COURSE DURATION: 2 Days

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LEVEL: SKILL (Intermediate)​

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DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE...

• Drilling, Petroleum or Production Engineer or Technologist.

• Production Superintendent or Supervisor.

• Production or Field Manager.

• Chemical Engineers

• New graduates planning to have a career in the Oil and Gas Industry. 

 

HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE

• Face to face or web based course via state-of-the-art material including practical and or Field Examples and history cases delivered by experienced and seasoned professional instructors with a long career in well intervention, operations and engineering.

 

THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

• Will learn “hands on” the fundamentals Well Abandonment aspects and their paramount Requirements, Techniques, Methods and Safety.

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BY THE END OF THE COURSE YOU WILL FEEL CONFIDENT IN YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF:

• Well abandonment in all its main aspects leading to safe operations and cost optimization  

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TOPICS

• Well Abandonment Requirements,

• Techniques, Methods and Safe Operations.

• Legal and technical Requirements (API, USA and Europe),

• Production decline/End of Life,

• Well Integrity, Failures beyond repair,

• Well aging, well integrity, well life cycle.

• Different abandonment  methods

 

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DAILY AGENDA

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Day 1:

• Generic Well-Abandonment Overview and Review;

• Introduction to Well-Abandonment Legislation, Regulations and Guidelines

• Gas Migration: Consequences, Causes and Control;

• Well Barriers

• Cement as a Well Barrier Element

• Casing Perforating and Cutters - Explosive, Chemical and Mechanical;

 

 

Day 2:​

• Cement and Casing Evaluation Techniques: Caliper, Temperature, Noise; Cement Bond/Variable Density Log (CBL/VDL), UltraSonic Imager Tool (USIT)

• Squeeze Cementing;

• Cement Plug Placement;

• Specialty Cements for P&A.

• New P&A Technology using metal (Bismuth)

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INSTRUCTORS:

Antonio Abreu is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Antonio has over 40 years’ experience in oilfield production technology.

He performed extensive work in the areas cementing, stimulation, well integrity, CT operations, well testing, slickline operations, wireline operations, reservoir monitoring and optimization, gas lift operations, production logging, perforation operations, sand control, water and gas shut off, etc.

Started his career in April 1979 with Dowell Schlumberger in France. Further assignments included positions as Assistant to Technical and Marketing Manager (DS/Singapore), Offshore Manager / Cementing Services (DS/Libya), General Services Supervisor (DS/Algeria), Assistant Operations Manager/Aktau/Kazakhstan (Partex), Senior Petroleum Engineer (ADCO/Bu-Hasa Field) and Senior Petroleum Engineer (Dragon Oil Dubai and Turkmenistan).

Antonio is an experienced lecturer of many industry training courses in the areas of Petroleum and Production Engineering and was also assigned during several years as instructor at BTC (Dowell Schlumberger Training Centre, Santa Cruz de la Sierra/Bolivia). The last four years he was working as

Training Consultant in UAE. He is a Partner Founder of OGExperts.

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Luis Remisio: Mining Engineer (IST, Lisboa), Petroleum Engineer (IFP, Paris), Leadership Certificate in (Ashridge, UK). 43 years of experience in the industry of Oil and Gas in 7 countries (Angola, UK, Australia, Zaire, Portugal, United Arab Emirates and  Kazakhstan) in the areas Drilling, Operations, Well Abandonment, Production Technology, Conceptual Design and Project of Surface Installations, Development/Training of Engineers and Technicians, HSE and Technical and Finance Management. He teaches Oil & Gas , HSE and Leadership courses. He is a Partner Founder of OGExperts.

 

Cipriano Costa: Masters in Chemical Engineering – Petroleum Refining ; Petrochemistry-FEUP Porto, (1978). Worked in the Lubricants refining plant of Petrogal and in several countries around the world (Libya, Algeria, United States, Middle East, North Sea and Central Africa) with Halliburton Corporation, having performed several duties in almost all technical areas of the Oilfield both Onshore and Offshore and also PDC (Personal Development Coordinator), BDM (Business Development Manager) and Technical Advisor for Completions. Has post-Graduation in Petroleum Engineering by University of Texas – Austin.

He is a specialist in Fracturing, Chemical Stimulation, Cementing and Completions. He is a Partner founder of OGExperts.