This course provides drill crews and supervisors a practical understanding of how stuck pipe prevention can be managed from the well design and construction process through to the drilling operations phase. Candidates will have analysis and discussion of real cases of stuck pipe events, the root causes and the required solutions implemented.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to Stuck Pipe
- Stuck pipe prevention
- Wellbore stability and hole clearing
- Mechanical and geometric mechanisms.
- Sticking and freeing forces – calculations
- Principles of Wellbore Stability
- Hole Cleaning, Low & High Angle
- Overpressured Formations
- Wellbore Geometry
- Fishing & Tripping Practices
- Introduction to jars and accelerators
- Well Engineering and Offset Well Analysis
- String Separation Options: Cutting and Back-Off
Who should attend?
- Drilling Supervisors
- Drilling Engineers
- Directional Drillers
- Drillers
- All Engineers / Supervisors working in the area of drilling operations