Advanced Well Stimulation Strategies

This course is designed for those involved in all aspects of well completion design and has the emphasis on well stimulation. Each topic is introduced by a concise lecture followed by one or two exercises. The course concludes with a comprehensive exercise in which the students, with the aid of state of the art acidizing and hydraulic fracturing simulators, will:

• Select candidates from group of wells
• Make a proposal for the selection of a treatment for each candidate
• Design of the selected treatment
• Make a comparison with alternative treatment(s)

Participants with a field or a cluster of wells for which they want to select candidates and to design treatments, are encouraged to bring them to the course.

Senior technologists and middle management, those involved in development planning, economics and production operations, production chemists, well stimulation specialists and well completions design engineers, in conventional as well as unconventional plays including shale gas, coal bed methane, etc. This includes completion, production, reservoir and drilling engineers; economists, asset managers and geologists.

• Identify The Best And Most Economical, Method To Enhance And Optimize The Inflow Performance In The Various Completion Configurations And Formation Types
• Select Candidates For Acidizing Treatments
• Select Candidates For Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments, Both Propped And Acid Fracturing
• Understand The Design And Execution Of And Evaluate Acidizing Treatments
• Understand The Design And Execution Of And Evaluate Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments
• Understand And Work With State Of The Art Acidizing And Hydraulic Fracturing Simulators
• Understand The Nature And Environmental Impact Of Fluids Used In Production Enhancement Treatments To Develop A Disposal Strategy