Designed for: Well site supervisors, drilling engineers, drilling superintendents, persons who design, plan and manage well drilling operations.

Course Content:

- Overview of basic well control methods.
- Understand Formation pressures and causes of formation pressures.
- Fracture pressure fundamentals.
- Kick tolerance/Kick causes/Kick warnings.
- Shut-In Procedures.
- Kill sheet basics and usage.
- Drillers method.
- Wait & weight method and other well control methods.
- Control of shallow gas kicks.
- Diverters/BOP & Diverter equipment (installation, operation, maintenance, and testing).
- Well control equipment (limits, auxiliary units, closing units and others).
- Apply pressure control procedures while tripping.
- Recognize non-classic well control problems.
- Design and evaluate non-classic well control procedures.
- Design relief well operations.