Accelerate the competencies of your Drilling and Well Construction team with the Asia Pacific Driller’s School

Engineers who are currently joining the upstream sector have little specific knowledge of drilling and well construction processes. The Asia Pacific Driller’s School (APDS) programme is designed to transform new recruits into technically competent drilling engineers.

The key elements of Asia Pacific Driller’s School 

Background of the key elements and flow of modules

This ten day course will explain the fundamentals and field practices in drilling operations.  The key benefits for the participants will be to fully understand the rotary drilling process and its engineering design aspects.  It will also help to recognize drilling problems and determine solution options; as well as design, execute and give post analysis of all drilling programs.  The course will follow the text book co-authored by the instructor, Dr. J.J. Azar, Drilling Engineering.  The text is an excellent resource for drilling engineers, drilling supervisors and managers, and petroleum engineering students.

Successful graduates of the APDS programme will be prepared and ready to take over engineering responsibilities for developmental drilling campaigns. Optional testing at the end of the program can be provided by PetroEDGE as a way to confirm this level of competence. The exact duration of the APDS programme will depend on learner’s existing knowledge and practical understanding of the key elements with modules featured.

The APDS Programme is designed for:

• New Drilling engineers, supervisors and managers getting involved in drilling operations
• New Service personnel involved in developing well plans
• New Managers interested in learning about the well design process
• New Petroleum and production engineers
• Geologists, geophysicists, and technical supervisors, from a cross functional perspective

Why choose the APDS to develop the competencies of your new drillers:

• The APDS creates a core set of courses necessary to become a qualified drilling engineer.
• The program can be adapted to a compact time frame or set up over a period of time to meet the client’s need. Target goal is to achieve this learning at an accelerated pace.
• Courses can be scheduled back to back to allow multiple days of training brought to you on-site at your convenience
• Access an international faculty of qualified practioners with over 25 years of drilling experience

All modules are presented by qualified top-notch practioners who have experience gained working in the field for an operator or world class service company. Each trainer has an established reputation in teaching petroleum engineering as well as retaining a fully operational role as a practising engineer involved in current consulting projects.

The comprehensive series of learning modules will give the engineers the right set of skills and tools to rapidly improve individual performance and productivity and to understand more competently and completely the relationships and dependencies across the drilling process