COURSE DURATION: 5 days

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LEVEL:  Skill                                                  

 

DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE...

• Drilling engineer,

• Petroleum engineer

 

HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE

• Preferably the course will be taught face-to-face, supported by a power point presentation and illustrated with
  several practical problems.      

 

THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

• The attendants will be given a comprehensive overview of the well construction project, with detailed information on the different phases of the drilling operation.

 

By the end of the course, you will feel confident in your understanding of:

• The detailed construction process of a well.

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TOPICS

• Drilling Process,

• Rigs Main Equipment,

• Pressure and Pressure Control.

• BOP Equipment and Well Killing and Control Procedures.

• Fluids, Solids Control, pressure losses, bit hydraulics.

• Casing String Design,

• Configuration and RIH.

• Cementing and Evaluation.

• Economics and well abandonment.

 

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DAILY AGENDA

 

Day 1:

• Overview of the drilling process (licences, personnel, rotary rig main equipment, drill string, bits).

 

Day 2:

• Rotary rig main equipment (Cont.).

• Pressures (pore pressure, fracture resistance, overburden).

• Abnormal pressures; kicks.

• BOP equipment.

• Well killing procedures.

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Day 3:

• Drilling fluids. Solids controll.

• Pressure losses.

• Bit hydraulic optimization.

 

Day 4:

• Casing string configuration.

• Casing design.

• RIH casing string.

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Day 5:

• Cementing (types and additives).

• Evaluating cement job. 

• Drilling economics.

• Well abandonment procedures.

 

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INSTRUCTOR:

Carlos Alves was born in Lisbon, Portugal (1950). He got a Mining Engineer degree from the University of Luanda, Angola (1973), and a Master of Science degree from Colorado School of Mines, USA (1977). In 1978 he joined Petrangol (the Angolan subsidiary of the Belgian oil company, Petrofina) in Luanda, Angola. For two years he was the well site drilling engineer on 4 drilling/workover rigs working onshore. After, he became responsible for an oil field in northern Angola. In 1983 he was sent to work as secondee in the drilling department of Philips Petroleum Company in the North Sea (Ekofisk area). In 1986 he was transferred back to Angola in charge of the Drilling Department of Fina Petróleos de Angola. From 1988 to end of 1990 he was Technical Director at Zairep (Zairian subsidiary of Petrofina). From 1991 to mid-1995 he was responsible for the Drilling and Production activities of Fina Italiana (Italian subsidiary of Petrofina). Then he was transferred to Angola as Chairman and CEO of Fina Petróleos de Angola. In1998 Total merged with Elf and then with Petrofina. With the new organization Carlos was put in charge of all the onshore operations of TOTAL in Angola. In the beginning of 2000, he decided to quit TOTAL and joined GALP Energia (Portuguese oil company) as General Manager of the Exploration and Production Department. Due to the success of the exploration activities in Brazil (basically the pre-salt discoveries in the deep waters of the Santos Basin) he was appointed in 2011 as CEO of Petrogal Brazil, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, until his retirement in 2015.

At the request of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, he taught the course of “Drilling and Completion” to the Master students in Petroleum Engineering from 2018 till 2020.