Training

The most important focus area for your high angle well. Educating personnel on what’s possible, different and essential in High Angle, Complex or ERD wells will allow you to drill further, faster with less risk, time and cost.

Benefits of Training - Engineering

Getting it right from the start provides the foundations of a successful well thus increased production opportunities sooner. Whether you apply clever ERD engineering to access distant reserves, with wells previously deemed impossible, avoid costly rig upgrades, or merely solve hole cleaning and/or wellbore instability issues before they become problems, up-skilling your workforce is invaluable in delivering a successful well. Operations personnel require dependable robust, efficient well designs and fit for purpose tools for success.

Benefits of Training - Operations

Painful experience has shown that even the most robust drilling programme can fail through incorrect implementation techniques. Due to the increased challenges and numerous procedural revisions associated with high angle wells, educating personnel on how to identify issues, before they become problems is crucial for Trouble Free Operations.

Merlin ERD has found that training key operations personnel in the latest practices is fundamental in delivering an excellence in operations consistent to that programmed. With many years experience, we recommend teaching this course over 3 days, although, we have taught a condensed version over 2 days.

Programme specific risks can be included, as well as other important topics such as DP management. Course location should be away from the rig to provide a neutral environment, free of distractions where challenges and practices can be discussed in detail with experienced personnel who may not have experience of advanced deviated practices.

Access the Top of the Learning Curve

By sharing industry experiences from record wells around the world, attendees have the opportunity to acquire knowledge without the pain or expense of repeating problems previously endured by others.

Not Just for Extended Reach Well

Increasingly we are finding that significantly fewer problems are endured during conventional high angle wells if planning and operations are approached with an ERD perspective. The resultant reduction in NPT and up-skilling of personnel leads to gains, not only in lower drilling costs, but also with increased rig utilization (more wells) in conjunction with accelerated production at higher annual rates.

Courses

We regularly tailor our courses to client requirements, selecting case studies relevant to project specific challenges as well as including pre-spud, team building or specific technical refreshers.

Whenever possible, we use the same trainer as an initial onsite ERD advisor, providing hole condition monitoring and engineering modeling services, building on the rapport developed during the course and further coaching the team. It’s probably true that your people are your most important asset. It’s definitely easy to say.