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Stuck Pipe Prevention & Fishing for Rig Workover (Well Services) (DRI53)

    Description

    This course will expose participants to terminology, concepts, processes, and equipment used for stuck pipe prevention and fishing operations. Participants will be able to identify and understand the causes of Stuck Pipe, Freeing Stuck Pipe, Mechanical Sticking, Pack-offs, Differential Sticking, ECD Management, Hole Cleaning and the Best practices - connections, tripping & back-reaming. Participants will also get to know all the fishing tools available on the market for different fishing operations, and make calculations on when to stop a fishing operation based on economics. The course will also address the risk management related to fishing operations and provide practical exercises.

    Course Level: Foundation / Skill
    Duration: 5 days
    Instructor: Gonzalo Rivero

    Designed for you, if you are...

    • A fresh drilling engineer
    • A drilling-, intervention-, completion- or production engineer
    • A field maintenance supervisor or operator
    • A service company or equipment manufacturing engineer

    How we build your confidence

    • Face-to-face presentation
    • Videos and animations
    • Case studies
    • Practical exercises

    The benefits from attending

    By the end of the course, you will be able to:
    • Identify and understand the causes of stuck pipe
    • Apply techniques for freeing stuck pipe
    • Recognise and address mechanical sticking, pack-offs, and differential sticking
    • Implement best practices for hole cleaning
    • Apply best practices during connections, tripping, and back-reaming
    • Identify and select appropriate fishing tools
    • Perform economic calculations to determine the end of fishing operation

    Topics

    Workover and Completion Introduction
    • Workover & completion operations
    • Front end loading methodology

    Risk Management
    • Risk management
    • Risk process
    • Risk in workover operations

    Introduction to Stuck Pipe Environment
    • Introduction to drilling geology
    • Introduction to stuck pipe
    • Wellbore instability: causes and remedies

    Mechanisms for Stuck Pipe – Causes, Occurrence and Prevention
    • Introduction to stuck pipe
    • Solids pack off
    • Differential pressure

    Stuck Pipe Prevention
    • Stuck pipe diagnosis – first actions
    • Hole cleaning, low & high angle
    • Principles of wellbore stability

    Strings Design Basics and Introduction to Jar Placement and Operation
    • Types of jars
    • Jar placement and operation
    • Fishing economics
    • String separation options
    • Free point indicator tool
    • Fishing BHA design

    Fishing Operations and Fishing Tools
    • Classification of fishing tools and operations
    • External and internal catching
    • Safety joint
    • Wash over operations and tools
    • Milling and junk recovery
    • Other fishing tools and accessories
    • Introduction to side tracking procedures

    Plug Back and Side Tracking
    • Setting cement plugs for side tracking
    • Side tracking procedures

    Practical Exercise


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