Well Control for Completions and Interventions explores the standards that ensure safe and efficient production flow, well integrity and well control for oil rigs, focusing on the post-Macondo environment where tighter regulations and new standards are in place worldwide. Too many training facilities currently focus only on the drilling side of the well’s cycle when teaching well control, hence the need for this informative guide on the topic.
This long-awaited manual for engineers and managers involved in the well completion and intervention side of a well’s life covers the fundamentals of design, equipment and completion fluids. In addition, the book covers more important and distinguishing components, such as well barriers and integrity envelopes, well kill methods specific to well completion, and other forms of operations that involve completion, like pumping and stimulation (including hydraulic fracturing and shale), coiled tubing, wireline, and subsea intervention.
1. Chapter One. Introduction and Well Control Fundamentals - p. 1 2. Chapter Two. Well Construction and Completion Design - p. 65 3. Chapter Three. Completion Equipment - p. 87 4. Chapter Four. Well Control Surface Equipment - p. 137 5. Chapter Five. Completion, Workover, and Intervention Fluids - p. 189 6. Chapter Six. Well Barriers - p. 217 7. Chapter Seven. Well Kill, Kick Detection, and Well Shut-In - p. 235 8. Abstract - p. 235 9. 7.1 Introduction - p. 235 10. 7.2 Workover and Intervention Well Kill Planning - p. 237 11. 7.3 Well Kill: Reverse Circulation - p. 240 12. 7.4 Non-Circulating Kill: Bullhead - p. 277 13. 7.5 Gas Laws and Gas Behavior - p. 287 14. 7.6 Procedure for Controlling Gas Migration - p. 290 15. 7.7 Lubricate-and-Bleed - p. 294 16. 7.8 Causes and Detection of Kicks - p. 312 17. 7.9 Kick Detection - p. 322 18. 7.10 Minimizing the Influx - p. 323 19. 7.11 Shut-In Procedures - p. 326 20. 7.12 Regaining Well Control Following a Kick - p. 329 21. 7.13 Completion and Workover: Well Control Contingencies - p. 342 22. References - p. 359 23. Chapter Eight. Pumping and Stimulation - p. 361 24. Chapter Nine. Wireline Operations - p. 393 25. Chapter Ten. Coiled Tubing Well Control - p. 483 26. Chapter Eleven. Hydraulic Workover (Snubbing) Operation - p. 567 27. Chapter Twelve. Well Control During Well Test Operations - p. 633 28. Chapter Thirteen. Subsea Completion and Intervention Riser Systems - p. 681 29. Chapter Fourteen. Well Control During Subsea Completion and Workover Operations - p. 723 30. Chapter Fifteen. Subsea Wireline Lubricator Interventions - p. 769 31. Index - p. 789
Well Control for Completions and Interventions explores the standards that ensure safe and efficient production flow, well integrity and well control for oil rigs, focusing on the post-Macondo environment where tighter regulations and new standards are in place worldwide. Too many training facilities currently focus only on the drilling side of the well’s cycle when teaching well control, hence the need for this informative guide on the topic.
This long-awaited manual for engineers and managers involved in the well completion and intervention side of a well’s life covers the fundamentals of design, equipment and completion fluids. In addition, the book covers more important and distinguishing components, such as well barriers and integrity envelopes, well kill methods specific to well completion, and other forms of operations that involve completion, like pumping and stimulation (including hydraulic fracturing and shale), coiled tubing, wireline, and subsea intervention.
1. Chapter One. Introduction and Well Control Fundamentals - p. 1 2. Chapter Two. Well Construction and Completion Design - p. 65 3. Chapter Three. Completion Equipment - p. 87 4. Chapter Four. Well Control Surface Equipment - p. 137 5. Chapter Five. Completion, Workover, and Intervention Fluids - p. 189 6. Chapter Six. Well Barriers - p. 217 7. Chapter Seven. Well Kill, Kick Detection, and Well Shut-In - p. 235 8. Abstract - p. 235 9. 7.1 Introduction - p. 235 10. 7.2 Workover and Intervention Well Kill Planning - p. 237 11. 7.3 Well Kill: Reverse Circulation - p. 240 12. 7.4 Non-Circulating Kill: Bullhead - p. 277 13. 7.5 Gas Laws and Gas Behavior - p. 287 14. 7.6 Procedure for Controlling Gas Migration - p. 290 15. 7.7 Lubricate-and-Bleed - p. 294 16. 7.8 Causes and Detection of Kicks - p. 312 17. 7.9 Kick Detection - p. 322 18. 7.10 Minimizing the Influx - p. 323 19. 7.11 Shut-In Procedures - p. 326 20. 7.12 Regaining Well Control Following a Kick - p. 329 21. 7.13 Completion and Workover: Well Control Contingencies - p. 342 22. References - p. 359 23. Chapter Eight. Pumping and Stimulation - p. 361 24. Chapter Nine. Wireline Operations - p. 393 25. Chapter Ten. Coiled Tubing Well Control - p. 483 26. Chapter Eleven. Hydraulic Workover (Snubbing) Operation - p. 567 27. Chapter Twelve. Well Control During Well Test Operations - p. 633 28. Chapter Thirteen. Subsea Completion and Intervention Riser Systems - p. 681 29. Chapter Fourteen. Well Control During Subsea Completion and Workover Operations - p. 723 30. Chapter Fifteen. Subsea Wireline Lubricator Interventions - p. 769 31. Index - p. 789
