Articles

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