You will learn How To:

• Properly design surface equipment
• Apply classic pressure control procedures (Wait & Weight and Driller's Method)
• Recognize causes and indications of a kick
• Apply pressure control procedures while tripping
• Recognize non-classic well control problems
• Design and evaluate non-classic well control procedures
• Interpret surface pressures and other well data
• Apply fluid dynamics to well control
• Evaluate and kill wells with underground blowouts
• Use firefighting and capping procedures
• Design relief well operations

Drilling, production and operations engineers, field supervisors, tool-pushers and managers with a good understanding of classic well control procedures

• Participants will learn how to: Equipment in well control
• Causes and indications of a kick
• Driller's and Wait and Weight method
• Well control procedures while tripping, stripping and snubbing
• Significance of surface pressures, safety factors
• Killing a well off bottom
• Plugged nozzles and drill string wash out
• Analysis of classic well control procedures
• Annular pressure profiles, theory and reality
• Discussion of other well control methods
• Slim hole drilling
• Stripping with influx migration
• Oil-base mud
• Subsea operations
• Bull-heading, volumetric kill, dynamic kill and momentum kill
• Firefighting, capping, freezing and hot tapping
• Relief well design and operations
• Underground blowouts
• The oil fires of Kuwait

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.