The oil and gas industry's vitality rests on the continual advancement and utilization of complex technologies. The described training program is designed to address this need, offering an intricate exploration of well completions, interventions, and maintenance.
Beginning with an understanding of well completion design, practices, and strategies, the course immediately immerses students into the intricacies of reservoir drive mechanisms, vertical lift performance, and various tubing sizes. These foundational concepts are crucial for the understanding and design of well completions and the application of diverse artificial lift methods.
Building on this foundation, the course moves into the selection and consideration of both lower and upper completion string components. Here, students will gain knowledge of production packers, locator seals, and other vital equipment. They will learn to apply best practices, techniques, and safety measures for well operations.
Well control is an essential aspect of the industry, and the course provides an exhaustive exploration of wellhead components, subsurface safety valves, and flow control equipment. This section of the course ensures that students are well-equipped to manage and control well operations, even in the most demanding situations.
A specialized focus on sand control follows, reflecting the industry's continual battle against sand production, which can have grave consequences downhole and on the surface. From standalone screen applications to perforating systems for sand control, students are offered an advanced perspective on this essential subject.
The course concludes with a module dedicated to intervention techniques, showcasing the latest innovations and methods for identifying and remedying well issues. Wireline operations, coiled tubing applications, and emerging stimulation techniques offer a hands-on experience for the students, preparing them for real-world challenges.
Overall, the training program provides an exhaustive, multi-faceted education that covers every aspect of well completions, interventions, and maintenance. It skillfully interweaves theory and practice, from foundational principles to cutting-edge technologies. The course's structure ensures that whether a student is a newcomer to the field or an experienced professional seeking to sharpen their skills, they will leave with a profound understanding of the complex world of oil and gas well operations.
This training program is designed to cater to a range of professionals within the oil and gas industry. Here's a breakdown of the intended audience:
- Well Engineers: This includes petroleum engineers, drilling engineers, and completion engineers who are involved in well planning, design, and execution.
- Workover Rig Operators: Individuals responsible for well interventions, maintenance, and repair would greatly benefit from understanding the techniques and strategies outlined in this program.
- Field Technicians and Supervisors: Those involved in daily operations, such as running completions or performing well interventions, will gain hands-on knowledge and practical insights.
- Geologists and Reservoir Engineers: Professionals who work with reservoir characteristics, sandstone formations, and well production will find the course valuable in understanding well completion and sand control.
- Project Managers and Coordinators: Managers overseeing well completion and workover projects can benefit from a comprehensive understanding of the methods, equipment, and considerations involved in well operations.
- Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Professionals: Understanding the technical aspects of well completion and workover operations is essential for those responsible for ensuring safety compliance and environmental protections.
- Oil and Gas Service Company Personnel: Individuals working for companies providing specialized equipment or services related to well completion and workover can deepen their understanding of applications and requirements.
- Recent Graduates and Students in Petroleum Engineering: Those seeking to enter the industry or specialize in well-related disciplines may find this course an excellent way to gain practical insights and industry-relevant knowledge.
- Regulatory and Compliance Officers: Those responsible for ensuring that well operations meet legal and industry standards may benefit from a detailed understanding of the technologies and techniques involved.
- Select the Right Means for Well Intervention
- Design Well Servicing or Workover Programs
- Understand and Implement Sand Control Techniques
- Choose and Utilize Completion Strings and Tools
- Implement Safety and Flow Control Protocols with SSSV
- Select and Apply SSSV Types and Intervention Tools
- Analyze Reservoir and Well Performance
- Apply Innovative Stimulation Designs
- Adhere to Industry Standards, Including SSSV Regulations
- Collaborate and Communicate within Multi-disciplinary Teams
- Introduction to Reservoir Drive Mechanism
- Overview of Artificial Lift Methods: Types and Applications
- Inflow and Outflow Performance in Wells: Inflow Performance Relationship and Productivity Index
- Vertical Lift Performance: Principles and Real-world Examples
- Analysis of Vertical Lift Performance for Various Tubing Sizes
- Integrating Vertical Lift Performance and Inflow Performance Relationship Curves
- Designing and Classifying Well Completions: Reservoir and Mechanical Considerations
- Introduction to Lower and Upper Completion String Components
- Production Packers: Functions, Types, and Generic Mechanisms
- Understanding Permanent and Retrievable Packers
- Working with Locator Seals and Anchor Seals
- Applications and Techniques for Setting Packers
- Inflatable Packer Applications and Benefits
- Sliding Side Door Functions and Applications
- Running the Completion: Best Practices
- Perforation: Methods, Equipment, Selection, and Conveying Techniques
- Understanding Wellhead Components: Function, and Types
- Exploring Subsurface Safety Valves: Function, Types, and Setting Considerations
- Surface Control Techniques for Subsurface Safety Valves
- Flow Control Devices: Functionality and Design
- Nipple Profiles: Types and Plug Selection
- Introduction to Workover Reasons
- Well Killing Operations: Techniques, Considerations, and Safety Measures
- Sandstone Formation: Properties, Geology, and Sand Production Causes
- Understanding Sand Production: Consequences Downhole and On-surface
- Exploring Sand Control Techniques: Definition, Options, and Methods
- Gravel Packing: Design, Sizing, and Placement Methods
- Carrier Fluid Concept and Method Selection
- Loss Control During Sand Control Operations
- Standalone Screen Applications: Features and Benefits
- Perforating System for Sand Control: An Advanced Perspective
- Introduction to Wireline: Types, Applications, and Components
- Tubing Leak Identification and Repair using the Straddle System
- Coiled Tubing: Components and Applications
- Identifying and Remedying Formation Damage Mechanisms
- Stimulation Design: Considerations and Emerging Techniques
- Introduction to SSSV
- Purpose, Definition of SSSV
- Implementation
- Tubing Retrievable Safety Valves
- Wireline Retrievable Safety Valves
- Running Procedures
- Integrity Testing
- SSSV Intervention Tools
- Types of SSSV
- How to Insert Valves to Repair
Training can take place in 4 formats:
- Self-paced
- Blended learning
- Instructor-led online (webinar)
- Instructor-led offline (classroom)
Description of training formats:
- Self-paced learning or e-Learning means you can learn in your own time and control the amount of material to consume. There is no need to complete the assignments and take the courses at the same time as other learners.
- Blended learning or "hybrid learning" means you can combine Self-paced learning or e-Learning with traditional instructor-led classroom or webinar activities. This approach requires physical presence of both teacher and student in physical or virtual (webinars) classrooms or workshops. Webinar is a seminar or presentation that takes place on the internet, allowing participants in different locations to see and hear the presenter, ask questions, and sometimes answer polls.
- Instructor-led training, or ILT, means that the learning can be delivered in a lecture or classroom format, as an interactive workshop, as a demonstration under the supervision and control of qualified trainer or instructor with the opportunity for learners to practice, or even virtually, using video-conferencing tools.
When forming groups of students, special attention is paid to important criteria - the same level of knowledge and interests among all students of the course, in order to maintain stable group dynamics during training.
Group dynamics is the development of a group in time, which is caused by the interaction of participants with each other and external influence on the group. In other words, these are the stages that the training group goes through in the process of communicating with the coach and among themselves.
The optimal group size for different types of training:
- Self-paced / E-learning: 1
- Instructor-led off-line (classroom): 6 – 12
- Instructor-led on-line (webinar): 6 – 12
- Blended learning: 6 – 12
- Workshop: 6 – 12
- On-the-job: 2 – 4
- Simulator: 1 – 2
Feedback in the form of assessments and recommendations is given to students during the course of training with the participation of an instructor and is saved in the course card and student profile.
In order to control the quality of the services provided, students can evaluate the quality and training programme. Forms of assessment of the quality of training differ for courses with the participation of an instructor and those that are held in a self-paced format.
For courses with an instructor, start and end dates are indicated. At the same time, it is important to pay attention to the deadlines for passing tests, exams and practical tasks. If the specified deadlines are missed, the student may not be allowed to complete the entire course programme.
A personal account is a space for storing your training preferences, test and exam results, grades on completed training, as well as your individual plan for professional and personal development.
Users of the personal account have access to articles and blogs in specialized areas, as well as the ability to rate the completed training and leave comments under the articles and blogs of our instructors and technical authors
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Based on the results of training, students are issued a certificate of training. All training certificates fall into three main categories:
- Certificate of Attendance - students who successfully completed the course but did not pass the tests and exams can apply for a certificate of attendance.
- Certificate of Completion - students who have successfully completed a course could apply for a Certificate of Completion, this type of certificate is often required for compliance training.
- Verified Certificate - it is a verified certificate that is issued when students have passed exams under the supervision of a dedicated proctor.
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During the training, you may encounter various forms of testing and knowledge testing. The most common assessment methods are:
- preliminary (base-line assessment) - to determine the current level of knowledge and adapt the personal curriculum
- intermediate - to check the progress of learning
- final - to complete training and final assessment of knowledge and skills, can be in the form of a project, testing or practical exam
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Conducting classes is based on the fact that the teacher demonstrates text, drawings, graphics, presentations on an interactive board, while the content appears in the student's electronic notebook. A specially designed digital notepad and pen are used to create and edit text and images that can be redirected to any surface via a projector.
Classes are live streamed online, automatically recorded and published on the Learning Portal, allowing you to save them for reuse anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device. This makes it possible not to miss classes and keep up with classes and keep up with the passage of new material.
Real-life training uses the principles of game organization, which allows future professionals to rehearse and hone their skills in a virtual emergency. Learning as a game provides an opportunity to establish a connection between the learning activity and real life.
The technology provides the following learning opportunities:
- Focused on the needs of the user
- Instant feedback
- Independent decision making and choice of actions
- Better assimilation and memorization of the material
- Adaptive pace of learning tailored to the individual needs of the student
- Better transfer of skills learned in a learning situation to real conditions
Basic principles of training:
- A gradual increase in the level of difficulty in the game;
- Using a simplified version of a problem situation;
- Action in a variable gaming environment;
- The right choice is made through experimentation.
The main advantages of Game Based Learning technology:
- Low degree of physical risk and liability
- Motivation to learn while receiving positive emotions from the process;
- Practice - mirroring the real situation
- Timely feedback
- Choice of different playing roles
- Learning in collaboration
- Developing your own behavior strategy
Conducting practical classes online using remote access technologies for presentations, multimedia solutions and virtual reality:
- Laboratory workshops that simulate the operation of expensive bench equipment in real production
- Virtual experiment, which is visually indistinguishable from a remote real experiment performed
- Virtual instruments, which are an exact copy of real instruments
- Mathematical modeling to clarify the physical characteristics, chemical content of the investigated object or phenomenon.