Drilling Well Control
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Course Objectives:
1. To provide participants with a good understanding of drilling operations and
maintenance of wells as they relate to safety, including appreciation of the
interrelationship between petroleum operations and industrial activities relating
to drilling and maintenance of wells;
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To provide participants with an advanced knowledge of well control equipment,
the safe operation of well control equipment and techniques;
To provide participants with a good understanding in preventative well control EMM eeu ere
measures, recognition of well control events, measurement of well control
parameters and proper response to observations and measurements;
‘Toprovide participants with a good understanding of closingin Blowout prevention
equipment to stop unwanted formation fluids in the wellbore. In the event of
unwanted formations fluids entering the wellbore, then gaining understanding
in using the various well control techniques in a controlled manner to regain,
primary well control and dispose of the unwanted fluids safel
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To provide practical hands-on training in proper well control procedures during
simulated kick situations using a certified simulator; and
‘To increase risk awareness and to present risk mitigation measures.Instructor's Specific Qualifications:
1 Alll instructors are certified by IWCF/IADC for all levels of well control trainings. Instructors are come from engineering
background and they possess practical field experience.
2. The course is under the supervision of more than one Instructor all of them are qualified.
3. Ahmed Samir, Khaled Mounir, Steve Copper (Bios all in one page)
Course contents:
4. Core curriculum include a body of knowledge and a set of
job skills that can be used to provide well control skills for,
industrial operations related to drilling and maintenance
of wells activities including Subsea operations;
2. Practical exercises be provided to give participants hands.
‘on experience in implementing and completing the well
control techniques and procedures taught in lecture;
3.The Simulator, well facility, etc. being used provide
realistic responses and scenarios that a participant would
encounter in the field;
4.A minimum of two simulated well control practice
exercises be provided for each participant on a properly
certified [IWCF/IADC approved] simulator used for the
training and assessment; and
5. Course as a minimum cover the following topics:
5.1. Well Control Math and definitions, including:
5.11. Basic Math;
5.1.2. Rounding;
5.1.3, Pressure fundamentals;
5.14, Volume Calculations (Capacities &
Displacements);
5.15. Force.
5.2.Government, Industry, and Company Rules, Orders
and Policies, including
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Practices, Standards and Bulletins pertaining to well
control;
5.2.2. Bridging Documents;
5.2.3, Federal, Regional and / or local regulations
where required;
5.24, Policies & Practices;
5.25, Asan Supervisor, appreciation of the
interrelatronship between petroleum
operations and industrial operations related
to drilling and maintenance of wells;
5.2.6, Crew's Responsibility During Well Control
Operations;
5.2.7. Minimum Training Requirements.
5.3, Well Planning, including
5.3.1, Formation Pressure;
5.3.2, Formation Strength;
5.3.3, Well Planning;
5.3.4, Leak Off Test (LOT); and
5.35, Formation Integrity Test (FIT).
5.4, Pressure Concepts and Calculations, including:
5.4.1. Types of pressure Calculations;
5.4.2. Pressure versus Force calculations;
5.4.3, Conversion of pressure to an equivalent mud
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5.4.4. Volume/Height relationship and effect on
pressure;
5.4. Drop in pump pressure as fluid density
increases during well control operations;
5.4.6, Maximum wellbore pressure limitations;
5.4.7. Hydrostatic Pressure;
5.4.8, Formation Pressure;
5.4.9, Height of Influx;
5.4.10. Gradient of Influx;
5.4.11. Kill Mud Weight;
5.4.12. 1CP;
5.4.13. FCP;
5.4.14, Strokes / Time;
5.4.15. Pump Strokes / Pressure Relationship; and
5.4.16. Mud Weight Change / Pressure
Relationship.
5.5.Gas Characteristics and Behavior, including:
55.1. Gas types;
55.2. Density, pressure/volume relationship;
55.3. Boyle's Gas Law and Accumulator
Calculations:
55.4. Migration & Gas bubble migration;
5.55. Gas Expansion and migration relationships;
55.6. Solubility of gases;
55.7. Pressure/Temperature/Compressibility
Effects on Fluids/Gases and phase behavior; and
55.8. Solubility in mud.
5.6. Well Control Principles, including:
5.6.1. Primary Well Control;
5.6.2. Kick Fundamentals:
5.6.2.1. Definition of a kick;
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5.6.2.2. Causes of Kid
> Unintentional flow or “kick” from a
formation; and
> Intentional flow or “kick” from a
formation.
5.6.2.3. Kick Detection:
» Kick indicators;
> Warning signals that indicate a kick may
be occurring or is about to occur;
» Indications of possible increasing
formation pressure;
> Importance of responding to kick
indicators in a timely manner; and
> Distinguishing kick indicators and
warning signals from other occurrences.
5.6.3. Tripping Practices;
5.6.4. Drilling Fluids:
5.6.4.1. Types of drilling fluids;
5.6.4.2. Fluid property effects on pressure
losses;
5.6.4.3. Fluid density measuring techniques;
5.6.4.4, Mud properties following weight-up
and dilution.
5.65. Secondary Well Control; and
5.6.6, Tertiary Well Control.
5.7, Procedures, including:
5.7.1. Set/Check Alarm limits;
5.7.2. Pre-recorded well control information;
5.7.3. Flow checks, including checks after
cementing;
5.7.4. Shut
5.75. Verification of shut-in;
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5.7.7. Response to massive or total loss of
circulation;
5.7.8. Tripping;
5.7.9. Well control drills (types and frequency};
5.7.10. Formation competency;
5.7.11 Stripping operations; and
5.7.12 Shallow gas hazards.
5.8. Well Control Equipment, including:
5.8.1. Well control related instrumentatfon;
5.8.2. BOP configuration;
5.8.3, Manifolds and piping
5.84. Valving;
5.85, Auxiliary well control equipment;
5.8.6. BOP closing unit — function and performance;
5.8.7. Testing/Completion pressure control equipment;
5.8.8, Pressure and function tests;
5.8.9, Well control equipment arrangements;
5.8.10, Minimum BOP Requirements;
5.8.11. Minimum Diverter Requirements;
5.8.12. Closing Units and Accumulator Requirements;
5.8.13, Choke and kill Manifold Requirements;
5.8.14, Other Well Control Equipment;
5.8.15, Wal Control Equipment Testing Requirements;
5.8.16, Closing and Opening Ratios; and
5.8.17. Government Regulations.
5.9. Actions Upon Taking A Kick, including:
5.9.1, Detecting a Kick;
5.9.2. Containment as Early as Possible;
5.9.3, Shut-in Procedures;
5.9.4, Hang-off Procedure;
5.95, Shut-in Period Prior to Well Kill;
5.9.6. Gas Migration / Review Gas Law;
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5.9.7. Volumeto Bleed to Maintain Constant BHP;
5.9.8 MASP or MAASP; and
5.9.9. MGS (Mud Gas Separator).
5.10, Preparation & Prevention, including.
5.10.1. Preparation of Equipment and Materials;
5.10.2, Well Control Drills
5.10.3, Pre Recorded Information; and
5.10.4, Kick Prevention During Operations.
5.11, Well Control/Kill Methods/Techniques, including:
5.11.1. Objectives of well control techniques;
5.11.2, Techniques for controlling or killing a
producing well;
5.11.3, Preparing for well entry;
5.11.4, No returns pumping technique (e.g.
Bullheading);
5.115. Volumetric method/ technique and
lubricate & bleed;
5.11.6, Constant bottomhole pressure (BHP)
methods (forward or reverse circulation};
5.11.7. Example steps for maintaining constant.
bottomhole pressure well control;
5.11.8, Driller’s Method;
5.11.9, Wait and Weight Method;
5.11.10. Stripping;
5.11.11. Preparation of Well control kill worksheet;
5.11.12. Well control procedures; and
5.11.13, Other well control methods.
5.12, Well Control Complications and Solutions, including:
5.12.1. Complications:
5.12.1.1. Trapped pressure;
5.12.1.2. Pressure on casing:
5.12.1.3. Underground flow;
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5.12.15. Hydrates; and
5.12.1.6. Lost circulation
5.13. Specific Environments, including:
5.13.1, Deviated / Horizontal Well Control
5.13.2. Shallow Gas / Diverting Procedures;
5.13.3. Hydrogen Sulphide;
5.13.4. HP/HT (High Pressure / High Temperature);
v. Lost Circulation;
5.135. Underbalanced Drilling;
5.13.6. Slim Hole; and
5.13.7. Government Regulations.
5.14, Subsea Operations, including:
5.14.1. Subsea Well Control, including:
5.14.11. Subsea equipment;
5.14.1.2 Diverter system;
5.14.13. Kick detection issues;
5.14.14. Procedures;
5.14.15. Compensating for hydrostatic head
changes in choke lines;
5.14.6. Choke Line Friction Loss;
5.14.17. Gas in Choke Line / Riser;
5.14.18. Riser Margin;
5.14.19. Hydrates;
5.14.1.10. Trapped Gas / Removal;
5.14.1.11 Deepwater Well Control; and
5.14.1.12, Government Regulations.
5.14.2. Shut-In for Subsea and Deepwater Wells:
5.14.2.1. Shut-in for subsea wells.
5.14.3. Subsea and Deepwater Well Kill
Considerations, including:
5.14.3.1. Constant bottom hole pressure
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5.14.3.2, Bullheading
5.14.3.3. Number of choke and kill ines;
5.14.34. Volumetric method; and
5.14.35, Dynamic lubrication methods,
5.14.4, Subsea and Deepwater Well Control —
Shallow Flow(s), including:
5.14.4.1. Shallow flow(s) prior to BOP
installation;
5.14.4.2 Shallow flow detection;
5.14.4. Shallow flow prevention technique,
procedures and practices;
5.14.44, Shallow flow well control methods.
5.14.5, Subsea and Deepwater Well Control Kick
Prevention and Detection, including:
5,145.1. Kick Prevention & Detection; and
5,145.2. Riser gas considerations.
5.15, Subsea & Deepwater Well Control—_BOP Arrangements,
including:
5.15.1. Subsea BOP Stack;
5.15.2. Choke manifold system;
5.15.3, Subsea control systems; and
5.15.4, Diverter System — Floating Unit.
5.16, Subsea & Deepwater Well Control — Riser System,
including:
5.16.1. Riser considerations;
5.16.2, Boost lines; and
5.16.3. Fillup valves (dump valve).
5.17. Subsea and Deepwater Well Control - ROV
Interventions, including:
5.17.1. Minimum subsea BOP/ROV intervention
functions; and
5.17.2. Common BOP override functions.
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Fluids, including
5.18.1. Subsea drilling fluid considerations; and
5.18.2. Fluid storage.
5.19. Subsea and Deepwater Well Emergency
Disconnect, including:
5.19.1. DP emergency disconnect considerations.
6. Special Situations, including:
6.1. Hydrogen sulfide (H25);
6.2. Horizontal well control considerations;
6.3. Off bottom kills;
6.4. Underground blowouts;
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6.5. Combination thief and kick zones;
6.6. False kick indicators
6.7. Pipe reciprocation during well kill (biaxial loading};
6.8. Underbalanced drilling;
6.9. Slim-hole well control considerations;
6.10, Coiled tubing
6.11, Snubbing
6.12, New well control technology and equipment;
6.13, High pressure/high temperature considerations;
6.14, Tapered string/tapered hole,
6.15, Wellhead component failure points,
6.16, Shut-in and circulating kick tolerance;
6.17. Small tubing unit; and
6.18. Wireline.
Subject Area tecture Exercises
1, Introduction to drilling and Well Control Mathematics 1.0 Operations
‘2. Government, industry, and Company Rules, Orders and Policies, including as an Supervisor,
appreciation of interrelationship between Petroleum operations and 1.5 industrial operations
related to drilling and maintenance of wells
3. Well Planning 1.0
4, Pressure Concepts and Calculations 15
5. Gas Characteristics and Behavior 10
6. Well Control Principles, including maintenance of wells 2.0
7. Procedures 125
8, Simulator Exercises a 3.0
‘9. Well Control Equipment 2.0
10. Actions Upon Taking A Kick 15
1, Preparation & Prevention 15
12. Well Control/Kill Techniques 2.0
13. Simulator Exercises a 3.0
‘14, Well Control Complications 1.25
115. Specific Environments 1.0
16. Subsea Operations 3.0
17. Simulator Exercises - 3.0
18, Situations Special 1.0
19. Case Studies 10
20. Simulator Exercises -
21, Written Exam, 20
22. Simulator Exam. - 25
Sub Total 25.5 14.5
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Course Goals & Learning Objectives
41. Introduction:
LL Performance Objective: Students will understand
the purpose & the objectives of the course and course
procedures
1.2. Students will demonstrate understanding of the
following:
2. Knowledge of the Government, Industry, and Company
Rules, Orders and Policies, including:
2.1.Knowledge of IWCF, IADC, API and ISO Practices,
2.2.Standards and Bulletins pertaining to well control;
2.3.Recognize Bridging Documents:
2.4. (a) Describe how bridging documents can resolve
differences between operator and contractor well control
policies (e.g., shallow gas and diverter operations).
2.5.Recognize Federal, Regional and /or local regulations
where required;
2.6. Knowledge of Polices & Practices;
2.7. As an Supervisor, recognize the importance of
interrelationship between petroleum operations and
industrial operations related to driling & maintenance
of wells; and
2.8. Recognize Crew's Responsibility During Well Control
Operations
3. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills of Well Planning,
including:
3.1. Formation Pressure;
3.2. Formation Strength;
3.3. Well Planning,
3.4. Leak Off Test (LOT); and
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3.5.Formation Integrity Test (FIT).
4, Demonstrate the understanding of pressure concepts and
caleulatfons, including:
4.1. Types of pressure, including:
4.1.1, U-tube concept and hydrostatic column;
4.1.2. Define Pressure gradient;
4.1.3. Define Formation gradient;
4.1.4, Define and calculate Hydrostatic pressure;
4.15. Define and calculate Bottomhole pressure;
4.1.6, Differential pressure;
4.1.7. Define Surface pressure and describe its
effect on downhole pressures;
4.1.8. Explain System pressure losses (circulating
friction pressure losses);
4.1.9, Estimate system pressure losses due to pump
speed and/or fluid density changes;
4.1.10, “Trapped” pressure;
4.1.11. Casing shoe pressure;
4.1.12. Surge and swab pressures;
4.1.13, Explain causes and effects of surge
pressures on wellbore;
4.1.14, Calculate Hydrostatic pressure change due
to loss of fluid levels and/or fluids with
different mud densitres (e.g, pills slugs,
washes, spacers, etc.);
4.1.15. Static and dynamic calculation of
bottomhole pressure; and
4.1.16, Fracture pressure (leak-off pressure) as
defined by API RP 59;
4.2, Knowledge of the Types of pressure Calculations;
4,3, Ability to perform the calculations, including:
4.3.1. Volume of tanks and pits;
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output;
4.3.3, Displacement of open and closed pipe;
4.3.4, Annular capacity per unit length;
4.35, Annular volume;
4.3.6. Hydrostatic pressure
4.3.7. Fracture pressure (as defined by API RP 59};
4.3.8. Formation pressure;
4.3.9. Conversion from pressure to equivalent fluid
density;
4.3.10. Kill mud weight;
4.3.11, Circulation time;
4.3.12. Bottoms up time for normal drilling;
4.3.13, Total circulating time, including surface
equipment;
4.3.14, Surface-to-bit time;
4.3.15. Bitto-shoe time;
4.3.16, Bottoms up strokes;
4.3.17, Surface-to-bit strokes;
4.3.18, Bit-to-shoe strokes;
4.3.19, Total circulating strokes, including surface
equipment;
4.3.20. Pump output (look up from chart values
only);
4.3.21. Equivalent circulating density based on
annular pressure;
4.3.22. Relationship between pump pressure and
pump speed;
4.3.23, Relationship between pump pressure and
mud density;
4.3.24. Maximum allowable annulus surface
pressure;
4.3.3. Effect of water depth on formation strength
calculation;
4.3.26. Gas laws PV=K;
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4.3.27. Weighting material required to increase
density per volume;
4.3.28, Volume increase due to increase in density;
4.3.29. Volume to be bled off, corresponding to
pressure increase (volumetric method);
4.3.30. Initial circulating pressure;
4.3.31. Final circulating pressure;
4.3.32, Riser volume and fluid required to displace;
4.3.33, Choke and kill line volumes;
4.3.34. Choke and kill line strokes;
4.3.35. Choke and kill line circulatron time; and
4.3.36, Pressure drop per step
4.4, Understanding of Pressure versus Force calculations;
4.5. Understanding of Conversion of pressure to an
equivalent mud weight:
45.1. Required mud weight:
45.1.1. Fluid density increase required to
balance formation pressure;
4.5.2. Equivalent circulating density (ECD),
includin,
45.2.1. ECD loss during flow check while
drilling; and
45.2.2. No ECD loss during tripping flow
check,
4.5.3. Calculate fluid density increase required to
balance formation pressure;
45.4. Calculate the effect of circulating friction
pressure losses on surface and downhole
pressures, including:
45.4.1, Volume/Height relationship and
effect on pressure;
45.4.2. Calculate height of a given volume of
fluid
45.4.3. Drop in pump pressure as fluid
density increases during well control
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4.5.45. Maximum wellbore pressure
limitatvons:
» Surface (e.g, wellhead, BOP, casing);
> Subsurface (e.g, perforations, casing
shoe, open hole formation); and
> Describe the consequences of
exceeding maximum — wellbore
pressure limitations.
Hydrostatic Pressure;
Formation Pressure;
45.4.8. Height of Influx;
45.4.9. Gradient of Influx;
45.4.10. Kill Mud Weight;
454.11 ICP;
454.12. FCP;
4.5.4.13.Strokes / Time;
454.14. Pump — Strokes /
Relatronship; and
45.4.15.Mud Weight Change / Pressure
Relatronship,
5. The knowledge of Gas Characteristics and Behavior,
including:
5.1. Recognize Gas types, including:
5.11. Hydrocarbon;
5.1.2. Toxi¢;
5.1.3.H25; and iv. C02.
5.2. Knowledge of Density, including:
5.2.1, Gas;
5.2.2. Gas and mud mixtures;
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and its effect on the hydrostatic column;
5.2.4. Describe how the presence of gas affects;
wellbore pressure;
5.25. Explain the effect of gas cutting on bottomhole
pressure and theuse of pit level monitoringto
recognize hydrostatic loss; and
5.2.6. Describe the conditions where gas cutting
may have little effect on hydrostatic head and
bottomhole pressure.
5.3, Knowledge of Pressure/volume relationship:
5.4, State Boyle's Gas Law and Knowledge of Accumulator
Calculations:
5.5. Knowledge of Migration & Gas bubble migration,
including:
5.5.1. Ifthe well is left shut-in while gas is migrating;
5.5.2. Ifthe wells allowed to remain open with no
control;
5.5.3. If bottomhole pressure is controlled; and
5.5.4. Explain the consequences of gas migration.
5.6. Knowledge of Gas Expansion and migration
relationships, including:
5.6.1. While in well;
5.6.2. Through surface equipment;
5.6.3. Explain the relationship between pressure and
volume of gas in the wellbore;
5.6.4. Explain why a gas kick must expand as itis
circulated out in order to keep bottomhole
pressure constant; and
5.65. Explain the consequences of gas moving
through
the choke from a high pressure area to alow
pressure area
5.7. Knowledge of Pressure/Temperature/Compressibility
sffects on Fluids/Gases and phase behavior, including:
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liquid or gaseous form, depending on its
pressure and temperature;
5.7.2. Hydrocarbon gas entering as a liquid may
not migrate or expand until itis circulated up
the wellbore;
5.7.3. Liquids can move down the annulus and come
up the drillstring; and
5.74. Describe how hydrocarbon gas may not
migrate and the consequences for well control
3. Knowledge of Solubility of gases and solubility in
‘mud, \including:
5.8.1. Combinatrons of gas and liquid in which
solubility issues may appl
5.8.11, H25 and water;
5.81.2, CO2and water;
5.8.1.3. 25 and OBM; and
5.8.14, Methane and OBM.
5.8.2. CO2 and OBM;
5.8.3. Gases dissolved in mud behave like liquids;
5.84, Identify combinations of gas and liquid which
‘may result in solubility issues (H2S and water,
C02 and water, H25 and OBM, methane and
‘0BM, CO2 and OBM);
5.85, Describe the difficulty of detecting kicks with
soluble gases while drilling and/or tripping;
5.8.6. Describe how dissolved gas affects wellbore
pressures when it comes out of solution; and
5.8.7, Describe the sequential consequences of gas
evolving from the mud system.
6. Demonstrate the knowledge of Well Control Principles,
including:
6.1. Primary Well Control;
6.2. Kick Fundamentals:
6.2.1. Definition of a kick, including:
6.2.1.1. Ability to define two types of kick:
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6.2.2. Recognize Causes of Kicks, including:
6.2.2.1. A. Unintentional flow or “kick” from
a formation;
» Failure to keep hole full;
> Swabbing effect of pulling pipe:
+ Hole and pipe geometry;
+ Well depth;
+ Mud rheology;
+ Hole conditvons and
+ formation problems;
+ Pipe pulling and running
+ speed; and
+ BHA configuration;
Loss of circulatron;
nsufficient density of drilling fluid,
brines, cement, etc.;
Abnormally pressured formation;
Lowering pipe too rapidly into hole
(surge);
> Annular gas flow after cementing;
> Identify causes of unintentional kicks;
> Describe the piston effect (suction
and how increased drag may be
associated with swab};
> Describethe effect ofthe items at left
on surge and swab pressures; and
> Describe how fluid density can be
unintentionally reduced, ie, barite
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cement settling, temperature effects
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