Directional, Horizontal, and Multilateral Drilling

About The Course

This course is designed to provide the candidates with knowledge in the principles and practice of directional drilling, Oil well planning and construction, calculation, Bottom hole Assembly Selection and Design for directional and horizontal well. Included in this course are specific problems associated with directional and horizontal drilling such as torque, drags, hole cleaning, logging and drilling string component design.

Who Should Attend

Drilling Supervisors, Trainee Directional Drillers, Drilling Engineers, Managers of Drilling Personnel, Geologists, Well Planners, MWD Engineers, etc.

Course Description

• Drilling Rig Introduction (Derrick, Drawworks, BOPs, Mud Circulation Systems, etc.) and Safety
• Brief Introduction to MWD/LWD and Geology
• Applications and Techniques of Directional Drilling
• Basic Mathematics Review – Algebra and Trigonometry
• Directional Well Planning and the Coordinate Systems
• Directional Survey Calculations, and Quality Assurance and Acceptance Criteria
• Interpret and update the drilling wall plots with survey data
• Related Well Profiles Calculating – DLS DogLeg Severity, BUR Build Up Rates, etc
• BHA Bottom Hole Assembly Design(Mud Motors, RSS, Jars, Heavy Weight Drill Collars, , Hole
  Openers, Reamers, WhipStock, etc)
• Drilling Bits Overview
• Anti-Collision Monitoring
• Drilling Fluids – types and Classifications
• Hole Cleaning and Monitoring
• Direction Drilling Field Operations
• Tool Face Orientation and Usage – MTF, Magnetic Tool Face and GTF, Gravity Tool Face
• Hole Deviation Techniques – Sidetracking – open hole/ cased hole, Whipstock, Cement Plugs, etc
• Introduction to Rotary Steerable Drilling Systems
• Bit Dull Grading
• BHA Design
• Understand acceptable drilling best practices for efficient drilling and well control
• Hands-On training on Well Planning and Bit Projection software Application