| Date: | TBA |
| Location: | London |
Content recommendation based on OGP Document.
Condition: A candidate must be sponsored by an operator or a service company and must have a Wellsharp Well Control certificate or IWCF Level 4 Well Control certificate.
Instructors:
H Rabia (course syllabus varies slightly between instructors)
Course Duration:
One week
Who Should Attend:
Drilling Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, Rig Managers and Toolpushers. Some wellsite or operations experience and a basic knowledge of well control equipment are beneficial for this course.
Objectives:
To learn detailed well control procedures including volumetric and stripping methods and bullheading.
Learn to produce annular pressure profiles and deal with equipment failure.Other topics include: horizontal well control, correcting kick graphs, HPHT wells considerations, well control during casing and cementing and well barriers. Delegates are strongly advised to bring a laptop loaded with Excel in order to solve the many exercises given in this intensive course.
Content:
- Well barriers
- Leak off and FIT tests and proper interpretation
- Kick tolerance
- Review of primary well control methods
- Influx characteristics
- Primary and secondary build-up interpretations : choosing proper SIDPP and SICP
- Gas solubility and effects of Z factors
- Annular pressure profiles: Drillers and W& W Methods : Detailed example
- HPHT Well considerations: Comparing surface and downhole kicks
- Horizontal well control
- Correcting kick line graphs
- Single and distributed kicks : surface signs
- Volumetric method : details and actual worked example
- Stripping method:worked example
- Well control when running casing and cementing
- Bullheading
- Dynamic and momentum kill methods
- Trapped annulus pressure
- Dealing with MAASP and its effect on shoe fracture pressure
- Shallow gas
- Underground blowouts
- Hydrates: Determining the onset of hydrates
- Relief well design considerations
- Degassers design considerations: determining optimum kill rate
- Risk management
- Underground blowouts
- Tertiary well control methods
- Risk management