By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Learn about directional drilling fundamentals
• Know about the application of directional drilling
• Gain the required terminology
• Know about directional well planning operations
• Know about well surveying operations
• Learn about straight-hole surveying and instruments
• Know directional surveying and instruments
• Identify down hole equipment
• Identify directional drilling problems and solutions

Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, trainee drillers, rig engineers and service company personnel with basic drilling engineering.

1. Directional drilling fundamentals-applications and limitations
2. Algebra and trigonometry review
3. Terminology, Well objectives and target
4. Directional well planning - positioning and coordinate systems
5. Survey calculation methods
6. Anti-collision and advanced well planning
7. Surveying-gyroscopes
8. MWD
9. Downhole equipment-drilling tools and deflection methods
10. Drilling motors
11. Drilling bits
12. BHA assemblies
13. Wellsite operations
14. Directional design - reservoir
15. Drilling and surface considerations
16. Well profile/wellpath/trajectory design
17. Torque and drag modeling
18. BHA design
19. Hydraulics
20. Calculations
21. Horizontal wells -types and planning
22. Completion techniques
23. Logging techniques
24. Coring techniques
25. Wellbore stability issues
26. Hole cleaning

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.