Course info

Lernziele/Kompetenzen
The course gives an introduction to the principles of conventional and advanced deep drilling technologies
and of production and reservoir engineering technologies. Students learn how to plan a drilling project
including wellbore planning and selection of toolings and devices.
Kenntnisse:
• Fundamentals of deep drilling systems
• Drilling tooling
• Well and casing stability
• Site management skills
• Mud circulation
• LWD / MWD techniques
• Reservoir characterisation and testing
Fertigkeiten:
• Explain the main methods and parameters of drilling technology
• Describe potential drilling problems
• Define the composition of the cost structure of a drilling project
• Calculate casing designs
Kompetenzen:
• Develop deep drilling and production concepts,
• Explain the main methods and parameters of drilling technology,
• Describe potential drilling problems,
• Name major advanced drilling technologies,

Modul Geothermal Drilling Engineering und Subsurface Technologies
• Define the composition of the cost structure of a drilling project.
• Name hydraulic test methods,
• Describe reservoir test principles,
• Define the parameters of a conceptual reservoir model.
• Tell principles of resource management,
• Calculate simple production parameters.
• Define pumping systems for specific applications,
• Describe the processes in the borehole while pumping,
• Name the damage mechanisms of downhole pumps.
• Describe the hydrochemically induced failure processes in the borehole while pumping.
Inhalte
a)
• Deep drilling basics; mechanical rock destruction process
• Drilling techniques and process
• Rotary drilling, percussion drilling, directional drilling
• Innovative and unconventional drilling techniques (thermal, hydraulic, coiled tubing)
• Drilling specific laboratory analysis
• Mud logging
• Health, safety issues and environmental impacts of drilling projects
• Pumping the reservoir
• Test procedures and low-temperature reservoir modelling
• Reservoir Engineering