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Drilling Optimization

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Course Overview

Every day on a drilling rig costs serious money, and much of that time is invisible waste: connections that take too long, parameters set by habit rather than data, trips that didn't need to happen. This five-day course teaches the systematic approach to drilling performance — measuring where time actually goes, applying limiter analysis, and using real-time data to drill faster wells without compromising well control or wellbore quality.

What You Will Achieve

  • Break down well time into productive time, flat time and invisible lost time
  • Apply limiter redesign: find and remove the constraint on rate of penetration
  • Optimise drilling parameters using MSE and real-time surface data
  • Reduce flat time through connection, tripping and casing-running discipline
  • Build a continuous-improvement loop from post-well performance reviews

Who Should Attend

Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, rig managers and performance engineers responsible for well delivery time and cost — onshore or offshore.

Course Outline

  1. 01The economics of drilling performance: where the money goes
  2. 02Time classification: ILT, flat time and the technical limit
  3. 03Mechanical specific energy and parameter optimisation
  4. 04Limiter analysis and redesign workshops
  5. 05Flat-time attack: connections, trips and casing running
  6. 06Real-time monitoring and decision support
  7. 07Wellbore quality: drilling fast without drilling trouble
  8. 08After-action reviews and the performance culture

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