This 3-day introductory course is intended for personnel working indirectly with completion issues who require a fundamental overview of well completions, and is equally ideal for engineers-in-training (EIT's) or technical professionals from different specialist disciplines who wish to gain additional insights into well completions. The course provides an overview of the factors which influence the completion design process, and a fundamental explanation of well and service equipment and operations. Technical explanations of common practices are given, along with troubleshooting hints, strategies for getting the most out of equipment, and a methodology for detailed field operations programming.

A complete set of course materials and lunches are included.

• Well Bore and Completion Equipment
• Fluid Pressures and Hydrostatics
• Factors Influencing Completion Design
• Tubing Hangers and Trees
• Tubing and Threads
• Completion Fluids
• Perforating
• Well Testing
• Formation Damage
• Stimulation
• Well Intervention Services
• Program Preparation and Supervision

Joe Watmough, a graduate of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Reservoir) is an independent engineering consultant with over 30 years experience in completion design, workover Intervention, and drilling operations. He has worked extensively in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin, as well as in Eastern Canada, North Africa, and the Middle East, and is currently responsible for the training, development and mentoring of engineering staff for a multinational petroleum producing company. Joe's design and intervention experience includes HPHT critical sour and sweet wells to 4800 m, horizontal heavy oil well drilling and completions, horizontal gas well completions, water Injection, stimulation design (primarily acidizing and fracturing), coiled tubing operations, and artificial lift design (PC pumps, ESP & Gas Lift). He currently resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.