HIGH PRESSURE &
HIGH TEMPERATURE WELLS

22-24 March 2010

DEEPWATER WELL CONTROL

25-26 March 2010

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Aberdeen Drilling Schools International

In association with

Your Instructor: H. Gene Wilson
Founder of Aberdeen Drilling School, UK

Dear colleague,

Are you confident that you are minimising cost and maximising operational efficiencies in your High Pressure & High Temperature (HPHT) and Deepwater projects?

The increasing demand for new and plentiful reserves has prioritised the exploration for new hydrocarbon sources within more extreme formation environments in deepwaters. This means that you are faced with even more high-risk and high-cost operations.

HPHT wells are pushing new limits; with viable HPHT operations now in wells with temperatures up to 500ºF and pressures of up to 25,000 PSI. As a consequence, there is a huge demand for new technologies and equipment qualification capabilities that will withstand the most extreme HPHT in deepwater conditions.

With this in mind, it is imperative that you are up to date with the latest technological developments and understand the most efficient strategies to optimise your operations going forward.

This separately bookable training course presents a case-study led agenda that will deliver comprehensive insight into some of the most advanced and successful HPHT and deepwater well control projects worldwide.

This course is designed for

Field-based and office-based drilling personnel: drill crews (Asst. Drillers, Drillers, Toolpushers); Operator personnel (Drilling Supervisors, Drilling Engineers); service company personnel (mud, cementing, etc)

Course Overview

A practically orientated workshop involving group interaction and problem solving, focusing on the well control challenges of High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) and Deepwater Wells. The course comprises lecture, workshop-type discussion sessions, real case histories and problem-solving activities.

Previous participants in 2009 include Petronas Carigali, Carigali – PTTEPI, Talisman, Newfield, PTTEP, Petronas Research and many others.

3 – Day Course Agenda for High Pressure & High Temperature Wells

22 - 24 March 2010

• Course Introduction
• HPHT well overview
• HPHT uniqueness
• Introduction to planning, drilling & well control for HPHT wells
• Gas behaviour, kicks and control
• Influence of gas expansion
• Mud & gas solubility – The effect of OBM on kick detection and well control procedures
• Sidekick presentation examples of gas solubility in HPHT Wells
• New Technology Workshop: Importance of Practical Application of On-Choke Lag Time in
OBM Systems and How This Impacts the Operational Aspect of the Constant Bottom Hole Pressure Well Control Method Application in Anger
• Management of underground flow in the reserviour
• Review of Drilling Contractor's HPHT Procedures
• Operational case history No. 1 - What are the actual differences in the well’s behaviour that will affect our operational procedure. “Domino Theory”
• Review of Operator's HPHT Specific Procedures and JOM bridging document with Drilling Contractor
• Loss Gain (Fracture Charging, Supercharging, Ballooning)
• New Technology Workshop CHCD Application in  HPHT Operations
• Review of the operator/contractor HPHT drilling & well control procedures
• Equipment specifications: Rig equipment layout unique to HPHT service
• Operator & Contractor philosophy (learning from the past)
• New Technology Workshop MPD Application in HPHT Operations
• Operational case study No. 2
• Case History Application: HPHT Kicks-Where Are They Happening and Why?
• Formulate and implement solutions using HPHT policies and procedures
• Course ends

2 – Day Agenda for Deepwater Well Control

25 - 25 March 2010

• Course Introduction
• Review of basic well control in deepwater wells
• Uniqueness of deepwater wells
• Kick prevention and detection
• Well control practices in deepwater while drilling and tripping
• Shut in procedures/lost circulation/decision trees
• Well control challenges in deepwater wells (eg OBM vs. WBM)
• • Gas Migration/CLFL/KT/MAASP/Riser
• Well control methods & advantages in deepwater well control
• • Circulation/ Drillers Method
• • Static/ Dynamic Volumetric
• • Bull Heading
• • Off-Bottom Kill
• Equipment review and discussion
• • BOP/Choke Manifold/ Riser/ Riser Components
• Leak-off test (LOT)
• Kick tolerance limitation
• Fracture pressure in deep water wells
• Emergency disconnect discussion
• Hydrate preventing & removal
• Course ends

About your trainer: H. Gene Wilson, Aberdeen Drilling Schools (ADS)

Mr H. Gene Wilson founded Aberdeen Drilling Schools in 1982, following a career (initially in field drilling operations and subsequently in training) which began in 1972. Immediately prior to establishing ADS, Mr Wilson served as Training Director for Sedco North Sea Division. His responsibilities included the development of the company's in-house Well Control School (obtaining Department of Energy, UK Certification, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and International Association of Drilling Contractor Certification). He was responsible for creating the Sedco International Qualification Programme and the development of Sedco's graduate trainees. Mr Wilson is also a founding member of IADC Well Control Committee and IADC HPHT Drilling & Well Control Policies & Best Practice Joint Working Group. He has continued to contribute hands-on to Aberdeen Drilling Schools' training activities, having project-managed the "BP Global Well Control Policy Revision" (2001-02) and ChevronTexaco's "Well Control Manuals Upgrade Project" (2004-05) and has conducted HPHT training and consultancies for many major clients worldwide including:

- Amerada Hess (UK)
- BP (Azerbaijan & Egypt)
- ConocoPhillips (UK)
- ENI (Norway)
- ExxonMobil (Norway & UK)
- Gaz de France (UK)
- Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (India)
- Newfield (Malaysia)

Aberdeen Drilling Schools International (ADSI) has been at the vanguard of operational training for High Pressure High Temperature drilling and well control since the 1980s, having run public courses and client/project-specific sessions for hundreds of client companies. ADS has recently conducted dedicated class-based and well-site HPHT training and consultancies for clients in the UK (Shell, Talisman Energy, ConocoPhillips, Gaz de France), Azerbaijan (BP Azerbaijan, JNOC), Egypt (BP, ENI, BG), Holland (Noble Drilling), Libya (Shell), Norway (Statoil, ENI Norge, Norske Shell, Petro-Canada), India (Greatship, Reliance Industries), Malaysia (Newfield, Nippon Oil) and Nigeria (Shell, ExxonMobil). ADS has also authored and revised the HPHT Policies and Procedures of several major Operator clients.

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