Steel properties and API casing strengths

Fracture gradient : A Rock Mechanics approach

Casing seat selection: graphical methods, refinements, case histories

Casing design criteria: Collapse , Burst, Tension

Detailed Collapse design : partial and full evacuation; when to use each

Kick tolerance and kick profiles: industry approach

Burst Design: Casing full of gas, limited kick design

Detailed tension design :self weight, shock loading, pressure testing, bending

Forces, thermal forces, pressure-area method

Offshore conductor design

Production casing design: tubing leak approach

Design factors: typical values; what do they mean

Casing design methods for : Exploration , Development, Horizontal and HPHT

Triaxial loadings and Von Mises

API load lines

Stress Ellipse including API load lines

Load cases

Temperature effects and trapped annular pressures

Buckling analysis

Sour gas consideration : special casing grades and effects of temperature, NACE and European standards

Connections: API and premium , methods of selection

Well suspension and abandonment

Casing wear

Complete well design

QRA approach ( Quantitative risk assessment

Dr. Rabia wrote his definitive textbook "Fundamentals of Casing Design", over 20 years ago, where he presented the well design method in a structured way. He also showed for the first time how kick tolerance and kick profiles can be used to design wells using a variety of well conditions. Dr. Rabia has since developed and extended most of the ideas presented in the book into a concise and coherent methodology for well design using the latest available technology and many ideas from unpublished work carried out under his supervision.

In his courses, Dr. Rabia uses actual well design examples from wells he planned and drilled over the last 23 years. He is still involved in developing and updating a number of topics including API casing strengths, kick tolerance and kick profiles, collapse design, shock loading and triaxial methodology. With his strong background in Rock Mechanics, he combines this expertise into good effect in showing where best to choose casing seats whilst maintaining either minimum kick tolerance or company policy on kick tolerance.

Indeed, a large number of consultants and some of our competitors still use the original textbook which has of course been updated several times over but the updates have not been published. You can only find out the most updated method of well design by attending our casing design course. No other competitor can match our expertise in this area. A quick glance at the contents of our course and our competitors will clearly show how superior our course is and the depth at which we go into in order to explain the well design process.