Course Value

The course covers the application of drilling operations. It uses a holistic, multi-disciplinary and integrated management approach that involves operations, personnel, administration, finance, and legal functions. The main goal of the course is to highlight the critical project issues that are required to run drilling projects in an efficient, safe, environmentally-friendly manner. At the end of the course, participants will be familiar with the key issues and principles, how to apply them in practice and how to integrate them.

Course Participants

Operator: drilling manager, drilling superintendent, drilling engineers, drilling supervisors and other interested disciplines, Drilling contractor and service company personnel.

Course Contents（Essential）

Optional Course Module

• General knowledge

Drilling Engineering for drilling engineers (5 days)

Drilling Engineering for non-drilling engineers (5 days) 

• Drilling technology

Basic Drilling Technology (2 days)

Drilling Fluids Technology (5 days)

Practical Drilling Skills (5 days)

• Well operation

Introduction to cementing (5 days)

Casing and Cementing (5 days)

IWCF well control qualification (5 days)

Well control fundamentals (computer-based training) (3 days)

Course Contents（Intermediate）

Optional Course Module

• Deepwater technology

Offshore drill machine (5 days)

• Drilling management

Drilling project and risk management (5 days)

• Drilling technology

Directional and horizontal drilling (5 days)

Horizontal, extended reach and multilateral drilling (5 days)

Pore pressure prediction (5 days)

• Well operation

Stuck pipe and fishing (5 days)

Stuck pipe, fishing and sidetracking (5 days)

Well control (5 days)

• Well planning & design

Drilling fluids (4 days)

Tubing and casing design (5 days)

Well design and construction engineering (5 days)

Well engineering and operations certificate program (5 days)

Well planning i (drill bits, hydraulics and fluids) (5 days)

Well planning ii (drill string design) (4 days)

Well planning iii (casing design) (5 days)

Course Contents（Advanced/Specialized）

Optional Course Module

• Deepwater technology

Deepwater drilling operations and well control (5 days)

Deepwater field development (5 days)

Deepwater well design and planning (5 days)

• Drilling technology

Advanced and emerging drilling technologies (5 days)

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Well Design and Application (5 days)

• Well planning & design

Designing underbalanced drilling operations (5 days)

Advanced Underbalanced Well Design (5 days)