The course will feature:

• Overview of well completion methods
• Reasons for well intervention
• Methods of well servicing (wireline/coil tubing/snubbing)
• Understanding fluids and pressure
• Production well kill methods
• Preparation
• Bull heading, reverse circulation, lubricate and bleed, work string deployed
• Pressure control equipment and operating procedures
• Well Service Operations (rig-up, pressure testing)
• Barrier theory for well servicing (types and classification)
• Wellhead equipment
• Failures and effects (wireline/coil tubing/snubbing)
• Reverse circulation well kill simulation and testing
• Hydrates (formation, prevention, removal)

By the end of this BTS training course, participants will be able to:

• Comply with the well integrity requirements
• Know the safety barrier principles
• Understand the behavior of a producing well
• Learn the equipment of a completion
• Apply the methods used to control well pressure
• Learn procedures and equipment used in wireline, coiled tubing, snubbing, work-over

Personnel concerned with well intervention operations (wire-line, coiled tubing, snubbing, workover): engineers, supervisors and operators who have to plan, supervise or carry out well intervention operations

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

Principles & Well Fundamentals

• Type of well effluents (heavy oil, oil, gas)
• Hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressures
• Fracture Pressure
• Specific gravities, densities, pressure gradient
• Primary Well Control
• Secondary Well Control
• Over-balance/under-balance
• Pore pressure, frac pressure
• Pressure Control Equipment
  
  

Completion Operations: Principles, Procedures and Equipment

• Overview of Completions Operations
• Introduction to Well Control
• Introductions to Barriers
• Risk Management
• Circulating Systems
• Testing and Well Integrity Testing
• Shut in Procedures
• Well Control Methods: Kill method principles
• Bullheading
• Lubricate and Bleed Method
• Well integrity testing
• Influx characteristics and behavior
• Shut-in procedures Contingency Planning (Recognition of Problems and First Actions, Pressure Gauge Failure, Surface Failures, Hydrate Formation, The Effects of Bottom Hole Pressure, Blockage in the Well)
• Blowout Preventers
• Completions Equipment
• Annulus Pressure Monitoring
  
  

Pressure Control Applied To Completion & Well Intervention

• Safety barriers, pressure tests
• Well calculation (pressure, volume, kill fluid, pumping time, balancing the pressure at the depth of the circulating device …)
• Shut in procedures
• Kill methods (direct or reverse circulation, bull heading, lubricate and bleed…)
• Specific problems linked to producing wells (losses, plugging, migration, hydrates, H2S and CO2 …)
• Responsibilities, decision making
  
  

   Completion Equipment

• Different types of completion
• Downhole equipment as: Packers, Safety valves SCSSSV, nipples, side pocket mandrels, tubing (sizes, grades and connections), Xmas tree, …

• Blow Out preventers WEQA
• Completion equipment WEQG
• Annulus pressure monitoring
  
  

Wire Line Intervention 

• Safety barriers and specific equipment
• Rigging up and pressure tests surface pressure control equipment
• Slick line: specific equipment (BOP, Lubricator, Stuffing box, cable cutter valve, …)
• Braided line, e-line: specific equipment (twin BOP, Grease injection system, Pack-off system, Tool trap, Tool catcher, …)
• Problems during the interventions, interpretation and decision (Shut-In)
  
  

Coiled Tubing 

• Barriers and specific equipment (strippers, BOP, …)
• Rigging up and pressure tests surface pressure control equipment
• Problems during the interventions, interpretation and decision (shut in)
• Testing
• Barrier Principles
• Contingency Procedures
• Shut in Procedures
  
  

Snubbing 

• Barriers and specific equipment (Strippers, BOP, stripping rams, safety rams, …)
• Rigging up and pressure tests surface pressure control equipment
• Problems during the interventions, interpretation and decision (shut in)
• Testing
• Barrier Principles
• Contingency Procedures

• Shut in Procedures
• Operating Procedures
  
  

Wireline Operations

• Pressure Control Equipment
• Rigging Up
• Testing
• Barrier Principles
• Managing a Leak or Malfunction on Surface
• Contingency Procedures
• Critical Operating Procedures

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