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.