Training Session
4-Day Appalachian Basin Extended Reach, Complex, and Horizontal Well Design and Execution Training
Session Details
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Type: In-Person
Start Date: 06/16/2025
End Date: 06/19/2025
Agenda
Day 1: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
- Introduction
- Review of Marcellus and Utica Wells design and operational challenges
- Hole Cleaning
- Tripping and Backreaming
- Utica well Case Study: Managing torque w/use of accessories
- Marcellus well Case Study: Managing torque w/tapered string
Day 2: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
- ECD & (Surge/Swab)
- Can I swab instability in?
- Torque, Drag Fundamentals
- T&D of conventional vs U-Turn wells
- Case Study: Hindcasting friction factors from a conventional lateral well to a U-Turn well.
- Drilling efficiency
- Why ROP is dropping along the lateral
Day 3: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
- Running Casing
- AirLock placement design considerations
- Reaming casing design considerations
- Proper Centralization & modeling techniques
- Two Marcellus wells casing runs Case Studies: Floating, reaming casing.
- Utica Well casing run study: Centralization methods
Day 4: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
- Basics of Wellbore Stability
- How Marcellus wells are failing and how to avoid it
- Utica Record Well Case Study: Overcoming string buckling during trip in operations & preserving drill bit integrity while tripping in
- Utica Well Case Study: Managing downhole temperature & impact of mud coolers