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

• Develop a high level completion strategy for wells in a variety of situations
• Select tubing, packers, and completion flow control equipment
• Appraise and design a suitable flow barrier strategy
• Make recommendations on installation and retrieval practices for tubing, packers, etc.
• Identify key design for horizontal, multilateral, HPHT wells, etc.
• Select an appropriate intervention strategy and equipment
• Identify key features and applicability of the main sand control, fracpack and well stimulation options
• Assess & specify concerns/remedial measures for formation damage & skin removal
• Develop and outline overall strategy for a completion program

Petroleum Engineers, Production Engineers, Well Completion Engineers, Workover Engineers, Operation and Reservoir Engineers, Operations Managers and Supervisors, Production Personnel, Drilling Supervisors, Hoist Supervisor, Well Services Engineers, Site Drilling Engineers and Project Engineers

Course requirement:

The course presumes a general engineering or scientific background. It requires some basic knowledge of completion and production technology. It combines a review of the fundamental concepts of the subjects covered together with their practical application.

Introduction: What Are Well Completion & Workover Operations?

Types of Completion

Well Productivity

• Tubing Sizes, Formation Damage, Concept of Skin, Sources of Skin
• Maximizing Productivity, Formation Damage during Workovers, Prevention
  
  

Equipment & Design Practice

• Tubular goods, Packers, Subsurface Safety
• Valves, Well Head Equipment, Subsurface Safety Valves, Artificial Lift Installation
  
  

Completion & Workover Fluids

• Functions, Damage, Types, Properties
  
  

Perforating

• Jet Perforating, Gun Perforation, Factors Affecting Perforation
• Pressure Control Equipment, Types of Perforating, Normalization from API RR43
  
  

Optimum Completion Design

• Optimum and under balance Pressure, Design Procedures
  
  

Advanced Tubing Conveyed Perforating

• TCP systems, TCP Design, Perforation Cleaning
  
  

Acidizing Principles

• Introduction, Specifications, Retardation, Acid Fracturing, Matrix Acidizing
• Explosives, Stimulation of Carbonate Formations
• Acidizing Special Well Types, Coiled Tubing Jetting, Coiled Tubing Stimulations
  
  

Hydraulic Fracturing & Squeeze Cementing

• Purpose, Candidates, Treatment, Width Calculation, Fracturing Fluids
• Requirements, Terminology, Techniques, Pressure requirements
• Theories, Job Planning, Testing Job
  
  

Scale Removal & Prevention

• Identification of Scale, Types, Formation, Removal
• CALCHEK Process, Treatment Suggestion
• Paraffin Removal and Control, Methods of Inhibiting Deposition
  
  

Well Performance

• Inflow & Outflow Performance, Completions Inflow Performance
• Well Performance Sensitivities, Perforating & Advanced Perforating
   

Selection of Artificial Lift Techniques

• Rod Pump, Electrical Submersible Pumps
• Hydraulic Pumps, Progressive Cavity Pumps
  
  

Gas Lift & Unstable Formations & Sand Control

• Introduction, Application, Design Objectives
• The Unloading Process, Side Pocket Mandrels
• Gas Lift Valve Mechanics, Gas Lift Design
• Operational Problems, Gas Lifted Field Optimization
• Intermittent Gas Lift, New Technology

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