Drilling and service personnel struggle daily with the oil and gas industries inexperienced labor force. This inexperience at the wellsite results in excessive non-productive time, trouble time, and invisible lost time. These, in turn, lead to unsafe incidents and excessive costs to the operator, the contractor and the service industry. Managing Wellsite Operations teaches participants to apply organizational learning processes; wellsite technical limits analysis and more efficient use of all resources at the wellsite.

The candidates will learn how to identify and mitigate hidden risks that often are overlooked during the planning, design and execution phases of a drilling operation. They will learn how to dissect and analyze an operational plan. In addition, applying operational innovations and advanced motion and time processes will lead to improved efficiency of wellsite rotary operations and individual wellsite tasks. The candidates will be introduced to models, templates, techniques, and real case studies that can be used on the job.

This course brings together a documented planning and design process, maximizes drilling efficiency and transfers the execution plan to the wellsite for implementation. The candidates will learn to build effective teams by using a case study and applying the skills of the company representative, drilling contractor and service company personnel. Critical issues are identified and analyzed to maximize safety and reduce drilling costs. Similarly, engineering, technical service, and drilling contract personnel learn to analyze inefficient practices at the wellsite and utilize their newfound skills to improve the operation. Drilling organizations are using new and complex drilling technology to maximize return on capital costs. Combine the known variables with the influx of inexperienced personnel in the planning, design, and execution phases and you have high cost and unsafe operations at the wellsite. Mastering the drilling operations at the wellsite will reduce costs, improve drilling budgets and maximize resources

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Define a wells technical limit and implement a plan that will work to reach it
• Identify and mitigate hidden risks to reduce lost time
• Apply practical organizational learning techniques to benefit from lessons learned
• Build effective rig site teams
• Learn the critical elements of effective planning and management of drilling operations
• Design and implement a program "checklist" for critical well drilling operations
• Investigate various elements of a drilling operation and mitigate visible and hidden risk
• Investigate and perform an analysis of trouble time events, non-productive time occurrences and invisible lost time for a drilling operation
• Dissect the drilling plan and apply total task analysis to well site activities
• Enhance your knowledge of organizational learning systems and transfer lessons learned
• Perform technical limit analysis to improve well site performance
• Measure and performance monitoring of the drilling operation
• Maximize the inexperienced resources through total task analysis in a case study to reduce drilling costs and improve safety

Operations Managers, Operations Personnel, Drilling Managers, Drilling Superintendents, Drilling Supervisors, Wellsite Drilling Engineers, Rig managers, Rig superintendents, Contract Drilling Engineers

·       Review of some fundamental concepts

·       Health Safety and Environment (HSE)

·       Operations and wellsite geology roles and responsibilities

·       Well data management

·       Production hole drilling operations

·       Procedures for drilling the production hole

·       Material availability for drilling the production hole

·       Bottom hole assemblies for the production hole

·       Anticipated problems in production hole

·       Drilling production hole

·       Coring production hole

·       Logging production hole

·       Preparing production casing/liner

·       Reaming Production hole

·       Run production casing/Liner

·       Cementing Production casing /Liner

·       Clean out production casing/Liner

·       Pressure testing production casing/liner

·       Preparing completion fluid

·       Displacement of drilling fluid

·       Lay down tubulars

·       Run in hole tubing string

·       Displace hole to completion fluids

·       Installing X-mas tree and testing

·       Reporting

·       Geological contracts, contractor evaluation and quality control

·       Sample and show description

·       The basics of formation pore, fracture and overburden pressures

·       Formation pressure evaluation techniques at the wellsite

·       HTHP wells from a geological perspective

·       Coring programs and core point picking

·       Fundamentals of well planning

·       Logs, reports and final well documentation

·       Critical elements of effective planning and management of drilling operations

·       Design and implement a program “checklist for critical well drilling operations

·       Investigate various elements of a drilling operation and mitigate visible and hidden risk

·       Investigate and perform an analysis of trouble time events, non-productive time occurrences and invisible lost time for a drilling operation

·       Dissect the drilling plan and apply total task analysis to wellsite activities

·       Enhance your knowledge of organizational learning systems and transfer lessons learned

·       Perform technical limit analysis to improve wellsite performance

·       Measure and performance monitoring of the drilling operation

·       Maximize the inexperienced resources through total task analysis in a case study to reduce drilling costs and improve safety

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