Instituto

Superior Tcnico Universidade de Lisboa

Masters in Petroleum Engineering 2014-2015

Second Semester

Drilling Engineering Course

Proposed Programme

3 4 Days

1) Introduction
2) Positioning
3) Well Profile Design
4) Drilling Equipment
5) Drilling Operations
6) Monitoring and Well Control

1) Introduction

Upstream Workflow
Drilling Scope
Units
Drilling Staff Rig
Workforce

Pore and Frac

Casing Shoe Placement
Buckling
Drag and Torque
Hole Cleaning
Stuck Pipe
Cementing

5) Drilling Operations

Ellipsoid, Datum and

Projection
True North, Grid North,
Declination and
Convergence
Local Coordinates (Scale
Factors)
Well head Placement
Survey Position Uncertainty

3) Well Profile Design

Drilling Rigs
Bottom Hole Assembly, Drill
String and Casing String
Mud
Cement

2) Positioning

4) Drilling Equipment

Methods, Constraints and

Objectives
Anti-Collision
(Safety\Separation Factors)

6) Monitoring and Well

Control

Kick causes and Control

Methods
Measurements and Real-
time Monitoring

The Lecturer

Jos Pedro Baptista holds a Mining and Geological Engineering Bachelors and
Masters degree from Instituto Superior Tcnico, where he specialised in
unconventional petroleum plays, and a Petroleum Engineering Masters Degree
from Imperial College London, where he specialised in fractured reservoirs.
Jos worked for Techdrill International as a researcher, with special focus on
temperature modeling for drilling and production tubulars, and as a Drilling
Engineer. Currently, he is focusing on unconventional plays in Portugal.

Course Scope and Objective

The drilling Engineering course aims to cover all the drilling engineering
workflow, from planning to well delivery. This course is meant for students at a
master degree level in earth science and engineering. No prior knowledge of
drilling engineering is necessary to attend this course.

At the end of the lectures, the students are expected to fully understand all the
workflow in conventional drilling operations, be familiarised with the concepts
and drilling jargon as well as to be able to understand the physics behind the
well delivery process.

Recommended Bibliography
Bellarby, J.; Well Completion Design, Elsevier Science & Technology Books (2009)
Drill Stem Design and Operation, third edition, T.H. Hill Assocs. Inc.,DS-1 (2004)
Lyons, W. C., Plisga, G.; Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Engineering, Gulf Professional Publishing (2004)
Samuel, R., Liu, X.; Advanced Drilling Engineering: Principles and Designs, Gulf
Publishing Company (2009)