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Advanced Completion Design and Operation

Program Overview

Completion design locks in a well's productivity, longevity and intervention options for its whole life. This advanced course follows the design process from reservoir and production requirements to installation: inflow and outflow considerations, lower completion options including cased and perforated, open hole and sand control, intelligent completions with inflow control devices and interval control valves, tubing stress analysis, packer and safety valve selection, metallurgy for sour and CO2 service, and installation and testing operations. Gulf examples include long horizontal wells in carbonate reservoirs and sour gas completions.

Learning Outcomes

✓Translate reservoir, production and intervention requirements into a completion design basis.
✓Compare lower completion options and select sand control or inflow control solutions for given reservoir conditions.
✓Perform tubing stress analysis for production, injection, stimulation and shut-in load cases.
✓Select packers, safety valves and accessories using ISO 14310 ratings and operating envelopes.
✓Choose tubing metallurgy for sour and CO2 environments based on NACE MR0175/ISO 15156.
✓Develop an installation and testing procedure with contingencies for the completion string.

Target Audience

Completion and well engineers
Production and petroleum engineers
Well integrity engineers
Completion supervisors and service company engineers

Detailed Program Modules

01Completion Design Basis

Reservoir, production and intervention requirements
Inflow performance and tubing size selection
Life-of-well considerations

02Lower Completions

Cased and perforated versus open hole completions
Sand control: screens, gravel packs and frac packs
Inflow control devices for horizontal wells

03Intelligent and Multizone Completions

Interval control valves and downhole gauges
Zonal isolation with swellable and mechanical packers
Monitoring and control strategies

04Upper Completion Equipment

Production packers and ISO 14310 ratings
Subsurface safety valves and nipple profiles
Tubing connections and accessories

05Tubing Stress Analysis and Metallurgy

Load cases: production, injection, stimulation and shut-in
Temperature and pressure effects on tubing movement
Material selection for sour and CO2 service

06Installation, Testing and Handover

Running procedures and space-out
Pressure testing and packer setting verification
Completion reports and well handover

Training Methodology

Interactive expert-led sessions grounded in workplace examples

Case studies and practical exercises drawn from the region

Group workshops with peer review of decisions and deliverables

Formative feedback against clear performance criteria

Applied Project & Assessment

Applied Project

Participants design a completion for a horizontal producer in a Gulf carbonate reservoir, delivering a design basis, lower and upper completion selection, a tubing stress check for key load cases, an equipment list and an installation procedure.

Assessment

Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.

University Certificate & International Accreditation

Professional Certificate accredited by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Advanced Completion Design and Operation

International accreditation: European Health and Safety Agency (EHSA)