Development Training Course on
Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Technologies and Operations
Advanced Drilling Control for Challenging Formations and Narrow Pressure Windows
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Why Choose This Course
The Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Technologies and Operations training course provides drilling engineers, well engineers and operations professionals with rigorous technical knowledge for MPD operations. It examines MPD principles, equipment, pressure-control methodology, operational procedures and safety management within a practical context. The course develops the technical understanding and operational confidence required to plan, implement and manage MPD safely and effectively. These capabilities apply across a broad range of well types, field settings and drilling environments.
MPD has changed how the industry approaches wells that conventional drilling cannot manage safely or economically. Its value is particularly significant in narrow pore-pressure-to-fracture-gradient windows, HPHT conditions, depleted reservoirs and deepwater drilling environments. The course covers MPD types, rotating control devices, choke manifold systems, ECD modelling, real-time monitoring integration, kick detection, well control considerations and HAZOPs. It also addresses HPHT field applications, lessons from failures and a hands-on MPD design exercise for technically demanding well environments.
This Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Technologies and Operations training course will highlight:
- Understanding MPD types and rotating control devices
- Examining choke manifold systems and pressure-control methodology
- Applying ECD modelling in demanding well conditions
- Integrating real-time monitoring and kick detection
- Addressing well control considerations, safety management and HAZOPs
- Evaluating HPHT applications, failure lessons and hands-on MPD design
How will this Training Course be Presented?
The Managed Pressure Drilling Technologies Course uses a technically organised, progressive learning methodology, advancing from MPD principles and system components to pressure control and wellbore hydraulics, operational processes, safety management, and the application of field case studies. Each day focuses on a separate technical area — developing a complete and integrated understanding of MPD, from initial concept to operational implementation.
Actual field case studies, ECD modelling discussions, HAZOP exercises, and a practical MPD design and operations planning workshop are incorporated throughout — enabling delegates to relate technical frameworks to the practical realities of field-based MPD.
Methods of delivery include:
- Instructor-facilitated sessions addressing MPD principles, system categories, equipment arrangements, and pressure control concepts
- Workshops on MPD equipment and system components, examining RCDs, choke manifolds, backpressure pumps, and control software within an operational setting
- Pressure control and ECD modelling sessions that apply annular pressure profile analysis and hydraulic modelling to MPD wellbore situations
- Discussions on real-time monitoring integration, exploring the interaction between MPD systems and data acquisition and automation platforms
- Analysis of field case studies and a group design workshop applying lessons from HPHT and narrow-margin well case studies to a practical MPD design and operations planning exercise