Course description
Awareness is the key to prevention!
Our online Level one, well control awareness course focuses on the life-cycle of a well, drilling and well services. Providing an overview for everyone working in the oil and gas industry, including people in entry level and onshore office roles.
In less than five hours, this course helps provide a basis for developing a culture of oilfield safety and a working knowledge of well control prevention among the workforce whilst drilling and well servicing operations.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who the Course is for
The Level One Well Control Awareness course is aimed at students and graduates, personnel with secondary involvement in well operations, office based staff or third parties involve in non-critical rig operations.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By taking this course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand your own responsibilities for well control safety
- Identify and report on potential hazards
- Assess workplace pressure control risks
- Evacuate effectively in an emergency
- Identify equipment for well control in drilling, well servicing and production.
Training Course Content
- The pioneers
- The birth of the oil industry
- Geology
- Oil and gas reservoirs
- The lifecycle
- The life cycle of a well
- Casing and cementing
- The leak Off Test (Integrity test)
- Perforating and testing the well
- Well servicing and well intervention
- Drilling Rigs
- Drilling Equipment
- Drill String Components
- Drilling Rig Type Classification
- Well control and pressure control equipment
- Well Control during drilling operations
- Definitions and terminology for well control
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Bottom Hole pressure (BHP)
- How Kicks Occur
- Recognising a Kick
- Securing and controlling the well
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Well Intervention and Workover
- The production string
- Reasons for Well Interventions
- Well Interventions Methods
- Snubbing and Subsea Intervention
- Workover Methods
- Pressure control during well intervention
- Barriers
- Planning the intervention or workover
- Potential Failures
- Plug and Abandon
- Roles and Responsibilities
Course delivery details
The average time needed to complete the course is 5 hours and the minimum pass mark for the exam is 70% and is valid for 1 year.
- Minimal disruption to the working day – the course takes only half a day
- Designed for anyone, in any sector of the oilfield, worldwide
- Provides the knowledge and tools required to identify roles and responsibilities in a loss of control emergency
- High-impact programme
- Efficient and effective learning – well control safety basics are covered in a single, self-contained session
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