Unit A-Well Design: Prediction of formation pore pressure and stress
gradients. Determination of safety mud weight bounds for different in-situ
stress conditions. Design and planning well trajectory. Surveying tools and
methods. Design of drill string including bottom hole assembly. Drilling
methods and equipment for directional, horizontal and multilateral wells.
Selection of casing shoes, material properties and design of casing program.

Unit B-Well Completion and Stimulation: Well completion design types of
completion, completion selection and design criteria. Interval selection
and productivity considerations: effect of producing mechanisms. Inflow
performance and multiple tubing performance analyses using commercial
software. Well stimulation and workover planning. Tubing-packer movement
and forces. Tubing design: graphical tubing design and simplified
tensional strength design. Selection of downhole equipment, tubing
accessories and wellhead equipment. Basics of perforation, selection of
equipment and procedure for perforating oil and gas wells. Technology of
sand control: gravel packing. Fundamentals of well stimulation
technologies: acidisation and hydraulic fracturing.