Course description
Knowledge is the key to prevention!
Accounting for billions of dollars annually and up to half of the total well cost, stuck pipe events are one of the costliest drilling problems in the industry. It’s also a major contributor to non-productive time (NPT), which continues to comprise 20-25% of annual rig operating time.
Stuck Pipe is, and historically has been, a major problem for the Oil & Gas Industry. As wells have become more challenging in terms of well trajectories, hole diameter and as companies are more focussed on pushing the ‘drilling boundaries’.
Rigs however are now better equipped with advanced mud systems, downhole sensors and rotary steerable systems, to name but a few, and many operators have invested in real time data acquisition as well as having effective onsite office to rig communication, no matter how remote the drilling location is.
It is easy to understand and accept that prevention of stuck pipe makes a lot more economical sense than even the best of freeing tools and techniques. The recovery from a stuck pipe situation can be very time consuming and often leads to the total loss of expensive downhole tools, pipe and bottom hole assemblies.
In less than twelve hours, this course helps provide a basis for developing a culture of stuck pipe awareness and prevention among the workforce whilst performing drilling, workover and running casing operations.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who the Course is for
The Stuck Pipe Prevention course is designed for the rig drilling team and well services, including Derrickman, Assistant drillers, drillers, drilling engineers, drilling superintendent, operation engineer, Rig managers, Tool Pushers, Offshore Installation Managers to illustrate the scale of stuck pipe problems and to ensure all members of the drilling team recognize the signs of a potential Stuck Pipe situation.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By taking this course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand your own responsibilities for the prevention of stuck pipe.
- Identify and report on potential warning signs.
- Understanding the vital steps that must be taken and which could lead to a successful recovery of the fish.
- How to identify the cause and mechanism of a drill string or casing getting stuck,
- Write proper stuck pipe reports in case it happened with a view to avoiding re-occurrence.
Training Course Content
- Stuck pipe
- What is Stuck Pipe?
- Refresher Definitions
- Stuck pipe mechanisms
- Inadequate Hole Cleaning
- Dynamic Solids Bed (Avalanching)
- Barite and Weighting Material Sag
- Sand and Mud Sticking
- Blowout Sticking
- Over Pressurized Formations
- High Dip Sloughing and Sloughing
- Hydration
- Unconsolidated and Fractured Formations
- Hole Cleaning
- The importance of Hole Cleaning
- Hole cleaning
- Hole Geometry
- High Angle, Extended Reach Wells
- Mud rheology
- Drill string movements
- Differential sticking
- Differential Force Calculation
- Filter Cake Erosion
- Freeing-Force Calculation
- Non-Rotational Operations Differential sticking
- Wireline, Casing and Liner sticking
- Coil Tubing Drilling Differential Sticking
- Hole Cleaning with Coil Tubing
- Friction Stuck Coiled Tubing
- Mechanically Stuck Coil Tubing
- Hydraulic Disconnect
- Geometry, string and hole incompatibility
- Chemically active formations
- Key Seating and Under Gauge Hole
- Dogleg, Stiff Assemblies and Ledges
- Losses and Lost Circulation
- Case Study Lessons Learned
- Mechanical Sticking
- Metal Junk and Cement
- Collapsed Casing, Bent Pipe
- Stuck Packer and Wrapped Around Tubing
- Freeing mechanically stuck pipe
- Prevention
- Offset well data
- Well Planning and Monitoring at the well site
- Freeing - Initial
- Drill String Pack-Off
- Casing, Coil Tubing and Wireline Pack Off
- Initial Actions – Differentially Sticking
- Pipe Release Agents
- Fishing
- Pipe Recovery Overview
- Free-Point Techniques
- Free Point Surveys
- Process For Estimating The Free Point
- Pipe Recovery Logs
- Backing Off
- Cutting The Pipe
- Summary
- When Is Pipe Considered Stuck?
- Simplified Tables
Course delivery details
The average time needed to complete the course is 12 hours and the minimum pass mark for the exam is 70% and is valid for 2 years.
- Minimal disruption to the working day – the course takes less than two days day
- Designed for anyone engaged in drilling and well services, in any sector, worldwide
- Provides the knowledge and tools required to identify roles and responsibilities in a stuck pipe emergency.
- High-impact programme
- Efficient and effective learning – stuck pipe prevention and fishing basics are covered in a single, self-contained course.
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