Stuck Pipe Prevention
Course Information
Duration: 2 Days
Designed For
This training is designed to emphasise the value of good observation of the well bore behaviour, and communication of any trend changes observed.
The training session will provide an in‐depth knowledge of the various sticking mechanisms and root causes, which contributes to a prevention culture with‐in the team.
This is further consolidated with the use of actual case studies of stuck pipe, which have been investigated by Fearnley Procter.
Course Content
Hole Cleaning, Wellbore Stability and Sticking Mechanisms issues are explained simply and visually, so that the team understand what they are, how to prevent them, how to identify them and actions to take if they do occur.
Differential Sticking is explained in detail and the rig team’s actions to prevent this type of sticking are stressed. As this sticking mechanism is one of the most frequent in the world this issue is discussed at length both from the prevention and recovery views.
Jars and Accelerators: The internal mechanics of the various jars are discussed and explained, enabling the crew to understand the surface readings of jar function or failure, with the aid of detailed models. This assists the rig teams to understand how to operate them with more confidence and assist in decision making when stuck.
Calculations to illustrate the use of jars based on surface weight readings are worked through. With case studies on some courses it is appropriate to discuss a recent failure or a typical failure.
In this case either a client specific failure is prepared or one of the FPG previous case studies is used as a class team work example.
Course Pre‐Qualification
None necessary.
A certificate will be issued on satisfactory completion of the training.
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