Advanced Casing Design

Introduction

This GLOMACS Oil & Gas Technology training course on Advanced Casing Design covers the relevant subjects required to understand the structural mechanics of down hole tubular. Material aspects, connection selection, performance properties, load cases, design factors, and buckling are just a few of the many topics that are covered.

This training course is designed to concentrate on the fundamentals, takes delegates through the key drivers behind casing design for exploration, appraisal and development wells and their associated risks, challenges and solutions. This introduces manufacture techniques, specifications, loading, design, and problems of casing strings. This helps attendants to understand casing techniques and the know how of the casing strings.

This Oil & Gas Technology training course on Advanced Casing Design also provides explanations and examples of all the aspects of oilfield tubular design. Both uniform and non-uniform loading is covered. Combination loading considerations are envisioned and design procedures are outlined and practiced. Design of tubulars for use in a corrosive environment is new addition.

Participants will be able to design casings for any well: onshore, offshore, high pressure and high temperature wells, horizontal and multilateral wells.

This training course will feature:

• Understand the main functions, characteristics and different type of casing
• Understand the geometric characteristics and properties of casing, and how these can affect performance
• Appreciate the requirements for casing seat selection with regard to subsurface information

Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Conduct casing design calculations for different load cases via different methods
• Understand how buckling affects casing design limitations and show an appreciation for mitigating its effects
• Appreciate the effects of temperature and wear on casing design
• Understand how corrosion can reduce casing life / performance, recognize signs of corrosion

Training Methodology

This GLOMACS Oil & Gas Technology training course on Advanced Casing Design will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The daily workshops will be highly interactive and participative.  It includes the following:

• The basis for the published API tubular strengths
• How to design drive pipe to sustain a compressive load
• How to design conductor, intermediate, drilling liners, and production casing strings for burst, collapse and tension
• How to select connections
• How to take biaxial and triaxial loading into account
• How to design for bending, point loading, ballooning, and buckling
• How to take wear into consideration
• How temperature reduces yields strength
• Recommended sequence for combination considerations
• A complete integrated procedure for designing oilfield tubulars

Organisational Impact

The organisation will gain, in sending their employees to attend this particular training course, the following:

• Reduction in the cost of the casing and the proper selection of the grade and strength
• Extending the well life and control it
• Ensuring the well integrity and avoiding all risks

Personal Impact

• Obtain integrating knowledge in casing design
• Hone their knowledge and get the self-confidence for doing the proper casing design
• Get the latest technology in designing the casing
• Solving and avoiding the problems which impact on the cost reduction, and well integrity