Oil Well Plug and Abandonment (P&A) Engineering, Procedures, Guidelines and Management
Course Overview
What does an oil well plug and abandonment engineer do?
The oil well plugs and abandonment engineer is responsible for plugging of oil well and decommissioning of oil wells using all plugging and abandonment methods. There are number oil fields where we do plug and abandonment of oil well which are deteriorated due to aging of wells. This oil well plugging and abandonment is the critical activity and hence it requires trained personal to perform this activity with care and safety.
This oil well plug and abandonment engineering training course will make you competent to understand the oil well commissioning with its activities such as P & A methodologies industrial guidelines and regulations. This Zoe course will teach current best practices and some uncertainties involved in the process. The well decommissioning has number of risks involved and hence it requires proper planning and effective cost controlling done by engineer.
How to reduce cost and perform work efficiently?
The methods to be adopted to decommissioning of oil wells and make efficient processes. ‘Oil well plug and abandonment engineering’ looks into new and unconventional methods during decommissioning process. This Zoe course covers the study related to oil well plugging and abandonment. This course, will provide opportunities to enhance your skills, capacity and help organisation to perform oil well decommissioning process.
Course Objectives
The main objectives of this Oil Well P&A Engineering training course are:
- Creating an understanding of all aspect of P & A activities
- To provide knowledge and skills of decommissioning of oil well
- To provide idea on various important aspects and concepts oil well decommissioning
- Performing detailed process decommissioning of oil well decommissioning planning
- The ways of decommissioning of oil wells effectively
- To become familiar with industrial guidelines and regulations
- The ability and potential to solve common problems in P & A activities
- The needed information of guidelines, legislations and guiding rules
- Identification and management of risk involved in P & A
- Understanding and use of project management tools for P & A
Training Methodology
This collaborative Oil Well Plug and Abandonment (P&A) Engineering, Procedures, Guidelines and Management Course will comprise the following training methods:
- Lectures
- Seminars & Presentations
- Group Discussions
- Assignments
- Case Studies & Functional Exercises
The mixed, unique approach to instructor-led learning by Zoe is called the Do–Review–Learn–Apply Model.
Organisation Benefits
With professionals who will undergo Oil Well P&A Engineering training course will provide benefit to their organisations as below:
- Understanding of P & A activities
- Regular training of other employees on P & A activities
- Application of new and advanced technology for P & A operations
- Introduction of modern technology for efficient operation and costing of P & A
- Challenges involved in oil well abandonment
- Knowledge of legislations and regulations of oil well decommissioning
- Knowledge of new devices and methods
- Financial analysis and cost benefit analysis for prospective investors
Personal Benefits
Professionals enrolling for this Oil Well P&A Engineering training course will have benefits as below:
- Comprehensive understanding of oil well abandonment
- Increased study of various aspects of operations of P & A activities
- Greater knowledge of new concepts and methods for oil well decommissioning
- Better understanding and information about required legislations and regulations
- Enhanced knowledge and application project management of P and A activities
- Knowledge of costing of oil well decommissioning
Who Should Attend?
The persons involved in following processes as below:
- Senior/middle and junior level employees of an oil well organisation
- Employees involved in the P & A activating
- Managers responsible for drilling operations
- Legal advisors
- Well site supervisors
- Any petroleum engineer or professional across any profile in any industry
- Any other professional interested in being certified environmental manager
Course Outline
The course covers the following areas important for one to become a certified oil well plug and abandonment engineer:
Module 1: Overview of P & A process
- P & A process drivers
- P & A technologies
- P & A activity levels and costing
Module 2: Tubing abandonment and cementing
- Introduction to well abandonment
- Well abandonment methods
- Primary cementing
- Cementing evaluation
- Well completion
Module 3: Planning and gas migration
- Planning for well P & A activities
- Gas leakage and migration
- Gas control
- Well barrier elements
Module 4: Tools and technique
- Common abandonment methods
- Types of well completion
- New technique and technologies
Module 5: Risk assessment
- Risk assessment of P & A
- Risk measures
- Best practices of P & A
Module 6: Cement and casing evaluation
- Casing evaluation techniques
- cement evaluation techniques
- Remedial cement and new techniques
Module 7: Rules, regulations and laws
- Regulations for P & A
- Laws in various countries
- Environmental concerns and laws
Module 8: Project management and tools
- Basics of project management
- Work-break-down structure
- CPM / PERT technique