Course Description

This course will teach participants about the physical principles and concepts related to maintaining and regaining pressure control of wells while drilling.  Starting from concepts of formation pressure, fracture pressure, and factors which affect inflow, participants will gain an understanding of the elements of primary and secondary well control methods.  Well design concepts to improve pressure containment and reduce risk of secondary well control situations will be covered in detail.  By listening to the well, participants will learn how to identify potential well control situations in advance of their occurrence. Well control equipment, their operation, and testing will be covered to the extent necessary for the participants to identify requirements in the well planning phase.  Classical well control methods will be covered and several well control problems will be worked using several standard well control worksheets. 
 

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

• Rules and regulations related to well control
• The sources of abnormal formation pressures and how to quantify their magnitude. 
• The prediction of formation pressure and pressure while drilling techniques (PWD)
• The causes of kick and its warning signs
• Well control procedures and shallow gas kick. 
• Well control procedures and kill methods
• Problems associated with well control 
• Well control equipment
• Unusual methods of well control
• Select the well control equipment

Who Can Benefit

Drilling, production, petroleum engineers and everyone who might be working on a rig.