Basic

Drilling, Completion and

Workover Operations - BDC

Discipline: Multi-Discipline Training

Level: Basic
Duration: 5 days
Instructor(s): Iskander Diyashev, Mason Gomez, Stephen Jewell, Patrick Moran, Richard
Schroeder

This course presents the basics of drilling and completion operations, plus post-
completion enhancement (workovers). Participants will learn to visualize what is
happening downhole, discover what can be accomplished, and learn how drilling and
completion can alter reservoir performance. Learn to communicate with drilling and
production personnel. No experience or prerequisites are required.

Designed For:
Technical, field, service, support, and supervisory personnel desiring to gain an
awareness of wellbore operations. Excellent for cross-training of other technical
disciplines such as reservoir and facility engineers, geoscientists, supervisors, service
personnel, and anyone who interacts with drilling, completion or workover engineers.

You Will Learn:

How to comprehend drilling and workover reports

What can be done within open-hole and cased wells, as a part of reservoir
management
How drilling practices can optimize cash flow and ultimate recovery
How to communicate with drilling and production personnel

Course Content:
 Overview of the drilling process
Language of drilling, completing, and well intervention
Drill string components: bits and accessories
Drilling fluids and hydraulics
Hole problems, stuck pipe, side-tracking and fishing
Cores and coring
Electric logging, MWD, LWD
Casing design and installation
Primary and remedial cementing
Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling
Wellhead equipment and trees
Options for completions and workovers
Tubing, packers and completion equipment
Safety and flow control devices
Open hole completions
Perforating
Coil tubing operations
Wireline techniques
Well stimulation - surfactants, solvents, acidizing, hydraulic fracturing
Formation and sand control - mechanical retention, chemical consolidation, and gravel
packing
Scale and corrosion
Directional drilling and multi-laterals
Scale and corrosion
Paraffin and asphaltenes

Instructors:

DR. ISKANDER DIYASHEV is a director and a co-founder of Petroleum and Energy

Technology Advisors, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm based in Houston, Texas,
focused on drilling, completion and stimulation (www.1penta.com). Prior to that Dr.
Diyashev was an officer and a board member with Independent Resource Development
Corporation, based in Moscow with operations in Western Siberia Russia. Dr. Diyashev
was responsible for the planning of field development, reserves evaluation and addition,
planning of exploration activities, as well as engineering and technology. In 2001-2006 Dr.
Diyashev served as a Chief Engineer for Sibneft, one of the largest integrated oil
companies in Russia with a daily production of 700,000 BOPD.

During his career, Dr. Diyashev worked in R&D, consulting, and the service and
production sides of the business both in Russia and internationally. Prior to his work with
Sibneft, Dr. Diyashev was one of the key Schlumberger specialists to start the horizontal
drilling project in Noyabrsk Western Siberia. He holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering
from Texas A&M University, and advanced degrees in Physics and Mathematics from
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has authored 30 technical papers. Dr.
Diyashev is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and served on the
Board of Directors of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE International), and on the
boards of various private E&P, service and engineering firms in the petroleum industry.
Twice in his career Dr. Diyashev was elected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer of the
SPE, in 2005-06, and in 2017-18.

MR. MASON GOMEZ is the PetroSkills Technical Director for the Production and
Completions discipline and the Reservoir Engineering discipline. He is a Licensed
Petroleum Engineer (LA#26131) with 26 years diversified experience including:
production/reservoir engineering, offshore field development/mature field optimization,
shale play drilling/ completions, Operator/Service Company employment, Engineering,
Sales, Operations Management, Human Resource Development, and Project
Management roles. He received a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford
University.

MR. STEPHEN JEWELL is an independent oil and gas consultant and advisor with 30
years' experience in the upstream sector. He was previously the Managing Director and
co-founder of Xodus Subsurface Ltd, the Wells and Subsurface company within the Xodus
Group of technical consultants. He was also Chief Operating Officer and a founding
shareholder of Composite Energy Limited, a European Unconventional Gas company,
growing the company from seed capital of $500k to an ultimate sale value of over $60
million in 5 years. He has over 16 years' experience with Amerada Hess starting as
petroleum engineer and progressing to Acting General Manager of its North Sea
Operations Base. He received a BEng (Honors) degree in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Sheffield and speaks Norwegian and French.

MR. PATRICK MORAN is a completion consultant from Houston, Texas. He has twenty-
two years of well construction experience, having managed deepwater completion
projects through design, planning and execution phases in the Gulf of Mexico, SE Asia,
West Africa, and Australia. He is also proficient in the design and execution of sand face
and intelligent completions. Patrick has designed and executed workovers and
interventions in deepwater for both subsea and platform wells. Patrick earned Bachelor of
Science and Master of Education degrees from Louisiana State University.

MR. RICHARD SCHROEDER is founder and President of RHS Management, specializing

in technical and management consulting for the petroleum industry. He has more than 45
years of experience in engineering, international operations, management and teaching
experience in all phases of exploration, production, research and corporate development.
He specializes in reservoir management, production optimization, drilling, operations,
completion and workover capabilities, personnel development, communications and multi-
discipline team building. His professional experience includes: 9 years in engineering,
research and supervision with Exxon; 8 years as Senior Vice President with May
Petroleum, an independent drilling fund company; 8 years as President of Rosewood
Resources, a privately-owned international integrated oil company; and 7 years as
President/Vice Chairman/Consultant of Harken Energy Corp., an international exploration
company. He has authored articles and manuals on various phases of petroleum
engineering and personnel management. He is a member of API, SPE, IPAA, and TIPRO,
is a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, and has various outstanding lecturer awards. He received a BS in
Engineering Science and an MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at
Austin.

In-House Course Presentations

All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house
courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your
requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged
specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House
Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com

Public Course Presentations

How to contact PetroSkills:
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