🎯 Advanced Slickline Operations

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

Master advanced slickline tool selection, string design, and deployment
Understand pressure control equipment and complex well conditions
Perform mechanical services, setting/retrieving plugs, and downhole gauges
Diagnose and resolve common slickline operational issues
Apply HSE best practices for safe and efficient slickline jobs
Develop job programs, risk assessments, and contingency plans for advanced operations

👥 Who Should Attend

Experienced slickline operators
Well intervention and completion engineers
Production engineers and supervisors
Field service personnel managing slickline operations
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

$ 5,950

Course Features

Lecture 0
Quiz 0
Duration 5 days
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 40
Assessments Yes