Program Overview

Program Overview

The program is designed to form readiness for production and technological activities in the construction of wells, ensuring the implementation and operation of equipment in the process of drilling wells for oil and gas, while complying with environmental protection, labor protection, and industrial safety requirements.

Program Details

• Duration: 18.11.2024 - 05.03.2025
• Number of Hours: 240
• Format: Full-time
• Cost: 11,000 rubles

Target Audience

The program is intended for specialists with higher or secondary professional education and individuals receiving secondary professional and/or higher education.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, listeners will know:

• The basics of locksmithing
• The rules and map of lubrication of drilling equipment
• The basics of electrical engineering, hydraulics, and descriptive geometry
• The purpose of applied devices of small mechanization and control and measuring instruments
• Basic information on the geology of oil and gas fields, thermal, iodine-bromine waters, and other minerals
• Requirements for environmental protection
• Advanced methods and techniques of labor
• Safety requirements, electrical safety, fire safety, and production sanitation
• Means of individual protection and their application
• Rules for providing first aid to victims in cases of poisoning, sprains, bruises, fractures, and bleeding
• Stages of well construction, life cycle of a well
• Classification, composition, and principle of action of rock-destructing tools
• Purpose, design, principle of operation, and rules for operating underground and surface drilling equipment, blowout prevention equipment, automatic mechanisms, safety, and protective devices
• Types and properties of modern drilling fluid systems
• Purpose and design of devices for determining parameters of drilling fluids
• Schemes and composition of the block for preparation and cleaning of drilling fluids
• Causes, ways of prevention, and elimination of complications and accidents during well construction
• Purpose and design of instruments and devices used for drilling inclined and horizontal wells
• Causes and methods of contamination of the productive layer
• Technological process of running casing columns, their cementing, testing, and development of wells
• Types and properties of cementing slurries, devices for determining their main parameters
• Basics of well reconstruction and restoration
• Acting rules and instructions on technology, technique, and organization of production
• Orders, instructions, and other guiding documents ensuring labor safety during drilling
• Works performed by the drilling assistant
• Ability to participate in the assembly, disassembly, and transportation of drilling equipment during the movement of the brigade with its unit
• Ability to rationally organize and maintain order at the workplace, prepare equipment, tools, and devices for work, and maintain them in proper condition
• Ability to participate in the technological process of drilling wells for oil, gas, thermal, iodine-bromine waters, and other minerals
• Ability to start the drilling unit under the supervision of the driller
• Ability to perform top-side work during running and pulling operations
• Ability to participate in works on laying drilling and casing pipes, compaction of the lower part of the drilling pipes, and their pressure testing
• Ability to start and stop drilling pumps and control their operation
• Ability to prepare and clean drilling fluid
• Ability to perform, as part of the drilling crew, works on eliminating complications and accidents, cementing casing columns in the well, installing and drilling out cement bridges, equipping the wellhead, and developing operational and testing exploratory wells
• Ability to participate in preventive maintenance of drilling equipment
• Ability to provide first aid to victims in case of accidents
• Ability to comply with labor safety requirements, electrical and fire safety, labor hygiene, and production sanitation
• Experience in leading top-side work during running and pulling operations
• Experience in servicing drilling equipment
• Experience in bringing the state of surface equipment to the requirements of industrial, fire, and environmental safety
• Experience in bringing wellsite and well pads to the requirements of industrial, fire, and environmental safety and labor protection

Program Structure

The program consists of:

• General Technical Course
• Special Course
• Production Training

Faculty

The program is implemented by associate professors and senior lecturers of the Oil and Gas Department of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, who have experience in scientific research and the implementation of scientific developments in the oil and gas industry, and have undergone advanced training in the educational program "Teacher of Higher Education" and training on AMT 221B and -2 simulators.

Material and Technical Base

The program uses:

• Portable simulator 2 for training and testing the skills and abilities of personnel in managing a well during drilling and running and pulling operations
• Full-range training simulators 221 for studying drilling technology and -401 for studying well repair issues
• Set of drilling equipment for the specialty "Drilling of Oil Wells"
• High-pressure and high-temperature viscometer OFITE Model 1100
• Eight-speed viscometer OFITE 800
• Viscometer OFITE Model 900
• Viscometer , model RVDV-II+PRO
• Device for determining the sticking danger OFITE 150-50
• Device for researching the aging of drilling fluid, OFITE cat 175-710
• Analyzer of cement water release in dynamic conditions, Model 40 OFITE
• Fluid migration analyzer
• Dynamic filter press , OFITE cat 170-50-1
• System for measuring the volume expansion and contraction of cement (VCED) OFITE
• Ultrasonic cement analyzer OFITE (120-50), single-chamber

Certification

Listeners who successfully complete the program and pass the final certification receive a document - a certificate of profession.