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