Completion Operations Course

George King

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The Completion Operations course offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of oil and gas well completions. It covers essential completion equipment, tools, and operations, emphasizing dynamic design challenges and common static design limitations. Through detailed workflows and practical field examples, learners will explore monitoring techniques for early detection of issues and effective preventative and repair strategies. The course addresses critical processes such as cementing for primary isolation, well control, and optimizing cement slurry properties under varying conditions. Suitable for both onshore and offshore environments, it integrates economic considerations and applies to conventional and unconventional wells.Read more...

Who Should Take This Course
• Oil and gas industry professionals
• Well design and drilling personnel
• Completion engineers and field technicians
• Engineering students focusing on completions

What You Will Learn
• Completion operations and equipment basics
• Cementing design and well isolation methods
• Practical workflows and economic considerations
• Monitoring and troubleshooting completion issues

Why This Course Works
• Prevent costly repairs with correct cementing
• Ensure well integrity and environmental protection
• Apply practical solutions from experienced engineer
• Improve completion design and operational efficiency

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Course contents

    Chapter 2 - Cementing – Primary Isolation

    2.01 Cementing - Primary Isolation (20 min.)

    2.02 Comparison of costs – efficiency and weather factors for completion options (19 min.)

    Chapter 3 - Basics of Wellheads, Trees, Chokes and Flanges

    3.01 Flanges, Trees & Valves (12 min.)

    3.02 Production Chokes (15 min.)

    Chapter 4 – Completion Options

    4.01 Factors that Drive Completion Choices (24 min.)

    4.02 Type of Completion System (24 min.)

    4.03 Dissolvable Plugs, Sleeves & Balls (11 min.)

    Chapter 5 - Perforating - Establishing Flow Between Formation & Wellbore

    5.01 Types of Perforators (13 min.)

    5.02 Perforating (12 min.)

    5.03 Perforating Design (19 min.)

    5.04 Downhole Perforation Performance (20 min.)

    5.05 Perforating Multiple Strings of Pipe (9 min.)

    5.06 Explosive Safety Information for Observers (5 min.)

    Chapter 6 - Sand Control Options & Operations

    6.01 Unstable Formations (16 min.)

    6.02 Sand Control Methods (18 min.)

    6.03 Things that cause screens to fail… (11 min.)

    6.04 Gravel Packs (16 min.)

    6.05 Screens, Packers, Crossovers (7 min.)

    6.06 Advanced Performance Gravel Packs (13 min.)

    Chapter 7 - Acids, Acidizing & Backflow

    7.01 Acidizing Basics and Failure Causes (32 min.)

    7.02 Acids (25 min.)

    7.03 Acid Fracturing (7 min.)

    7.04 Sandstone Acidizing (6 min.)

    7.05 Acid Diverting (13 min.)

    7.06 Acid Backflow (12 min.)

    Chapter 8 - Fracturing Issues - During Pumping

    8.01 Fracturing Design - Theory & Reality (32 min.)

    8.02 Watching the Fracturing Pump Chart (14 min.)

    Chapter 9 - Fracture Driven Interactions - Casing Damage & Frac Hits

    9.01 Casing Deformation (30 min.)

    9.02 Erosion (6 min.)

    9.03 Fracture Driven Interactions (Frac Hits) (22 min.)

    Chapter 10 - Fracturing Flowback & Well Cleanup After Shut-in

    10.01 Plug type selection (27 min.)

    10.02 Look at the Pieces (15 min.)