Course Overview

Day-by-Day Outline

Day 1 – Advanced Casing Design Fundamentals

• - Review of casing types, strings, and functions
• - Data requirements: pore and fracture pressures, temperature profiles
• - Casing design workflow for complex wells
• - API casing grades and connections overview
• - Exercise: Identify casing design challenges in offset well examples

Day 2 – Burst, Collapse & Tension Calculations

• - Advanced burst pressure analysis with safety factors
• - Collapse pressure calculations considering mud density and external loads
• - Tension analysis including weight, temperature, and pressure effects
• - Combining loads for worst-case design scenarios
• - Workshop: Perform burst, collapse, and tension calculations for HPHT wells

Day 3 – Casing Setting Depth & Hole Size Planning

• - Selecting casing setting depths in narrow pressure windows
• - Managing wellbore stability and lost circulation zones
• - Planning hole sizes and wellbore trajectories for casing programs
• - Optimization of casing strings for well economics
• - Exercise: Plan a casing program for a deep, deviated well

Day 4 – Special Considerations & Integrity Management

• - Casing wear prediction in high-angle and ERD wells
• - Annular pressure buildup (APB) and mitigation strategies
• - Cementing considerations impacting casing design
• - Casing integrity testing, pressure tests, and quality control
• - Workshop: Design a casing plan considering casing wear and APB

Day 5 – Landmark Stress Check Simulation & Case Studies

• - Introduction to Landmark Stress Check software interface
• - Building casing strings and inputting well profiles
• - Running stress analysis simulations for burst, collapse, and tension
• - Interpreting results and modifying design based on outputs
• - Capstone Project: Validate a complete casing program using Stress Check for a complex well scenario

Expected Learning Outcomes

•  Design advanced casing programs for complex wells with safety margins
•  Perform detailed burst, collapse, and tension calculations
•  Plan casing setting depths accounting for narrow mud windows
•  Identify and mitigate casing wear and annular pressure buildup risks
•  Use Landmark Stress Check to validate casing designs