Good oil and gas drilling campaigns don’t just happen. They are the result of a skillful optimization of the campaign’s various objectives. This course builds the skills necessary to ensure that well construction plans achieve production or exploration goals while managing risks to honor time and budgetary requirements. This course emphasizes critical decision making skills thru extensive use of realworld practical examples. Instructors are experienced well designers who facilitate learning in this unique case study environment. Upon completion of this course, successful participants will be able to explicitly identify and mange risks, develop risk-weighted well cost estimates and create complete well plans that maximize the likelihood of achieving project objectives for the lowest possible cost.

Course Content

• Comparison of well planning to typical capital projects

• Identification of well design drivers and stakeholders

• Characteristics of an ideal planning process

• Review of technical aspects of well design

• Casing setting depth strategies and tradeoffs

• Contingency planning

• Cost estimating for budgets

• AFEs

• Operations

• Fluid selection considerations

• Evaluation of operational sequence

• Regulatory and environmental documents

• Asset team expectation management and communication

• Contract specification and management

• Drilling program development

Target Audience

Drilling engineers, service personnel involved in developing well plans, and managers interested in learning about the well design process.

Course Deliverables

Students will learn how to:

• Work with stakeholders to define well objectives and project scope

• Understand well planning workflow and use of the design process to minimize: the impact of regulatory and environmental requirements; geological uncertainty and changes in scope; drilling risk and associated downtime; well intervention and maintenance costs

• Identify and optimize well design tradeoffs such as: Casing size, setting depths, and cementing program; cost versus reliability; batch versus sequential operations; rig selection and operational constraints; drilling fluid selection versus formation evaluation and drilling performance; construction versus intervention costs; new technology versus proven methods

• Generate key project documents such as: Well permits and other regulatory reports; AFE and other financial reports; drilling programs and recommendations; technical specifications for third party contracts

Please contact training@blade-energy.com for course times and costs.