Purpose

To submit the understanding of well control techniques for surface or subsea BOP installations at driller or supervisor level according to International Well Control Forum standards.
When booking please state required test level.

Content

• Well control equipment
• API Recommended Practices and API Specifications
• Introduction to formation pressures and strengths
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Dynamic pressure
• Equivalent Circulating Density (ECD)
• Gas law and fluid behaviour
• Causes of kicks
• Kick indications
• Shut-in procedures
• MAASP
• Compensating for choke line friction
• Riser margin
• IWCF kill sheets for vertical wells
• Kill methods and kill problems
• Well control in deviated wells
• IWCF kill sheets for deviated to horizontal wells
• Exercise and IWCF practical test
• IWCF equipment test
• IWCF principles & procedures test

Objectives

To be able to:

• Show the principles and procedures used in well control operations with with surface or subsea BOP stack as described in the IWCF Rotary Well Control Surface & Subsea BOP Stack Certification Syllabus
• Use the equipment for well control operations with with surface or subsea BOP stack as described in the IWCF Rotary Well Control Surface & Subsea BOP Stack Certification Syllabus
• Show that a well control situation can be mastered by use of simulator according to IWCF standards
• Obtain sufficient knowledge about the course content to pass three written tests with minimum 70% score

Admission Requirements

Derrickmen and higher positions.

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Venue

The course can be conducted at either Maersk Training Svendborg or at the customer’s venue.