Completions Design Course

This course is focused at taking a basic awareness of wells and completions and expanding it to cover the design process and all the key decisions that are made in completion design from the various reservoir completions to the upper completion and associated threats and opportunities. The focus is on the overall design rather than the detail of completion equipment from specific vendors. It assumes some knowledge of general well intervention methods (slickline, coiled tubing, etc.), but does not significantly expand this knowledge. The course covers land, platform and subsea wells.Read more...

The course covers:
·        Types and configurations of completions.
·        The completion design process.
·        Inflow performance, skin and formation damage.
·        Perforating; selection, deployment and interface with rest of completion.
·        Stimulation and impact on completion and flow performance with coverage of modern horizontal multifrac tools.
·        Open hole, non-sand control completions including open hole packers and horizontal well clean up.
·        Sand control; when do you need it, basic types and selection guidelines. Includes standalone screens, ICDs, various gravel packing techniques, frac packs and expandable screens.
·        Tubing sizing, flow estimation and liquid loading.
·        Artificial lift; types and selection criteria, interface with drilling, reservoir and facilities. Design of gas lift and ESPs included.
·        Production chemistry impacts on completion, prevention and removal (scales, wax, asphaltene, hydrates, and souring).
·        Metallurgy, corrosion, and erosion; metal types and selection of.
·        Elastomers and plastics; types and selection of.
·        Tubing stress analysis; picking the grade and weight of tubing, plus selection criteria for packers and expansion devices. Interface between tubing stress analysis and casing design.
·        Completion equipment; basic types of equipment, reliability and selection criteria for each (tree, safety valve, mandrel, packers, expansion devices etc.)
·        Completion installation; importance of wellbore clean-out, function and types of brines, pointers for efficient completion installation.
·        Non-conventional wells; types and when / where to use them (multilaterals, smart (intelligent) wells and also SAGD, CO2 sequestration, CBM, etc.)

Course Approach The course is based on the book Well Completion Design. Over 700 pages and in full colour, this book is published by Elsevier. The course has a mixture of lectures, case studies, videos and experiments.

This course (in various forms) has been run over 200 times around the world for over 40 clients and 40 countries. The course has evolved over 20 years and is maintained up-to-date by the trainers being Completion consultants.

Who It’s For

• Completion and production engineers

• Drilling, reservoir and well-integrity engineers

• Subsurface and facilities professionals supporting completions

• Engineers responsible for well design, installation or operations

What You Will Learn

• Select reservoir and upper-completion configurations

• Evaluate tubing performance and artificial-lift requirements

• Mitigate chemistry, material and mechanical failure risks

• Integrate equipment, barriers and installation across well life

Why It Works

• Connects decisions across the reservoir-to-surface system

• Uses engineering principles, case studies and design examples

• Emphasizes multidisciplinary interfaces and lifecycle reliability

• Focuses on practical selection criteria, risks and trade-offs