PE3702 Well Completion Testing and Work Over Syllabus:
PE3702 Well Completion Testing and Work Over Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVE:
To provide insights into the Well Operation during the hydrocarbon Explorations.
UNIT I
Well design: Prediction of formation pore pressure and stress gradients. Determination of safety mud weight bounds for different in-situ stress conditions. Design and planning well trajectory. Surveying tools and methods.
UNIT II
Drilling methods and equipment for directional, horizontal and multilateral wells. Selection of casing shoes, material properties and design of casing program, perforation, skin effect, activation.
UNIT III
Well Completion and Stimulations: Well completion design, types of completion, completion selection and design criteria. Interval selection and productivity considerations: effects ofproducing mechanisms. Inflow performance and multiple tubing performance analyses using commercial software. well stimulation.
UNIT IV
Well stimulation and work over planning. Tubing-packer movement and forces. Tubing design: graphical tubing design and simplified tensional strength design. Selection of down hole equipment, tubing accessories and wellhead equipment.
UNIT V
Basics of perforation, selection of equipment and procedure for perforation oil and gas wells. Technology of sand control: gravel packing. Fundamentals of well stimulation technologies: acidization and hydraulic fracturing.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOME:
On completion of the course students are expected to
CO1: Understand the concept of well completion basics and managing conditions.
CO2: Obtain the knowledge about the drill string designing.
CO3: Gain the knowledge about completion types and design criteria
CO4: Understand the concept of pressure maintenance and material properties.
CO5: Obtain the knowledge about the perforation techniques.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Wellsite Geological Techniques for Petroleum exploration by Sahay .B. et al
2. Petroleum Exploration Hand Book by Moody, G.B.
REFERENCE:
1. Standard Hand Book of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering” – 2nd Edition 2005-William C.Lyons & GaryJ.Plisga-Gulf professional publishing comp (Elsevier).