Horizontal Well Completion
Level: Basic
Upcoming Sessions:
To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructors: Dr. Samuel Osisanya
Designed for:
This course is designed for engineers, geologists, and other technical personnel.
Course Overview:
This course focuses on all aspects of horizontal wells. Emphasis is on preplanning on various operational
concerns associated with horizontal wells. Completion in homogeneous, heterogeneous, and naturally fractured
reservoirs will be covered in detail. Evaluation and economics of horizontal well completion will also be discussed.
Course Content:
- Overview of Horizontal Well Technology
- Definitions and Classification of Horizontal Wells
- Horizontal Well Candidates
- Horizontal Drilling Techniques
- Planning Horizontal Completion
- Formation Consideration
- Well Type
- Drilling/Casing Alternative
- Completion of Horizontal Wells
- Openhole Completion
- Partially Cased Completion
- Cased and Cemented Completions
- Cement Slurry Design
- Spacer/Flush
- Equipping the Horizontal Well
- External Casing Packers
- Tool Size
- Tool Operation
- Tools Including Bridge Plugs
- Packers
- Pumping Equipment - Gas Lift, Hydraulic Jet Pumps and Electric Submersible Pumps
- Working in the Horizontal Environment
- Hole Cleaning
- Tubing Stresses
- Well Perforation
- Gravel Packing of Horizontal Wells
- Matrix Stimulation of Horizontal Wells
- Formation Damage In Horizontal Wells
- Stimulation Considerations
- Technical And Economic Constraints
- Example Calculation of Matrix Stimulation
- Fracturing of Horizontal Wells
- Choosing Candidate Wells
- Fracture Classification
- Practical Considerations For Fracturing Horizontal Wells
- Evaluation of Horizontal Well Completions
- Horizontal Well Testing Procedure
- Analysis Procedure
- Duration of Flow Regimes
- Pressure Transient Character
- Economics of Horizontal Well Completion