Course description
Knowledge is the key to prevention!
Drilling Well Control training has been developed by the industry and is for personnel in critical well control roles on offshore drilling installations or onshore operations.
Our Level 3 based Drilling Well Control course is essential training for those currently working in a role that is expected to shut-in a well.
The course aims to reinforce and improve your existing knowledge and appreciation of the various stages of shutting-in a well; from kick detection to shutting in the well, to monitoring once the well is shut in and monitoring the well-kill operation.
In less than forty hours, this course will assist you in achieving the learning outcomes that have been developed for each of the learning objectives contained in the syllabus. The outcome indicates how each learning objective will be fulfilled with a detailed description of the skills a student must have at the end of the course. These learning outcomes are the basis for our Safetyman Academy assessment test.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who the Course is for
This course is for participants whom need to learn the skills and responsibilities required to promotion or those currently working in a role that is expected to shut-in a well.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By taking this course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand your own responsibilities for well control
- Identify and report potential influxes or anomalies during drilling or related operations.
- Assess workplace readiness levels
- Comply with the well control standards
Training Course Content
- Primary and Secondary Well Control
- Well Planning
- Casing and Casing Seat Selection
- Pressures
- Hydrostatic Pressure and Conversion Factors
- Circulating Dynamic Pressure and Bottom Hole Pressure
- Formation Fluid Pressure (Pf)
- Abnormal Pressures
- Supercharging of Shallow Formations
- Sediment Compression
- Salt Beds and Mineralisation
- Formation Fracture Pressure (Pfb)
- Maximum Allowable Annular Surface Pressure
- Kick Tolerance
- Causes of Kicks
- Failing to Fill the Hole Properly
- Continous Circulating Trip Tank
- Dry and Wet Tripping
- Swabbing in a Kick
- Insufficient Mud Weight and Abnormal Formation Pressures
- Lost Circulation
- Shallow Gas Sands and Excessive Drilling Rate in Gas Bearing Sands
- Kick Indicators
- Indications That a Kick is in Progress
- Pit Volume Increase
- Pump Pressure Decrease / Pump Stroke Increase
- Drilling Break and Hole Flowing Whilst Running in
- Flow Check Procedure and Indicators
- Drilling Rates and Drilling Exponent
- Torque, Drag and Gas Levels in Mud
- Flowline Temperatures and Flow Properties Changes
- Shale Density, Heaving Shales and Shale Composition
- Mud Flow Systems
- Shut-in Procedures
- Positive Indications of a Kick Actions
- Soft Shut in Procedures
- Hard Shut in Surface Drilling
- Diverter Procedure While Drilling – Fixed Rig
- Soft Shut-in Procedure While Drilling and Tripping – Floating Vessel
- Hard Shut in Floating Vessel
- Shut – in Procedure While Running Casing and Wireline Operations
- Kill Methods
- Balance of Pressures
- Constant Bhp Kill Methods
- Drillers Method
- Driller Method First Circulation
- Driller Method Second Circulation
- Wait and Weight Method
- Volumetric Method
- Well Control Equipment
- Surface and Subsea Stacks
- Gray Inside Bop, Kelly Guard Valves and Top Drive Safety Valves
- Check Guard Valves, Drill Pipe Float Valves
- Ram Bops and Operation
- Secondary Seal
- Cameron ‘u’ Bop Shearing Options
- U Ii Bop Subsea
- ‘u’ Bop – Pipe Ram Variants and Wedgelock
- Hydril Ram Preventers and Operation
- Hydril Ram Types
- Mpl – Multiple Position Locking System
- Shaffer ‘sl’ Ram and Operation
- Manual Locking System ‘sl’ Bop
- Poslock System ‘sl’ Bop and Ultralock System ‘sl’ Bop
- Shaffer Pipe Rams, Multi-rams, Type 72 Rams
- Type 72 Shear Rams – Shearing Action
- Shaffer Spherical Bop
- Bop Operating and Control System
- Stripping Operations
- Annulars Cameron ‘dl’
- Annulars – Hydril ‘gk’
- Packing Unit Replacement – Screwed Head
- Annulars – Hydril ‘gl’ Preventer
- Hydril Packing Units’ Selection
- Diverters – Vetco and Kfdj
- Diverters – Hydril Msp
- Diverters
- Mud Gas Separator (Poor Boy Degasser)
- Flanges and Ring Gaskets
- Different Types of Gaskets
- Hydraulic Bop Closing Unit
- Accumulator Types
- Subsea Well Control Equipment
- Subsea Bop Control Systems
- Indirect Hydraulic Systems
- Indirect Hydraulic Bop Control System
- Bop Control System Operating Sequence
- Block and Open Function and Control Fluid Circuit
- Pilot Fluid Circuit
- Hydraulic Power Unit – Mixing System, High Pressure Pumps and Accumulator Banks
- Central Hydraulic Control Manifold
- Regulator Control and Pressure Readback
- Hose Reels and Umbilical Hose
- Subsea Control Pods
- Spm Valves, Regulators and Redundancy System
- Trouble-shooting the Subsea Control System
- Malfunctions
- Rams and Fail Safe Valves (Subsea)
- Subsea Annular Hook-ups
- Additional Valves, and Couplings
- Well Control From a Floating Vessel
- Special Problems Associated With Well Control From a Floating Rig
- Riser Margins and Kick Tolerance
- Choke Line Friction Losses (Clfl)
- Clfl and Sicp Over Pressure
- Fracturing of Casing Seat and Riser Collapse
- Drill Pipe Bop Installed
- Pressure Changes at the Choke When Gas Reaches the Choke Line
- Hang-off Procedures During Bad Weather
- Example Well Kill Calculation
- Example Well Kill Calculation Answers
- Stripping
- Introduction to Stripping
- A Typical Stripping Rig Up – Steps 1 – 3
- A Typical Stripping Rig Up – Steps 4 – 7
- Stripping Procedures
- Surface Presssure Considerations
- Stripping Procedures for Preventor Combinations
- Gas Kick and Special Problems
- Influx Behaviour
- Gas Migration
- Gas Expansion
- Exceeding Maximum Allowable Surface Pressure
- Lost Circulation During a Kill
- Kicks With Bit Off Bottom or Out of the Hole
- Procedures for Dealing With Kicks
- Soluble Gas Kicks
- Hydrocarbon Base Muds
- Glossary of Terminology
- List of Abbreviations
- Well Control Formulae (Api and Common Units)
- Well Control Formulae (Si)
- Appropriate Conversions
- Additional Formulae
Course delivery details
The average time needed to complete the course is 40 hours and the minimum pass mark for the exam is 70% and is valid for 2 years.
- Minimal disruption to the working day – the self-study course is delivered 100% online.
- Designed for anyone with the desire to understand drilling well control methods, in any sector, worldwide.
- Provides the knowledge and tools required to identify roles and responsibilities in a well control situation.
- High-impact programme
- Efficient and effective learning – principles and procedures and well control equipment, including subsea topics are covered in a single, self-contained course
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