Advanced Drilling Practice

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
16 Nov 2025 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register
19 Apr 2026 Galway, Ireland $ 4,950 Register
09 Aug 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register
22 Nov 2026 Amman, Jordan $ 4,500 Register

Advanced Drilling Practice

Introduction

The goal of this course is to:

  • Provide asset team members with advanced techniques for exploiting reservoirs to produce more oil faster, cheaper, and at minimum environmental impact and also to expose participants to the applications, and limitations of advanced, and emerging drilling and completions techniques.
  • Enable participants to understand the operations carried out by directional drillers and contribute to the design of directional and horizontal wells. The course covers the fundamentals, design considerations and operational aspects

Objectives

    This course based on the following:

    • Advanced Drilling Technologies
    • Emerging Drilling Technologies 
    • Directional and Horizontal Drilling 

    New technologies are constantly being introduced to drill for hydrocarbons in a cost-effective, safe and environmentally friendly manner that will ultimately contribute to achieving the business objectives of asset teams.

    It is crucial for both experienced and junior engineers, and wellsite supervisors, to be aware and knowledgeable in these new technologies in order to optimally apply them in their projects.

Training Methodology

The training methodology is interactive with group exercises and is suitable for all employees involved in functions management. The pace and level of the training workshop is customized to the understanding of the delegates. Ongoing back-up and support is available after the training on request to the supplier, and the training course is also available for in-house presentation as well as for “Competency Transfer”.

Who Should Attend?

Experienced drilling engineers well site supervisors, drilling contractor and service companies, frontline drilling management and other E&P disciplines.

Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, trainee drillers, rig engineers and service company personnel with basic drilling engineering

Course Outline

  • Horizontal and multilateral drilling technology, Rotary steerable drilling and Geosteering
  • HPHT drilling; Ultra-deepwater drilling
  • Underbalanced drilling
  • Casing drilling
  • Expandable tubular
  • 3D-Visualization
  • Directional drilling fundamentals-applications and limitations;
  • Algebra and trigonometry review;
  • Terminology, Well objectives and target;
  • Directional well planning - positioning and coordinate systems
  • Survey calculation methods;
  • Anti-collision and advanced well planning;
  • Surveying-gyroscopes; MWD;
  • Down hole equipment-drilling tools and deflection methods
  • Drilling motors;
  • Drilling bits;
  • BHA assemblies;
  • Well site operations;
  • Directional design - reservoir;
  • Drilling and surface considerations
  • Well profile/well path/trajectory design;
  • Torque and drag modeling;
  • BHA design;
  • Hydraulics;
  • Calculations;
  • Horizontal wells -types and planning
  • Completion techniques;
  • Logging techniques;
  • Coring techniques;
  • Wellbore stability issues;
  • Hole cleaning

Accreditation

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