An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Completion Design: Tubing Stress & Movement Analysis
Tubing Movement and Load Cases
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Duration
5 Days
Price
$ 3,500
Starting From
27 Dec 2027
Completion Design: Tubing Stress & Movement Analysis
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Completion Design: Tubing Stress & Movement Analysis - DC-CTS-PEA27
| Code | Date | Time | Duration | Location | Currency | Early Bird Fee Per Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC-CTS-PEA27 | 27 - 31 Dec 2027 | 10 AM CST | 4 Hours / Day |
Online |
USD |
3500 |
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Completion Design: Tubing Stress & Movement Analysis
This course covers tubing stress and movement analysis for completion design. Participants study load case definition, temperature and pressure profiles, piston, ballooning, buckling and thermal effects, tubing movement and seal stroke, packer force calculation, triaxial analysis, connection limits, annular pressure build-up and design verification.
Description
Tubing stress analysis determines whether a completion survives everything the well does to it: pressure testing, production, injection, stimulation, shut-in and workover. It also determines how much the tubing moves, what force it applies to the packer and what seal arrangement will accommodate that movement.
This course covers the analysis for completion engineers. It starts with load case definition for the life of the well and the pressure and temperature profiles behind each case, then builds the four length and force effects: piston, ballooning, buckling and thermal, with worked calculations. It covers tubing movement, seal stroke requirements and packer force calculation for free, latched and permanent seal arrangements. It then covers triaxial stress analysis against the design envelope, connection performance under combined loading, annular pressure build-up and its mitigation, and the verification, documentation and review of a completion stress analysis.
Temperature usually dominates. Cold stimulation fluid contracts the tubing sharply, hot production expands it, and the resulting movement can be metres in a deep well. The seal arrangement must accommodate that movement, or the tubing will pull out of the seals, unseat the packer or part a connection.
The load cases are the analysis. A string that passes every case the engineer listed will still fail in the one nobody thought of, which is why the load case matrix is built deliberately from the operations the well will actually see, including the unusual ones: a bullhead kill, a cold stimulation on a hot well, a tubing leak pressuring the annulus.
Software makes the calculation easy and the checking hard. An engineer who has worked the effects by hand can tell whether a software result is plausible, which input is driving it and what would change it. That is the difference between running an analysis and understanding a design.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Define a complete load case matrix for a completion.
- Build pressure and temperature profiles for each load case.
- Calculate piston effect forces and length changes.
- Calculate ballooning and reverse ballooning effects.
- Calculate buckling, neutral point and resulting length change.
- Calculate thermal expansion and contraction effects.
- Determine tubing movement and seal stroke requirements.
- Calculate packer forces for different seal arrangements.
- Perform triaxial analysis and check connection limits.
- Assess annular pressure build-up and verify and document the analysis.
The course is instructor-led and calculation-based. Participants build load case matrices and work the length and force effects by hand before comparing with software results, so that outputs can be checked rather than accepted. Failure cases are analysed to find the load case that was missed. Participants are encouraged to bring their own completion designs for discussion.
Organisations sending participants to this training will:
- Design completions with verified margin across all credible load cases.
- Avoid seal and packer failures caused by unanalysed movement.
- Check and challenge stress analyses produced by software or contractors.
- Manage annular pressure build-up at the design stage.
- Document design verification to audit standard.
Participants will:
- Be able to build and justify a load case matrix.
- Be able to calculate tubing movement and packer forces by hand.
- Be able to interpret triaxial analysis results.
- Understand connection limits under combined loading.
- Be able to verify and review completion stress analyses.
- Completion engineers
- Drilling and well engineers
- Well integrity engineers
- Production engineers involved in completion design
- Technical authorities reviewing completion designs
- Engineers using tubular design software
Module 1: Load Case Definition
- Operations the completion will see
- Installation, testing and production cases
- Injection, stimulation and shut-in cases
- Workover and abandonment cases
- Documenting and justifying the matrix
Module 2: Pressure and Temperature Profiles
- Flowing and shut-in temperature profiles
- Injection and stimulation cooling
- Internal and external pressure assumptions
- Transient versus steady state
- Profile data sources
Module 3: Piston Effect
- Force balance at area changes
- Seal bore and packer bore effects
- Length change calculation
- Worked examples
Module 4: Ballooning
- Internal and external pressure effects
- Radial and axial strain
- Length and force calculation
- Reverse ballooning during injection
Module 5: Buckling
- Neutral point determination
- Sinusoidal and helical buckling
- Length change from buckling
- Buckling in deviated wells
- Mitigation measures
Module 6: Thermal Effects
- Average temperature change
- Expansion and contraction calculation
- Combining thermal with other effects
- Dominance in stimulation and injection cases
Module 7: Movement, Seals and Packer Forces
- Total movement calculation
- Seal stroke requirements
- Free, latched and permanent arrangements
- Packer force calculation
- Selecting the arrangement
Module 8: Stress Analysis and Connections
- Axial, radial and hoop stresses
- Von Mises and triaxial checks
- Design envelope interpretation
- Connection performance envelopes
- Design factors and margins
Module 9: Annular Pressure and Verification
- Annular pressure build-up calculation
- Mitigation options
- Checking software results by hand
- Sensitivity to assumptions
- Documentation and design review
Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official Certificate of Completion issued by the Petroleum Engineers Association (PEA), an ISO 9001:2015 certified training organization. The certificate carries 10 Credits and formally records the total learning hours completed.
Each certificate is signed by the Course Facilitator and the CEO of the Petroleum Engineers Association, and serves as verifiable proof of professional training that delegates can present to employers and professional bodies worldwide.
Frequently Asked Questions
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