About the Course
Course Description:
This course provides a comprehensive overview of advanced intelligent completions for oil and gas wells. The benefits and multiple applications of the intelligent wells will be discussed. Design methodologies of completing intelligent wells will also be emphasized with multiple hands-on field examples.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for professional petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, production engineers, operation engineers, drilling engineers, and asset managers.
What You Will Learn:
Learn about Intelligent Well Completion Systems components: from downhole sensors and actuators (ICV, ICD, and mechanically driven sleeves)
Provide design methodologies of completing intelligent wells
Hands-on exercises on intelligent well Modeling and Value Quantification to build nodal analysis models to determine the desired behavior of remote actuators
Hands-on training of Intelligent field Modeling and Value Quantification
Optimal operating strategy for wells with downhole inflow control technologies
Provide a general overview of the Digital Oilfield and Real-time production optimization by sharing the best practices and lessons learned after 10 years of digital oilfield (DOF) implementations
Course Outline:
Overview of intelligent or smart well technologies. Economics of intelligent wells
Intelligent well components and their potential applications
Selection between passive & active downhole flow control technologies
Intelligent well completion performance modeling and optimization using nodal analysis
Comprehensive workflow for the design of intelligent well completions
Intelligent field modeling and value quantification using modeling tools
Comprehensive workflow for the design of advanced well completions and field development well configuration
Automated optimization strategies for integrated intelligent well placement and design in oil fields
Workflow for uncertainty reduction in intelligent field development planning
Flow estimation & allocation using downhole pressure and distributed temperature data
Using distributed downhole measurements to optimize production in intelligent wells
Closed-loop monitoring and optimization of intelligent well operations performance
Class exercises and field case studies