Drilling and Reservoir EngineeringWell Completion Design and Equipment
A completion is installed once and expected to produce for decades, so a wrong tubing size, a packer that cannot be retrieved or a safety valve set at the wrong depth is paid for over the whole field life. Delegates start with the production requirements that set tubing size, then choose between open hole, cased and perforated, gravel packed and multizone architectures. Equipment is covered component by component: tubing hangers and trees, subsurface safety valves, packers, sliding sleeves, nipples, expansion joints and intelligent completion valves. Tubing movement and packer load analysis, material selection for CO2 and H2S, and completion and packer fluids are applied to a design exercise. Running procedures and the handover to production close the programme. Delegates leave able to design a completion and specify its hardware.
Course objectives
- Translate reservoir and production requirements into a completion basis of design
- Select tubing size from inflow and outflow considerations
- Compare open hole, cased hole, gravel pack and multizone architectures
- Specify packers, safety valves, sleeves and landing nipples
- Calculate tubing movement and packer loads under changing conditions
- Select completion materials for corrosive service
- Choose completion and packer fluids
- Plan completion running and handover procedures
Who should attend
- Completion engineers
- Drilling engineers who design completions
- Production engineers specifying well hardware
- Completion equipment application engineers
- Well integrity and petroleum engineers
Course outline
- 01Completion objectives and basis of design
- 02Tubing sizing and flow requirements
- 03Completion architectures
- 04Trees, hangers and safety valves
- 05Packers, sleeves and flow control devices
- 06Intelligent and multizone completions
- 07Tubing movement and stress analysis
- 08Materials and completion fluids
- 09Installation and handover
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 to 16 October 2026 | Maputo, Mozambique | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | |
| 26 to 30 October 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | |
| 25 to 29 January 2027 | Pretoria, South Africa | Classroom | R19,950 per delegate | |
| 1 to 5 February 2027 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | |
| 22 to 26 February 2027 | Cape Town, South Africa | Classroom | R19,950 per delegate | |
| 1 to 5 March 2027 | Online | Online | R8,500 per delegate |
Well Completion Design and Equipment
From R8,500