IADC Well Sharp Well Control for Surface BOP Introductory Level

Course Outline

• Day 1
  • Well barriers & standards for barriers
  • Well barrier elements and acceptance criteria
  • Responsibilities for well control& well integrity
  • Pressure calculations
  • Well control definitions & concepts
  • API Recommended Practices and API Specifications
  • U-tube analogy for well pressure calculations
  • Well control Equipmnet (BOP, Diverter, Flamges,Rings,Rams,etc…)
  • Kick tolerance
  • Kick causes, prevention & detection
  • Warning signs.
  • Shallow gas
  • Well control preparation
  • Well shut-in procedures & first actions
  • Practical - simulator overview and demonstration of well control load cases
• Day 2
  • Hydrostatic pressure and barriers
  • Gas behavior in WBM
  • Tripping procedures for well control point of view
  • Killing Methods
  • Conventional well control procedures
  • Unconventional well control procedures
  • Well control complications
  • Compensating for Choke Line Friction ( for Subsea candidates)
  • Riser Margin ( for subsea candidates)
  • Workshop - Driller's Method
  • Gas behaviors in OBM
  • Difference between vertical and deviated well control
  • Circulation
  • Practical - Full scenario (kick detection, shut-in, circulate out kick) simulations
• Day 3
  • Well control equipment Specifications
  • Well control equipment selection
  • Confirm shutting well in
  • Well control while tripping
  • Stripping operations
  • Deviated wells killing procedures
  • Well control equipment installation
  • Well control equipment testing
  • Practical - Full scenario (kick detection, shut-in, circulate out kick) simulations with ‘unexpected’ events included.
• Day 4
  •  Killing procedure over view
  • Case studies
  • Worst situations while well control issues
  • The needs to shut the well faster
  • PracticalAssessment test with simulator.
  • Group discussion
  • When not involved with the practical assessments, participants will be completing quiz test.
  • Self-Study (using question bank) to prepare for written examinations
  • Course review and open discussion.