Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas | Well Planning and Drilling
An Introduction to Drilling and Wellsite Geology
Format and Duration:
5 days
10 sessions
Through a blend of lectures and practical exercises, this course provides an introduction to drilling technology, wellsite operations, and wellsite formation evaluation techniques for those personnel either new to the industry or transferring to more operational roles. As such, participants on this course will be empowered to immediately add value to their subsurface teams through exploration to appraisal and development. Highlighted and discussed topics additionally cover drill bit types and selection, wellsite geology roles and responsibilities, and wellsite services.
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This course has significantly increased my understanding of well site operations.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
This is a classroom or virtual classroom course comprising lectures, discussion, and practical exercises.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Compare drilling operations, both onshore and offshore and understand the differences between the various types of rigs and platforms.
- Distinguish the various components of the drill string: hoisting and rotating systems and pipe handling equipment, bit types and their design and application; the mud circulation process and system; the variety of drilling fluids and well hydraulics; casing and cementing procedures; directional drilling processes and techniques; borehole surveying.
- Appraise mudlogging services including: the collection and analysis of ditch cuttings and lag time estimation; depth and bit parameter measurements; the collection, analysis and integration of gas readings; the wider role of mudlogging in safety monitoring and drilling engineering support.
- Analyse how ditch cuttings are sampled, described, reported, logged and evaluated for lithological evaluation and hydrocarbon potential.
- Compare conventional coring and sidewall coring processes, procedures and evaluation techniques.
- Distinguish the acquisition, processing and basic interpretation of wireline from LWD logs, and their integration with other wellsite derived geological data.
Course Content
Participants will learn:
- About well planning and rig selection
- About the drillstring, bits, drilling fluids, casing and cementing, well control and directional drilling
- How wellsite geologists and mudloggers collect and interpret geological and drilling data
- About coring, wireline logs and MWD Services
- How to evaluate and describe drill cuttings and oil shows from practical work
The following shows the planned order of content:
1. Drilling Rigs
- Land Rigs
- Offshore Rigs
- Platforms
2. Drilling Technologies
- Bit Technology
- Design: Roller cone; PDC
- Applications
- BHA Design, Drill Pipe
- Hoisting, Rotating, Motion Compensation
- Well Control Equipment
- Drilling Fluids
- Properties and Specifications
- Fluid Systems
- Oil and Water Based Mud
- Polymer Fluids
- Synthetic Systems
- Fluid Circulation Systems
- Hydraulics Calculations
- Casing and Cementing
- Directional Drilling
- Applications
- Steering Systems
- Formation Evaluation
- Survey Processes/calculations
3. Drill Returns Logging
- Mud Logging Services
- Cuttings Recovery
- Lag Time Calculations
- Depth and ROP Recording
- Hydrocarbon Gas Evaluation
- Total Gas
- Chromatographic Analysis
- Interpretation of Gas Shows
4. Wellsite Geology
- Cuttings Sampling and Preparation
- Cuttings Description
- Clastics
- Carbonates
- Evaporites
- Reporting Procedures
- Lithology Logs
- Oil and Gas Show Evaluation
- UV Light and Solvent Tests
5. Coring Operations
- Conventional Coring
- Sidewall Cores
6. Formation Evaluation
- Wireline Logging Operations
- MWD Operations
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
This course is suitable for geoscientists, petrophysicists, and petroleum engineers who are new to drilling and wellsite operations.
Instructors
Martin Saunders
Background
Martin has over forty years' experience as wellsite geologist and technical training manager. He specializes in wellsite operations and petroleum geology training and has been teaching oilfield courses for over twenty-five years both in the U.K. and world-wide.
Martin began his career with EXLOG (now Baker Hughes Inteq) in 1974 and worked as a mudlogger, data engineer and wellsite geologist. He initially gained experience in the North Sea and East Africa followed by lengthy assignments in Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Nova Scotia and Yukon Territories. Martin joined the training and recruitment department of EXLOG based in the UK in 1982. He was appointed Training Manager for the Europe/Africa/Middle East Division in 1987 where he had overall responsibility for all internal training. He developed training courses, produced course materials, wrote technical training manuals and presented courses at the company’s training centre in Windsor and at regional centres in Egypt, Italy and Norway. He was also responsible for the expansion of its external, commercial training operations. He was Project Manager for the development and production of the company’s Structured Personnel Evaluation and Training Scheme from 1989 – 1990.
In 1993 Martin left Baker Hughes Inteq to establish his own training consultancy providing short courses in Drilling Technology, Wellsite Geology and Formation Evaluation. Since joining Stag Geological Services Ltd. in 1997 Martin has continued to develop his portfolio of technical training expertise to include such topics as Directional Drilling and Geosteering Procedures.
Affiliations and Accreditation
BSc University of Wales, Aberystwyth - Geology, Honors
Courses Taught
N157:An Introduction to Drilling and Wellsite Operations
N601:Drilling Operations and Wellsite Geology
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 3.5 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 35 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.