CONTROLLED PRESSURE DRILLING
Instructor: Steve Nas, Weatherford
0900 - 1700, Studio Two
Course Content:
This course is designed for drilling managers and engineers as well as rig
managers who are interested in understanding the new and emerging technology of
Controlled Pressure Drilling (CPD). The course will provide clarification of
the following subjects:
- Difference between Underbalanced and Managed Pressure Drilling
(UBD/MPD).
- Different Managed Pressure Drilling Techniques.
- Well Control issues with MPD.
- Drilling and Tripping with MPD Techniques.
This one day course will provide drilling professionals with an
understanding of the various Controlled Pressure Drilling techniques and
equipment and operational procedures used in CPD operations. Attendees will be
introduced to the various techniques that are being used for MPD and UBD
applications. This course concentrates on managed pressure techniques and only
explains the differences between MPD and UBD and it will not cover
underbalanced drilling in any detail.
Techniques for drilling fractured carbonate reservoirs and depleted
sandstone reservoirs will be presented together with the tools required to use
MPD from rigs with surface BOP’s and Subsea BOP’s. Topics presented are What is
Managed Pressure Drilling; Why use Managed Pressure Drilling?; MPD Variations;
Drilling and Tripping Techniques; Well Control issues for MPD; Equipment for
MPD Operations, and Case Histories and References.
Instructor:
Steve Nas is the Engineering Manager for Weatherford’s Controlled
Pressure Drilling Services in Asia Pacific providing engineering resources and
support for all of Weatherford’s controlled pressure drilling operations
throughout Asia Pacific. He has over 30 years of oilfield experience of which
27 years as a drilling engineer. Steve has a BSc degree in Electronics from the
MTS in Nijmegen, Holland and an MSc in Drilling Engineering from The Robert
Gordon U. in Aberdeen. He was SPE Distinguished Lecturer on Underbalanced
Drilling Technology from 1999 to 2000.
GEOMECHANICS
Instructor: David Castillo, GeoMechanics Intl.
0900 - 1700, Studio One
Course Content:
The course is designed for asset managers, drilling and completion department
heads, and technical E&P support teams who are interested in learning how
knowledge of the geomechanics of the asset can be used to:
- Use geomechanics to evaluate exploration risks such as fault leakage.
- Build a reservoir geomechanical model that represents the asset’s life
cycle.
- Understand the mechanical role of faults and natural fractures.
- Maximize production in the context of the appropriate completion
option.
- Identify the well trajectory to maximize reservoir production.
- Design an executable well plan that maximizes wellbore stability and
minimizes non-productive-time.
The course will provide industry professionals with an overview in the
principles of in situ stress and rock mechanics and emphasize the application
of this technology to the petroleum industry. Attendees will be introduced to
applications that include predictive optimization of wellbore stability during
drilling and production (sanding); underbalanced drilling; fractured reservoir
characterization and production optimization through understanding the
mechanical nature of critically stressed fractures; waterflooding; hydraulic
fracturing; fault seal integrity; and much more. Participants will be
introduced to GeoMechanics’ software tools and problem solving techniques that
have been used in consulting engagements worldwide.
Instructor:
David Castillo is currently Director of GeoMechanics Intl. Asia Pacific
offices in Perth, Australia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is responsible for
consulting, business development, training activities and technology
development for the oil and gas. David has extensive experience in
geomechanical measurements and modeling with applications to field development
and reservoir characterization, natural fracture characterization, fault
stability and fault leakage, EOR, completion strategies for maximizing
production efficiency, wellbore stability, directional drilling parameters, and
managed pressure drilling. David received his PhD in Geophysics from Stanford
U. in 1993. He has worked with Amoco International, USGS, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, and U. of Adelaide.
LARGE GAS FIELD DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
Instructor: Neil Kavanagh, Woodside Energy Ltd.
0900 -1700, The Studio
Course Content:
This will be a multidisciplinary, experiential, learning course where
participants will learn how to carry out upstream development planning of
hydrocarbon resources, with specific application to Australian big gas. This
will include:
- Business framing - what is the opportunity and in what business context
does it exist; barriers and drivers.
- Characterise the natural resource into alternative realizations.
- Identify the alternative development options and describe the development
choices.
- Build scenario tables and choose the best, feasible option.
- Communicate the development plan to decision makers.
The course will be structured around two case studies. Attendees will work
in multi-disciplinary case study groups and will conduct a development plan for
the first field unaided. After lectures on "how to do it" in the
afternoon, new groups will be formed to choose a development concept for the
second case study on the second day after which they will formally present
their chosen development plan to a management panel. Two sets of data will be
provided to assist the case study groups i.e. a description of the natural
resource (two proto-typical big Australian gas fields) and a description of
some of the development choices for both upstream (subsea vs. platform etc.)
and downstream (domgas vs. LNG vs. GTL).
The session will comprise lectures on how to set the business context and
insights into the business drivers for Australian big gas development; how to
prepare a sub-surface realization table; how to prepare a development choices
table; how to bring it all together into a scenario table and choose the best
concept; managing for success in multi-disciplinary teams; and how best to
communicate the recommended development plan to decision makers.
Instructor:
Neil Kavanagh is the Chief Science and Technology Officer, Woodside
Energy Ltd. Neil graduated from U. of Manchester with a BSc (Honors) degree;
and Inst. of Science and Technology with a BEngr (Honors) degree. He joined
Shell International Petroleum, Exploration and Production and completed
upstream operations, maintenance and field engineering roles in Shell Expro,
Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Sdn. Bhd. and Petroleum Development Oman. He moved
to subsurface with roles in conceptual well design at Shell Development
Australia, Melbourne and then to Woodside Energy Ltd. where assignments have
included Production Technologist, Well Integrity Authority, Completions and
Subsea Systems Manager, Leader Development Planning and Technology before his
current role of Chief Science and Technology Officer.
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