational aspects of wellhead, flow control equipment, and the major components used in a basic well completion
• The impact that drilling practices may have on reservoir productivity
• The function and limitations of each surface and subsurface component of a basic onshore completions
• The production target of a well, and the type of completion or workover design components required to achieve the target
• The basic properties of completion components materials and their limitations in conventional resources plays
• Which fluid systems are the most important for implementing successful completions and workovers in wells in conventional resources plays
• The most common subsurface equipment components used in conventional resources plays wells, and what they are used for
• The most relevant steps for implementing completion procedures in wells in conventional resources plays, and the proper interaction with all parties involved required
• The most relevant aspects of HSE in completion operations
• How a well flows, the impact of well control on fluid flow, and the most common control and monitoring devices
• The basic requirements and local regulations to abandon conventional wells
• The production target of a horizontal well, and describe the type of completion or workover design components required to achieve the target in conventional and unconventional resources plays.

Design Process for Completion and Workovers

Approx. 4 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Recognize the differences between a procedure, and a basis of design
• Read and interpret a simple well sketch
• Read and interpret a simple procedure
• Read and interpret a simple basis of design
• Explain the typical engineering criteria that underlies a completion or workover plan - economics over the life of the well, safety over the life of the well
• Recognize how your technical specialty may help contribute to a basis of design, including reservoir, geology, petrophysics, procurement, logistics

Perforating

Approx. 3 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Discuss various shaped charges, their design, performance, shot phasing and shot density options, and their advantages and limitations
• Illustrate the three primary perforating gun conveyance systems and the various gun types available and their individual features
• Understand concepts like perf tunnel damage, gun standoff, underbalance, gun correlation on depth, and other engineering input requirements for each perforating job design

Onshore Unconventional Well Completion

Approx. 4 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Describe the purpose and basic operational aspects of wellhead and flow control equipment in wells in unconventional plays
• Describe the purpose of each of the major components used in a basic well completion in unconventional resources plays, and the impact that drilling practices have on reservoir productivity
• Describe the function and limitations of each surface and subsurface component of a basic onshore completion in unconventional resources plays
• Describe the basic properties of completion components materials and their limitations in unconventional resources plays
• Describe which fluid systems are the most important for implementing successful completions and workovers in wells in unconventional resources plays
• Describe the most relevant steps for implementing completion procedures in wells in unconventional resources plays, and the proper interaction with all parties involved required
• Describe the most common techniques used to drill, complete, stimulate, and produce typical wells in coalbed methane reservoirs

Sand Control

Approx. 3 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Identify the need for sand control
• Recognize the causes of sand movement
• Define what consolidated sand is, and what it is not
• Identify both non-mechanical and mechanical methods of sand control
• Recognize that rate restriction is a valid practice to manage sand production
• Recognize that minor sand volume produced may be tolerated
• Identify various screen types for sand control
• Outline aspects of pre-packed screens for sand control
• Describe the principles of sand control screen and gravel completions
• Identify the three steps comprising a gravel pack completion design
• Describe various fluid options for pumping gravel slurry into a gravel pack completion
• Outline the function of a gravel pack “crossover tool”
• Outline the function of a gravel pack “shunt tube”
• Describe the function of a frac pack completion
• Outline the frac pack completion well performance results
• Outline the function of an expandable sand screen completion
• Identify the components of an expandable screen and possible benefits resulting from the use of expandables

Hydraulic Fracturing

Approx. 3 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Describe the significance of rock mechanics in all relevant production engineering operations
• Describe the most common non-chemical stimulation methods, their objectives and limitations in conventional and unconventional resource plays
• Describe the basic principles of hydraulic fracturing in conventional plays, the difference between acid and proppant treatments, and how to select optimum stimulation candidates
• Describe the basic principles of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional resource plays, the difference between slickwater and cross-linked treatments, and how to select optimum stimulation candidates

Completion Design Fundamentals

Approx. 5 hours online learning activities

Approx. 3 hours virtual, instructor-led session

You will learn how to:

• Select an appropriate well/ reservoir interface
• Select an appropriate conduit up the well, and identify the barriers in place to contain that flow
• Describe the most common sand face completion methods, and when to select each one
• Determine the range of tubing sizes appropriate for a given well, and what factors to consider in the final selection
• Assess the type of metal required for a given environment
• Assess the type of elastomer required for a given environment
• Position equipment in several common types of upper completions

Well Completion Fundamentals

Approx. 5 hours online learning activities

Approx. 3 hours virtual, instructor-led session

You will learn:

• The various types of packers available in the oilfield, production vs. service, perm, anent vs retrievable, mechanical set, electric line set, hydraulic set, hydrostatic set, swellable, and inflatable
• Frac plugs and frac sleeves and toe sleeves and how these are used in the two most common types of unconventional completions
• Circulating devices, including sliding side doors and circulating mandrels
• Landing nipple profiles and associated lock mandrels
• Additional tubing accessories such as wireline reentry guides, flow couplings, blast joints
• How this equipment may be arranged in several different well types

Formation Damage and Matrix Stimulation

Approx. 3 hours online learning activities

You will learn:

• The basic causes of oilfield formation damage and how they are recognized
• The concept of “True Formation Damage” and the principles of formation remediation once it has been correctly identified as being the cause of lost production
• How “pseudo” damage and differs from True Formation Damage
• The principles of limestone matrix acidizing and the chemistry and reactions involved
• The principles of sandstone matrix acidizing and the chemistry and reactions involved
• Formation damage identification and the positive results achieved by successfully conducting matrix acidizing jobs

Flow Assurance and Production Chemistry

Approx. 5 hours online learning activities

You will learn:

• Typical oilfield “flow assurance” issues and problems due to waxes, asphaltenes, inorganic scales, and corrosion
• How to interpret revealing signs of corrosion and erosion failure, scale formation, and related downhole deposits and how to prevent or minimize their production loss effects
• How formations become damaged due to related flow assurance and production chemistry issues
• The importance of collecting data to categorize options to choose an optimum well prevention and treatment plans
• How to recognize, prevent, remove, and manage organic paraffin and asphaltene field deposits
• How to recognize, prevent, remove and manage typical common soluble and insoluble scales in oil and gas operations
• The importance of using oilfield production chemistry to resolve production problems
• The conditions required for the formation of gas hydrates
• How ice crystals and methane in pipelines can lead to severe plugging of lines if not prevented from occurring or regularly removed by pigging operations
• The methods employed to treat gas hydrates in pipelines

Production Problem Diagnosis

Approx. 3 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Describe the different types of field collected data, and the most relevant factors that affect well performance in conventional and unconventional resources plays
• Describe the difference between drill stem and production tests, when to select and apply each test, how to validate
• collected data, and the purpose of pressure buildup analysis in conventional and unconventional resources plays
• Describe the effect of pressure on fluid flow, Inflow Performance Relationship analysis principles, and the best tubing correlations to use when modeling vertical and horizontal wells
• Describe the importance of applying and complying with all requirements to ensure integrity throughout the life cycle of a well including potential well problems from thermal fluids

Well Intervention

Approx. 4 hours online learning activities

You will learn how to:

• Describe the main components of a slickline unit
• Describe the main components of an electric line unit
• Describe the main components of a coiled tubing unit
• Describe the main components of a snubbing (hydraulic workover) unit
• Describe the main components of a conventional workover rig
• Compare and contrast the critical operational benefit and/or constraints of each of the above methods: ability to circulate, ability to rotate, ability to push, ability to enter a live well

Workover Fundamentals

Approx. 5 hours online learning activities

Approx. 3 hours virtual, instructor-led session

You will learn how to:

• Categorize well problems
• Select possible remediation and techniques for a variety of well problems
• Recognize barrier changes throughout a workover operation
• Explain the need for contingency planning in workover operations
• Prepare several common workovers