Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of directional drilling and surveying. It covers the directional drilling fundamentals and terminology; the fundamentals, applications and limitations; the terminology, well objectives and target issues; the well planning positioning and coordinating systems; the proper surveying and advanced well planning; the survey calculation methods; the anti-collision and well planning; and the surveying tools, MWD, LWD, mudlogging and downhole equipment. During this interactive course, participants will learn the drilling tools and deflection methods; the drilling motors overview; the BHA design and rotary steerable systems; the well planning and path design; the directional well path design; the horizontal well planning and calculations; the horizontal drilling planning and drill string design; the torque, drag, shocks and vibrations; the hole cleaning and wellbore stability; and the multilateral wells, geosteering and directional drilling problems and solutions. link to course overview PDF

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued to participants through Haward’s Portal. This includes Wallet Card Certificates if applicable
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy Training Materials (PDF format) will be issued to participant through the Virtual Training Platform
Training Methodology	:	80% of the program will be theory and 20% will be practical sessions, exercises, case studies, simulators or videos
Training Program	:	The training will be for 4 hours per day starting at 09:30 and ending at 13:30
H-STK Smart Training Kit	:	Not Applicable
Hands-on Practical Workshops	:	Not Applicable
Site Visit	:	Not Applicable
Simulators	:	Only software simulators will be used in the virtual courses. Hardware simulators are not applicable and will not be used in Virtual Training