Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from horizontal and directional well design.
Designing Horizontal and Directional Well Paths in Complex Reservoirs
A structured, applied course in horizontal and directional well design — designed to be used the week you return.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
In energy operations the cost of getting horizontal and directional well design wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on well design both accrue interest. This programme builds this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting horizontal and directional well design and under-invest in testing it. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability hard in practice. Across sectors, teams that rehearse well design outperform teams that only plan it. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting horizontal and directional well design, ready to be adapted internally. It is designed for mixed groups, so that well design is examined from more than one functional angle. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Agree the first three actions on well design that will be taken on returning to work.
Build a concise operating procedure for horizontal and directional well design that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving well design.
Reduce avoidable variation in how horizontal and directional well design is carried out across teams.
Structure contracts and service agreements covering well design.
Apply recognised integrity and inspection practice to horizontal and directional well design.
Who Should Attend
Operations and production engineers responsible for horizontal and directional well design.
Quality staff verifying that well design performs as designed.
Facility and plant managers accountable for horizontal and directional well design.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with well design in real time.
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in horizontal and directional well design.
Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting well design.
Course Modules
Horizontal and directional well design: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Fitting horizontal and directional well design into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on horizontal and directional well design.
- Set out how exceptions to well design are requested and approved.
- Confirm the inspection interval for horizontal and directional well design is based on condition, not habit.
- Build the internal briefing that explains well design to those affected.
Session 2Reviewing well design when nothing has gone wrong
- Name a single owner for each element of horizontal and directional well design.
- Rank the weaknesses in well design by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Identify where judgement in horizontal and directional well design is legitimate and where it is not.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to well design will be introduced.
Well design: instrumentation, data and condition monitoring
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support well design
- Confirm that reporting on horizontal and directional well design reaches the people who can act.
- Check that records of well design answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about horizontal and directional well design.
- Establish the boundary of well design and record what sits outside it.
Session 2Holding contractors on well design to the standard you hold yourself
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to horizontal and directional well design.
- Identify the failure modes of well design with the highest consequence.
- Verify isolation points for horizontal and directional well design are proven and documented.
- Identify critical spares for well design and confirm lead times.
Well design: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Spares, logistics and single points of failure in well design
- Test the procedure for horizontal and directional well design against a realistic scenario.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to well design and remove nuisance alarms.
- Confirm that lessons from horizontal and directional well design are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around well design are understood.
Session 2Comparing horizontal and directional well design with recognised practice
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios horizontal and directional well design can create.
- Set out the decisions in well design that require sign-off and by whom.
- Reduce the variation in how horizontal and directional well design is carried out between teams.
- Plan the well design scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
Well design: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The operating limits on well design and what happens beyond them
- Review the instrumentation on horizontal and directional well design for coverage gaps.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of well design current.
- Define the safe operating envelope for horizontal and directional well design and how deviations are detected.
- Arrange the handover of well design so capability survives staff changes.
Session 2Deciding between life extension and replacement for well design
- Check that the permit regime covering horizontal and directional well design matches the actual hazard.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving well design.
- Confirm handover documentation for horizontal and directional well design is complete and current.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on well design.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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