This course provides the required comprehensive knowledge and skills for well servicing and workover.
Public :
Completion, well servicing or workover engineers and supervisors, with client or service companies, familiar with well control operations.
Level :Knowledge
Prerequisite :
Basics of well completion, well operations and/or well intervention.
Course Content
TYPES & MEANS OF INTERVENTION ON PRODUCING WELLS
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Mains types of intervention: measurement, maintenance, workover.
Introduction to main means (wireline unit, coiled tubing unit, snubbing unit, workover rig): principles, area of application.
GENERAL PROCEDURE OF A WORKOVER
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Main operation steps: chronology, more tricky operations from a safety point of view, main operations.
Case of depleted reservoirs: losses and formation damage, kick-off after the workover.
WELL KILLING PROCEDURE FOR A PRODUCING WELL
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Duration : 1.25 Days
Killing the well by circulation: area of application, basis procedures (direct or reverse circulation), elaboration of the forward-looking pumping diagram.
Killing by squeeze: area of application, basis procedure, elaboration of the operating program, case where the injectivity test is unsatisfactory, squeeze and bleed-off method.
Final killing phase: observing the well, operations to run after packer “unsetting”.
WELL OPERATIONS ON PRODUCING WELLS
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Duration : 2 Days
Wireline operations: principle and area of application, surface equipment, wireline tool string, WL tools, fishing tools, safety during operations.
Coiled tubing operations: principle and area of application, surface equipment, CT downhole equipment, CT safety and operating considerations.
CASE STUDY: WORKOVER PROGRAM
KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
Select the right means for well intervention,
Design well servicing or workover programs,
Supervise well servicing or workover operations.
Ways & Means
Two case studies are worked out: one for well servicing, the other for workover.
Learning assessment
Quiz.
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Additional information :This course can be delivered in French, with documentation in English.
Coordinator :IFP Training instructors, with expertise in the field and trained in modern teaching methods adapted to the specific needs of learners from the professional world.
To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding.
Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com
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