1. Introductions
• Safety briefing
• Objectives of the course
2. Selection of Drilling Location and Subsurface Aspects
• Why Drill a well
• Selecting a drilling location
• People involved before drilling starts
3. Rigs and Rig Equipment
• Drilling Organization
• Land Rigs
• Offshore Rigs
• Rig Equipment
o Power Systems
o Hoisting equipment
o Rotating equipment
o Circulation equipment
o Well control systems
o Well monitoring systems
4. Drilling Equipment Downhole
• Drill Collars
• Drillpipe
• Other Tools
5. The Drilling Process
• Starting the well
• Drilling
• Casing setting depth and selection design
• Cementing process and calculations
• Wellhead types and selection
6. Drilling Fluids
• Oil based
• Water Based
• Brines
• Density and Viscosity
7. Drilling Hydraulics
• Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids
• Design for optimum HHP and IF with calculations
8. Directional Drilling
• Trajectories
• Directional Tools
• Survey Tools and Errors
• Targets
9. Well Control
• Primary Well Control (Controlling the pressures)
• Secondary well Control (Removing an influx)
• Tertiary Well Control (Fixing a blowout)
10. New drilling techniques
• UBD
• MPD
• UR
