Training

PHG Oilfield Services is well placed to provide the following training courses to Operators.  The courses can be arranged at hotel locations or at Operators offices. Quotations are provided on request.

Oilfield Fundementals for non oilfield personnel

The objective of the course is provide awareness of the industry, overview exploration, drilling and production operations. In addition the course will give good exposure to the terminology and give some through on how the industry will evolve in the short to medium term. The course can be run for a duration of 1 hour, 3 days, 1/2 day or a full day.

  • Introduction to oil economics and the oil price
  • Formation of oil
  • The well construction process
  • Types of drilling rig, land, offshore etc.
  • Rig personnel functions
  • Directional drilling, drilling fluids & cementing for non oilfield personnel

Drilling and Completion Fluids and Solids Control 

A standard course will run for 5 days, but can be tailored to specific duration’s as required (syllabus will be amended accordingly).

  • Day 1 – Drilling  fluids industry, functions of drilling fluids. Drilling fluid test equipment demonstration, drilling fluid reports and calculations. Understanding the accuracy of results and expectations.
  • Day 2 – Drilling fluid products, barite and bentonite, polymers, fluid loss, additives, shale stability additives. Rheology, barite sag and hole cleaning.
  • Day 3 – Clay chemistry and shale stability. Drilling fluid systems, spud mud, drilling with seawater, ligno-sulfonate mids, KCI polymer muds, glucol muds, weighted muds and other exotic muds. Introduction to NAF fluids, mud system selection for surface 17 1/2″, 12 1/4″, 8 1/2″, and 6″ holes.
  • Day 4 – NAF fluids, shale shakers and solids control, dilution or solids removal.
  • Day 5 – Waste management overview, completion fluids and filtration. Corrosion and other drilling fluids contaminants such as H2S Co2 etc.

Solids Control & Waste Management

This course can run for 1, 2 or 3 days depending on the complexity and scope required.

  • Day 1 – General fundementals, economics, measurements and calculations used in solids control
  • Day 2 – Settling pits, screening devices without vibration, screening devices with vibration, shale shaker screens, centrifuges, de-sanders, de-silters ,mud cleaners and  solids control equipment selection.
  • Day 3 – Waste management, environmental legislation, thermal processes, cuttings injection, bioremediation and new technology