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Module 41
Design of a Perforated Completion
Turning reservoir and well data into a perforation design that performs.
- T01Perforation Performance Prediction
- T02Perforation Design Criteria
Perforating is the instant the well and reservoir are connected, a few milliseconds that set the productivity of the completion. This course runs from shaped-charge physics and API testing to explosive selection and gun conveyance, designing perforations that actually deliver.
Refined over 15 years of classroom delivery to national and international operators, now rebuilt as a problem-based, self-contained online programme for working petroleum engineers.
A perforation is a designed object, not a default. Course 09 trains you to predict performance, read what a shaped charge really does, choose explosives for the environment, and convey the guns the right way.
Predict perforation performance and set the design criteria that drive inflow.
Read jet physics, liner metallurgy, the crushed zone and API RP 43 test data.
Match explosives to time-temperature limits and high-pressure, high-temperature wells.
Choose wireline or tubing-conveyed perforating and the right under/overbalance.
The design, the charge, the explosive and the conveyance — four modules that take perforating from a black box to an engineered connection between well and reservoir.
Turning reservoir and well data into a perforation design that performs.
Inside the charge: jet physics, liner metallurgy, the crushed zone and what API data really means.
Choosing explosives for the well's temperature, time and pressure limits.
Getting the guns downhole, wireline or tubing-conveyed, and the power of underbalance.
Every module opens with a real well problem. You work the engineering, then the theory is introduced to explain what you found: the way the material was honed in the classroom over fifteen years.
Each topic is anchored to a field scenario with real data, not an abstract derivation.
You design the perforating job to the conditions and predict its performance, then the theory frames why.
The perforating detail here sharpens the completion and stimulation work across the programme.
Run Course 09 as a pilot for a cohort, or licence the full eleven-course programme. We'll tailor the rollout around your assets and engineering levels.