Interrupt time / non-productive time - guidelines

Non Productive Time (NPT) / Interrupt Time (IT) shall be reported as the Operator defines it for their own internal purposes within the following categories.
Here are some general guidelines as to what each NPT category may cover
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no. Code Description of non-productive time category
113 Rig Contractor equipment, personnel or procedures

BH BHA rotary equipment (DP, DC, HWDP, stabs, Jars, X-overs etc) but not drill bits

BO BOP (surface or subsea) and other pressure control equipment, including standpipe manifold, choke manifold, IBOPs, risers.

DW Draw works

MP Mud pump / mud system

TD Top drive

RO Other rig contractor equipment, personnel or procedures

114 Service Company equipment, personnel or procedures.

CT Coiled Tubing

CR Coring
Directional drilling: repairs; unplanned pulling / running of directional drilling equipment including rotary steerable but excluding MWD
DE
and mud motors.
BT Drill bits including hole openers.

LW Logging while drilling: unplanned pulling / running and repair of LWD equipment.

LE Logging: unplanned pulling / running and repair of electrical logging equipment.

MM Mud Motor

MW MWD tools

PR Pressure integrity components and pressure testing equipment.

RV ROV

SV Surveying: directional surveying, excluding MWD.

Wellhead: repairs; unplanned pulling / running of surface or subsea well heads, including wear bushing, seal assemblies and mud line
SX
suspension equipment - casing hangers
WL Wireline: slick-line wireline unit and equipment.

SO Other service company equipment, personnel or procedures.

115 Operating Company equipment, personnel or procedures.

LH Liner Hanger equipment or procedures

TU Tubular: Operator owned casing including connections, pipe body, float collars, DV collars etc.

OO Other operating company equipment, personnel or procedures.

116 External, outside the direct control of Operator, Rig or Service Company.
Accident or Injury: interruptions of operations due to incidents or accidents. Includes post accident investigations which require shutting
AI
down operations.
FM Force Majeure: abnormal circumstances such that the consequences could not have been avoided through the exercise of all due care.

LD Labour industrial dispute

CP Local Community problems leading to interruption of operations.

LG Logistics and supply. Unavailability of truck, boats, helicopters; and materials not being available in time.
Platform delays: location issues on the platform such as unavailability of cranes or other services. Excludes simultaneous or concurrent
PD
operational delays.
Simultaneous / Concurrent Ops e.g. safety drills, helicopter operations, waiting on production facilities to be available, where there has
SI
been a conscious decision to prioritise activities and stop well work.
WO Waiting on other external factors

117 Downhole operational, mechanical or geological problems

Casing running: remedial work due to problems with running the casing / non-production liner to the planned depth. Pulling casing /
CS
liner, wiper trips, washing down, crossed threads, stabbing. Use of unplanned scab liners or tie-back strings.
CM Cementing: including flash-set or no set cement plugs and squeezes.
Directional drilling: solving directional services such as steering problems not due to equipment, fishing jobs due to doglegs, or trips to
DD
change BHA components in order to reach drilling target.
FS Fishing for junk / debris accidentally left in the hole. Includes circulating for hole cleaning with e.g. junk sub.
Logging: wireline evaluation / logging tool mis-runs, fishing jobs due to parted or stuck electric wireline tools, wiper trips for
LP
conditioning hole for logging, clean-out trips due to mis-runs and re-running of tools.
LC Lost Circulation: curing losses that are formation related. Includes tripping time, spotting and pumping LCM and cement pills.

Mechanical borehole: hole collapse / instability; differential sticking due to overbalance in depleted zones, stuck pipe due to low mud
HC
weight, problems due to ledges, key seats, under gauge hole, squeezing formations and inadequate hole cleaning.
SP Stuck pipe: freeing stuck pipe until pipe is free or backed off. Includes pumping of spotting fluid and waiting for pill to work.

ST Technical / mechanical sidetrack: drilling a sidetrack to pass an obstruction.

Well Control: containing unexpected entry of formation fluids (gas, oil, water) into the well, requiring weigh up and kill operations or
WC
excessive circulating and conditioning of the mud.
Wellbore fluids: mud-related problems except lost circulation, e.g. clay ball / gumbo problems, stuck casing / pipe due to mud-induced
FP
borehole cleaning problems, differential sticking, excessive time circulating and conditioning mud.
DO Other downhole operational, mechanical or geological problems

111 Waiting on weather also includes sea conditions

SC Sea condition: state of the sea, including, for instance, loop currents.