CBT Surface Well Control
Training course on Techniques and procedures for well control during drilling.

Training course for: Driller and Supervisor
with over 300 practice tests.

Main Index
1. Pressures and general principles
2. Causes of kicks
3. Kick indicators
4. Well Shut-in procedures
5. Well control methods
6. Horizontal well
Test and kill sheet

MODULE 1: PRESSURES AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1.1 Hydrostatic pressure
1.2 Static pressure
1.3 Pressure losses
1.4 Bottom hole pressure
1.5 Formation pressure
1.6 Fracture pressure
1.7 Slow circulating pressure
1.8 Shut-in pressures: SIDPP, SICP
1.9 Circulating pressure
1.10 Gas law
1.11 Gas migration
1.12 U tube principle

MODULE 2: CAUSES OF KICKS
2.1 Generality
2.2 Abnormal pressure
2.3 Failing to fill the hole properly while pulling-out
2.4 Swabbing
2.5 Lost circulation
2.6 Decrease mud weight
2.7 Gas-cut mud
2.8 Particular situations

MODULE 3: KICK INDICATORS
3.1 Generality
3.2 Flow rate increase
3.3 Hole keeps flowing with pumps stop
3.4 Pit volume increase
3.5 Increase of penetration rate
3.6 Incorrect hole fill up volume while tripping out
3.7 Pump pressure decrease - pump strokes increase
3.8 Gas-cut-mud
3.9 Others kick indicators

MODULE 4: SHUT-IN PROCEDURES
4.1 Soft and hard shut-in procedures
4.2 Shut-in while drilling.
4.3 Shut-in while tripping:
  - with drill pipes (DPs)
  - with drill collars (DCs)
4.4 Stabilization of pressures: SIDPP and SICP

MODULO 5: WELL CONTROL METHODS
5.1 Generality
5.2 Driller's method
5.3 Pressure at the shoe
5.4 Wait and weight method
5.5 Considerations on driller's and wait and weight methods
5.6 Kick tolerance
5.7 Volumetric method
5.8 Lubrication method
5.9 Stripping and snubbing
5.10 Problems and analysis during well control

MODULE 6: HORIZONTAL WELL
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Classification system and advantages for horizontal wells
6.3 Kick for horizontal wells
6.4 Recognising and evaluating kicks
6.5 Kick detection in horizontal wells
6.6. Methods of well control for horizontal wells

TEST AND KILL SHEET
- General tests
. Pressures and general principles
. Causes of kicks
. Kick indicators
. Shut-in procedures
. Well control methods
- Kill sheet filling in