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Workover Manual Index

This document is the September 2013 workover manual from Saudi Aramco's Drilling Technical Department. It contains 11 chapters that provide guidelines and procedures for workover operations, including well location, casing, cementing, wellheads, lost circulation, abandonment, completion practices, wireline logging, fishing tools, milling, re-entry sidetracks, underbalanced coil tubing drilling, and health, safety and environmental issues. The manual aims to ensure workover practices are standardized and that safety is prioritized.

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Workover Manual Index

This document is the September 2013 workover manual from Saudi Aramco's Drilling Technical Department. It contains 11 chapters that provide guidelines and procedures for workover operations, including well location, casing, cementing, wellheads, lost circulation, abandonment, completion practices, wireline logging, fishing tools, milling, re-entry sidetracks, underbalanced coil tubing drilling, and health, safety and environmental issues. The manual aims to ensure workover practices are standardized and that safety is prioritized.

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SAUDI ARAMCO WORKOVER MANUAL

Drilling Technical Department September 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INFORMATION


A. INTRODUCTION Back

B. WORKOVER MANUAL ORIGINAL ISSUE & REVISION GUIDELINES


C. ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES
D. EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN
E. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
F. RIG SPECIFICATIONS
G. RIG CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 2 WORKOVER PRACTICES
A. WELL LOCATION
B. CASING
C. RUNNING CASING AND LINERS
D. CEMENTING
E. WELLHEADS
F. LOST CIRCULATION
G. ABANDONMENT GUIDELINES
H. CASING PATCHES AND CLADS
I. KILL AND LIVENING PROCEDURES
J. SURFACE AND DOWNHOLE PLUGS
K. IDENTIFYING SHALLOW GAS DURING WO OPERATIONS
CHAPTER 3 WORKOVER FLUIDS
1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 TYPES OF FLUID
3.0 MILLING FLUIDS
4.0 SPECIALIZED DRILLING FLUIDS
5.0 RESERVOIR DRILL-IN FLUIDS
6.0 CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUID ADDITIVES
7.0 SELECTING A COMPLETION FLUID
8.0 DISPLACEMENT TECHNOLOGY
9.0 PACKER FLUIDS
10.0 HANDLING COMPLETION FLUIDS
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11.0 CLEAR BRINE FILTRATION


12.0 DRILLING FLUID PRACTICES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
13.0 SOLIDS CONTROL
14.0 SAFETY
CHAPTER 4 COMPLETION PRACTICES
A. TUBING DESIGN
B. PACKER AND PBR COMPLETIONS
C. PACKER AND PBR SELECTION
D. RUNNING AND SETTING PROCEDURES
E. INTELLIGENT AND MULTI-LATERAL WELL COMPLETION
F. SAND SCREEN COMPLETION
G. INFLOW CONTROL DEVICE (ICD) COMPLETION
H. ZONAL ISOLATION
I. ESP COMPLETIONS
CHAPTER 5 WIRELINE LOGGING AND EXPLOSIVES
A. ELECTRIC LOGGING
B. LOGGING GUIDELINES
C. STUCK TOOL PROCEDURES
D. PERFORATING SYSTEMS, PUNCHERS AND CUTTERS
E. LOGGING WHILE DRILLING
CHAPTER 6 FISHING TOOLS
1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 TYPES OF FISHING TOOLS
CHAPTER 7 MILLING
1.0 DOWNHOLE MILLING SUMMARY
2.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF HARDFACING
3.0 OPERATION OF MILLING SHOES AND ROTARY SHOES
4.0 MILLING TOOLS
CHAPTER 8 RE-ENTRY SIDETRACKS
1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 DEFINITIONS
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3.0 WELLBORE CLEANOUT


4.0 CASING EXIT EQUIPMENT & OPERATIONS
5.0 DESCRIPTION OF DIRECTIONAL DRILLING
6.0 FEATURES OF A DIRECTIONAL WELL PROFILE
7.0 CURVE SECTION ISOLATION
8.0 SHORT RADIUS SIDETRACKS IN GHAWAR FIELD
9.0 ARAB C & D COMBINED SIDETRACK PROCEDURES IN GHAWAR FIELD
10.0 SHORT RADIUS SIDETRACKS IN GHAWAR FIELD
11.0 5-1/2” SOLID EXPANDABLE LINER SYSTEM
12.0 EXPANDABLE OPENHOLE LINER
13.0 HOLE PROBLEMS
CHAPTER 9 UNDERBALANCED COIL TUBING DRILLING
1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 SURFACE EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATIONS
3.0 UBCTD DOWNHOLE EQUIPMENT
4.0 DRILLING FLUID ADDITIVES
5.0 BASIC PROCEDURES FOR UBCTD
6.0 WELL AND SITE LOCATION LAYOUT
CHAPTER 10 HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
A. TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
B. RIG SAFETY INSPECTIONS & MEETINGS
C. H 2 S CONTINGENCY PLAN
D. SAFETY EQUIPMENT
E. SAFE HANDLING PROCEDURES
F. EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING AND DRILLS

CHAPTER 11 APPENDICES
1.0 GIs, LETTERS & REFERENCES
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2.0 SAUDI ARAMCO FORMS


3.0 WELL ACCOUNT CHARGE NUMBERS
4.0 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR DRILLING & WORKOVER RIG OPERATIONS
5.0 RIG INSPECTION CHECKLIST

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