REPORT OF TRAINING COURSE

National Engineering School of Sfax

Trainer: Hamed Bouattour

Supervisors:

June 2014.

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 Thanks

I would like to thank everyone that helped me in one way or

another.
I would love to thank everyone that believed on me.
Thanks to my family, my friends, my teachers, and for the
family of wheatherford, about their great welcoming.

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 Summary

*Introduction
*Information
*Departments
*New knowledge about drilling field
*Working conditions
*Some tasks I performed
*Conclusion

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 Introduction

After a successful first year in the National Engineering School

of Sfax, a training is remained, for that reason I chose
weatherford to do it.
This training is required in order to let the ‘future engineer’
know how the company works and to integrate him in the
professional field. Trainings help the student to have a good
CV as well.
The most important thing that I admired in weatherford is
that security, quality, and the good distribution of tasks have
a major priority.
In addition, English is the language of communication in
weatherford, especially between people with different
nationalities.
The most important proverb, that rules work and that you
have to follow is “if you see something, say something”, on
the other hand, a slow correct work is better than a risky one.
During this trainee I had the chance to do many tasks and to
read many documents that helped me to understand more
about petroleum field.

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 Information

Weatherford is one the most famous suppliers of products

and services of drilling, as well as the evaluation, and the
intervention in the cycle of the wellbores.
This company has 730 locals in more than 100 country.
In Sfax, weatherford has 3 bases:
*Sfax - Base 1, Weatherford Oil Tool GmbH Road of Gabes Km
2.5 3003 Sfax
3003, Sfax

*Sfax - Base 2, Weatherford Oil Tool GmbH Road of Gabes Km

2.5 3003 Sfax

*Sfax - Base 3, Weatherford Oil Tool GmbH Road of Gabes Km

9.5 Ceinture Agareb

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 Departments

Following multiple services offered by Weatherford, it

contains several departments, each one is meant to do
specific functions and steps of the well construction.
Speaking about Sfax, in the two bases where I did the
training, weatherford has 5 departments which are:
TRS: tubing running systems
Liner
Completion
Fishing
ALS: Artificial lift systems.

*.TRS
This service concerns assembled, disassembled, moved and
protection of tubes of different sizes while the construction
of the well, and after that.
There are many tools used on this service such as:

Elevator: spider:

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*.Liner:
After finishing building the casing, the Liner hanger comes,
and it’s the last part fixed to the casing with 7” diameter size
that is directly connected with oil/gas formation. The Liner is
fixed on the casing with the hanger.
Liner service has two different types of components, sales
(the ones that rest in the well) and rentals (components that
are used to fix the sales from the inside).

*.Fishing:
This service is important because of its role indicated in its
name:
Indeed, in case of stuck (impossibility of drilling) the first step
to follow is using the jar that, by jarring too many times it
tries to unlock the stuck components.
If this step wasn’t useful, we do a back off (taking off the
tubing parts above the stuck position), then we use the wash
over to degrade debris of the jamming. Finally we catch the
released debris with the overshot, and this is fishing.
If debris are fallen inside tubes, we catch them with the
spear. Fishing is also used when other tools fall into the well:
a hummer, a chain …
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Jar: Overshot:

Spear:

*.ALS:
After a period, the pressure inside the well becomes not
enough to let oil come to the surface, so we need an artificial
way to pump it. Here come ALS.
This service offers many different methods of artificial lifting,
in order to benefit from the maximum of wells.

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 New knowledge about drilling field
After a deep study, and a good knowledge of existing
formations, their thicknesses and lithology (using magnetic,
gravity, electromagnetic and seismic methods)… we can start
drilling. Drilling can change following characteristics of the
region, and its purpose but it has standard norms.
Drilling can be offshore or on shore, and in each type we
follow the same standard norms.
Drilling is realized in different sizes that become smaller
following a standardized diameters decrease.
Between the outer diameter of tubing and the total diameter
(open hole) is filled with cement (cementation), so the casing
is cemented into the earth. Cementing is done in order to
support the casing as well as to restrict fluid movement
between formations.

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After the casing and when we reach the desired formation,
the liner with the suitable diameter is hanged to the last one
with the next diameter following the norm. Usually 7” is the
diameter of the liner, the liner is in contact with the
formation where we have oil/gas.
While drilling, mud is pumped and introduced in drilling tools
to balance a hydrostatic pressure, so we can control the
pressure of the well that cannot exceed the one of the
formation in order to avoid the entrance of liquid in the
formation and pollute it, and it shouldn’t be much lower not
to let the formation break the well construction.

The Drill String has several components such as « drill pipes »,

« drill collars », « stabilizers » … These tools are used while
drilling, and we should know that on the bottom of the drill
string there is the bit which is the tool responsible of drilling.
Bit: it is the tool that is responsible of drilling.

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Drill pipes: a drill pipe is the most common tool in the drill string, it
ensures the extension in order to move down the bit, to 3000 m
depth and more. Links between drill pipes are ensured via different
types of thread (pine, box…).

Drill collars: these heavy tubes are closer to the bit, the most
important role is to ensure more weight so drilling will become easier
and effective.

Stabilizer: this tool ensures the straightness of the drilling because of

its large diameter.

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 Working conditions

Schedule: work time is from Monday to Friday, from 8am

until 5pm.
Marking presence: it’s important to save entry and leaving
time of employees, for that a tally machine is used. As a
trainee, I switch my ID card with a badge on the morning, and
I take it back before leaving.
Local: I did my training in two bases with 5 departments, the
bases are separated with 100 m, every department has a
workshop, and an office where orders are taken, and where
communication between departments and with the
administration is done.
Personal Protective Equipment: everyone works in the
workshop needs to wear it, and it contains: Safety shoes,
Safety glasses, Hat, Coverall and Gloves.

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 Some tasks I performed

Taking advantage of the opportunity, I did help doing some

tasks which are:
Checking an order list, the list contains some items names,
with specific diameters, each item has a reference that we
look for in the workshop in order to prepare for a rent.
Painting some drilling tools, such as stabilizers, in fact before
every rent, tools are painted in order to avoid rust that can be
caused by sand or water (in our case tools were shipped to
the desert so by painting we avoid sand).
Lubrication and removing rust from bolts in order to make
them useful again, these bolts are used to fix stabilizers to
heavy support that will be sent to the desert for a rent.

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 Conclusion

Finally as a conclusion, and thanks to Weatherford, this

trainee was a good opportunity for me to know what means
working in a company, team work and to have new
knowledge in this field.
It would be great for me to have such a trainee again.

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