Upon completion of this course, the participants will be equipped with:

• Challenges related to formation pressure predictions
• The impact of high pressures and temperatures on well design aspects and
• well behavior during construction of the well.
• Understand the impact of temperatures and pressures on primary and
• secondary well barriers
• Understand operational challenges associated with HPHT wells
• HPHT Rig equipment requirements, including the use of Managed Pressure
• Drilling for HPHT wells
• Well Delivery, fingerprinting, well bore breathing, high-reliability drilling
• practices
• Well Control – practical well control for on bottom, off bottom and out of hole
• well control, kicks and losses

This course is intended for well engineers, drilling engineers, completion engineers and well service providers that are about to be involved in HPHT well design and drilling operations.

• Intermediate

Your Expert Course Instructor was born and raised in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He holds an MSc in Drilling Engineering from The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and has over 39 years of oilfield experience. He started in the industry back in 1977 as a Mud logger before becoming a wellsite drilling engineer in 1980 working mainly in the Middle East and West Africa. In 1988, he joined Shell in in the Southern North Sea.

In 1995, he joined Smedvig in Norway and worked on a number of deepwater wells as well as on underbalanced drilling operations. In 1999, he started Leading Edge Advantage in Aberdeen and worked in coiled tubing, underbalanced and managed pressure drilling. In 2004, he joined Weatherford as Regional Engineering Manager in Singapore and developed the first ultra deepwater MPD systems. In 2010, he joined SPT Group specializing in well control and hydraulics modelling. SPT Group was later acquired by Schlumberger in 2012.

At Schlumberger, Your Expert Course Instructor was Drilling Adviser, with a focus on well control, relief well planning and MPD. During that time, he was also an instructor for NExT teaching numerous well engineering courses. In 2015, he joined Wild Well as Engineering Manager in Asia and in February 2017, he became an independent consultant concentrating on provision of drilling engineering training.

Your Expert Course Instructor has written and presented numerous papers and authored several chapters in the SPE Advanced Technology books. He is an active committee member and speaker on numerous SPE Workshops around the world.

To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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