Articles

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