Why Choose Level 4 Drilling Well Control Preparatory Course Training Course?
This Drilling Well Control course is essential training recommended for individuals in supervisory roles and office personnel involved in operations and decision-making within drilling activities. Participation in this course prepares personnel to assume full responsibility for well control decisions and effectively lead during drilling operations.
This AZTech training course is designed to develop critical decision-making skills, enable handling of complex well control situations, strengthen understanding of well control equipment, and improve safety leadership.
This training course features:
- Supervisory Role: Geared towards personnel responsible for wellsite decision-making, such as OIMs, Drilling Superintendents, Senior Well Engineers, and Toolpushers.
- Advanced Complexity: Moves beyond basic kick detection to focus on complex scenarios, including subsea BOPs, deepwater, and HPHT (High-Pressure High-Temperature) wells.
- Leadership and Crisis Management: Emphasizes managing teams during well control emergencies and interpreting complex data to make rapid decisions
What are the Goals?
This Training Course is designed to develop advanced supervisory competence in well control operations. It focuses on enhancing both technical expertise and leadership capability to ensure safe and efficient drilling activities.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Ensure well control competency at a supervisory level, managing operations with confidence and authority
- Strengthen kick prevention techniques and improve early detection of well control risks
- Enable safe and effective well shut-in procedures under various operational conditions
- Apply appropriate well kill methods, including advanced techniques for complex scenarios
- Develop advanced problem-solving skills to manage unexpected well control challenges
- Enhance understanding of well control equipment, including BOP systems and associated technologies
These goals ensure participants are fully equipped to lead, manage, and control well operations safely and effectively.
Who is this Training Course for?
The training course is intended for experienced drilling personnel who are responsible for decision-making and supervision of well control operations.
This AZTech training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Drilling supervisors responsible for overseeing wellsite operations and safety
- Tool-pushers and senior rig supervisors managing drilling teams and equipment
- Drilling engineers involved in planning and executing well operations
- Wellsite leaders responsible for operational safety and well control decisions
- Operations advisors and superintendents overseeing drilling performance and risk management
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This AZTech training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes lectures and presentations, case studies, exercises, videos and general discussions.
The Course Content
Principles and procedures
Overview
- Well control incidents
- Well control training and assessment
Introduction to well control
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Formation pressure
- Fracture pressure
- Primary well control
- Secondary well control
- Secondary well control equipment
Barriers
- Barrier concept
- Barrier management
Risk management
- Well control and emergency drills
Exercises and Case Study
Causes of kicks
- General
- Loss of hydrostatic pressure
- Hydrostatic effect
- Gas cutting
- Lost circulation
- Swab and surge effects
- Tripping
Kick warning signs and kick indicators
- Kick warning signs and first actions
- Kick indicators
- Shallow gas
Circulating system
- Definition and principles
- Slow circulation rates (SCR)
- Fracture pressure and MAASP
Influx characteristics and behaviour
- Principles
- Influx behaviour
Exercises and Case Study
Shut-in procedures
- General principles
- Procedure
- Hang off
- Wireline operations
- Interpretations
- Observations
- Influx migration
Well-control methods
- Principles
- Kill method principles
- Choke line friction
- Driller’s method and wait and weight method
- Kill sheet calculations (pre-tour)
- Perform kill sheet calculations (post kick)
- Volumetric methods
- Lubricate and bleed method
- Stripping
Well control during casing and cementing
- Running and pulling casing and liner
- Cementing casing and liner
- Shut-in procedures when running casing
Well-control management
- Well control drills
Contingency planning
- Recognition of problems and first actions
- Pressure gauge failure
- Mud/gas separators (mgs)
- Bop failure
- Hydrate formation
- Lost circulation during a well-controlled event
Exercises and Case Study
Blowout preventers (bops)
- Bop stack configuration
- Ram type preventers
- Blind/shear ram preventers
- Annular preventers
- Side outlet valves
- Connections
- Diverters
- Inside bops (ibops) and drill pipe safety valves (dpsvs)
- Choke manifolds and chokes
- Routing of lines
- Manual and remote chokes
- Auxiliary equipment
- Mud gas separators (mgs)
- Vacuum degasser
- Testing
- Bop and equipment testing
- Inflow testing
- Bop control systems
- Bop control systems
- Subsea bop control systems
Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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