Provide the young and mid-aged drilling engineers and professionals with the proper planning and decision making tools to develop drilling strategiesa and driling plans covering the nowadays risk frame scenarios.

Reaching the challenging reserviors covering the economical and technical aspects nowadays require a careful planning stage and decision making process that fullfills both aspects to bring a well into production under such risk frame.

Topics include:

• Drilling planning and completion techniques
• Optimisation process
• Trouble free drilling and decision making process

• A basic understanding of chemistry and physics
• Basic metallurgy, although not essential

The intended audience of this workshop are engineers who are involved in well construction, drilling, completion, production, well intervention, and safety. The workshop hopes to attract a balanced mix of disciplines to enhance the exchange of information, ideas and technologies.

0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) awarded for this 1-day course.

Roberto Castillo Duran is a Petroleum Engineering Specialist working for Saudi Aramco in Gas Drilling Development Projects. He has over 24 years in experience in drilling and completion, well design and operations in onshore and offshore HPHT wells. Most of his experience was gained in Mexico working for PEMEX along with Deep Gas Drilling in Saudi Arabia. Duran holds a BSc and MSc in petroleum engineering from IPN and UNAM in Mexico.