Complex Well Technology

Instructor: Bob Knoll

  Refreshments, lunch and PDH Certificate are provided

SCHOOL OBJECTIVES

The primary objective of this intense, five-day program is to provide students (operator asset team, D&C operational staff, management & support staff, key service providers and regulators) with an appreciation of the crucial multidiscipline aspect of optimized horizontal and more complex development well applications.  The program provides a practical-based “big picture” of all the disciplines, issues, and team functions inherent in basic screening, assessing value-added and implementation; and then addresses the advanced technical options of horizontal well design, construction, intervention and production including multi-branch, MPD (managed pressure drilling), CBM, UTG, SAGD, advanced stimulation/intervention options, etc.  In addition, the course will:

• Review successful and unsuccessful complex well technology applications
• Expose common failure reasons and provide practical solutions
• Review well design attributes and competing completion options
• Foster multidisciplinary approach to horizontal & complex wells
• Enhance awareness of advanced exploitation operational risks vs. geological risks

The program features hands-on training with computer models utilizing actual field data.  Class exercises walk through the “decision-making” process from candidate screening through multi-well development and work-over operations.  Additionally the school reviews the latest technical developments and novel applications. This multidiscipline program covers:

TARGET AUDIENCE

The program, which is continually updated, will benefit managers, geologists, geophysicists, engineers (drilling, completion, production and reservoir internal staff and key service providers), technicians, and others involved with modern exploitation technology applications.  Students with no horizontal/complex well experience will get a good feel for the potential of this technology and learn what analytical tools are available to them to screen, design, and implement this exploitation process in an optimal manner.  Students with horizontal well experience will broaden their interdisciplinary knowledge and learn some of the latest technical breakthroughs and design options in respect to complex/smart completion technologies, MPD, CT and CBM applications, as well as the latest field experience do’s and don’ts.

INSTRUCTOR

Bob Knoll is one of the world’s leading horizontal/complex well experts.  He has more than 33 years of uniquely diverse upstream experience, holding senior operational, technical, and managerial positions in oil and gas projects worldwide.  As project coordinator of the internationally acclaimed DEA-44 Project (Horizontal Technology JIP), he has acquired unparalleled exposure in applying modern exploitation technologies to real-world problems. Since 1990, he has authored and presented more than 260 technical training and management programs in every major petroleum province in the world, with consistently excellent reviews. When not teaching, Bob keeps directly involved as a contract “Team Leader” in complex well design and construction for operators globally.  His multidisciplinary background of drilling, drilling engineering, geology, field operations, and management, accompanied by an entertaining talent for explaining complex issues, provides for a uniquely positive and immediately applicable learning experience.