Wiegand Inc.

OPTIMIZED DRILLING AND WELL COMPLETION MASTERCLASS

Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 13-16 2012

Effective cost and risk management course led by World-Class Drilling Expert Frederick Wiegand.

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

After attending this course, the participants will be able to:

•INTENSIFY your understanding on well design, drilling operations, and drilling fluids.

•IDENTIFY the cementing principles, CwD and new wellheads and BOPE.

•ANALYZE the diversity between Surface and Subsea stacks & well control applications in deepwater projects.

•LEARN the basic principles of Well Control and its  application to ERD and Multilaterals for better ROI.

•DISCOVER the latest drilling applications: MPD, UBD,  ERD and CwD applications.

•DETERMINE well criteria for MPD, UBD, ERD and CwD.

•MINIMIZE risks and operational costs of your project JW Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | February 13-16 2012.

It is imperative for drilling personnel to understand the technical aspects of drilling and completion operations of a wellbore, to further enhance productivity of drilling and workover projects, given the increasing demand for oil and natural gas, not only in Asia, but across the entire world. Engineers and operators are often pushed to give higher returns in their respective projects; thus making them explore more complex types of drilling and completion projects which come with higher operational risks and costs, but also with promises of much higher ROIs.

This 4 day workshop is designed to help the delegates understand the basics of drilling and well completion techniques to further gear them up to operate in most challenging wells today. It will highlight the latest applications such as: Manager Pressure Drilling, Under-balanced Drilling, Extended Reach Drilling and Multilateral wells. It will also showcase well control, cementing principles and new completion technologies. Consequently, it will also provide a thorough discussion on economical and operational benefits of the said applications to the drilling team and staff.

The workshop will have a practical approach that is based on international and local practical exercises and case studies provided through out the whole four day session. Lastly, the trainer aims to deliver a comprehensive discussion and examples that the delegates can easily apply after the course period.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

The target audience for this course includes: Managers, Drilling Engineers, Foreman, Superintendents, Production Geologist and Engineers, Petrophysical Engineers, Operations Engineers, Reservoir Engineers, Technicians and Specialists, Supervisors, Manager and Team Leaders, Drilling contractors and Operators  implementing and operating exploration projects, Oil and Gas personnel engaged in designing, drilling and completing onshore and offshore oil & gas wells. Level Of The Presentations This course is intended for mid-career and senior drilling engineers, and will be helpful to other personnel, including oil company and contractor employees who wish to understand the basic and advance considerations for drilling and well completion equipment and methods.

Course Format:

This course will be held in a highly interactive workshop format for a small group. Real projects and cases will be an important part of the workshop.

Pre-course Questionnaires Mr. Frederick Wiegand would like to customize the class based on your specific needs. Pre-Course Questionnaire will be sent to you prior to the workshop to complete.  Mr. Frederick Wiegand will analyze in advance and address the issues during the course.

Certificate of Attendance:

Upon the successful completion of this course, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance bearing the signatures from both Mr. Frederick Wiegand and the Course Organizer. This Certificate will testify your endeavor and serve towards your professional advancement.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE (DAY 1 – 4)

08:30 – Registration & Tea

09:00 – Morning Session Begins

10:40-11:00 – Refreshments & Networking

12:30 – Lunch

14:00 – Afternoon Session Begins

15:20-15:40 – Refreshments & Networking

17:00 – Finish of Day/Course

IN-HOUSE TRAINING (Save up to 35%)

This course can be presented exclusively for your organization on an in-house basis, tailored to meet your specific needs, at a place and time of your convenience. We have successfully conducted in-house training for Ghana, BG India, Petronas Carigali, PetroVietnam, Roshan Afghanistan, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, and others.  To discuss how we can work with you to meet your training requirements please contact:

Daniel Lau DID: +65 6557 9169 | Email: daniel.lau@neo-edge.com

Senior Corporate Learning Specialist Day 1: Fundamentals of Well Design

The course begins with an introductory overview to modern drilling operations, to include basic well design, selection of casing – bit suites, drilling fluids, drilling rig types, and compares land drilling operations to offshore drilling operations. The case study example presented will be an offshore deepwater design well in the South China Sea. The workshop exercise for this day will request the participants to form a work group and design a vertical well which might be a well typical in South East Asia.

Introductions and Administration

Overview of Modern Drilling Operations

Basic Well Design

Land Drilling versus Offshore Drilling

Case Study Example: Gau Chuau #2 South China Sea

Workshop with formation of work groups Day 2: A Well Program Geophysics and geological will be presented from the viewpoint to assist the drilling engineer customize his well program to his particular well, based upon the kinds of rocks expected. Explanations will show how and why G&G data are important for bit selection, casing design, and completion methods. Also, G&G data should be considered for the mud program design and well control program. An exposure to a typical well kill sheet will also be provided.

Review of Workshop #1

Geophysics and Geology

Bit Selection and Casing Design

Drilling Fluids

Basic Principles of Well Control

Case Study Example on a simple kill sheet

Workshop with review Day 3: Effective Well Control Surface wellheads will be compared to subsea wellheads, and well control methods will be introduced. Well control on land is different from well control in deepwater, especially due to the kinds of BOP Equipment required. Methods for above-water stacks are easier than well control methods for under-water stacks. Cement program design is briefly presented, to include the typical concern about blowouts during cementation operations, with the case study example being the highly controversial Macondo Blowout in the USA GOM, Surface Wellheads & BOPE versus Subsea Wellheads & BOPE, Well Control in Deepwater, Cementing Principles Case Study Example: The Macondo Blowout in the USA Gulf of Mexico.

Workshop with review Day 4: MPD, UBD and Completions Managed Pressure Drilling on land is also different that deepwater MPD. Under-Balanced Drilling on land uses different equipment than deepwater UBD. MPD and UBD are modern drilling practices and equipment that require more understanding for proper application, and the selection of MPD and UBD equipment and methods should not be the sole discretion of the drilling contractor. While many drilling rigs may have some or most of the components of MPD and UBD, an incomplete suite of equipment will limit the optimal use of MPD and UBD methods and practices. Casing while Drilling is successfully used in mature fields, mostly onshore; though more uses of CwD are expected in the future. Furthermore, Risk analysis is a computerized method of comparing and studying data bases using statistics. Most risk analysis computer programs are overlays onto existing spreadsheet routines, but training is required on the use of risk analysis for best results.

The course includes a completion certificate.

•Managed Pressure Drilling and Unbalanced Drilling

•Extended Reach Drilling and Multilateral Wells

•CwD and New Completion Technology

•Introduction to Risk Analysis

Course Review and Completion Ceremony Course Outline (Day 1 to Day 4)

About The Expert Trainer:

With a total of 40 years of international real world experience, instructor Fred Wiegand has designed and managed some of the worlds most challenging drilling and well completion projects to date. He has an extensive experience on petroleum engineering, drilling and reservoir engineering, IWCF surface subsea drilling, work-over rigs and well completion, design of offshore and onshore production facilities, design and maintenance of many drilling rigs including drillships, semis and jackups, coring, stuck pipe, fishing, hole cleaning, directional drilling, deep drilling and well control.

Frederick Wiegand, President of Wiegand Engineering Inc., has 3 degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. Bachelor of Science Petroleum Engineer, Bachelor of Science Petroleum Geology, and Master of Science Petroleum Engineer, and is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas, specializing in deep well design, drilling and well control, including engineering well design and advanced wellsite supervision of any kind of drilling rig world wide.

Fred Wiegand, President, Wiegand Engineering Inc., USA• Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering (1969), Master of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering (1970), Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology (1969), The University of Texas at Austin, USA Currently holds various positions such as: Drilling Superintendent, IWCF Surface Subsea Drilling Supervisor, IADC Company Man, Drilling Engineer, Completions Engineer, Drilling Manager, International Multilingual Instructor world wide, IADC accredited world wide instructor . . .

Partial Client List: Transocean – Vietnam, Great Wall Drilling Compnay – China, VetcoGray GE – USA, ConocoPhillips – USA, Shell – USA, Sea Dragon – Egypt, Sonangol – Angola, Saudi Aramco – Middle East, TransJordan Exploration – Middle, East and more…

Testimonials

“Fred was able to present new concepts and ideas..”- Petronas

“An in-depth coverage of the topics!”- Egyptian Oil

“A good and widely knowledgeable instructor!” – Libyan National Oil Corporation

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IWCF, Well Control Certificate is International Well Control Forum surface subsea drilling supervisor in May 2003 from Well Control School, with the Interactive International Well Control Forum subsea drilling supervisor certificate.

Fred has had well control certificates yearly since 1977, and has authored an article about well control in the industry magazine Petroleum Engineer International. He personally worked several kicks in the last few years, on the rig floor with the drillers and pushers on a jackup rig in GOM and on several land rigs. He worked on a drilling rig in the desert in Yemen, “turning and burning” in a vertical hole through the Safer Salt. He has supervised “state-of-the-art” computerized land rigs and drillships. With over 40 years of drilling work, Mr. Wiegand has designed drilling and well-completion programs and supervised operations on many types of land rigs, and also has worked as company man on deepwater floaters, including jackup rigs, semi-submersible rigs and a drillship. This deepwaterwork was off West Africa and Eastern Brazil, and includes all phases of drilling, sidetracking, horizontal extended reach, well control, coring, stuck pipe, fishing, directional drilling, running and cementing casing and liners, deep air drilling, conventional drilling with oil-base muds, freshwater muds, and salt muds, drilling holes with multiple completions, including multilateral completions in fishbone wells. He has supervised many workover rigs, including hydraulic fracturing of wells, pulling rods & tubing, and balancing pump jacks. Also, Mr. Wiegand has often designed the drilling and well completion programs for some of the deepest wells in the world — setting records — with the assistance of junior engineers, as the team leader, and then implemented the programs at the wellsite as senior drilling engineer or night company man or completions engineer.

Companies that he worked for: Shell, Chevron, Vetco Gray GE, Sea Dragon, ConocoPhillips, Repsol, Sonagol, Forest Oil Co., TXM, PGP Exploration,  TransJordan Exploration, Saudi Aramco, Petroleum Engineering Intl’ for PDVsa,  Lagonven, Apache North Sea, Pogo Producing, Yemen Hunt Oil Company, Great Wall of China Drilling, Sincor, Suco, Pioneer Exploration, Esso Exploration Inc.

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OPTIMIZED DRILLING AND WELL COMPLETION MASTERCLASS

JW Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | February 13-16 2012

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The course fee does not include accommodation or travel costs. It is recommended to book the hotel rooms early. You can either contact the reservations directly or book online.

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Rig: Transocean Actinia Semi-Sub
Date: February 1993
Location: South Con Son Basin, Off Vietnam, South China Sea
Operator: BP/Statoil
Summary
Built in 1982 by Hitachi Zosen at the Nagasu Shipyard in Japan, the Actinia semi-sub was originally owned by South Africa’s Actinia Shipping before being hired out and eventually bought by Sedco Forex in 1997. She worked for BP in Vietnam, followed by service in Malaysia and Thailand for Total and Unocal before being moved to the Mediterranean in 1998.
In February 1993, the well being drilled by the Actinia encountered shallow gas and blew out, damaging the BOP and causing the rig to list by 15 degrees. The slick of ejected liquids measured up to 2 km wide. Reports state that the blowout subsequently killed itself, possibly by bridging.

Actinia is presently drilling a record deepwater horizontal well in hardrock granite basement in August 2010.

Actinia blowout video on YouTube.

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Fred Wiegand, Jr. is a licensed professional engineer with over 35 years of experience in petroleum engineering world wide, 2 degrees in petroleum enginnering and 1 degree in geology from The Univiserity of Texas in Austin, with current well control certificates for both land and subsea, 1.5 years of law school and a bonded Notary Public in the State of Texas.

Fred Wiegand is acredited and has served as an EXPERT WITNESS IN A COURT OF LAW, in various lawsuits for both Plaintiffs and Defendants, concerning technical issues of oil and gas properties, drilling accidents, negligence, Rule 37 issues in regards to Texas Railroad Commission spacing allocations, oil spills, EPA documents, DOE communications, and MMS reports.   Lieutenant Colonel Fred Wiegand served 34 years as a reservist and on active duty in the US Army Combat Engineers, Corps of Engineers, and based upon his years of work for the USA Corps of Engineers, still has certain “standing” with regard to COE issues, DOE issues, and an “equivalency of military rank” as expert witness in matters concerning the US Army Corps of Engineers, including wetlands and EPA reports and complaints.

Fred Wiegand was involved in the environmental remediation of the Ixtoc #1 historic oil well blowout and oil spill by Pemex in 1979 in the Bay of Campeche, and helped invent “The Bell” for oil spill mitigation.

As of 9 May 2010, the British Petroleum / TransOcean attempt to use a similar structure to “catch” the oil from the BP – TransOcean GOMx blowout by the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible, has unfortunately failed due to hydrates which are ice crystals on the seafloor caused by the cold and the additional cold due to flow of formations fluid into a lower pressure seawater hydrstatic environment.  Hydrates are very well known, fully predictable, and are covered in the Wiegand Deepwater Drilling Engineering Well Design and Blowout Prevention course, which was first presented last year in July 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and may be presented in an expanded version later this year in Houston, Texas.

As an EXPERT WITNESS in a Texas State District Court, or in a Texas / Louisiana Federal District Court; Fred Wiegand is fully qualified to express a professional opinion as to the cause of the BP – TransOcean recent historic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wiegand Edwards Limestone oil & gas wells in Texas were first drilled by Wiegand Brothers Drilling Company of San Antonio, Texas, starting in the late 1930s. Fred Wiegand, geologist and engineer, located most of the Wiegand Edwards LS wells on the tops of the normally-faulted structures in Caldwell County, Guadalupe County, and Gonzales County, Texas. Texas Railroad Commission reports prove that many of the Wiegand Edwards wells produced 40 barrels of pure Edwards oil to 350 barrels of Edwards saltwater, making the Wiegand Edwards wells some of the best wells in the State of Texas as to oil cut, that is, 40 / 350 = 11.5% oilcut.

Fred Wiegand, Jr. and son Carl J. Wiegand follow the footsteps of Fred, Gus and Eberhard Wiegand with their work in 2010 in the Edwards Limestone of South Texas.

Wiegand Inc. sells confidential engineering and geological reports and can help clients who want reports on Edwards oil & gas wells, leases and fields. WEI can help select “the best” Edwards drilling locations, using the Wiegand proprietary surveying method for subsurface geological mapping.

WEI is preparing its 2010 course on deepwater drilling engineering and well control, to include methodology of dual-graident well control equipment and procedures for deepwater floating dual-gradient drilling operations worldwide.

Dual gradient drilling, in some offshore areas, refers to subsea floating drilling operations without the use of a riser ( riserless ), or with the use of a riser filled with seawater, but using seafloor mud pumps to pump the drilling mud and cuttings back to the floating drilling rig, usually in the surface holes and below.

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VetcoGray MS 800 Subsea Wellheads with various options for shallow water and deepwater flows.

GE Oil & Gas Wins $11m Contract with OGX of Brazil to Supply VetcoGray’s Advanced Subsea Wellhead Technology. -Press Release

Advanced Practical Drilling in Ultra Deep Water, Ten Day Course.

Fundamental Risk Analysis, Three Day Course.

Wellsite Instruction Available, contact for details.

Instruction by Fred Wiegand, Petroleum Engineer and Geologist.