🎯 Advanced Slickline Operations
🔎 Course Description This advanced course provides experienced slickline operators, well intervention specialists, and production engineers with in-depth knowledge and practical skills for conducting safe, efficient, and complex slickline operations. Topics include advanced toolstring assembly, downhole fishing, mechanical services, setting …
Overview
🔎 Course Description
This advanced course provides experienced slickline operators, well intervention specialists, and production engineers with in-depth knowledge and practical skills for conducting safe, efficient, and complex slickline operations. Topics include advanced toolstring assembly, downhole fishing, mechanical services, setting and pulling plugs, memory logging with slickline, and contingency planning for challenging well conditions.
Participants will gain hands-on understanding of equipment design, job planning, risk assessment, and troubleshooting, enabling them to execute high-risk interventions with confidence and precision.
✅ Learning Objectives
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Master advanced slickline tool selection, string design, and deployment
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Understand pressure control equipment and complex well conditions
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Perform mechanical services, setting/retrieving plugs, and downhole gauges
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Diagnose and resolve common slickline operational issues
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Apply HSE best practices for safe and efficient slickline jobs
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Develop job programs, risk assessments, and contingency plans for advanced operations
👥 Who Should Attend
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Experienced slickline operators
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Well intervention and completion engineers
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Production engineers and supervisors
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Field service personnel managing slickline operations
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Drilling and workover engineers involved in well interventions
🗂️ Training Format
✅ Engaging lectures
✅ Equipment demonstrations (videos or live)
✅ Group problem-solving workshops
✅ Detailed case studies
✅ Interactive discussions
📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks
📅 Day 1: Introduction & Slickline Equipment Mastery
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome & Course Objectives |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Review of Slickline Fundamentals |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Advanced Wire & Toolstring Configurations |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Pressure Control Equipment for Slickline |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Wellhead Equipment & Lubricator Systems |
📅 Day 2: Tool Applications & Downhole Mechanics
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Setting & Pulling Plugs and Flow Controls |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Running and Retrieving Downhole Chokes |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Gauge Hangers & Memory Gauge Deployment |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Fishing Techniques and Equipment |
📅 Day 3: Complex Slickline Operations & Troubleshooting
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Advanced Fishing Scenarios |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Working in Deviation & High-Angle Wells |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Memory Logging with Slickline Tools |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Toolstring Failures & Preventive Measures |
📅 Day 4: HSE, Risk Assessment & Contingency Planning
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Hazard Identification & Risk Analysis |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Pressure Control Safety in High-Pressure Wells |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Developing Advanced Job Programs |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Emergency Response & Contingency Scenarios |
📅 Day 5: Job Design & Field Case Studies
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Planning Advanced Slickline Interventions |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Interpreting Memory Gauge Data |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Field Case Studies of Complex Jobs |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Group Project & Course Wrap-Up |
📦 Materials Provided
✅ Detailed course manual
✅ Tool catalog and job planning templates
✅ Safety checklists for slickline operations
✅ Certificate of Completion
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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