Advanced Casing and Tubing Design

Designed for an Engineer with a working knowledge of drilling operations, this course expands on a basic knowledge of Casing Design to cover all elements of Casing and Tubing Stress Analysis.  

 

The course includes:

• Advanced Casing Seat Selection and Kick Tolerance

• Oilfield tubular manufacturing and tolerances (API Spec 5CT / ISO 11960)

• Strength of Tubulars (API Bulletin 5C3 and ISO/TR 10400)

• High Collapse Strength Tubulars - Fact or Fiction?

• Buckling Resistance

• Qualification of Connections (ISO 13679)

• Design and Safety Factors

• Service Loads - Impact of Production, Injection and Stimulation

• Installation Loads and Adjusted Axial Loads

• API Biaxial collapse analysis for combined collapse and tensile loading

• Application of Von Mises Triaxial Stress Analysis for combined tensile and burst loading

• Material Selection (incl ISO 15156 – Materials for use in Sour Service)

• Tubing Stress Analysis for Completions

• Casing Wear and Corrosion - prediction, mitigation and assessment

• HPHT and Deepwater design considerations

• Casing Design Software

• Impact of Top of Cement

• Quality Assurance while running Tubulars

• Pressure Testing - Rationale and Reality