Well control, Drilling and Workover

• Drilling & Workover Certification: IADC WellSharp • Duration: 4 days
• Drilling Certification: IADC WellSharp • Duration: 3-4 days
• Workover Certification: IADC WellCap • Duration: 4 days

Designed for all drilling staff, Superintendents, Field site managers, Equipment managers, Shift managers, Driller, and Derrickman, and Derrickman substitutes. The course comprises well control basic principles and theory, plus more used well control techniques. The program follows government and industry guidelines.

Contents: Basic concepts on pressure. Surgencies: detection, theory. Procedures. Well control basic principles. Control methods. Complications. Fluids. Service equipment. Reconditioning (RA) operation (repair, workover). Well and underground equipment. Lowering and taking out tubing under pressure. Submarine well control. Simulation exercises.

Goal: Dealing with and simulating topics and operations related to lack of control and control during Drilling, Workover and Pulling activities.

Duration: 4 days.

Certification: IADC WellCAP

Study materials:
• Student Manual

Ask for information about courses on Snubbing, Coiled Tubing and Wireline operations.

Stuck Pipe

Stuck pipe is most common cause for losing time during well drilling, completion, and reconditioning operations. It may represent a minor problem that slightly increases costs, or a big problem which means losing string or even the whole well.

Contents: Stuck pipe causes (differential, mechanical, related to formation issues). Warning signals. Prevention. Release.

Goal: The program trains in recognizing factors that cause stuck pipe, as well as in preventing it, and possible solutions available.

Duration: 2 days.

Certification: IADC DIT

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)

Rig Pass (entry to equipment)

Working in gas and oil fields means facing challenging tasks which are conducted virtually anywhere worldwide, ashore or offshore. Part of this challenge is to work safely.

Contents: Preparations to work. Guidance on drilling rig. Response to emergencies (fires, toxic gases). Safety at work (required equipment, hazard communication, loads lifting and handling, disconnection and labeling, work permits). Environmental review. Offshore safety.

Goal: The course refers to various factors which involve hazards present in different working circumstances and settings, training in preventing them and suitably responding to each condition.

Duration: 1 day.

Certification: IADC

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)

Safe practices in H₂S environments

El H₂S, sulphidric acid or hydrogen sulfide, is a flammable, colorless gas, having a characteristic smell of rotten eggs, commonly known as hydrosulphuric acid o sewer gas. It may affect the sense of smell and, at high concentrations, to cause death. For these reasons, training in protection against H₂S is critical in every industry where it may be present, as it happens in drilling and oil and producing operations.

Contents: Introduction (definition and physical properties). Hydrogen sulfide presence. Health hazard measurement. Hydrogen sulfide prevention and control. Emergency plans. Product Safety spreadsheet. Exercises.

Goal: The course is addressed to drilling operating staff, workover and/or well service (wireline, coiled tubing, snubbing). It aims to alerting and training in knowing H₂S danger and hazards, in recommended practices, and in operating detection and protective equipment to be used.

Duration: 1 day.

Certification: IADC DIT

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)

Math applied to oilfield

A number of men of great strength who are practically efficient show weakness about math knowledge. This program allows them to get familiar with this matter applied to their work, making easier understanding and using it. The course teaches both theoretical calculation and field math: determining annular and wellbore capacities, pump displacements, etc.

Contents: Introduction (objectives, goals). Polynomials. Use of calculator. Basic math (math operations). Common broken numbers and decimal fractions. Percentages and powers. Ryle of three. Math for equipment (drill).

Goal: This course aims to training in applying basic math concepts in oilfields, through operations and examples during well drilling and maintenance tasks.

Duration: 1 day.

Certification: IADC DIT

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)

Introduction to oil and gas industry

This program is addressed to personnel that, due to their professional endeavors, need to know main oil industry operations and tasks conducted with specialized equipment and tools. The course provides a global appreciation of more frequent drilling practices, as well as usual problems to be faced.

Contents: Oil origin. How oil and/or gas are searched. Drilling equipment. Drilling equipment component. Circulation system. Well control system (WC module). Drilling tools. Drilling operations. Designs. Pipes. Cementing. Injection. Main problems occurring during drilling. Well completion. Producing installations.

Goal: This course goal is that personnel related to oil industry learn about activities and tasks conducted during drilling and hydrocarbon extraction.

Duration: 1 day.

Certification: WCI

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)

Safe work practices

Addressed to operating staff, safety supervisors, operators, and plant managers.

Contents: Introduction (equipment, body position, procedures, tools and equipment, work environment). Accident investigations (accident analyses and causes). Hazard evaluation exercises (work site analyses and hazardous behavior identification analysis). Interactive practice.

Goal: Designed to improve field staff skills in recognizing hazardous behavior. Training in avoiding injuries and accidents.

Duration: 1 day.

Certification: WCI

Occupational certification for bit/drill staff

Addressed to all staff involved in different operations of oil industry that are part of a drill crew, Drilling and Workover (toolpusher, driller, RA/RC driller, 8-hour and 2-hour supervisor, 24-hour supervisor, underground foreman, drill collar worker (derrickman), floor workers, assistant staff).

Contents: Knowledge of recommended practices and safety, knowledge of solutions to common and specific problems. Bit/drill handling/management (equipment) (only for toolpushers and supervisors). Stuck pipe. Surgency detection and well closure. Wrenches, wedges, and connections. Tubular handling. Pipes, threads, and connections. Hand tools. Chemical materials handling.

Goal: The course aims to evaluating staff competence and skills in their respective experience and work areas both theoretically and practically in the field.

Duration: 1 day.

Certification: WCI

Leadership

Every company needs, leaders, people capable of motivating, compelling, getting excited, and encouraging work teams under their command. The course is addressed to managers, supervisors, engineers, and in general to all operating or administrative staff working in groups or teams.

Contents: Auto diagnosis (strengths, deficiencies, difficulties). Leading and referencing a team (formal and actual authority, leadership types, participation). Referencing attitude (relationships, authority and parity, relationship styles). Guiding team role (characteristics, attitudes, behavior models). Communication, assertiveness, and language in managing teams.

Goal: Training in recognizing virtues and difficulties that facilitate or interfere when guiding work teams, as well as in most suitable techniques to produce changes as required.

Duration: 2 days.

Certification: WCI

Study materials:
• Presentation
(sample material in spanish)

Fishing operations

"Fishing" is the term commonly used in oil industry to design the activity of recovering from the well stuck or unnecessary objects or tools, called "fish". Fishing tasks are not desirable or welcome, but unavoidable when problems of this kind are faced, and we look the quickest and cheapest way to overcome them.

Contents: Drilling string. Fishing operations. Operation procedures. Recovery operations. Special operations. Well abandonment.

Goal: The course aims to training in preventing fishing problems or solving them when present.

Duration: 2 days.

Certification: WCI

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)

Equipment inspection

Many equipment advances related to safety and reliability are due to recognizing failures and hazards that can be avoided through inspection practices. Inspections allow detecting wrong procedures, faulty equipment, dangerous areas, and potential hazards.

Contents: Inspection theory. Inspection types. The drill (equipment) and its components. Inspecting hosting systems of drilling bits. Audits of drilling bits and workover. Supervisor roles and responsibility. Inspection form. Drilling cables.

Goal: The course trains in performing a visual and documental inspection that allows determine equipment and work tool conditions, as well as procedures to be corrected.

Duration: 3 days.

Certification: WCI

Study materials:
• Student Manual
(sample material in spanish)