Workover and completion
Why Attend
Course Objectives
Target Audience
Why Attend
Why Attend
- Build a strong understanding of well completion and workover operations from planning through execution.
- Improve well productivity by selecting appropriate completion methods and optimizing well performance.
- Learn workover planning and execution, including well intervention, equipment selection, and operational procedures.
- Understand completion components and technologies, including tubing, packers, wellheads, artificial lift, and downhole equipment.
- Develop well intervention skills for diagnosing and resolving production problems.
- Learn to identify common well integrity and production issues and select appropriate remedial actions.
- Improve operational safety by understanding well-control requirements, pressure management, and risk mitigation.
- Reduce downtime and intervention costs through effective planning and decision-making.
- Gain practical knowledge of completion and workover best practices applicable to field operations.
- Strengthen collaboration between drilling, production, completion, workover, and well intervention teams.
Course Objectives
The course provides a comprehensive introduction to planning and executing completion and stimulation operations for newly cased wells, as well as managing remedial and recompletion work on older wells. Participants will gain practical knowledge on organizing, planning, and overseeing various operations crucial to well integrity and productivity. Key topics include completion fluids, downhole equipment selection, well logging, primary cementing, hydraulic fracturing, and well control.
Target Audience
Target Audience
This course is designed for technicians, foremen, supervisors, and personnel involved in production operations, workover projects, and drilling activities. It is particularly suitable for those looking to expand their knowledge and skills in the areas of well completion and workover techniques.
Course Outline
Day - 1
Day 1: Planning and Initial Operations
- Job Planning: Introduction to systematic planning for well completion and workover operations. Focus on the importance of detailed planning and preparation to ensure successful job execution.
- Pipe Recovery: Techniques and tools for the recovery of stuck or damaged pipes.
- Fishing Operations: Overview of fishing techniques used to remove debris and other obstructions from the wellbore.
Day - 2
Day 2: Well Completion Essentials
- Completion Fluid: Selection and management of appropriate completion fluids to optimize well performance and protect the formation.
- Casing and Tubing: Installation and integrity management of casing and tubing systems.
- Sand, Clay, and Water Control: Techniques for managing and mitigating formation damage due to sand, clay, and water production.
- Perforating: Methods and tools used for perforating casing and enhancing well productivity.
Day - 3
Day 3: Downhole Operations
- Wireline Operations: Introduction to wireline tools and techniques for well intervention and data gathering.
- Downhole Equipment Selection: Criteria for selecting downhole tools and equipment to ensure optimal well performance.
- Chemical Treatments: Use of solvents and chemicals for treating scale, paraffin, and other production-related issues.
- Well Logging: Application of well logging for evaluating well conditions and monitoring reservoir performance.
Day - 4
Day 4: Advanced Well Workover Techniques
- Hydraulic Fracturing: Overview of fracturing techniques used to enhance reservoir connectivity and improve production rates.
- Primary Cementing: Fundamentals of cementing operations to ensure zonal isolation and structural integrity.
- Squeeze Cementing: Remedial cementing techniques to correct well integrity issues and control unwanted flow paths.
- Deepening Operations: Techniques for deepening wells to access additional reserves.
- Liner Installation: Understanding liner systems and their role in maintaining well integrity.
Day - 5
Day 5: Testing, Evaluation, and Safety
- Coiled Tubing and Nitrogen Applications: Use of coiled tubing and nitrogen for various workover and well intervention tasks.
- Primary Testing: Conducting and interpreting initial well tests to evaluate well performance and integrity.
- Test Evaluation: Analyzing well test data to make informed decisions on well performance and future operations.
- Well Control and Safety: Essential safety practices and procedures to prevent and manage well control issues.