Successful Well Completion & Workover Practices
Build wells that perform as designed and remain serviceable throughout their life.
A five-day applied programme strengthening completion, intervention and workover decisions that protect production, integrity and long-term asset value.
5 Days | Advanced | Applied Technical Programme
Live Virtual | In-Person | Private Cohort
UPCOMING COHORTS
Live Virtual
September 21–25, 2026
5 Days | 5 Live Hours per Day
Americas| EMEA |APAC
US$4,495
Planning for a team?
Private cohorts and tailored corporate delivery are available.
Calgary
October 26–30, 2026
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
5 Days
US$4,995
Why This Capability Matters
Well-performance problems often begin long before a well fails.
Completion choices made during design and execution can later influence production, reliability, intervention access, integrity exposure and workover requirements.
A well may be completed once, but the consequences of those decisions can remain for decades.
Strong completion capability therefore asks more than whether a design can reach first production.
It asks whether the well can perform, remain reliable and stay serviceable throughout its life.
What Participants and Organizations Gain
Participants strengthen their ability to:
Evaluate completion options against productivity, integrity and intervention requirements.
Connect reservoir behaviour with completion design.
Assess formation damage, stimulation and sand-control requirements.
Apply tubing sizing, stress-analysis and materials-selection principles.
Evaluate completion equipment across varied operating environments.
Translate engineering intent into executable completion programmes.
Strengthen workover feasibility and intervention planning.
Recognize how early design decisions affect future access and reliability.
Evaluate trade-offs across cost, production, integrity and lifecycle value.
Organizations benefit through:
Stronger Completion Quality
Improve design, component selection and execution readiness.
Fewer Avoidable Workovers
Reduce design weaknesses that later create intervention liabilities.
Improved Production Reliability
Connect completion design more closely with reservoir and operating requirements.
Better Lifecycle Economics
Consider reliability, future access, intervention exposure and asset value alongside initial installation cost.
Five-Day Learning Journey
The programme progresses from reservoir-completion integration through design, execution and workover strategy.
Day 1 | Completion Fundamentals & Reservoir Interaction
Completion philosophy, project lifecycle, reservoir interaction, Darcy's Law, skin, perforation, stimulation concepts and completion design.
Day 2 | Stimulation, Sand Control & Performance Diagnostics
Hydraulic fracturing, candidate screening, sand production, sand control, artificial lift, production chemistry and performance diagnosis.
Day 3 | Tubing Design, Stress & Materials
Tubing stress analysis, load cases, metallurgy, corrosion, material selection and completion equipment.
Day 4 | Completion Installation & Operational Execution
Equipment readiness, procurement, installation planning, well clean-up, execution discipline and selected emerging completion technologies.
Day 5 | Well Control & Workover Strategy
Well-control principles, killing methods, workover planning, suspension, P&A, production enhancement and lifecycle applications.
Want the complete technical curriculum?
The Programme Guide includes the detailed daily programme, engineering calculations, exercises, completion project, technology applications and participant outcomes.
Applied Learning
Learn It. Design It. Defend the Decision.
Participants work through calculations, field cases and engineering decisions while developing a team-based Completion Design Project.
The project integrates:
Reservoir → Completion Design → Equipment → Execution → Production → Intervention → Workover → Lifecycle Value
Teams present and defend the assumptions, technical trade-offs and engineering logic behind their recommendations.
Private cohorts may substitute actual organizational wells, developments or field challenges for the standard project.
Who Should Attend
Designed for professionals responsible for well design, execution, intervention, integrity and production performance.
Core Technical Participants
Completion Engineers
Workover Engineers
Well Intervention Engineers
Well Integrity Engineers
Cross-Functional Participants
Reservoir Engineers
Production Engineers
Drilling Engineers
Petroleum Engineers
Operations professionals
Leadership & Technical Authority
Drilling & Completion Managers
Technical Authorities
Asset Managers
Wells Leaders
Senior Technical Professionals
Particularly valuable for professionals moving from specialist execution toward broader lifecycle responsibility, technical authority and asset-level decision making.
Why This Programme
Practice-Led
Grounded in real completion, intervention and workover experience.
Integrated
Connects reservoir, stimulation, completion, production, integrity and intervention decisions.
Engineering + Operations
Combines engineering calculations with field execution and operational judgment.
Applied
Cases, exercises and the Completion Design Project move learning into practice.
Lifecycle-Focused
Examines how early design choices influence future production, reliability and intervention feasibility.
Future-Ready Completion Capability
The programme introduces selected developments in digital engineering, monitoring, automation, advanced materials and emerging subsurface applications where they strengthen completion and workover decisions.
The objective is not to turn the programme into an energy-transition course.
It is to ensure proven completion engineering remains relevant as assets, technologies and service environments evolve.
What Participants Value
“The project design component was especially valuable.”
Completion Manager
“The programme was highly relevant to my work and projects. Strong expertise in well completion made the content practical and applicable.”
Senior Drilling & Completion Engineer
“A strong programme combining theory, explanation, experience sharing, videos and real project examples. Interactive and grounded in field experience.”
Subsea Control Engineer
Faculty
Michael Etuhoko
Executive Chair & Principal Faculty | 2025–26 SPE Distinguished Lecturer | Former Global Head of Completion & Well Integrity
Michael Etuhoko brings more than 35 years of international experience across well engineering, completion, intervention and workover.
His career includes senior technical and operational roles with TotalEnergies, Shell, KPO and HCML, with experience spanning HPHT, H₂S and CO₂ environments, sand control, hydraulic fracturing, complex wells and offshore and onshore operations.
Programme Details
Duration 5 Days
Level Advanced
Type Applied Technical Programme
Delivery Live Virtual, In-Person or Private Cohort
Certificate Certificate of Completion
Pathway Energy & Technical Capability
Academy Energy Academy
Investment
Calgary In-Person: US$4,995
Live Virtual: US$4,495
Future Cohorts
2026
Sept 21–25 | Live Virtual
Oct 26–30 | Calgary In-Person
Dec 14–18 | | Live Virtual
2027
April 19–23 | Calgary In-Person
Choose Your Participation Route
Individual Participant
Strengthen completion and workover capability through an upcoming public programme.
Employer-Sponsored Participant
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Corporate Team
Develop shared capability around your organization's wells, technical standards and operating challenges.
Design for performance today. Preserve serviceability tomorrow.
Build the engineering judgment required to improve completion quality, reduce avoidable intervention exposure and protect long-term well value.
