Articles

Kick Detection and Well Monitoring Equipment
Wireline Pressure Control Equipment
Application and maintenance of secondary well control equipment
Drill String BOP Valves
Example of BOP Configuration
General BOP Arrangement
Installation requirements for wellhead and BOP equipment
Maintenance and inspection of BOP equipment
Surface BOP equipment
Subsea blowout prevention (BOP) equipment
Diverter equipment
Choke and Kill System
Pressure Testing of Well Control Equipment
Casing, wellhead and BOP equipment tests
Classification of BOP and well control equipment.
Well Control - Abnormal pore pressures
Communicating information
Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S)
Contingency Stock Levels - Well Control
Well Control Responsibilities
Setting of retainers, bridge plugs and packers
Well Control Safety
Well Control - High Pressure Wells
Pre-Kick Planning
Responsibilities for Well Control
Well Control - Well Design
Blowout contingency planning
Relief Well - Homing-In
Well Control Drills
Shallow Gas - Planning Guidelines
Well Control Equipment and Procedures - Standards
Mud Log Gas (background, drilled, swab, connection, trip)
Well Control - Shallow Gas
Discussion on Suitability of Barriers (well control)
Well Control - H2S
Well Control Standards
Well Control Drills and Exercises
Calculation of Maximum Allowable Annular Surface Pressure (MAASP)
Fluid measuring devices
Loss of primary well control - failure of riser
Primary Control - Planning Considerations
Well Control - Preliminary record of information
Avoiding loss of primary control
Influx Detection
Total Losses and Requirement for Continuous Fill-Up
Well Control - Flowline Shows
Influx Prevention
Well Control - Primary Control Techniques
Well Control - Loss of Primary Control
Inflow Testing Procedure
Pressure at the top of a Gas Influx in the Annulus using the "Driller's Method"
Well Control - Circulating heavy mud (bit off bottom)
Well Kill Using Combined Volumetric Stripping
Well Control - Kick whilst tripping
Kicks with Casing in the BOP Stack
Well Control Procedure - While on Bottom
Kicks with Drill Collars in the BOP Stack
Pressure at the top of a Gas Influx in the Annulus using the ‘Wait and Weight’ Method
Well Control - Slim Hole Drilling
Well Control Procedure - While Tripping
Well Control Procedure - While Out of Hole
Problems Encountered During Well Control
Well Kill Using The Driller's Method With The Bit On Bottom
Well Control - Stripping Method
Bullheading
Procedure and Calculation example for Change in Circulating Rate
Well Control during Logging Operations
Well Control - Deviated and Horizontal wells
Complications during well control operations
Well Control - Balanced Mud Method
Well Control - Combined stripping and volumetric method
Well Control - Volumetric Method
Non-conventional well control methods
Well Control - Recognizing a kick and action to be taken
Well Control - Bullheading
Well Control - Driller's Method
Well Kill Using Wait and Weight Method (Balanced Method)
Barite Plugs
Well Control - barytes and cement plugs.
Cement Plugs