Drilling Fluids & Cementing

Course Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, the participant(s) will be able to:

• Be aware with the whole drilling operations briefly, well profiles & all used related services used in the well.
• Be aware with the drilling fluids & cementing programs based on the available well drilling programs details.
• Be aware with the design, preparing, testing & treating the DRLG Fluids while drilling the whole well sections specially the pay zone to prevent the complications due to pay zone damage, skin factor, hole cleaning …..
• Be aware with the mud properties & testing procedures @ rig site.
• Evaluate the mud problems while drilling the whole well specifically the pay zone section & how the skin factor can be controlled while drilling.
• Be aware with all differences, advantages, disadvantages & handling issues for both OBM & WBM different mud systems.
• Be aware with the design, preparing, testing & performing the cementing jobs for the whole well sections specially the pay zone to prevent the complications due to pay zone damage, skin factor, liner problems …..
• Evaluate the cement behind casing quality specially in the pay zone & the needed remedial actions in any failure’s cases.
• Know a detailed idea about the completion fluid properties, problems, types, filtration, treatment ways ……
• Be aware with all cementing calculations.
• Be aware with all cementing chemicals, equipment & accessories.
• Be aware with all cementing lab test & all cement job types.
• Be aware with the cement evaluation jobs (CBL-VDL-USIT).

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for drilling engineers, senior drilling engineers, operations engineers, well testing engineers & operators, senior operations engineers, completion engineers, reservoir engineers, production engineers, day well site supervisors, night well site supervisors, contractors’ stuff & all supporting staff needing to gain an understanding of the principles and practices relevant to the drilling fluids & cementing activities.

Training Methodology

• This interactive online training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours
• 25% Lectures
• 30% Workshops & Work Presentations
• 20% Case Studies & Practical Exercises
• 25% Videos, Animation & General Discussions

Course Program

Day 1

• Drilling Well Services (Brief)
  • Drilling & WO Rigs.
  • Drilling Bits.
  • BHA & Down Hole Tools.
  • Drilling Fluids (OBM & WBM) in more details than others.
  • Casing & Cementing in more details than others.
  • Well Head Services.
  • Surveys & Logging (Open Hole & Cased Hole).
  • Cold Cutter & Hot Welding.
• Safety Alerts
• Cont. Drilling Well Services (Brief)
  • Fishing Tools & Operations.
  • Directions Drilling.
  • Cut Core (Convectional & Oriented).
  • Clean Out Scraper Runs & Completion Fluid Displacement.
  • Liner & Production CSG.
  • Well Testing.
  • Well Completions.

Day 2

• Drilling Fluids “MUD”
  • Introduction
  • Drilling Fluids Functions
  • Main Differences between OBM & WBM.
  • OBM Treatment.
  • Different Mud Systems.
  • Mud Chemicals.
• Cont. Drilling Fluids “Mud”
  • Mud Properties.
  • Drilling Fluids Program Preparations.
  • Mud Measurements & All Related Devices.
  • General Drilling Problems in relation with the mud.
  • Mud Losses & Fluid Invasion.
  • LCM’s & Cement Plugs Losses Treatment.

Day 3

• Cont. Drilling Fluids “Mud”
  • Kicks & Well Control Issues.
  • Kill Sheet Calculations.
  • Stuck Pipe & Long OH Exposure Time Effect.
  • Hole Cleaning & Mud Contaminations.
• DRLG Fluids & Skin Factor Relationship while drilling operations
• Cementing
  • Introduction
  • Casing Design Brief ( (Sizes, Hole Sections, Properties, Setting Depths, Accessories, Running procedures, CSG Problems). )
  • Cementing Functions.

Day 4

• Cont. Cementing
  • Dry Cement Classes.
  • Cementing Chemicals & Functions.
  • Cementing Equipment, Tools, Accessories, Specifications, Setup, Rigging Up Procedures, related problems …).
• HSE Alerts
• Cont. Cementing
  • Cement Unit Components.
  • Cementing Program & Lab Test Preparations.
  • Cementing Jobs Types (On Fly & Batch Mixed).
  • Liner Cement Job Procedures & All Related Problems with solutions.

Day 5

• Cementing Quality Evaluation & its importance while the well life.
  • CBL.
  • VDL.
  • USIT
  • CSG Punch & CMT Squeeze Jobs.
  • ST CMT Plugs (OH & CH).
  • Whip Stock Techniques.
• Different real CH logs & problems evaluation

Advantages of attending and participating in any online training program at the Scandinavian Academy for Training and Development in the Kingdom of Sweden

The trainee will receive a training bag that contains:

• The scientific material preserved on flash memory
• A paper certificate of attendance issued by the Scandinavian Academy for Training and Development
• An electronic certificate of attendance issued by the Scandinavian Academy for Training and Development
• The certificate can be attested by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the trainee’s embassy in the Kingdom of Sweden with an additional fee