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Competency Matrix for Drilling Engineering

SPE Task Force on Minimal Competency

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL
MINIMUM
MINIMUM ABOVE MINIMUM
Task COMPETENCE
BREADTH
COMPETENCE DEPTH COMPETENCE

Design and/or
implement procedure
to successfully
Calculate mud
circulate out an influx. Design and/or
weight necessary
Determine fluid type implement
Maintain well to maintain well
of influx with data procedure to
control. control and volume
collected after influx. successfully control
of mud required to
Understand an underground
fill the hole while
relationship between blowout.
tripping out.
geologic depth
reference and drilling
depth reference.

Develop a casing
program based a
provided pore Determine the surface
Optimize the
pressure/frac casing setting depth
number and depths
gradient plot. required to protect
Develop casing of protective
Understand fresh water sands.
program (sizes, casings. Optimize
relationship Prepare pore
setting depths). the size of the
between desired pressure and frac
casing strings and
production flow pressure versus depth
liners.
rates and plots.
tubing/casing
configuration.

Understand basic
design principles Select optimal
(burst, collapse, Design surface, casing/
tension in the intermediate and connections for
Design casing. pressure/ production hostile
temperature casing/liner to environments
environment that maintain well integrity. (HPHT, H2S, salt,
the casing will etc.).
encounter).
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Understand the
process required to
Understand comply with regulatory
requirement to requirements. (for
protect fresh water Calculate
example, design an
with surface casing emissions from rig
abandonment
Maintain setting operations (air
procedure to isolate
regulatory depth/cement and pollutants from
zones per regulation
compliance. requirements on engine exhaust
or that may cross
directional rates, % oil on
flow, know what
programs to stay cuttings, etc.).
regulatory
within lease/block applications to
boundaries. prepare, and how to
verify compliance).

Design mud program

Optimize the cost
to maintain well
of the mud systems
Calculate the control considering
by altering the
minimum mud casing programs and
inhibitive nature of
Select the mud weight required to formation integrity.
the mud systems.
program. balance formation Select acceptable
Establish the
pressure for each mud types. Specify
critical minimum
hole interval. mud properties (e.g.,
inhibition
density and fluid loss
requirements.
requirements).

Optimize the
directional program
and casing design
to avoid key
Design a Understand the Select appropriate
seating. Evaluate
directional well relationship kickoff points, build
casing wear and
path (including between difficulty rates, required hole
develop designs to
horizontal/ and lateral angles and bottom
mitigate the
multilaterals). displacement. hole assemblies.
problem. Develop a
horizontal or
multilateral drilling
program.

Specify Recommend Determine BOP stack Design equipment

equipment. wellhead/BOP arrangements, components for a
ratings to maintain establish test fit-for-purpose rig
well integrity. requirements. to optimize cost.
Understand Calculate ton miles to
performance slip and cut drill line.
properties of drill Calculate slip
string and BHA crushing forces on a
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components. landing string.

Develop Design well testing

Understand
procedure to Understand hole operations
interaction between
implement considerations for procedure for
mud composition,
formation successful open hostile environment
hole integrity and
evaluation hole logging. (e.g., HPHT,
types of logs that can
program. mobile marine
be run successfully
drilling unit).

Calculate pressure
Understand basic drop through the
Integrate hydraulics
Develop principles of fluid system and optimize
program with
hydraulics mechanics and bit hydraulics.
geological setting
program. non-Newtonian Understand principals
and mud program.
fluids. of equivalent
circulating density.

Size standard solids

control equipment
Understand Design closed loop
Develop solids (shaker, desander,
operations of basic system with zero
control program. and desilter) for mud
solids control discharge.
and hydraulics
programs.

Design cement
slurries and
Understand
procedures with
regulatory Design cement
sufficient pump time
requirements (fresh jobs for special
Design and other
water protection, situations (shallow
cementing characteristics to
zone isolation, water flow,
program. successfully complete
etc.). Understand underground
a job. Understand
application of basic blowout, etc).
application of
cement additives.
specialty cement
additives.