Description
Objective
This one day tutorial is structured to give the attendees a broad overview of Managed Pressure Drilling.
Topics Covered
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Standard definition for Managed Pressure Drilling
- Similarities and contrasts between conventional drilling, UBD and MPD
- The operating window – planning vs real
- Recognizing an MPD candidate well – technical/economical/safety value
- Recognized variants of MPD
- HSE
- Single Annular Point Constant Pressure – Pivot Point - CBHP
- Mud Cap
- Dual Gradient
- Continuous Flow
- Conventional Well Control practices vs MPD Influx control and management
- Conventional losses management vs MPD losses management
- Onshore/shallow waters MPD application
- Deepwater MPD systems
- Surface Applied Backpressure
- Riser fluid level management
- Subsea pumping
- Continuous flow system
- Riser gas handling
- The MPD Operating Matrix
- Practical exercise
- Well balancing in tight windows – MPD methods
- Practical exercise
- Surge/Swab management in MPD
- Dynamic Influx test
- Dynamic FIT/LOT – differences with conventional FIT/LOT
- Dynamic wellbore strengthening
- Closed Loop cementing
- Managed Pressure Drilling equipment and interfaces with the rig
- Rig auditing/inspection process
- Standard MPD procedures discussion (in function of MPD variant)
- Fingerprinting
- Flow check
- Tripping in/out
- Connections – trapping pressure vs surface flow loop
- Drilling
- Rotating Control Device elements change under pressure – pressure equalization
- Casing/Liner running
- Influx management
- Contingency procedures
- Rig pump/power failure
- Floats failure
- Surface line failure
- Alarm response
- Controlled well handover to rig for well control
- MPD in HPHT wells – considerations
- HSE aspects
- Hazid/Hazop/MOC
- Training/competencies
- Rig practice
- Communication protocol
Professional Development Hours
Attendees will be awarded with a certificate for 8 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
Subsidized Registration
Limited number of subsidized passes for this 1-day tutorial will be available for students/retired professionals and professionals with no corporate support. Please e-mail Sunil Lakshminarayanan(sunil_lakshminarayanan@oxy.com) for more details.