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INTRODUCTION TO WELL INTEGRITY
- History of Well Integrity
- The importance of well integrity
- Petroleum geology and reservoir review
- Introduction to the Norsok D-010 standard; structure and principles
- ISO and API Well Integrity Standards
CASING DESIGN & APPLICABLE STANDARDS
- Drilling and casing program, characteristics of casing
- Shoe positioning: hypotheses to be considered, casing point, kick tolerance & well integrity
- Casing String Calculation: principles and assumptions, stress cases study (collapse, burst, tension, triaxial study, safety factors)
- Casing selection
CEMENTING: PRIMARY & REMEDIAL
- Techniques and job procedures: primary cementing, cement job design, job planning and preparation, casing running, cementing job, cementing calculations
- Cement equipment: pumps, mixers, cementing head, cement plugs
- Cement job evaluation: principles and interpretation of the cement logs: Sonic (CBL – VDL), Ultrasonic (USIT)
WELL COMPLETION EQUIPMENT DESIGN
- Well completion equipment: functions to be carried out and corresponding equipment
- Production string(s) configurations (vertical, deviated or horizontal, single or multi-zones)
- Production wellhead, tubing & connections, packers and accessories, bottom hole devices
- Subsurface safety valve (subsurface controlled, surface controlled)
- Calculation of tubing movement and forces
- Well completion preparation and Implementation
WELL INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT
- Well integrity management
- Well integrity design and standards; well construction/completion: casing, tubing, cement, produced fluids
- Well barriers: definition, requirement & design. Wellhead and tree equipment: valves, seals, accessories, Safety valves: downhole, surface
- Minimum integrity requirements vs. well life cycle/phases, annulus pressure management, well integrity review
WELL HEAD INTEGRITY & MAINTENANCE
- Wellhead installation procedures
- Wellhead monitoring maintenance, function tests, pressure test, maintenance plan & execution
- X-mas tree specifications: natural flowing wells, artificial lift wells, gas wells
- X-mas tree equipment and selection (MV, SSV, SV, WV, choke)
FLOW ASSURANCE
- Well Engineer: Role and responsibilities over the operational life cycle of the well.
- Maximum Allowable Annulus Surface Pressure. The MAASP envelope
- Well Simulation: naturally flowing wells, artificial lift, skin effect
- Well stimulation and hydraulic fracturing
- Well services and well workover
- Corrosion monitoring and maintenance.
WELL SURVEILLANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT
- Surveillance of integrity in tubing and annulus
- Measuring and reporting well integrity
- Diagnostic testing and repair techniques for leaks
- Risk Management