Articles

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