Oil & Gas Drilling Technology – Onshore Rigs – Part 2 - a PDH Online Course for Engineers, Surveyors and Architects

Oil & Gas Drilling Technology – Onshore Rigs – Part 2

Course Outline

This eight-hour online course, didactically written, is a strong information of the main equipment and processes utilized in Oil & Gas Drilling Rigs, but even as a level course, therefore, covers the fundamental theory, tailored for beginners, students, engineers, technicians, contractors or anyone who would like to become an oil & gas production leader or manage drilling processes and projects more efficiently.

This course includes a multiple choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of the course materials.

Learning Objective

At the conclusion of this course, the student will:

Understand the equipment and processes used in oil & gas drilling rig operations;
Understand the concepts and parameters used in petroleum geology;
Understand the common terms usually used in drilling engineering;
Know the meaning and application of well completion, stimulation and workover;
Be able to learn and recognize the importance of petroleum and gas, due its huge use in engineering and industrial production;
Know the basic comprehension of the terms generally used by qualified personnel in every stage of drilling operations and automation devices;
Be able to learn the concepts used in reservoir operations and to increase the recognition of Oil Drillers and Riggers, as a career field;
Recognize artificial lift tools characteristics, and all types of plunger lifts and hydraulic power pack systems centrally located in any drilling rigs;
Know the minimum concepts of hydraulic areas, tables, charts, diagrams and control valves, diaphragms, and several types of actuators;
Be able to learn and recognize the importance of many hydraulic conventional and non-conventional machine tools, due its huge use in engineering and drilling rigs;
Know also the basic comprehension of the terms generally used by qualified personnel in hydraulic fracturing operations;
Be aware of oil powered equipment, which powers cylinders and other hydraulic devices using solenoid valves, control valves, and several types of cylinders;
Be aware of the difference between oil and gas exploration and onshore/offshore drilling rigs.
Recognize the equipment characteristics, hydraulic calculations and all types of references such as pressure, density, viscosity, etc.;
Know the minimum concepts of surface water management for conventional or unconventional well resources, completion and stimulation;
Understand the meaning of derricks, rig floor, drilling rigs components, drill pipes, casings, cementing, prime movers, BOPs, Christmas Trees, oil recovery, etc.
Know and understand the meaning of acidizing, oil shale, injection well, proppants, etc.;
Know and understand the meaning of well completion, artificial lifts, abandoning, etc.; and
Understand how to apply onshore systems, logging, wellbore records and software simulations.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for everyone, women or men, begginers, students, technicians, engineers, contractors and professionals interested or working with drilling rigs, fuel logistics, automation, fluid power, hydraulic or pneumatic tools, hydraulic pumps and hydraulic motors or managing an oil & gas project or a manufacturing workshop more effectively.

Benefit to Attendees

Attendee of this course will be able to understand, specify automation and fluid power operations in short or large fabrication processes since he (she) is a qualified professional or looking for qualification.

Course Introduction

The student will understand the terms of drilling rig components, reservoir fracturing, well stimulation, well completion, well abandoning, artificial lifts and oil & gas production, and the basic principles used in reservoir exploration, seismology, drilling rigs and oil & gas exploration, production and processes.

Course Content

Oil and Gas courses are very expensive. Since this course was deeply elaborated, requires users to pay first before viewing the entire course content, but a preview with 11 initial pages can be seen, in order the student can adjudicate and feel the advantages of taking this course.

Oil & Gas Drilling Technology – Onshore Rigs – Part 2 Preview

NOTE: The course content in its entirety will be available after you purchase the quiz. Once inside the quiz, please click the link to the course content below the title.

Course Summary

This course of Oil & Gas Drilling Technology, didactically defines the components of onshore drilling rigs, or onshore oil platforms, oil & gas exploration and production, geology, reservoir fluids, rock properties, conventional/unconventional oil, reservoir fracturing, well completion, production and abandoning. Oil & Gas Drilling Technology can also be used to give the main guidelines to choose the correct application of artificial lifts, coiled tubing, control wellbore systems, directional drilling, kill operations, and well completions, according to operations and oilfield activities.

Related Links

For additional technical information related to this subject, please visit the following websites:

http://www.petroleum.co.uk/
http://petrowiki.com/PetroWiki
http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Petroleum_industry
http://www.ritchiewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Offshore_Drilling
https://www.rigzone.com/training/
http://www.gulfpub.com/

Links and References:

http://www.npc.com/
http://www.spe.com/
http://naturalgas.com/
http://www.petroleum.co.uk/
http://www.nfpa.com/
https://www.osha.gov/

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmSNRTU1Vw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfazJ6P_g7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrLrmzCdcc
http://drilllab.com/drill-lab/animations/

Edited Video Supplement:

Onshore – Oil & Gas Drilling Technology

Quiz

Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.

DISCLAIMER: The materials contained in the online course are not intended as a representation or warranty on the part of PDH Center or any other person/organization named herein. The materials are for general information only. They are not a substitute for competent professional advice. Application of this information to a specific project should be reviewed by a registered architect and/or professional engineer/surveyor. Anyone making use of the information set forth herein does so at their own risk and assumes any and all resulting liability arising therefrom.