Course Objective:
By the end of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Obtain sufficient knowledge about the course content to pass a written test with or accepted score.
- Improve his professionalism in well control management based on accepted standards.
Course Outline:
- Kick indications.
- Equipment for well control.
- Shut-in procedures while drilling.
- Shut-in procedures while tripping .
- Driller’s method in a vertical well.
- Wait and weight method in a horizontal well.
- Volumetric method.
- Bullhead procedure.
- Evaluations to select the best well kill method for the situation.
- Stripping operations with gas migration.
- Stripping operations without gas migration.
- Kicks in water-based drilling fluid and in oil-based drilling fluid.
- Risen kicks.
- Well control calculations.
- Kill sheets for a vertical well.
- Kill sheets for deviated to horizontal well.
- Cases and lessons learnt.
Who Can Benefit:
- Experienced Drillers and higher positions on the drilling unit.
- Recommended managerial positions.
