By the end of this CDGA training course, participants will be able to:

• How drilling, completing and reworking a well affects its ability to produce
• What can be done within open-hole and cased wells, as a part of reservoir management How drilling practices can damage or stimulate producing wells

The course is directed to all technical, field, service, support and supervisory personnel desiring to gain an introductory overview of these topics and how they interrelate, cross-training of other technical disciplines such as reservoir and surface facility engineers plus geoscientists, anyone who interacts with drilling,

Completion or work over design engineers such as technical supervisors and technical service personnel. Reservoir Engineers will learn what can be done within open-hole and cased wells as they execute reservoir management. Drilling and completion personnel will learn how the producing reservoir can be damaged or stimulated by what they do.

Overview of the Drilling Process

• Overall drilling practices
• Language of drilling
• Reservoir rock and fluid properties
• Rigs and rig equipment
• Drilling string components and design
• Bits
• Drilling fluids and hydraulics
• Rig operation
• MWD
• Well control
• Hole problems and stuck pipe
• Drilling risks
• Cores and coring
• Casing design and installation
• Primary cementing
• Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling
• Wellhead and trees 
  
  

Overview of the Completion Process

• Zonal isolation
• Tubing, packers and completion equipment
• Safety and flow control devices
• Open hole completions
• Basic completion types
• Perforating
• Open and cased hole logging
• Formation damage and treatment
• Completion fluids Multiple completions
  
  

 Overview of Work over Techniques

• Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating 
• Formation and sand control: creens, chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques
• Scale and corrosion
• Paraffin and asphaltenes
• Recompletions
• Reworks
• Sidetracking
• Deepening
• Coiled tubing 

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