COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of perforation design concepts and their direct impact on well performance, productivity, and completion integrity. Participants will learn how perforations create the critical connection between the reservoir and the wellbore, and how design choices such as gun type, charge selection, shot density, phasing, and perforating underbalance influence inflow performance, skin, and well longevity.

The course covers perforating fundamentals for both vertical and deviated wells, including cased hole completion practices, perforation tunnel geometry, near wellbore damage, and strategies to optimize productivity in different reservoir types. Participants will also examine perforating in challenging environments such as high-pressure high-temperature wells, fractured and tight formations, and wells with sand control or stimulation treatments. Practical sessions will highlight selection workflows, job planning, safety requirements, quality control, and post-perforation evaluation using well test and production data. By the end of the course, participants will understand how to design, evaluate, and optimize perforation programs to achieve desired well performance.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

• Understand the role of perforating in creating the flow path between the reservoir and the wellbore.
• Describe the main components and operating principles of shaped charges and gun systems.
• Explain how perforation tunnel geometry, penetration, and entrance hole size affect well productivity.
• Select appropriate shot density and phasing for different reservoir and completion conditions.
• Evaluate the impact of perforating on skin, inflow performance, and near-wellbore damage.
• Distinguish between overbalanced, balanced, and underbalanced perforating techniques.
• Design perforation strategies for vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells.
• Apply perforation design concepts for multilayers and commingled completions.
• Integrate perforating with sand control, acid stimulation, and hydraulic fracturing treatments.
• Plan perforation operations for high-pressure high temperature, and sour environments.
• Interpret production and well test data to assess perforation effectiveness.
• Identify safety, operational risk, and quality control requirements for perforating operations.
• Use basic calculation methods and software outputs to support perforation design decisions.
• Recommend perforation optimization options to improve existing well performance.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Completion and production engineers
• Reservoir engineers involved in well performance evaluation
• Well and completion design engineers
• Field and well services supervisors
• Petroleum engineers and operations staff involved in perforating jobs
• Workover and intervention engineers
• Technical managers supporting completion and production optimization

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 percent of the total attendance time requirement.