This course is designed for engineers, geologists, and other technical personnel.

This course is designed to provide participants with an overview of the principles of well completion, operations, well stimulation, and monitoring. Theories and operational procedures will also be covered.

• Introduction
  • Objective and Functions of the Well Completion Engineer and their relationship between geologist and other engineers
• Prerequisites to Well Completion
  • Geologic and Reservoir Considerations
  • Formation Evaluation Methods (Well Logging, Core Analysis, Drill Stem Testing)
• Primary Cementing Technology
  • Materials, Additives, Slurry Flow Properties, and Design
  • Cementing Operations and Evaluations
  • Factors Necessary for Successful Primary Cementing
  • Remedial Cementing (Squeeze Cementing)
• Well Completion Fluids
  • Clay Mineralogy
  • Functions Requirements Selection Criteria
  • Types of Completion Fluids
• Perforating for production
  • Factors to Consider in Perforation Completions
  • Types of Perforators
  • Perforation Practices
  • Open Hole versus Perforation Completion
• Sand Control
  • Methods of Sand Control
  • Chemical - Sand Consolidation
  • Mechanical - Gravel Packing
• Well Completion Configurations
  • Types of Wells
  • Types of Well Completions
  • Subsurface and Surface Completion Equipment
  • Well Completion Design
• Stimulation
  • formation damage mechanisms
  • acidizing
  • fracturing
• Completion Evaluation
• Well Monitoring and Trouble Shooting