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    Directional Drilling and Surveying

    • Foundation
    • 5 Days
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    The goal of the course will be to enable participants to understand the operations carried out by directional drillers.  They will also learn how to contribute to the design of directional and horizontal wells. The course will cover the fundamentals, design considerations, and operational aspects of directional and horizontal drilling.

    Drilling Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, Trainee Directional Drillers, and service company personnel with basic drilling engineering skills.

    Directional surveying
    Well location calculation methods
    Deflection methods
    Anti-collision concepts
    LWD and mudlogging use in directional drilling
    Bottomhole assemblies and drill string tools used in directional drilling
    Concepts of torque and drag and shocks and vibrations
    Introduction to multilaterals 
    Directional drilling problems

    All participants should have some basic drilling engineering experience and one to three years of wellsite experience. Prior exposure to directional drilling is recommended, but not required. Good mathematic skills will be necessary, particularly trigonometry.

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