Introduction to Casing and Tubing Design

The objective of the “Introduction to Casing and Tubing Design” course is to provide engineers with a fundamental grounding in the mechanics of tubulars as applied to casing and tubing design.  Some of the key areas covered in the course include:  • The purpose of casing and required casing properties • Working Stress Design (WSD) and Reliability Based Design (RBD) for casing and tubing. • Strength theories including the ISO TR 10400 and API 5C3 limit states • Design and selection of connections, with emphasis on ISO 13679 approach to connection limits • Materials selection and fracture mechanics-based criteria for sour design (including ISO TR 10400 sour limits) • Overview of some special problems encountered in casing and tubing design, including buckling, thermal effects, annular pressure build-up, wellhead movement, casing wear, conductor design, designing with expandables, worn casing strength, thermal cyclic service, etc. • Hand calculation and visualization of design loads and strengths, in order to appreciate the physics of the design process  Numerous examples are used to illustrate the design process. At the end of the course, engineers should be very familiar with the principles and practice of casing and tubing design, and be able to apply them in their work.

Tuition: USD $3,900.00