George King

Completion Operations

9:03 Hours
The Completion Operations course offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of oil and gas well completions. It covers essential completion equipment, tools, and operations, emphasizing dynamic design challenges and common static design limitations. Through detailed workflows and practical field examples, learners will explore monitoring techniques for early detection of issues and effective preventative and repair strategies. The course addresses critical processes such as cementing for primary isolation, well control, and optimizing cement slurry properties under varying conditions. Suitable for both onshore and offshore environments, it integrates economic considerations and applies to conventional and unconventional wells.

Who Should Take This Course
• Oil and gas industry professionals
• Well design and drilling personnel
• Completion engineers and field technicians
• Engineering students focusing on completions

What You Will Learn
• Completion operations and equipment basics
• Cementing design and well isolation methods
• Practical workflows and economic considerations
• Monitoring and troubleshooting completion issues

Why This Course Works
• Prevent costly repairs with correct cementing
• Ensure well integrity and environmental protection
• Apply practical solutions from experienced engineer
• Improve completion design and operational efficiency

1.01 Practical Engineering (2 min.)

2.01 Cementing – Primary Isolation (20 min.)
2.02 Comparison of costs – efficiency and weather factors for completion options (19 min.)

3.01 Flanges, Trees & Valves (12 min.)
3.02 Production Chokes (15 min.)

4.01 Factors that Drive Completion Choices (24 min.)
4.02 Type of Completion System (24 min.)
4.03 Dissolvable Plugs, Sleeves & Balls (11 min.)

5.01 Types of Perforators (13 min.)
5.02 Perforating (12 min.)
5.03 Perforating Design (19 min.)
5.04 Downhole Perforation Performance (20 min.)
5.05 Perforating Multiple Strings of Pipe (9 min.)
5.06 Explosive Safety Information for Observers (5 min.)

6.01 Unstable Formations (16 min.)
6.02 Sand Control Methods (18 min.)
6.03 Things that cause screens to fail… (11 min.)
6.04 Gravel Packs (16 min.)
6.05 Screens, Packers, Crossovers (7 min.)
6.06 Advanced Performance Gravel Packs (13 min.)

7.01 Acidizing Basics and Failure Causes (32 min.)
7.02 Acids (25 min.)
7.03 Acid Fracturing (7 min.)
7.04 Sandstone Acidizing (6 min.)
7.05 Acid Diverting (13 min.)
7.06 Acid Backflow (12 min.)

8.01 Fracturing Design – Theory & Reality (32 min.)
8.02 Watching the Fracturing Pump Chart (14 min.)

9.01 Casing Deformation (30 min.)
9.02 Erosion (6 min.)
9.03 Fracture Driven Interactions (Frac Hits) (22 min.)

10.01 Plug type selection (27 min.)
10.02 Look at the Pieces (15 min.)

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