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Advanced Surface Well Control Course Outline
IADC
Preliminary Items Killsheet, Kick Detection, Flow Checks,
-- Safety: escape routes, muster points, etc. Well Shut-in, and Gas Behavior
-- Discussion of special needs -- Related formulas/math (capacities/volumes,
-- Introductions strokes, circulation times, etc.)
-- Class paperwork -- Causes of kicks
-- Pre-Course exam. Students who score less than 80% are -- Kick signs 4.5 DAYS
encouraged to attend a standard WellSharp Supervisor course. ■■ Overt kick signs
■■ Pre-kick signs
Serious Well Control Problem From the Wild Well Library -- Flow-check procedures
-- Students form teams -- Shut-in procedures SUPERVISOR
-- Team discussion of the potential well control problem ■■ Hard shut-in
-- Simulator exercise demonstrating the well control challenge ■■ Soft shut-in
-- Return to class to discuss the challenge ■■ Shut-in challenges
-- Paper killsheet with preliminary well data
Well Control Course Objectives ■■ Well data, volume calculations
-- Formations, pore pressure, fracture gradients ■■ Discuss the importance of a killsheet
-- Killsheet, kick detection, flow checks, well shut-in, -- Simulator exercises demonstrating hard and soft shut-in
and gas behavior ■■ Kick detection and shut-in
-- Well control methods ■■ Students complete killsheet with simulator well data
-- Well control equipment (barriers, BOPs, manifolds, (or instructor-given data)
-- accumulator, etc.) ■■ Discussion of killsheet calculations:
-- Completing the well and post-completion activity ■■ What do they mean? (if needed) Discussion of
-- Final well control simulation: from kick to kill, with a complication IADC WellSharp rounding rules
-- Assessments: skills and written -- Gas behavior
■■ While drilling
Formations, Pore Pressure, Fracture Gradient ■■ In horizontal wells
-- Formation structure ■■ While shut-in
■■ Porosity
■■ Permeability Well Control Methods
-- Fracture gradients, kick tolerance, pore pressures -- Review of related formulas/math (capacities/volumes,
■■ Related formulas/math (hydrostatic pressure, the U tube, strokes, circulation times, kill mud, MAASP, ICP, FCP, etc.)
force, MAASP, etc.) -- U-Tube
■■ Equivalent mud weight ■■ Gauge readings – what they represent
■■ Kick tolerance –– Static pressures
■■ Pore pressure vs. fracture gradient (drilling margin/window) • SICP and SIDPP
-- Simulator exercise demonstrating a FIT; discussion of LOT • Formation pressure (FP)
(if needed, depending upon class knowledge level) • Bottom Hole pressure (BHP)
-- Discuss casing and cementing program –– Dynamic pressures
-- Discuss drilling fluids program • Pressure at the shoe
• Dynamic BHP
• Dynamic drillpipe pressure
■■ Boyles Law
–– Gas behavior
–– Boyles Law calculations
–– In relation to U-tube pressures
–– In relation to gauge pressure

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Advanced WellSHARP Drilling
Advanced Surface Well Control Course Outline
IADC
-- Wait and Weight Method -- Well control equipment (barriers, BOP, manifolds,
■■ Discussion of Wait and Weight accumulator, etc.)
–– Techniques ■■ Philosophy and operation of barrier systems
–– Skills (pump startup, step-down chart, gauge use, ■■ BOP stack, manifolds, and chokes
lag time, etc.)
■■ Simulator exercise
■■ Testing barriers: function and pressure tests
■■ Drillstring valves
4.5 DAYS
-- Driller’s Method ■■ Diverters: shallow gas, water flows, and surface/tophole drilling
■■ Discussion of Driller’s Method ■■ Accumulator Module
–– Techniques –– Purpose
SUPERVISOR
–– Skills (pump startup, capturing pressure after first circulation, –– Standards
lag time, etc.) –– Function
■■ Simulator exercise –– Checklists
–– Components
-- Volumetric and Lube and Bleed –– Bottle calculations
■■ Discussion of Volumetric Method –– Closing ratios
■■ Formulas –– Common failures
■■ Understanding the process and technique ■■ Mud/gas separators and degassers
■■ Skills (use of electronic killsheet or paper graph, -- Completing the well and post-completion activity: short discussion
managing gas migration) ■■ Completions
-- Simulator exercise ■■ Differences between drilling and workover
-- Discussion of Lube and Bleed
-- Final simulator exercise
Stripping Pipe Under Pressure ■■ Abnormal lateral well and kick detection
-- Discussion of technique ■■ Kill the well with Wait and Weight Method
-- Skills (annular pressure, speed of strip, managing wellbore ■■ Discussion
pressures via volumetric method) –– Ballooning wells vs. kicking wells
-- Simulator exercise –– Fingerprinting

Bullhead Method – Discussion and simulator exercise Discussion of Study Guide Questions
if time allows
Skills Assessment
Discussion of study guide questions
Computer-Based Wellsharp Exam

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