Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A professional involved in well construction, office based or rig based staff at all levels
• For the first time introduced to stuck pipe
• In need of refreshing your knowledge or if it is more than two years since you attended a stuck pipe course

How we build your confidence

• Practical demonstrations of all the key principles using models and simulations in the classroom
• Mixed instructor-led delivery of theoretical content with blend of PowerPoint overview, whiteboard explanations of detail and class interactive exercises
• A narrative that runs through the course where each topic is inter-related and built on the previous learnings
• Extensive allowance for class-led questioning within the course delivery
• A 'role playing' exercise might be included

The benefits from attending

• How to plan wells using the most up-to-date techniques and input from the geology and geomechanics teams to prevent avoidable problems in the well
• How the ‘old’ practices and procedures embedded in the industry are not always correct and often lead to stuck pipe situations
• How the ‘human factor’ plays a significant part in a lot of stuck pipe situations and why people do not follow the correct practices and procedures
• Communication and operational reporting and planning, why we often do not see the obvious risks because of the way we focus our reporting
• The definitions, mechanisms and language of stuck pipe
• Jars and accelerators, how they work and how to place them correctly, but also why these pieces of equipment are not always going to help you

Topics

• Stuck pipe definitions, the statistics of stuck pipe
• Understanding your project risk profile, offset data review
• Mechanisms of stuck pipe
• Hole Cleaning
• Geomechanics and using FEWD(LWD) to understand the well stability
• The directional profile and its role in increasing stuck pipe risk
• Torque and drag as a fundamental component of stuck pipe
• Planning a well to avoid stuck pipe
• Rig site well monitoring and how to correctly monitor a well
• Rigsite practice, design of and monitoring compliance with procedures
• The drilling fluid as a stuck pipe prevention tool
• Identifying the stuck pipe mechanism, rigsite guidance and the HSE approach to drilling incidents
• Forensic evaluation to identify and re-classify previous assumptions
• Drill string design issues