COURSE OVERVIEW:

Casing design is one of the most critical engineering responsibilities in drilling and well construction. Advanced casing design involves integrating geological uncertainties, pore and fractured pressure regimes, complex well trajectories, thermal and mechanical loading, and long-term well-developed integrity requirements. This course provides a comprehensive and technically rigorous understanding of how to design safe, optimized, and cost-effective casing strings for conventional and unconventional wells.

Participants will work through the full workflow of casing design, including load analysis, burst-collapse-tension calculations, triaxial design, connection evaluation, material selection, torque and drag considerations, centralization practices, and cementing interfaces.

The course includes advanced challenges such as HPHT wells, sour-service environments, deepwater casing strings, multi-stage completions, and deviated or extended-reach wells. Real field examples and modelling exercises help participants translate theory into practical engineering decisions. By the end of the course, participants will be fully capable of developing robust casing programs suitable for high-risk and high-complexity operations.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

• Understand the principles and workflow of advanced casing design.
• Interpret geological data, pore pressures, and fracture gradients for accurate casing setting depths.
• Perform burst, collapse, and tension calculations using industry standards.
• Apply triaxial stress analysis to evaluate casing under realistic downhole conditions.
• Select suitable casing grades, materials, and connections for various well environments.
• Incorporate thermal loading, axial loads, and pressure cycles into design considerations.
• Evaluate casing wear, fatigue, and long-term integrity risks.
• Design casing for deviated, horizontal, and ERD wells.
• Apply torque and drag models to ensure safe running of casing strings.
• Integrate centralization, scratcher requirements, and cementing constraints into the design process.
• Account for sour-service (H2S) and CO2 corrosion environments in design choices.
• Assess well control implications and design barriers related to casing strings.
• Perform sensitivity analysis and evaluate uncertainty in pressure and load assumptions.
• Prepare comprehensive casing design reports and technical justifications.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Drilling Engineers
• Well Design and Well Integrity Engineers
• Completion Engineers
• Wellsite Supervisors and Company Representatives
• Engineering Team Leads
• Casing and Cementing Specialists
• Professionals seeking advanced well construction competence

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY

A highly interactive combination of lectures, discussion sessions, and case studies will be employed to maximise the transfer of information, knowledge, and experience. The course will be intensive, practical, and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance the learning experience. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.