5-Day Horizontal and ERD Well Planning Course
5-Day Horizontal and ERD Well Planning Course
This is K&M’s most popular course. The course is a comprehensive well design and implementation event, targeted at the experienced drilling and completion engineers, drilling superintendents and drilling managers. The publicly available courses are generally taught near K&M’s regional offices. Alternatively, they may be delivered to a dedicated client at a venue of their choosing.
Sample Schedule:
Day 1: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Introduction
What is ERD? / Who are K&M?
ERD: What’s Different?
Preliminary Well Design
Torque, Drag & Buckling Fundamentals
Day 2: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Torque, Drag, & Buckling Fundamentals (continued)
Hole Cleaning
Tripping and Backreaming Practices
Day 3: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
ECD Management
Surge & Swab
Connection Practices
Casing and Drill Pipe Wear
Differential Sticking
Day 4: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Basics of Wellbore Stability
Introduction to Lost Returns
Hole Condition Monitoring
Torque, Drag & Buckling Modelling
Day 5: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Running Casing and Liners in ER Wells
Cementing
Wrap Up / Final Session