Advanced Directional Drilling and Fishing Operations

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
24 May 2026 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register
13 Jul 2026 Live-Online $ 2,500 Register
30 Aug 2026 Manama, Bahrain $ 4,500 Register
12 Oct 2026 Luanda, Angola $ 4,500 Register
07 Dec 2026 Accra, Ghana $ 4,500 Register
13 Dec 2026 Abu Dhabi, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Advanced Directional Drilling and Fishing Operations

Introduction

This 5 days course is devided into 2 major subjects: 

  1. Directional Drilling operations.
  2. Fishing operations & its related skills

Objectives

    Attendees will learn:

    • UTM and grid coordinates,
    • How to design directional wells, horizontal and multilateral wells, understand BHA’s, MWD, surveying equipment, survey calculations and error quantification.
    •  Identify major fishing equipment.
    •  Diagnose the fishing operation and choose the appropriate fishing tools for the job.

Training Methodology

The training methodology is interactive with group exercises and is suitable for all employees involved in functions management. The pace and level of the training workshop is customized to the understanding of the delegates. Ongoing back-up and support is available after the training on request to the supplier, and the training course is also available for in-house presentation as well as for “Competency Transfer”.

Who Should Attend?

Drilling, completion engineers, supervisors and service company personnel

Course Outline

  • Reasons for directional wells
  • Declination and Convergence
  • UTM & Grid coordinates
  • Factors Affecting Hole Deviation Including Formation and Drill string Factors.
    • Bottom hole assemblies. Placement of stabilisers.
    • Survey Reference Points
    • Calculations and Well path Plotting
    • Surveying Tools and Accuracy
  • Types of Directional Wells: types 1, 2 and three and calculations.
  • Kick off Points, Build up and Drop off Rates
  • MWD and LWD
  • Drill string design
  • Directional Drilling Techniques: Well path Design Calculations, Course Corrections, Tools
  • Designing horizontal wells: kick off points, tangent and landing sections
  • Long-, Medium-, & Short-Radius Wells; Extended Reach Wells, S-Bend Wells. Multi lateral designs. Joints integrity.
  • Complete Well Planning Exercises
  • Cluster Wells
  • Collision Analysis
  • Survey Errors, Quantification of Error Sources
  • Ellipsoid Descriptive Equations
  • Spider plots & travelling cylinder
  • Drill string Design: Drill Pipe Selection, Drill Collar Selection
  • Buoyancy Factor Method: Procedure for Selecting Drill collars
  • Heavy-Walled Drill pipe (HWDP), Stabilisers, Drilling Jars, Shock Subs
  • Drill string Design Criteria, Dogleg Severity Analysis
  • Casing strength and tool strength specification
  • Milling tools and assembly
  • Hole cleaning and swarf removal
  • Window milling
  • Milling junk
  • Standard fishing tools
  • Fishing operations
  • Fishing economics
  • Free point indicator
  • Explosive charges
  • Torque calculations
    • When to give up 
    • management decision statements 
    • When to quit?
    • Different options of fishing.

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