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Well Design and Engineering - WDE

Discipline: Well Construction/Drilling
Level: Foundation
Instructors who teach this course:
  • Mr. Peter Aird
    Mr. Peter Aird
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    MR. PETER AIRD has 38 years' experience as an oilfield drilling, well engineering, and operations specialist. Peter initially served and trained as a marine engineer officer working with major shipping companies world-wide. His skills then transferred to the oil and gas industry. He re-trained from 1980-1987 as a drilling supervisor, then worked in staff-based positions with Shell International and BP until 1993. Further skills, knowledge, and experience were gained in various global consultancy positions from 1993-2015. Peter worked in frontier exploration appraisal and development subsea, deepwater, HPHT, and horizontal drilling projects. He often worked with complex wells. Project-based work experience was gained in the early 1990's with offshore UK deepwater and HPHT wells, and frontier exploration wells in North America, South East Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, China), North Atlantic, West of Britain, Norway, Faeroes, Greenland, the Black Sea, South Atlantic, Europe Mediterranean, Red Sea, and West Africa.
     
    During the last several years, Peter has been further employed as a staff-based senior and specialist drilling engineer leader with operating companies including Kerr McGee, Maersk, and Marathon Oil, Cairn Energy (UK), ONGC (India), Centrica (Norway), and Providence Resources (Ireland). His drilling speciality was further refined on a variety of subsea, horizontal, platform in-fill, HPHT, deep and ultra-deep water drilling projects.
     
    Peter is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers from 1991, the Energy Institute, and is a Chartered Marine Engineer and a registered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council from 2004. He actively participates in several industry forums and has shared his knowledge and experience through delivering deep water and other complex well design, drilling engineering, and operations training courses. He has produced multiple technical and operational treatises on oil well design, construction, engineering, and drilling operations. From 1993 he has also hosted a specialist interactive website at www.kingdomdrilling.co.uk. Peter holds an MSC in Drilling Engineering from The Robert Gordon University which he gained as a mature student.

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  • Mr. James Bobo
    Mr. James Bobo
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    MR. JAMES E. BOBO retired from ConocoPhillips as a Principle Drilling Engineer. Mr. Bobo has served in various management and project leadership roles in drilling, production, gas processing, and gas gathering and information systems throughout the basins in the lower 48 states. In addition, he has served in key facilitator roles for well control operations in Papua New Guinea, Nova Scotia and high-pressure/high-temperature operations throughout the lower 48 states. Bobo is actively involved in society-level efforts related to continuing education, licensure, and professional development, along with the technical advisory boards for several universities. He earned his BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa.

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  • Mr. Marc Summers
    Mr. Marc Summers
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    MR. MARCUS A. (MARC) SUMMERS has over 30 years of oilfield experience and over 15 years of hands on training experience. He founded and ran PetrEX International, Inc., and is currently Discipline Manager of Well Construction/Drilling and a Sr. Instructor with PetroSkills. In 1980, he began working as a drilling engineer for Amoco for fifteen years in various locations around the world. His background includes operations, technical support, and drilling research functions. Since 1986 he has written a number of papers presented at SPE/IADC conferences and several articles published in Petroleum Engineer International, American Oil and Gas Reporter, etc. He received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma.

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  • Mr. Robert (Bob) V. Westermark
    Mr. Robert (Bob) V. Westermark
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    MR. ROBERT (BOB) V. WESTERMARK is a registered engineer with international and domestic experience who has worked both on and offshore including underbalanced, horizontal, multilateral, coalbed methane, and geothermal drilling wells operations. As a team leader, he has run successful drilling and completion alliances and partnering programs. He has also managed a research drilling test facility. Currently, he is Operations Manager for Seismic Recovery LLC, which is developing with DOE funding, an innovative petroleum technology for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery based on downhole vibration stimulation. He has authored and co-authored over 17 technical papers and he has been the instructor for numerous in-house courses, ranging from basic drilling classes to casing design and well control. In addition, he has taught advanced topics including horizontal drilling and multilateral completions. In this capacity, he communicates clearly with all levels of students, field and office employees, management, third party contractors, and the general public. He received a BS degree in petroleum engineering from Montana College of Mineral Sciences and Technology.

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  • Mr. Larry Wolfson
    Mr. Larry Wolfson
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    MR. LARRY WOLFSON has 34 years' experience in planning and supervising well construction, including ERD, slim-hole and sub-sea wells. He received a BS in mechanical engineering from California State University Northridge, an MS in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, and he is a registered petroleum engineer in California.

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  • About the course
  • Designed For
  • You will learn
  • Course Content
Well Design and Engineering integrates all major well design technologies from pre-spud to TD. Participants are actively engaged in every aspect of the technical activities required to deliver a cost-effective well plan while also gaining valuable perspective on how the overall process should be managed in a dynamic team environment. The workshop content is often customized to address technologies and practices that may be specific to a project or operational situation. The course delivery is carefully balanced to integrate technical lectures and group discussion with roughly half of each day allotted for the teams to apply what they have learned on the project well design. The single most important goal of the workshop is to draw the linkages between the design topics and to leave the participants with an understanding that each decision has influence on those that follow. Intensity mounts as the course progresses and each design topic builds on those that came before. Design iterations are commonly required, especially as the course progresses and seemingly unrelated decisions push the teams into situations of uncomfortable operational risk. On the last day, each team presents their completed design before the class and an invited panel of industry professionals. A scientific calculator is required and a laptop computer is strongly recommended.


"Great overview and outline of everything to design a well." - Petroleum Engineer, United States


Drilling engineers, completion engineers, and drilling supervisors involved with drilling operations and well planning.
How To:
  • Understand the responsibilities of a well planner as a designer and project manager
  • Review offset analysis and data gathering
  • Understand the influence of completion design and production requirements on well design
  • Identify trajectory design issues and their influence on torque and drag, wellbore stability, and future intervention
  • Develop specific casing design skills including casing point selection; design load case development; burst, collapse and tension calculations; controlling load and safety factor determination and select appropriate size, weight and grade
  • Perform cement slurry and displacement volume calculations
  • Complete drill string and BHA designs and failure prevention assessment for each hole section, and review for directional well applications
  • Understand different bit types and applications, and perform calculations to support bit run economics
  • Optimize hydraulics for each hole interval based upon wellbore, fluids and drill string configurations
  • Compile risks to well delivery, and develop mitigations and contingency plans
  • Develop minimum rig capability specifications to deliver well requirements
  • Present and defend a well plan to management
  • Trajectory design
  • Wellbore stability and casing point selection
  • Drilling fluids and solids control
  • Casing design
  • Primary cementing
  • Drill string and BHA design
  • Bit technology
  • Circulating system hydraulics and hole cleaning
Related courses
Directional, Horizontal, and Multilateral Drilling - DHD
Drilling Practices - DP
Drill String Design and Optimization - DSD
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Well Design and Engineering - WDE
Discipline: Well Construction/Drilling
Level: Foundation
Duration: 10 days
Instructor(s): Peter Aird, James Bobo, Marc Summers, Robert (Bob) Westermark, Larry Wolfson
Well Design and Engineering integrates all major well design technologies from pre-spud to TD. Participants are actively engaged in every aspect of the technical activities required to deliver a cost-effective well plan while also gaining valuable perspective on how the overall process should be managed in a dynamic team environment. The workshop content is often customized to address technologies and practices that may be specific to a project or operational situation. The course delivery is carefully balanced to integrate technical lectures and group discussion with roughly half of each day allotted for the teams to apply what they have learned on the project well design. The single most important goal of the workshop is to draw the linkages between the design topics and to leave the participants with an understanding that each decision has influence on those that follow. Intensity mounts as the course progresses and each design topic builds on those that came before. Design iterations are commonly required, especially as the course progresses and seemingly unrelated decisions push the teams into situations of uncomfortable operational risk. On the last day, each team presents their completed design before the class and an invited panel of industry professionals. A scientific calculator is required and a laptop computer is strongly recommended.


"Great overview and outline of everything to design a well." - Petroleum Engineer, United States
Designed For:
Drilling engineers, completion engineers, and drilling supervisors involved with drilling operations and well planning.
You Will Learn:
How To:
  • Understand the responsibilities of a well planner as a designer and project manager
  • Review offset analysis and data gathering
  • Understand the influence of completion design and production requirements on well design
  • Identify trajectory design issues and their influence on torque and drag, wellbore stability, and future intervention
  • Develop specific casing design skills including casing point selection; design load case development; burst, collapse and tension calculations; controlling load and safety factor determination and select appropriate size, weight and grade
  • Perform cement slurry and displacement volume calculations
  • Complete drill string and BHA designs and failure prevention assessment for each hole section, and review for directional well applications
  • Understand different bit types and applications, and perform calculations to support bit run economics
  • Optimize hydraulics for each hole interval based upon wellbore, fluids and drill string configurations
  • Compile risks to well delivery, and develop mitigations and contingency plans
  • Develop minimum rig capability specifications to deliver well requirements
  • Present and defend a well plan to management
Course Content:
  • Trajectory design
  • Wellbore stability and casing point selection
  • Drilling fluids and solids control
  • Casing design
  • Primary cementing
  • Drill string and BHA design
  • Bit technology
  • Circulating system hydraulics and hole cleaning
Instructors:

MR. PETER AIRD has 38 years' experience as an oilfield drilling, well engineering, and operations specialist. Peter initially served and trained as a marine engineer officer working with major shipping companies world-wide. His skills then transferred to the oil and gas industry. He re-trained from 1980-1987 as a drilling supervisor, then worked in staff-based positions with Shell International and BP until 1993. Further skills, knowledge, and experience were gained in various global consultancy positions from 1993-2015. Peter worked in frontier exploration appraisal and development subsea, deepwater, HPHT, and horizontal drilling projects. He often worked with complex wells. Project-based work experience was gained in the early 1990's with offshore UK deepwater and HPHT wells, and frontier exploration wells in North America, South East Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, China), North Atlantic, West of Britain, Norway, Faeroes, Greenland, the Black Sea, South Atlantic, Europe Mediterranean, Red Sea, and West Africa.
 
During the last several years, Peter has been further employed as a staff-based senior and specialist drilling engineer leader with operating companies including Kerr McGee, Maersk, and Marathon Oil, Cairn Energy (UK), ONGC (India), Centrica (Norway), and Providence Resources (Ireland). His drilling speciality was further refined on a variety of subsea, horizontal, platform in-fill, HPHT, deep and ultra-deep water drilling projects.
 
Peter is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers from 1991, the Energy Institute, and is a Chartered Marine Engineer and a registered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council from 2004. He actively participates in several industry forums and has shared his knowledge and experience through delivering deep water and other complex well design, drilling engineering, and operations training courses. He has produced multiple technical and operational treatises on oil well design, construction, engineering, and drilling operations. From 1993 he has also hosted a specialist interactive website at www.kingdomdrilling.co.uk. Peter holds an MSC in Drilling Engineering from The Robert Gordon University which he gained as a mature student.

MR. JAMES E. BOBO retired from ConocoPhillips as a Principle Drilling Engineer. Mr. Bobo has served in various management and project leadership roles in drilling, production, gas processing, and gas gathering and information systems throughout the basins in the lower 48 states. In addition, he has served in key facilitator roles for well control operations in Papua New Guinea, Nova Scotia and high-pressure/high-temperature operations throughout the lower 48 states. Bobo is actively involved in society-level efforts related to continuing education, licensure, and professional development, along with the technical advisory boards for several universities. He earned his BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa.

MR. MARCUS A. (MARC) SUMMERS has over 30 years of oilfield experience and over 15 years of hands on training experience. He founded and ran PetrEX International, Inc., and is currently Discipline Manager of Well Construction/Drilling and a Sr. Instructor with PetroSkills. In 1980, he began working as a drilling engineer for Amoco for fifteen years in various locations around the world. His background includes operations, technical support, and drilling research functions. Since 1986 he has written a number of papers presented at SPE/IADC conferences and several articles published in Petroleum Engineer International, American Oil and Gas Reporter, etc. He received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma.

MR. ROBERT (BOB) V. WESTERMARK is a registered engineer with international and domestic experience who has worked both on and offshore including underbalanced, horizontal, multilateral, coalbed methane, and geothermal drilling wells operations. As a team leader, he has run successful drilling and completion alliances and partnering programs. He has also managed a research drilling test facility. Currently, he is Operations Manager for Seismic Recovery LLC, which is developing with DOE funding, an innovative petroleum technology for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery based on downhole vibration stimulation. He has authored and co-authored over 17 technical papers and he has been the instructor for numerous in-house courses, ranging from basic drilling classes to casing design and well control. In addition, he has taught advanced topics including horizontal drilling and multilateral completions. In this capacity, he communicates clearly with all levels of students, field and office employees, management, third party contractors, and the general public. He received a BS degree in petroleum engineering from Montana College of Mineral Sciences and Technology.

MR. LARRY WOLFSON has 34 years' experience in planning and supervising well construction, including ERD, slim-hole and sub-sea wells. He received a BS in mechanical engineering from California State University Northridge, an MS in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, and he is a registered petroleum engineer in California.


In-House Course Presentations
All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com

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