An Overview of Multistage Completion Systems for Hydraulic Fracturing
Course Abstract
Shales and other low-permeability formations require multistage completions, hydraulic fracturing, and horizontal wells to produce at economic rates. This course focuses on the multistage completion systems that are used in these applications, including plug-and-perf, ball-activated systems (frac sleeves), and coiled tubing-activated systems (annular fracturing). Participants will learn the different types of wellbore completion options and how they compare in different applications. Also, the challenges and options of refracturing existing wells will be discussed.
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Course Info
This is a half-day to a 2-day class that can be customized for the needs of your team
What this course is not
We want to be sure that this course provides value and benefit to you, so we’ll start by saying what this course is not. This course is not an advanced-level course that you will take and be ready to go and design a frac job or downhole completion.
What this course is
This course starts at the novice level and eases into an intermediate level. It is designed for anyone that is a novice in the completion world and needs to understand the fundamentals to effectively communicate with colleagues or clients that are experienced with multistage completions for hydraulic fracturing. This is a highly technical and complex subject, but this course is not. There are no equations presented in this course and this is not a text-heavy presentation that someone is reading to you.
Who should take this course?
Anyone that needs to “speak the language” of multistage completions for hydraulic fracturing. This course is designed for those that are not familiar with this subject and simplifies this highly-technical subject into layman’s terms. This course is designed for:
Shales and other low-permeability formations require multistage completions, hydraulic fracturing, and horizontal wells to produce at economic rates. This course focuses on the multistage completion systems that are used in these applications, including plug-and-perf, ball-activated systems (frac sleeves), and coiled tubing-activated systems (annular fracturing). Participants will learn the different types of wellbore completion options and how they compare in different applications. Also, the challenges and options of refracturing existing wells will be discussed.
Topics include:
- An overview of applications that require multistage hydraulic fracturing
- The basics of hydraulic fracturing and refracturing theory and design
- Evolution of multistage completions
- Wellbore completion options for multistage hydraulic fracturing
- Plug-and-perf completions
- Ball-activated completion systems (frac sleeves)
- Coiled-tubing-activated completion systems (annular fracturing)
- New multistage completion technologies
- Benefits and considerations for each completion system
- Multi-entry (cluster perforating) vs. single-entry (pinpoint) fracturing
- Application specific comparisons for wellbore completion design
- Refracturing options for existing wells
Course Info
This is a half-day to a 2-day class that can be customized for the needs of your team
What this course is not
We want to be sure that this course provides value and benefit to you, so we’ll start by saying what this course is not. This course is not an advanced-level course that you will take and be ready to go and design a frac job or downhole completion.
What this course is
This course starts at the novice level and eases into an intermediate level. It is designed for anyone that is a novice in the completion world and needs to understand the fundamentals to effectively communicate with colleagues or clients that are experienced with multistage completions for hydraulic fracturing. This is a highly technical and complex subject, but this course is not. There are no equations presented in this course and this is not a text-heavy presentation that someone is reading to you.
Who should take this course?
Anyone that needs to “speak the language” of multistage completions for hydraulic fracturing. This course is designed for those that are not familiar with this subject and simplifies this highly-technical subject into layman’s terms. This course is designed for:
- Beginner completion engineers
- Industry professionals that work indirectly with unconventional completions, such as a reservoir engineer or production engineer
- Integrated teams that are involved multistage completions
- Sales teams that need to understand the nuances of multistage completions
- Industry professionals that are new to low-permeability unconventional resources (commonly referred to as shale plays) that require multistage hydraulic fracturing
- University students that are going into the oil and gas industry
- Financial professionals that are involved with completions
- Professionals from the service industries supporting multistage completions, such as composite manufacturers or casing and tubular companies
- The curious learner from other segments of the industry
- Anyone else that would benefit from knowing the fundamentals of multistage completions for hydraulic fracturing