🛢️ Well Control and Blowout Prevention

Overview

📘 Course Description

This intensive course provides essential knowledge and hands-on skills for recognizing, preventing, and controlling well kicks and blowouts during drilling operations. It covers well control theory, detection methods, kick prevention, blowout contingency planning, well kill techniques, and safety measures. Real-world examples, simulations, and exercises prepare participants to manage well control events confidently and minimize risks to personnel, assets, and the environment.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Understand pressure concepts, hydrostatics, and causes of kicks
✅ Detect early signs of kicks and take proactive measures
✅ Apply well control methods: Driller’s, Wait & Weight, Bullheading
✅ Calculate kill mud weights, volumes, and pressures
✅ Master equipment use: BOPs, choke manifolds, control systems
✅ Prepare blowout contingency plans and response procedures

👥 Who Should Attend

Drilling and workover engineers
Drilling supervisors and toolpushers
Wellsite geologists
Drillers and assistant drillers
Company representatives and HSE professionals
Anyone involved in drilling operations

🗂️ Training Format

✅ Detailed lectures with practical examples
✅ Group exercises & calculations
✅ Kick detection simulations
✅ Blowout scenarios and response planning
✅ Videos of real incidents and lessons learned
✅ Discussions to reinforce understanding

📅 Day-by-Day Agenda with Time Breaks

📅 Day 1: Well Control Fundamentals

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome, Introductions & Safety Moment
09:00 – 10:30	Pressure Concepts: Hydrostatic, Formation, Fracture
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Causes of Kicks: Underbalance, Swabbing, Lost Circulation
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Kick Warning Signs & Detection Techniques
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Risk Factors & Kick Tolerance Calculation

📅 Day 2: Equipment & Shut-in Procedures

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Blowout Preventer (BOP) Types & Functions
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Choke Manifolds & Auxiliary Equipment
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	BOP Control Systems: Hydraulics & Panels
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Proper Shut-in Procedures: Hard & Soft Shut-ins

📅 Day 3: Well Kill Methods & Calculations

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Driller’s Method: Steps & Calculations
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Wait & Weight Method: Steps & Calculations
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Bullheading & Reverse Circulation Techniques
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Hands-on Kill Sheet Preparation & Exercises

📅 Day 4: Advanced Well Control & Blowout Prevention

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Complications: Gas Migration & Ballooning
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Secondary Control Techniques & Relief Well Planning
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Blowout Causes, Dynamics, and Famous Incidents
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Blowout Prevention Planning & Well Control Policies

📅 Day 5: Kick Detection Simulation & Certification

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Simulator Session: Kick Detection & Shut-in
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Simulator Session: Kill Operations
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Emergency Response & Blowout Contingency Plans
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Final Assessment, Review, & Certificate Ceremony

📦 Materials Provided

✅ Comprehensive course manual
✅ Well kill worksheets & calculation templates
✅ Videos of real blowouts and analysis
✅ Simulator access (where available)
✅ Certificate of Completion

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,650