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COMPLETION DESIGN (MODULAR Course)

c. Perforating Design, Specification & Execution /

Estimating Static under-balance requirement /
Dynamic Under-balance

Detailed Course Contents

Monday (day 1 Completion Operations & Equipment)
Morning (08:30 12:30)

d. Fluids & Filtration

Afternoon (13:30 17:30)

Introductions venue / instructor / attendees / course overview

3. Tubing String Components

1. Completion Architecture

a. Wellhead , Tree & Tubing Hanger / Surface &

Subsea

a. Well Objectives / Design Data requirements /

Industry Standards / DCR Regulations

b. Tubing Size / Tubing Strength / Tubing

Connections

b. Drilling & other well construction considerations

c. Subsurface Safety Valves

c. Open Hole v Cased Hole

d. Nipples, Plugs and other Flow Control Devices

d. Horizontal / Multilateral / Intelligent

e. Packers & Tubing Movement

e. Slimhole / Monobore / Single / Dual / Insert

f.

f.

Key interfaces between elements of completion

architecture.

Artificial Lift Equipment

g. Material Selection

g. Life Cycle Issues

h. HPHT considerations

2. Sand Face Completion

4. Completion & Intervention Operations

a. Hole Size & Liner considerations

a. Outline Completion Program Steps

b. Sand Control / Sand Production Prediction / Stand

Alone Screen and gravel Pack Screen & Gravel Size
Selection / Expandable Screens / Frac Pack /
Inflow Control

b. Intervention Equipment & considerations

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c. Well Integrity Issues

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d. Benchmarking performance, JIPs & networking

3. Design Safety Factors & Service Life Load Cases

a. API Uniaxial/Biaxial Stress Calculations

Tuesday (day 2 Tubing Stress Analysis)

b. Von Mises equivalent Triaxial Stress Calculations

Morning (08:30-12:30)

c. API Spec 11D1 Packer Performance Envelope

1. Strength of Materials & API Documentation

d. Design Factors vs. Design Safety Factors

a. Stress & Strain / Yield Strength / Tensile Strength

e. Typical Service Life Load Cases

b. API Documentation

f.

i. Spec 5CT - Manufacture

ii. TR 5C3 (Bulletins 5C2 & 5C3)
Performance Calculations

Deriving Internal, External & Temperature Profiles

for Load Cases

4. WellCat & Osprey Tubular Designer Technical Application

Software
a. Program introduction

iii. RP 5C5 - Connections

b. Basic Program Workflow

iv. RP 5C7 Coiled Tubing

c. Quick Start Guide

2. Tubing Movement Hand Calculations

d. Basic Case Study Example

a. Piston

e. Pipe weight, grade & connection selection

b. Buoyancy
c. Ballooning
d. Buckling
e. Temperature
Afternoon (13:30 17:30)

Wednesday (day 3 Well Production System Modelling A)

Morning (08:30-12:30)
1. Introduction to Production System Modelling
a. Completion Design

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b. Production Optimisation

a. Skin Definition, Types & Origin

c. Modelling Method

b. Perforation modelling & design / spf & in-situ

penetration

d. Overview of PROSPER and resources supplied with

the software

c. Gravel Pack modelling & design

2. PVT Properties of Fluids

d. Stimulation modelling & design

a. Hydrocarbon Fluid Types & Phase Diagrams

b. Black Oil vs. Compositional

Thursday (day 4 - Well Production System Modelling B)

c. Black Oil Correlation Selection & Tuning /

Importance of Viscosity

Morning (08:30-12:30)
5. Vertical Lift Performance

d. Working with Lab Reports / Differential vs. Flash

vs. Multi-stage

a. Multi-phase Flow
b. MPF Correlation Selection & tuning

Afternoon (13:30 17:30)

c. Surface Roughness & Erosional Velocity

3. Inflow Performance Relationships

d. Turner Velocity and Sand Particle Transport

a. Straight Line PI vs. Vogel

b. Darcy vs. Forchheimer (rate dependent skin) and
others

6. Tubing Size Selection

a. Life of Well Sensitivities

c. Oil & Gas Model selection

b. Tubing Equipment

d. Horizontal Well Modelling /pressure loss along

wellbore

c. Stable Rates
d. Velocity Strings & Insert Gas Lift Strings

e. Multilateral Well modelling

4. Well Skin & Damage Modelling & Design Optimisation

Afternoon (13:30 17:30)

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7. Detailed Nodal Analysis Options & Solutions Review

2. Team Design Exercise Part 2

a. Matching Real Field Data for Performance

Prediction and Network Optimisation

a. Well Production System Modelling

b. Tubing Size Selection

b. Enthalpy Balance Temperature Prediction

c. Sand Control &/or Perforation Design

c. Gas Lift Injection Line and Subsea Flowline

Modelling

Afternoon (13:30 17:30)

3. Team Design Exercise Part 3

d. Plotting & Reporting

a. Tubing Stress Analysis

e. OpenServer Automation

b. Equipment Specification Review

8. Artificial Lift
a. Gas Lift Rate & Depth of Injection Optimisation

4. Team Design Results Presentation & Course Review

b. Gas Lift Design & Troubleshooting Options (Basic

Introduction)

a. Team Design Presentations & Actual Well Design

Review

c. ESP Design (Basic Introduction)

b. General Course Q&A session

d. Other Lift Methods

c. Course Feedback & Award of Certificates

Friday (day 5 Team Design Exercise & Course Review)

Morning (08:30-12:30)
1. Team Design Exercise Part 1
a. Problem Introduction
b. Outline Architecture & Equipment Selection

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