Articles

Kick Detection and Well Monitoring Equipment
Wireline Pressure Control Equipment
Drill String BOP Valves
General BOP Arrangement
Application and maintenance of secondary well control equipment
Example of BOP Configuration
Installation requirements for wellhead and BOP equipment
Maintenance and inspection of BOP equipment
Surface BOP equipment
Choke and Kill System
Diverter equipment
Subsea blowout prevention (BOP) equipment
Casing, wellhead and BOP equipment tests
Pressure Testing of Well Control Equipment
Classification of BOP and well control equipment.
Communicating information
Setting of retainers, bridge plugs and packers
Well Control - Abnormal pore pressures
Pre-Kick Planning
Contingency Stock Levels - Well Control
Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S)
Well Control - High Pressure Wells
Responsibilities for Well Control
Well Control Safety
Well Control Equipment and Procedures - Standards
Blowout contingency planning
Relief Well - Homing-In
Well Control Responsibilities
Well Control - Well Design
Mud Log Gas (background, drilled, swab, connection, trip)
Discussion on Suitability of Barriers (well control)
Well Control Drills
Shallow Gas - Planning Guidelines
Well Control - Shallow Gas
Well Control - H2S
Well Control Standards
Well Control Drills and Exercises
Calculation of Maximum Allowable Annular Surface Pressure (MAASP)
Primary Control - Planning Considerations
Loss of primary well control - failure of riser
Fluid measuring devices
Avoiding loss of primary control
Influx Prevention
Well Control - Flowline Shows
Total Losses and Requirement for Continuous Fill-Up
Well Control - Preliminary record of information
Well Control - Primary Control Techniques
Influx Detection
Well Control - Loss of Primary Control
Inflow Testing Procedure
Pressure at the top of a Gas Influx in the Annulus using the "Driller's Method"
Well Kill Using Combined Volumetric Stripping
Well Control - Circulating heavy mud (bit off bottom)
Well Control Procedure - While on Bottom
Kicks with Drill Collars in the BOP Stack
Pressure at the top of a Gas Influx in the Annulus using the ‘Wait and Weight’ Method
Well Control Procedure - While Out of Hole
Well Kill Using The Driller's Method With The Bit On Bottom
Procedure and Calculation example for Change in Circulating Rate
Kicks with Casing in the BOP Stack
Well Control Procedure - While Tripping
Well Control - Slim Hole Drilling
Well Control - Kick whilst tripping
Well Control - Deviated and Horizontal wells
Bullheading
Problems Encountered During Well Control
Complications during well control operations
Well Control - Balanced Mud Method
Well Control during Logging Operations
Well Control - Stripping Method
Well Control - Recognizing a kick and action to be taken
Well Control - Combined stripping and volumetric method
Well Control - Volumetric Method
Well Control - Bullheading
Well Kill Using Wait and Weight Method (Balanced Method)
Well Control - Driller's Method
Non-conventional well control methods
Well Control - barytes and cement plugs.
Barite Plugs
Cement Plugs