IADC approved courses on drilling fluids, described as “Mud School”, 30 hrs, leading to the award of IADC approved certificate upon securing 80% in the post training test conducted by mentor.

Course Duration- 30 hrs.

Objective: 

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

·        Acquire a thorough knowledge of drilling fluids and rheology,

·        Learn how to choose the right equipment for solid removal,

·        Learn how to design a Mud System.

The contents of the mud school course are as below

• Basic introduction with brief description about history and stagewise development to meet challenges of drilling

• Definition, functions of mud and how it helps in drilling

• Properties of mud, their relevance and role in various segments of drilling

• Brief description of geo-mechanical modelling with respect to drilling fluids and drilling engineering for effective well design

• Introduction to Rheology and hydraulics with explanation of their importance in drilling and how drilling fluid will help in effective management of rheology and hydraulics

• Mud Chemicals, various categories with examples, generic structure and mechanism of action to impart the properties in chosen range

• Types of mud systems, a brief overview

• Fresh water low solids system

• PHB/CMC/LIGNITE system

• K Cl/PHPA/GLYCOL/Polymer mud system

• Solids free heavy density drilling fluids

• High performance water based mud

• Reservoir drill-in fluids with exposure to formation damage and role of mud to protect the formation from possible damage

• Well-bore integrity management

• Non-aqueous mud -introduction, why non-aqueous mud is required

• Details of formulation with explanation on each merit

• comparing water and oil base mud for selecting correct mud system with respect to the type of rock

• Various complications related to drilling management and role of mud in mitigating them

• Solids management

• Deep-water drilling fluids

• HTHP drilling fluids

• Surfactants and their role in drilling fluids management

• Practical tips to manage/condition mud on rig while working as a mud engineer

• Completion fluids

• Case histories discussion

• Basic drilling fluids calculations

• Contamination management