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Blow Out Preventer (BOP) Equipment VDO Training
BOP equipment is one the most critical equipment for well control operation. Learning about it via VDO training is a good way to understand this subject because you can see what the equipment look...
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Design Factors Relating To Properly Design The Right Size of Mud Gas...
A mud gas separator or poor boy degasser or gas buster is one of the most critical well control equipment on drilling rigs. It is used to separate gas kick from drilling mud while circulating kick out...
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Bullheading Calculation Example
Bullheading is one of the well control methods that involve pumping formation fluids back into formation into a shut-in well. You can read the basic details about bullheading from this link...
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Well Flowing After Disconnecting The Wireline Lubricator – Well Control...
Please watch the footage below. It was a flow back after breaking out the lubricator on the rig floor. We don’t know full details what was happened but from what we’ve seen in this VDO, it shown that...
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Hole Monitoring Procedures While Drilling or Milling Operation
This is the example of hole monitoring procedure while drilling or milling and this will give you some ideas only. You need to adjust it to suit with your operation Perform pre-job safety meeting with...
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Hole Monitoring Procedures While Tripping
This is the example of hole monitoring procedure while tripping and this will give you some ideas only. You need to adjust it to suit with your operation Perform pre-job safety meeting with personnel...
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Deepwater Horizon Investigation Reports
Deepwater Horizon is one of the worst well control incidents in oil and gas industry and this situation results in losing of life and damaging environment. Therefore, it is worth to learn from this...
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Hole Monitoring Procedures While Running Casing or Tubing
This is the example of hole monitoring procedure while running casing and this will give you some ideas only. You need to adjust it to suit with your operation. Perform pre-job safety meeting with...
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Well Control Procedure for Non-Shearable String
There are many cases when non-shearable string is across the BOP therefore blind shear rams will not be able to shear the string to secure the well if needed. The special procedure must be in place to...
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Volumetric Well Control Example Calculations
This example demonstrates the calculations and the steps of the volumetric well control which will help you understand about what calculations according to the volumetric procedures. Gas kick at the...
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Lubricate and Bleed Example Calculations
This example demonstrates the calculations and the steps of lubricate and bleed which will help you understand about what calculations according to lubricate and bleed procedures. Gas kick migrates to...
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Well Control and Blow Out !!!
Many people ask us every time about well control but many of them understand that well control is when the rigs are burn. This is not the right concept. Well Control is a situation when hydrostatic...
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Kill The Blow Out Well Using Nuclear Bomb
We’ve found this VDO on Youtube and this is one of the most interesting vdo. This is about how to kill the blow out well using a nuclear bomb. We are not sure when it was happened but from what you can...
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Well Control
This page contains well control contents in this site. Basic Calculation Related to Well Control Adjusted maximum allowable shut-in casing pressure Brine weight with temperature correction Calculate...
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IWCF Drilling Calculation Part 1 – 3 Review
International Well Control Forum (IWCF) has provided useful learning material, which is IWCF Drilling Calculation Part 1 – 3, to drilling people. We will review all of them and see the content inside....
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Review Well Control Method Presentation by Wild Well Control
Wild Well Control is one of the best well control specialist companies in the world. The company not only provide well control and engineering services to the company’s customers, it also provides free...
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Categories of Well Control
Well control can be categorized into three main categories which are Primary Well Control, Secondary Well Control and Tertiary Well Control. The details are shown below; Primary Well Control Primary...
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How To Ensure Effective Primary Well Control
Primary well control is the most important barrier while drilling and completing any wells so it is imperative to ensure that the primary well control is effectively maintained. When various...
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What Cause Lost Circulation in Drilling Leading to a Well Control Situation
Lost circulation whole mud (whether to depleted reservoirs or to natural/induced fractures)is one of biggest causes of well kicks. In the wellbore, fluid levels can decrease and this lowers the...
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What Cause Insufficient Mud Weight Leading to a Well Control Situation
Known as an underbalanced condition, this occurs when, in the wellbore, formation pressure is higher than the hydrostatic pressure and this lead to a well control situation. To overbalance formation...
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