ADVANCED CASING and TUBING DESIGN
Upcoming training courses (provisional dates):
~ 14 - 18 June, Perth, Australia
~ 25 - 29 October, Houston Texas
~ 15 - 19 November, Edinburgh, UK
~ 13 - 17 December, Kuala Lumpur
Information: training@blade-energy.com

The Advanced Casing and Tubing Design course is the first to address advanced concepts and issues common to HPHT, deepwater, extended-reach, and other critical wells. Participants learn how to use state-of-theart tools to develop non-traditional, reliability-based casing designs. The course reviews significant changes to API TR 5C3 and ISO TR 10400 well design specifications, which now use new
limit-state, probabilistic methods to determine pipe performance properties, instead of the deterministic methods that have previously been used. Blade’s new reliability-based design tools are fully aligned with these new API and ISO methods.
Course topics include:

• Advanced strength theories, including API TR 5C3 / ISO TR 10400 limit states
• API TR 5C3 / ISO TR 10400 probabilistic performance properties and strength considerations in design
• Reliability-based design and Quantitative Risk Analysis applied to design
• Design and selection of connections with emphasis on the ISO13679 approach to connection limits
• Materials selection and fracture mechanics criteria for sour design (including ISO TR 10400 sour limits)
• Special problems in casing design, including buckling, thermal effects, annular pressure build-up, wellhead movement, casing wear, thermal cyclic service, subsidence, and more
• Use of standard casing design programs to address advanced casing design problems
• Development of designs based on a quantifiable probability of failure instead of traditional safety factors, which typically provide little insight into a design's reliability

Please contact training@blade-energy.com for course times and costs.