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IWCF (Drilling & Intervention) Program
Course Description
Theoretical & Practical Course for surface installation at Driller & Supervisor Levels. The course is designed to enhance the understanding of the fundamentals of well control that can be applied at most well control operations drilling and intervention, and to prepare candidates for IWCF testing.

Drilling Engineers, Senior Drilling Engineers, Drilling Supervisors, Work over Engineers, Petroleum Engineers, Completion Engineers, Tool Pushers, Reservoir and Senior Reservoir Engineers, Geologists, Production Engineers, Well site Engineers, Foremen, and Industry Personnel.

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
  • pre and post assessments 

Day 1

  • Course Registration
  • Introduction
  • Well control principles
  • Primary well control
  • Hydrostatic pressure
  • Exercise
  • Formation Pressure
  • Normal formation pressure
  • Abnormal formation pressure
  • Causes of Kicks

Day 2

  • Kicks While Drilling
  • Early Warning Signs
  • Positive Kick Signs
  • Kicks while tripping
  • Circulating System
  • Leak off test and MAASP
  • Secondary Well Control
  • BOP stack configuration
  • Diverters, Rotating heads, Annular & Rams
  • CHOKES AND MANIFOLDS
  • BOP Testing

Day 3

  • Top hole drilling
  • Hydrocarbon behavior
  • Shut-in procedures
  • Kill Methods
  • Driller’s Method
  • Wait & Weight Method
  • Volumetric method
  • Stripping
  • Gunk and barite
  • Surface BOPs Control System
  • Operation of Koomey unit
  • Accumulator volumetric requirements
  • 4 Way valve

Day 4

  • Accumulator test
  • Remote Panel
  • Mud/gas separators
  • Vacuum degasser
  • Pit Volume Tantalizer (P.V.T)
  • Flow indicator
  • Trip tank
  • Gauge Problems
  • Down Hole Killing Problems
  • Surface Killing Problems
  • Horizontal and Deviated Well Control

Day 5

  • Kill Sheet Exercises with Problems
  • Well control drill
  • Exercises
  • Simulator Training
  • Driller to drill and shut in the well
  • supervisor to operate choke
  • Simulator Equipment exercises
  • Koomey unit problems
  • Exercises and Discussion
  • Practical training
  • Practical Assessments
  • Well Completion
  • Wellhead & Xmas Tree
  • Well Interventions
  • Snubbing
  • Coiled Tubing
  • Wireline

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

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
DE266-02
2026-04-12
Dubai
USD 5450
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DE266-03
2026-07-19
Dubai
USD 5450
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DE266-04
2026-11-16
Istanbul
USD 5950
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