PERFORATING FUNDAMENTALS
Discipline: Completion, Production
Level: Basic/Intermediate
Duration: 3 days
Instructor: Jairo Balcacer
Purpose
This course will present the concepts related to categories of perforating guns and methods, shaped charges. A revision of API testing procedures, methods of predicting and maximizing perforation effectiveness, equipment and operating procedures for wireline and tubing-conveyed techniques, and general operating procedures to carry out well operations having the HSE component as the major driver, job planning and quality control.
Designed
This course is addressed to well intervention, completion and production engineers as well as rig supervisors who deal with interventions on a daily basis.
You will learn
- API testing procedures
- Perforating safety
- Perforating techniques for different types of completions
- Depth control of perforating
- Procedures during the perforating operations leading to production optimization (Skin factor consideration)
Content
Introduction to Perforating
- Basic perforating methods
- Fundamentals of shaped charge operations
- Explosives used in perforating
Perforating Gun Types
- Retrievable vs expandable guns
- Casing guns
- Through-tubing guns
- Casing deformation considerations
Perforating and Production Performance
- API testing procedures
- Perforating productivity considerations (Skin factor overview)
- Relative importance of perforating parameters
- Perforation clean up considerations
- Perforating for gravel packing
- Perforating for fracturing
Electric Wireline Perforating
- Equipment
- Pressure control system
- Perforating procedures and depth control
- Position or oriented perforating
- Job planning
Tubing-Conveyed Perforating
- Applications
- Perforating equipment
- Perforating procedures
- Measurement while perforating
Software applications:
- MS Excel spreadsheets
Text and Consulting books:
- “API recommended Practices for Standard Procedure for the Evaluation of Well Perforations”, API RP 43, 1991, 5th edition, American Petroleum Institute (API)
- “Petroleum Engineering Handbook”, Larry W. Lake, Volume IV, Production Operations Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers
Discipline: Completion, Production
Level: Basic/Intermediate
Duration: 3 days
Instructor: Jairo Balcacer
