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IADC WellSHARP Drilling Driller Course Outline
IADC WellSHARP Drilling Driller Course Outline
Interactive Study Tools Shallow Gas, Water Flows and Tophole Drilling
- Provide students with over 600 pages of pre-course study - Definitions and causes of pressure in tophole formations
materials at wildwell.com - Causes of underbalance tophole
- Provide students with study guide that covers up to 150 interactive - Diverting practices
well control questions and answers. - Tophole drilling practices and causes of kicks
- Provide students with a 50 question test to determine their well
control knowledge gaps. Abnormal Pressure Warning Signs
3.5
4.5 DAYS
DAYS
- Abnormal pressure
Preliminary Items - Shaker evidence
- Safety: escape routes, muster points, etc. - Changes in mud properties
- Discussion of special needs - Changes in drilling data/parameters DRILLER
- Introductions
- Class paperwork Kick Detection
- Well flow with pumps off
Serious Well Control Problem From the Wild Well Library - Pit gain
- Students form teams - Flow return rate increase
- Team discussion of the potential lateral well control problem
- Simulator exercise demonstrating the well control challenge Killsheet, Kick Detection, Flow Checks,
- Return to class to discuss the challenge Well Shut-in, and Gas Behavior
- Related formulas/math (capacities/volumes,
Well Control Course Objectives strokes, circulation times, etc.)
- Formations, pore pressure, fracture gradients - Causes of kicks
- Killsheet, kick detection, flow checks, well shut-in, - Kick signs
and gas behavior ■ Overt kick signs
- Well control methods ■ Pre-kick signs
- Well control equipment (barriers, BOPs, manifolds, - Flow-check procedures
- accumulator, etc.) - Shut-in procedures and verification
- Completing the well and post-completion activity ■ Drilling
- Final well control simulation: from kick to kill, with a complication ■ Tripping
- Assessments: skills and written ■ Out of hole
■ Running casing and cementing
Formations, Pore Pressure, Fracture Gradient ■ Wireline
- Formation structure ■ Shut-in methods
■ Porosity ■ Blind and blind shear rams
■ Permeability ■ Diverting
- Fracture gradients, kick tolerance, pore pressures - Post shut-in monitoring and activities
■ Related formulas/math (hydrostatic pressure, the U tube, ■ Kick log
force, MAASP, etc.) ■ Gas migration
■ Equivalent mud weight ■ Trapped pressure
■ Kick tolerance ■ Handling ballooning
■ Pore pressure vs. fracture gradient (drilling margin/window) ■ Bumping the float
- Simulator exercise demonstrating a FIT; discussion of LOT ■ Line-up
(if needed, depending upon class knowledge level) - Paper killsheet with preliminary well data
- Discuss casing and cementing program ■ Well data, volume calculations
- Discuss drilling fluids program ■ Discuss the importance of a killsheet
Barriers
- Philosophy and operation of barrier systems
- Number of barriers for safe operation
- Testing barriers
- Simulator exercises demonstrating hard and soft shut-in Well Control Drills
■ Kick detection and shut-in - Pit drills
■ Students complete killsheet with simulator well data - Trip drills
(or instructor-given data) - Stripping drills
■ Discussion of killsheet calculations: - Choke drills
What do they mean? (if needed) Discussion of
IADC WellSharp rounding rules
- Early response and empowerment to act
3.5
4.5 DAYS
DAYS
- Gas behavior Completing the well and post-completion activity: short
■ While drilling discussion
■ In horizontal wells - Completions
■ While shut-in - Differences between drilling and workover DRILLER