A well is a long-term asset built in a few weeks. The casing design fixes what sizes of equipment can ever be run; the cement job fixes whether zones can be isolated; the completion fixes how the well produces and how it can be intervened. Decisions made quickly during construction constrain operations for twenty years or more.

Each stage also hands over to the next. Drilling hands a cased hole to completions; completions hands a producing well to operations; operations hands a tired well to intervention and eventually to abandonment. Handover quality matters: a poorly cemented casing, a damaged reservoir section or an undocumented completion creates problems that show up years later when the people responsible have moved on.

This course is for people who need the whole picture rather than the specialist depth of any one stage: new engineers, people moving between disciplines, support and commercial staff, and technicians who see one part of the cycle and want to understand the rest.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Describe the well life cycle from planning to abandonment.
• Explain the well planning and design process and its key decisions.
• Describe drilling operations, rig systems and the drilling process.
• Explain casing, cementing and zonal isolation.
• Describe formation evaluation methods used during and after drilling.
• Describe completion types, equipment and installation.
• Explain well start-up and early production operations.
• Describe workover and intervention methods and typical jobs.
• Explain well integrity requirements across the life cycle.
• Describe plugging and abandonment, and the cost, risk and HSE framework at each stage.

The course is instructor-led and introductory, with no prior experience assumed. The well is followed from planning to abandonment, with equipment explained through drawings and photographs and operations described as they happen at the wellsite. Field cases show how decisions at one stage affect later ones. Participants are encouraged to bring questions from their own work for discussion.

Organisations sending participants to this training will:

• Give staff across the organisation a common understanding of the well life cycle.
• Improve handover quality between drilling, completions and operations.
• Shorten the time new staff take to become effective.
• Improve communication between disciplines and with contractors.
• Provide a foundation for specialist drilling, completion or intervention training.

Participants will:

• Understand how a well is built, completed, operated and abandoned.
• Understand the main equipment and operations at each stage.
• Understand how decisions at one stage affect the others.
• Understand the cost and risk profile of well operations.
• Be prepared for specialist training in any part of the cycle.

• Graduate engineers entering the industry
• Engineers moving between drilling, completions and production
• Technicians and field staff
• Service company personnel
• HSE, logistics and support staff
• Commercial, planning and finance staff working with well programmes

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.