Blade Energy Partners is pleased to present our Advanced Underbalanced Well Design Course in Dubai December 17th through 21st.  The course will be held at the Fairmont Dubai.  

Blade's UBD Well Design school is the premier UBD course in the industry.  It is a 5 day comprehensive course covering all aspects of UB well design, planning, and site management topics for engineers and project managers responsible for evaluating, designing, and coordinating UB well programs.  The course provides an excellent overview of state of the art knowledge and practices in this rapidly changing technology.  Blade strongly believes that effective knowledge transfer is critical to the sustainability and growth of UBD.  Historically, this course has advanced knowledge transfer significantly.  The Course syllabus is detailed below:

Day 1: Project Scoping and Valuation

• Introduction
• Market trends and recent major projects
• Well design overview
• IADC Well Classification System
• Project Identification
• Candidate selection and assessment process
• Understanding the fundamentals and implications of formation damage
• Wellbore stability and other contra-indicators
• Class exercise  - candidate screening
• Reservoir based techno-economic evaluation
• Class exercise  – Estimating application cost and value

• Well Design
• Multiphase flow fundamentals
• Role of Multiphase flow in UBD design
• Application of flow modeling to UBD design
• The process of design
• Factors of safety in design
• Using Wellflo7 for flow modeling and well design (detailed class exercise)

• Well Design (Continued)
• Design and selection of fluid systems
• Design of well- casing, tubing and drill pipe design for UBD
• Design and selection of downhole tools for UBD
• Selection of conveyance methods (CT, hydraulic workover and Drill Pipe)
• Underbalanced Completions and life-cycle philosophy
• Class Exercise  – motor selection
• Using Wellflo7 for Flow modeling and well design (Continued from day 2)

• Equipment Design and Layout
• UBD surface equipment
• Rig interface
• Equipment layout
• Class exercise  - surface system P&ID
• Safety and environment

• Project implementation and management
• Site management
• UBD operations and problems
• Well control
• Using (UBitTS) for evaluating dynamic well control and response of UBD wells
• Project success factors
• Concluding Remarks