COURSE INFORMATION
Introduction to Well Completion Design
Type:
Training Course
Length:
1.5 Days
CEU:
1.2
PDH:
12
Fee:
$1295 CAD
Upcoming Sessions
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Course Description
This one and a half day course is designed to provide petroleum professionals with completions options and familiarize them with issues that should be taken into consideration as part of planning and designing a completions job. It includes both horizontal and vertical wells, rock mechanics, will review current and primary techniques for horizontal completions, and will provide an understanding of completion diagnostics.
In this course students:
- Will understand the role of reservoir quality in vertical and horizontal wells
- Will understand the effects of reservoir quality with depth control
- Are introduced to the basics of rock mechanics
- Are introduced to the various completion options for wells
- Will understand the various completion options for horizontal wells
- Will gain an insight of relative costs for different completion options
- Will gain an insight of production results based on completion options
- Will gain an understanding of the various diagnostic techniques
- Will understand the limitations of each of the techniques
A complete set of course materials and lunch on the first day is included in the Introduction to Well Completion Design course.
Who Should Attend
Professionals in drilling, production, geosciences and completion technology can utilize this program. This practical class will be a good overview for those who need to understand completion techniques. Included are vertical and horizontal completion procedures for low to ultra-low permeability reservoirs.

Course Outline 
I. Overview of Horizontal Wells
- Bottom Hole Assembly
- Steering Techniques
- Gamma Ray Logging (Zone location vs Well Trajectory)
- Ground Water Protection
II. Introduction to Rock Mechanics
- Primary Stresses in Vertical Wells
- Horizontal Stress Directions
- Components of Stress
- Fracture Initiation
- Fracture gradient vs stress gradient
- Rock Tensile Strength
- Tortuosity
- Fracture Containment or Growth
- Multiple Zone Fracture in Vertical Wells
- Additional Considerations in Horizontal Wells
- Significant Hoop Stresses
- Brittleness (Fracture Complexity)
- Results of Fracturing shown by Micro Seismic
- Results of Fracturing shown by Production Logging and Chemical Tracers
III. Cased Hole Completion
- Introduction to Perforating
- Jet Perforations
- Sand Jetting
- Perforation Design for Multi Stage Fracture
- Number of Stages
- Distance Between Fracture Stages
- Length of Fracture Interval
- Number of Clusters
- Distance Between Perforation Clusters
- Advantages of Plug and Perforation Fracture Treatment
- Cement Advantages and Disadvantages
- “Unlimited” Number of Stages
- Control of Fracture Entry with Cement Casing (In Theory)
- Disadvantages of Plug and Perforation Fracture Technique
IV. Open Hole with Sleeves and Packers Fracture Treatment
- Sliding Sleeve Valve
- Various Ball Sizes between Fracture only Slight Delay Between Fracture Stages
- Same Ball Size using Different Techniques
- “Dissolving” Balls and Plugs after Fracture Treatment
- Inflatable Packer
- Advantages of Open Hole Packer/Sleeve Fracture Treatment
- Disadvantages of Open Hole Packer/Sleeve Fracture Treatment
V. Coiled Tubing with Sand Jetting Fracture Treatment
- Single trip perforating and fracturing
- Abrasive sand jetting for cutting holes
- System uses Movable Packers
- Advantages of Coiled Tubing Fracture System
- Disadvantages of Coiled Tubing Fracture System
