Professional Training Center

Modern challenges are related not only to achieving technical goals, but also to continuous staff training. Our instructors share their experience and current practices after completing training in international schools (HAL, BH, SLB).

We conduct on-site and field training sessions at the client’s facilities. Programs are tailored to specific needs, and all results are officially documented.

At the NTC base in Novy Urengoy and at the Customer’s facilities:

Assessment of current knowledge and competencies.
Laboratory technician training: from basic to advanced level.
Interim and final testing.
Knowledge confirmation and certification.

Group of employees during a training session

Course Content

Drilling fluids (classification, functions, mud components: polymers, weighting materials, etc.).
Basics of chemistry. Clay chemistry. Mechanisms of inhibition/hydration of clay minerals.
Engineering calculations (material balance, weighting, dilution, calculations for fluid preparation).
Contaminants in water-based drilling fluids.
Spud and surface hole fluids.
Filtration in drilling fluids (processes, principles, and materials for filtration control).
Rheology and hydrodynamics of drilling fluids (flow regimes, rheological models, hydraulic losses, ECD).
Hole cleaning from cuttings.
Solid phase analysis.
Drilling problems (loss circulation, stuck pipe, wellbore instability, etc.).
Engineering calculations for troubleshooting.
Mixing and solids control equipment (particle and screen classification, shale shakers, desanders/desilters, centrifuges; efficiency evaluation of solids control system).

The course content can be adapted upon request of the client company supervisors.

Laboratory drilling fluids equipment — Practice • Calculations • Safety

Course Content

Basics of casing cementing operations.
Main types of cement slurries and their applications.
Types of cement, key additives and their properties.
Laboratory testing of cement slurries.
Analysis of cement slurry test results.
Interpretation of cementing job charts.
Evaluation of cementing quality, reasons for poor bonding and methods of correction.
Basic cementing calculations (including cement plug placement calculations).
Casing accessories (centralizers, scratchers, float equipment, etc.) and their application.
Cementing equipment.
Mixing and pumping equipment for cementing materials.
Features of remedial cementing (e.g., casing leak repair, squeeze jobs, etc.).
Overview of domestic and international technologies (foam cementing, rotating/reciprocating cementing, etc.).