Well Completion & Workover

Overview

A well is only as good as its completion. The choices made when the well is completed, from tubing size and packer type to perforation strategy and sand control, decide how much it will produce, how long it will last and how easily it can be repaired. This course covers those choices in a structured way. Participants review completion types and the equipment that makes them up, learn how to size tubing and select materials for corrosive service, and examine perforating and stimulation methods. The second half of the week turns to workover operations: why wells need intervention, how rigless and rig-based workovers are planned, and how well barriers are maintained throughout. The emphasis throughout is on safe, cost-effective decisions supported by sound engineering.

Objectives

• Compare completion types and select one suited to reservoir and production conditions
• Identify completion equipment and describe its function
• Size production tubing and select tubing materials
• Design a basic perforation strategy
• Explain sand control options and their selection criteria
• Plan rigless and rig-based workover operations
• Apply well barrier principles during completion and workover

Who should attend

Training methodology

Engineering principles are presented with equipment photographs, schematics and short videos so that participants can relate each component to the wellsite. Worked calculations on tubing sizing, perforating and workover fluids are completed individually and checked in pairs. Groups design a completion for a sample well and plan a workover for a failed one, then review each other's work. Real failure cases are discussed throughout, and a written assessment closes the course.

Programme outline

Dates and fees

Fees are in GBP. per delegate.

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