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Workover/Well Servicing Operations

Workover Course Outline IADC WellCAP

3 DAYS - SUPERVISOR

ORIENTATION ƒ Production Tree


ƒ Rapid Fire Competition ƒ Subsurface Safety Valves (SSSVs)
ƒ Case History Stages ƒ Operating the Simulator: Choke Console
ƒ Well Control Training Approach ƒ Operating the Simulator: Drillers Console
ƒ Situational Awareness ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
ƒ Pressure Bleed-Down Exercise
COMPLETION AND WORKOVER ƒ Drawing Conclusions
ƒ Completion Design
ƒ Workover THE BULLHEAD METHOD
ƒ Mechanical Failure ƒ Calculate Fluid Gradient
ƒ Clean Out and Workover Operations ƒ Calculating Hydrostatic Pressure
ƒ Features of Workover ƒ Calculating Kill Weight Fluid
ƒ Workover Operations ƒ Calculating Formation Pressure
ƒ Well Control: Drilling vs. Workover ƒ Fluids
ƒ Water-Based Fluids
PRESSURE BASICS ƒ Calculating Volume for Bullheading
ƒ Hydrostatic Pressure ƒ Calculating Strokes for Bullheading
ƒ Understanding Depths ƒ Backpressure
ƒ Bottomhole Hydrostatic Pressure ƒ Calculating Volume on Backside
ƒ Formation Pressure ƒ Calculating Tank Volume
ƒ Relationship Between BHP and FP ƒ Plotting the Kill
ƒ Sucker Rod Pump Retrieval ƒ Bullheading Breakover
ƒ Rod Pump Retrieval: A Quick Turnaround ƒ Graph Paper
ƒ Rod String Retrieval ƒ Pressure Limits & the Killsheet
ƒ Casing, Packer or Tubing Leaks ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
ƒ Formation Damage/Low Permeability ƒ Bullhead Exercise
ƒ Countering Liquid Hold Up or Gas Slip ƒ Drawing Conclusions
ƒ Excess Water/Gas Production
ƒ Controlling Sand and Other Fill/Debris BULLHEAD KILLSHEET
ƒ Preparing for the Killsheet
BARRIERS ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
ƒ Barrier Classification ƒ Bullhead w/ Killsheet Exercise
ƒ Barriers: Production Tree ƒ Drawing Conclusions

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Workover/Well Servicing Operations
Workover Course Outline IADC WellCAP

3 DAYS - SUPERVISOR

FORWARD CIRCULATION
DOWNHOLE COMPLICATIONS ƒ Choke Adjustments and Lag Time
ƒ Packers ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
ƒ Permanent Packers ƒ Forward Circulation Exercise
ƒ Retrievable Packers ƒ Drawing Conclusions
ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
ƒ Identifying Complications Exercise LUBRICATE & BLEED
ƒ Drawing Conclusions WELL CONTROL METHOD
ƒ Unconventional Well Control Techniques ƒ Lubricate & Bleed Method
ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
REVERSE CIRCULATION ƒ Lube & Bleed Exercise
ƒ The Well as a U-Tube ƒ Drawing Conclusions
ƒ Circulating Pressures
ƒ Circulation and Bottomhole Pressure END-OF-THE-DAY CONSIDERATIONS
ƒ ECD ƒ Force and Area
ƒ Downhole Communication ƒ Buoyancy Factor
ƒ Reverse Circulation Method
ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting PRACTICAL APPLICATION: MULTIPLE
ƒ Reverse Circulation Exercise WELLS WITH INFLUXES
ƒ Drawing Conclusions ƒ Review
ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting
INFLUXES ƒ Multiple Influx Exercise
ƒ Causes of Influxes ƒ Drawing Conclusions
ƒ Understanding Warning Signs
ƒ Warning Signs COMPLICATIONS
ƒ Consequences of Not Responding ƒ Stuck Pipe: Packoff
ƒ Blowout ƒ Stuck Pipe: Mechanical
ƒ Reacting to an Influx ƒ Industry Practices
ƒ BOPs: Annular and Rams − Barriers
ƒ Accumulators − Accumulators
ƒ Full Opening Safety Valve (FOSV) − Function Tests

ƒ Well Control Safety Meeting − Pressure Tests


− BOP Tests
ƒ Reverse Circulation 2 Exercise
ƒ Drawing Conclusions

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Workover/Well Servicing Operations
Workover Course Outline IADC WellCAP

3 DAYS - SUPERVISOR

COILED TUBING ƒ Gooseneck or Tubing GuideArch


ƒ CT Operations ƒ Tension
ƒ Washing Sand and/or Fill ƒ Tubing Injector Head
ƒ Tubing ScaleRemoval ƒ Inside Tensioners
ƒ Remedial Cement ƒ Stripper Assembly (orABOP)
ƒ Drilling Plugs ƒ Strippers
ƒ Thru-Tubing Fishing ƒ Ram BOPs
ƒ Setting/Retrieving BridgePlugs ƒ Stacks
ƒ Reservoir Stimulation ƒ Causes of CT failure
ƒ Siphon String Installation ƒ Pitting, Tension, Buckling, Abrasions
ƒ Formation and Drilling Data Acquisition ƒ Injector Induced Damages
ƒ Perforating With Coiled Tubing ƒ Ballooning, Necking, Ovality
ƒ Other Coiled TubingOperations ƒ Reel Log
ƒ Various Coiled TubingUnits ƒ Emergency Response
ƒ Path of Coiled TubingDownhole
ƒ Coiled TubingReels SNUBBING
ƒ Reel Drum ƒ Equipment Selection Considerations
ƒ Gooseneck ƒ Snubbing vs Stripping

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