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Well Control

To meet your needs, this course is available in both face-to-face and distance learning formats.

IWCF - well control

LEVEL 3 (SUPERVISOR) AND LEVEL 4 (SUPERVISOR) SURFACE & SUBSEA

PUBLIC

Personnel involved in drilling and completion operations (operators and service companies) whose activity may involve the detection of a kick.

Level 3: Accessible to any person who may be required to close the well (equivalent to driller level)

Level 4: Accessible to anyone who may be required to kill the well (all functions above driller, such as site supervisor, etc.).

Prerequisites

Candidates can progress directly to level 3 or 4 at the request of and under the responsibility of their company (or themselves in the case of freelancers). However, the IWCF recommends that candidates should have at least significant experience as a driller and have obtained a level 2 to progress to level 3, and a level 3 to progress to level 4.

Objectives

  • Assessing the impact of an eruption
  • Identify the causes of the eruptions
  • Know the appropriate equipment to make the well safe
  • Use the control methods used to circulate a venue
  • Identify incidents, react and make the right decisions
  • Apply the theoretical knowledge on the simulator practice

Pedagogical resources

  • Facilitation by an experienced and accredited IWCF trainer
  • Training room equipped with an interactive overhead projector or virtual classroom made available via a candidate account on our Moodle platform
  • Access to our online exercise platform 
  • Loan of a computer to access Moodle (face-to-face)
  • Provision of educational material (course materials)
  • Presentation of equipment on our premises or virtually
  • Drill Sim 5000 simulator exercises

DETAILED PROGRAM

IDENTIFY THE ORIGIN AND THE CAUSES OF AN ERUPTION

  • Positioning test
  • Introduction to hydrostatic and hydrodynamic modules (pressure drops), U-tube
  • Reminder of definitions: pressures, nature of the sludge, law of gases and mutation
  • Causes and warning signs of a kick
  • Leak-off test and Integrity Test Formation
  • Pressure analysis after well closure
  • Kick during the casing run

KNOW HOW TO SECURE THE WELL

  • Principles and procedures to apply in the event of a kick
  • Pressure analysis after well closure
  • Hard and soft well closure and well control methods (Driller and Wait & Weight)
  • Design and testing of venue control equipment (BOP, Koomey, manifold…)
  • Volumetric method
  • Well diversion
  • Study of gas migration
  • Specific principles and procedures for subsea equipment
  • Study of specific cases: casing, cementing, wireline operations, difference between horizontal and vertical wells
  • Calculations and practice on simulator

PRACTICE

  • Exercices and pratice on simulator
  • Validation of the "Practical Assessment" module for IWCF certification
  • Exercises on the killsheet, equipment, principles and procedures

IWCF CERTIFICATION

Examination of the "Equipment" and "Principles and Procedures" modules

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If you wish to verify the accessibility of this training to a person with a disability, contact our referent at the following address: melanie.duarte@efftraining.com