Casing And Tubing Design

By the end of this course, the participants will understand and gain the following:

• Understand the role of casing and tubing in long-term well integrity.
• Appreciate the principles of stress analysis for both completions and casing design.
• Gain a level of proficiency where they can design their own casing or tubing.
• Build the capability to create comprehensive load cases for both tubing and casing.
• Be proficient in the selection of pipes, completion equipment (especially packers and PBRs) and pipe connections.
• Learn the ability to predict, manage and mitigate annuus pressure build up.

This course is aimed primarily at Drilling and Completions engineers who would like to perform tubing and casing analysis using the Oliasoft software.  No previous stress analysis theory knowledge is required but it would be useful. Prior knowledge of the drilling and completion process is required, and some basic tubular design exposure will be useful.

The course is limited to 16 participants in order to ensure provide adequate supervision during the training. The participants will require a laptop and good Internet connection during the course delivery.

• Intermediate

Your Expert Course Instructor has 30 years of oil and gas industry experience. A first class degree in geophysics and a master degree in Petroleum Engineering was a prelude to seven years with BP as a petroleum engineer. He left BP and following a short spell in Camco, jointly founded ICE Energy. After six years of completions and petroleum engineering consultancy and training, ICE Energy merged with TRACS International, where he continued with petroleum and completion engineering studies, leading integrated teams, and developing / delivering training courses for a variety of different clients in diverse world-wide locations. In the last five years, He is independent again – focusing on technical consulting and course delivery.

Work Experience:

2010-Current – Focussing on technical consulting and training courses.

2001-2010 AGR- TRACS International, Petroleum Engineer. As a petroleum and completion engineer, the role involves leading integrated teams, consulting in well design and construction (completions, sand control, stimulations, interventions and artificial lift), and the development and delivery of well engineering training. Specific experiences in these 6 years include:

• Subsurface team leader for a 3 well offshore gas development in a remote area. Responsible for the subsurface and completions team, producing well proposals, the field development plan and presentations to government and partners.
• Detailed sand control completion designs for deepwater India,
• Annulus fluid expansion mitigation in the GoM,
• Acid fracturing an intelligent North Sea subsea well (SPE paper 83950),
• Numerous tubing and casing stress studies, various completion designs (including HPHT and intelligent wells).
• An analysis of the impact of hydrates in deepwater formations.
• Presenter of over 100 technical training courses in 6 years.

1996-2001 ICE Energy Ltd, Petroleum Engineer & Director. Jointly founded ICE Energy and grew the company to a where it employed 15 people. Technical work included numerous completion design projects for BP, Shell, Talisman, Lasmo, Amerada Hess, AGIP, KOC, Kerr McGee, Ecopetrol. Project work included working in and for UK, Norway, Italy, Libya, Kuwait, Colombia, Venezuela, USA, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Specific highlights include complex or simple completion designs, multipurpose and HPHT well designs, hydraulic fracturing, tubing and casing stress analysis, subsea completions, high profile failure investigations, artificial lift (gas lift, ESP, rod pumps and jet pumps). Author of various technical papers and the editor of a BP magazine with a distribution list of 1000 focussing on petroleum engineering and well performance. Training development and delivery included a completion design course, a well intervention school and detailed training in completion installation, well performance and tubing / casing stress analysis.

1995-1996 Camco, Senior Completions Engineer. Responsible for supervising and assisting all Completion Design / Engineering performed by the Well Engineers assigned to client projects.

1990-1995 BP Exploration

1993-1995 Completions Engineer – Well Engineering and Operations Group

1992-1993 Reservoir Engineer, Responsible for the construction and history matching (200 wells over 20 years) of a fine grid Eclipse reservoir simulation model for a Caspian Sea oilfield

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