09.00 - 17.00 Masterclass: Best Practices in HPHT Drilling & Well Design [inclusive Of Lunch And Tea Breaks]

This masterclass brings you essential knowledge for the effective drilling and design of HPHT wells. Major issues concerning HPHT well construction and HPHT specific circumstances, problems and challenges are explored here. The workshop is tailored to help professionals involved with HPHT developments understand to a greater degree the particulars in HPHT well design and how to optimise these developments.

Topics covered include:

• The HPHT risk picture
• Challenges of HPHT reservoirs
• Managing narrow pore pressure - frac pressure window from a drilling perspective
• Examining cost estimation and planning issues
• Critical aspects of HPHT well integrity
• Cementing practises in HPHT Wells
• Mastering casing seat selection & contingencies
• Sand face HPHT completion
• Validating fluid selection and formation damage

Materclass leader:

Prof. Babs Oyeneyin
Professor of Petroleum / Offshore Engineering, The Robert Gordon University
United Kingdom

Babs Oyeneyin is currently the Professor of Petroleum/Offshore Engineering at The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, UK and a 2009 Royal Society Enterprise Fellow. He possesses over 30 years of integrated professional experience spanning industry, consultancy, technology facilitation, research and development, academic teaching and professional training for the oil industry. As a consultant he has worked for projects in the UK, Norway, Libya, Japan and Nigeria.

Babs Oyeneyin’s expertise and interests are in the areas of HPHT applications, integrated project management, technology development/innovation, R&D, integrated well engineering [advanced drilling technique, well design, completion design, and pipeline transportation], oil/gas production optimisation, subsea/ deepwater development and more. He has published extensively in these areas in international journals and proceedings with over 100 technical papers and reports to his credit.

09.00 - 12.30 Workshop A: Latest Technology Inputs for Managed Pressure Drilling & Under Balanced Operations [inclusive of tea break]

• Examining MPD & UBO terminology and suitability for HPHT wells
• Understanding the principles and basis of design
• Combining technologies for maximum return on investments
• Case study looking at implementing UBO on O&G platforms, and examining operational challenges and solutions
• Case study detailing challenges and solutions for implementing MPD

Workshop leader: Ken Muir Bio
Well Engineering Manager
Senergy International Sdn Bhd

Ken Muir has a B.Sc. (hons) majoring in structural mechanics and over 25 years experience as a drilling engineer, drilling supervisor & drilling superintendent, working in Canada, the North Sea and Asia Pacific. He possesses extensive practical drilling know-how and has worked for Schlumberger, Smedvig, Weatherford, Secure Drilling and Senergy.

13.30 - 17.00 Workshop B: HPHT Well Planning: Pressure Cell Analysis, Pressure Prognosis, and Logging Programmes [inclusive of tea break]

In 10000 PSI wells, a day of drilling can cost 0.5 to 1 million USD. Hence it is of utmost priority to plan and execute the well extremely carefully, so that hazards and downtime are avoided. In the world of overpressure drilling, it has been shown that simple well designs are less prone to failure than more complex ones (deviated, horizontal). This workshop covers:

• How pressure cell analysis can help to come up with a sound pressure prediction
• Acquiring as many log data as possible in MWD mode
• Will your prospect stand CAPEX from HPHT wells?
• Role game: The logging meeting

Workshop leader:

Dr Franz-Luitpold Kessler
Associate Professor
Curtin University of Technology

Dr Franz-Luitpold Kessler is an associate professor in Curtin University of Technology in Sarawak. He has 24 years of experience in the petroleum industry with experience accumulated in Brunei, Sarawak, Brazil, Perth, Stavanger, Cairo, Houston, Africa, Holland and more. He was involved in the HPHT wells in the Maharaja Lela field in Brunei and in Sarawak and has hands on experience tackling tricky technical questions such as permeability, permeability cut-off, and permeability distribution in HPHT wells.