Completion Practices

Well interventions have a large opportunity to enhance well production if correctly designed and implemented. Conversely they can have a large negative impact on production if they’re not.

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Designed for:

The course is aimed at all staff and contractors involved in well interventions and can be tailored to a clients interventions and requirements.

Duration

3 to 5 days

Learning Level

Skills
skills 1
Knowledge
skills 3
Awareness
skills 3

This course is designed to make those that attend aware of how their job can directly impact the productivity by minimising lost oil through formation damage and NPT.
It also disseminates best practice and can cover the specific operations in which a client may be involved.

The course is a mixture of informal teaching, demonstrations, individual and group exercises, videos, posters and a number of hands-on exhibits. Discussions also cover local issues relevant to your operations, encouraging cross discipline awareness, communication and motivating team building.

The course has recently been updated in the areas of Subsea and HPHT interventions.

Course Content

Well interventions have a large opportunity to enhance well production if correctly designed and implemented. Conversely, they can have a large negative impact on production if they’re not. This course is designed to make those that attend aware of how their job can directly impact the productivity by minimising lost oil through formation damage and NPT. It also disseminates best practice and can cover the specific operations in which a client may be involved. The course is a mixture of informal teaching, demonstrations, individual and group exercises, videos, posters and a number of hands-on exhibits. Discussions also cover local issues relevant to your operations, encouraging cross discipline awareness, communication and motivating team building. The course has recently been updated in the areas of Subsea and HPHT interventions.

Duration is dependent on the number of topics and the depth to which they are covered but could include:
  • Formation damage
  • Production problems of scale, asphaltenes, wax etc.
  • Corrosion and how this can be exacerbated by
    interventions
  • Electric line & wireline operations
  • CT best practice
  • Perforating and re-perforating
  • Squeeze treatments
  • Remedial sand control
  • Zonal isolation – water shut off and gas shut off
  • Hydraulic fracturing
  • Artificial lift and how to monitor and troubleshoot
Course Duration

Duration is 3 – 5 days.

Course Tutors

Jonathan Bellarby

BSc (Hons), MEng
30+ years – wells technology

Jonathan develops and runs courses in the Wells and Early Development series. He has a career background at BP, ICE, AGR and TRACS. Jonathan is the author of ‘Well Completion Design’.

Howard Crumpton

40+ years – interventions and completions

Howard mainly tutors courses the Wells series. He has a career background at Otis, Camco, Thistle Well Services, Wellserv, BP, TRACS and AGR. Howard is the author of ‘Well Control for Completions and Interventions’.

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