Production and completions engineering sits at the heart of transforming discovered hydrocarbons into sustained, profitable, and safe production. This course provides a comprehensive and practice-oriented understanding of how wells are completed, brought on stream, and optimized throughout their productive life. It links subsurface inflow, wellbore hydraulics, completions hardware, artificial lift, and surface network constraints into a coherent engineering workflow.

The course begins with the fundamentals of well performance, including inflow performance relationships, tubing performance, and nodal analysis to describe and optimize the entire production system. Participants will then explore completion design options for different reservoir types and drive mechanisms, including cased and perforated, open hole, multizone, horizontal, and intelligent completions, as well as sand control and well integrity considerations.

Key artificial lift technologies such as gas lift, electrical submersible pumps, progressing cavity pumps, and rod pumps will be examined from a selection, design, and operational perspective. The course also covers production surveillance, well testing, and production logging as essential tools to diagnose well performance, identify bottlenecks, and design interventions such as stimulation and workovers.

Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on integrating subsurface, wellbore, and surface constraints; managing flow assurance issues; and applying structured optimization workflows for both individual wells and entire fields. Practical examples, case-style discussions, and simplified exercises will help participants translate the concepts into real decisions and actions that improve production, recovery, and asset value while maintaining health, safety, and environmental performance.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

• Explain the role of production and completions engineering within the overall field development and operations lifecycle.
• Describe the fundamental relationships between reservoir inflow, wellbore hydraulics, and surface backpressure.
• Interpret and use inflow performance relationships and tubing performance curves to assess well productivity.
• Apply basic nodal analysis concepts to evaluate and optimize the total production system from reservoir to surface.
• Identify the main types of completions (cased and perforated, open hole, multizone, horizontal, and intelligent) and their applications.
• Define key design parameters for well completions, including tubing size, packers, perforation strategy, and zonal isolation.
• Evaluate sand production risks and select suitable sand control strategies such as screens, gravel pack, and frac pack completions.
• Recognize the main artificial lift methods, their operating principles, and selection criteria for different reservoir and fluid conditions.
• Assess common production problems such as water and gas coning, liquid loading, scale, corrosion, and wax, and propose mitigation options.
• Interpret well test and production logging data to diagnose well performance and identify near wellbore or completion-related issues.
• Plan and prioritize workovers, stimulation treatments, and recompletions to restore or enhance well productivity.
• Understand key flow assurance issues in production systems and their impact on completion design and operating strategies.
• Integrate reservoir, well, and surface network considerations into production optimization and debottlenecking workflows.
• Communicate production and completions engineering recommendations effectively to multidisciplinary teams and management.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Production engineers and completions engineers
• Petroleum and reservoir engineers involved in production operations
• Drilling and well engineers transitioning into production and completions roles
• Field and operations engineers responsible for well performance
• Well services, workover, and intervention engineers
• Facilities and process engineers working closely with production teams
• Technical staff from national and international oil and gas companies
• Service company personnel supporting completion design and artificial lift
• Asset planners and development engineers require an integrated understanding of production systems

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 after the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total attendance time requirement.