Well Control Fundamentals
Well control awareness for new rig crew, support and service staff and office-based engineers who work on or with drilling and workover rigs. It covers pressure basics, barriers, the causes and warning signs of kicks, trip discipline, the blowout preventer and shut-in in principle, and what each person does during a kick. It is awareness training and not a well control certificate.
- Modules
- 6
- Max students
- 20
- Language
- EN
What it usually covers
- 1
Well Control and Why It Matters
- What Well Control Is
- Blowouts and Their Consequences
- Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
- Your Part in Well Control
- 2
Pressure Basics
- Pressure, Depth and Mud Weight
- Hydrostatic Pressure
- Formation Pressure: Normal and Abnormal
- Fracture Pressure and the Pressure Window
- 3
Levels of Well Control and Well Barriers
- Primary Well Control: The Mud Column
- Secondary and Tertiary Well Control
- Well Barriers and the Two-Barrier Principle
- Testing and Verifying Barriers
- 4
Kicks: Causes and Warning Signs
- How a Kick Behaves in the Well
- Kick Causes: Mud Weight, Hole Fill and Losses
- Kick Causes: Swabbing, Gas-Cut Mud and Abnormal Pressure
- Kick Warning Signs While Drilling
- Tripping and the Trip Tank
- The Flow Check
- 5
Well Control Equipment and Shutting In
- The Blowout Preventer Stack
- Choke Manifold, Kill Line and Mud-Gas Separator
- The Accumulator and Drill String Valves
- Shutting In the Well
- Shut-In Pressures and Kill Methods in Concept
- 6
Drills, Roles and Special Situations
- Well Control Drills
- Your Role During a Kick
- Shallow Gas and Hydrogen Sulfide
- Well Control in Workover and Intervention
- Human Factors and Lessons from Incidents
This page describes what the training usually covers. Each training provider may change the content, the length and the order to suit the group. Confirm the final content with the training provider before you book.
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