Well Control Training − Levels Guidance Chart 476chart

VERSION 2
NOVEMBER
2019

Training is on Action may occur Guide to Typical Roles (Titles can vary between different companies, locations or facilities).
What training this person Repeat Learning Formal
Level responsibilities relative to Well Learning Outcomes Certificate for The Level may need to be adjusted depending on responsibilities.
needs Frequency Method Assessment
for Control Assurance a This list is not exhaustive: the principle is that operator and employer review what training is required to manage the risks.
1) The following non well-site office based staff in an oil and gas operating company drilling or well operations department:
a) Logistics coordination personnel and logistics supervisors
For individuals who
b) Subsurface staff/geologists involved with well planning and well scheduling personnel
need an awareness of A general overview Online
Awareness of the processes 2) Offshore Installation Managers (OIMs) that do not have a primary function for drilling and/or well intervention (i.e. Production OIMs)
what well control is of the life cycle of a modules or
All Personnel and terminology of well life Have relevant awareness knowledge 3) Roustabouts, deck crew, and platform and site location crane operators
and those who could well with emphasis None classroom.
1 contributing to
perform an action
cycle in order to develop of the Key Topics to provide effective
on how everyone’s (No repeat) Include Self-
None 4) Rig move captains or rig move Offshore Installation Managers (OIMs)
the well project adequate knowledge to support 5) Oil and gas installation supply and support vessel Watch Officers and Captains
that might indirectly role can affect well Assessment
provide the required support 6) Other non-critical well-site personnel responsible for downhole and surface well equipment repair, inspection and operations such as:
impact Well Control control Quizzes
a) Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) personnel (non-supervisory)
Assurance (WCA)
b) Other well-site non-supervisory and non-critical drilling or intervention personnel
c) Tubular and rig inspection personnel
1) Drilling, Workover and Completions 2) Intervention
a) Well-site operations engineer a) Well-site operations engineer
b) Well-site and office based operations geologist b) Intervention services crew members
c) Roughneck c) Well-site based wireline or slick-line crew members
d) Derrick-man d) Coiled tubing services crew members
Attention to Well e) Drilling Contractor Maintenance personnel e) Snubbing crew members
Control Prevention (e.g., maintenance supervisor, rig mechanic) f) Well test crew members
Well-site based and Response for the Classroom, f) BOP Equipment Installation, re-work, repair or maintenance personnel g) Pumping and stimulation crew members
Operations position whose action Have knowledge and skills to effectively appropriate online module
Skills to act under 3) Support Services b
2 Team or inaction that could
guidance
act under guidance (monitor, observe, equipment scenarios Every 5 years or on the job Examination
personnel directly influence detect, report) (surface / subsea): mentored a) BOP / Subsea engineer, dynamic position operator j) MPD / UBD well-site service personnel (non-supervisory)
(WCA) a(i) 1) Drilling programme b) Well-site ROV supervisor and crew k) Casing running personnel (non-supervisory)
2) Intervention c) Well-site drilling fluids, mud and completion fluids engineer l) Directional surveying / MWD / LWD personnel
3) Support Services d) Well-site directional driller m) Production staff / supervisors
e) Fishing engineer or fishing tool operator n) Crane operators suspending intervention equipment
f) Mud logger or well-site drilling data engineer o) Well head maintenance crew
g) Well-site casing crew supervisors p) Well-site oilfield equipment repair personnel
h) Well-site cementing operator q) Electric- supervisor and crew
i) Well head engineer r) Subsea wellhead / Xmas Tree engineer
Be able to perform their role effectively, 1) Drilling, Workover and Completions 2) Intervention
in particular by identifying anomalies Attention to Well
Every 2 years a) Driller a) Wireline, E-line, Slick-line operator
and performing the first actions Control Prevention b) Assistant driller b) N2 operator
Has to perform an independently, and recognise that they and Response for
3 action to ensure are empowered to do so. Proactively the appropriate
Level 3E can
Classroom
c) Wellhead / Tree installation engineer

and Equipment
WCA a(i) or to respond Correct actions to take communicate with all personnel who equipment scenarios
be attempted
and/or
Examination d) Hydraulic work-over (snubbing) operator

3E Operator
to well control provide support to maintaining well (surface / subsea):
2 years after
seminars c
and Practical d e) Coiled tubing operator and equivalent positions in other well-servicing
Level 3 has been or intervention operations
incidents WCA a(ii) control (e.g. Level 2 personnel). 1) Drilling
successfully 3) Support Services b
The Level 3E (Enhanced) is intended to 2) Intervention
passed
deepen knowledge and can be attempted 3) Support Services a) Subsea BOP Engineer c) Well testing crew
after having passed Level 3. b) MPD / UBD well-site service supervisor d) LMRP Engineer

1) Drilling, Workover and Completions 2) Intervention

Be able to establish consistent practices Attention to Well a) Drilling, Workover and Completions well-site supervisor, a) Completion / work-over / intervention supervisor or superintendent
to assure continued primary well control Control Planning, Every 2 years Superintendent or company man (day and night) b) Well-site completions / work-over supervisor
and well integrity. When anomalous Prevention and b) Tool pusher c) Supervisors or crew chiefs for special service operations such as
Specifies and has situations occur, or conditions escalate, Response for Level 4E can c) Drilling contractor rig manager wireline, slick-line and coiled tubing operations, that provide specific
4 oversight that correct Skills to anticipate, plan, they will be able to analyse the situation, the appropriate be attempted
Classroom
Examination d) Office based Operational staff (e.g. Senior Well Engineer, Operational well control equipment for these activities
and Supervisor
actions are carried oversee and verify develop plans to minimize the impact equipment scenarios 2 years after
and/or
and Practical d Well Engineer) d) Office based Operational staff (e.g. Senior Completions / Well Interventions
4E out and recover the situation to the norm. (surface / subsea): Level 4 has been
seminars c
e) Engineer, Operational Completions / Well Intervention Engineer)
The Level 4E (Enhanced) is intended to 1) Drilling successfully 3) Support Services b
deepen knowledge and can be attempted 2) Intervention passed
a) Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) for offshore units with a primary function for drilling or well intervention
after having passed Level 4. 3) Support Services
b) Well-site personnel supervising Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) operations or Under-Balance Drilling (UBD) services
c) Hydraulic work-over (snubbing) supervisor
Skills to design the well and Have discipline-specific skills and Classroom Industry
Deliver the correct
well activities, including subsurface/geological/production One discipline and/or Examination, 1) Drilling engineer / Senior drilling engineer 7) Drilling manager (up to first line drilling management)
design and develop None
subsurface/geological knowledge to be capable of planning specific training seminars or a or auditable 2) Completion engineers / Senior completion engineer 8) Drilling project managers (up to first line drilling management)
Engineer and the normal operating (Continuous
knowledge. Skill to identify and performing safe well design and/ course or program development alternatives 3) Petroleum engineers / Senior petroleum engineers 9) Well operations managers
Approving envelope. Identify learning
and to specify actions to be or intervention operations. Be able to for all operations, program as deployed 4) Well service engineer / Senior well service engineer 10) Well services managers
Authority e actions with the agreed refreshers
taken when stepping outside evaluate technically on deviations to environments and encompassing in some 5) Intervention engineer / Senior intervention engineer 11) Office based design personnel
design envelope and recommended) f
of the normal operating the well operations plan and advise rig types all elements of company 6) Drilling / Intervention superintendent (if involved with well design) 12) Senior wells personnel, e.g. Team Leader and General Manager Wells
manage risk
envelope accordingly well planning c programs.
Chart excludes Well Integrity Assurance (WIA) during production use of the well.
a Well Control Assurance. WCA (i): The assurance that primary well control is maintained. WCA (ii): When this is not the case that the situation is properly contained and the status of the well returned safely to normality. d For Drilling (and for D/WO/C): Written examination and simulator assessment. For Well Intervention: Written examination and simulator assessment or approved alternative (e.g. scenario-based paper exercise).
b Well Support Service providers (or their training partners) are to identify and deliver appropriate well control training to their staff requisite for services provided. e Approving Authority is the individual providing technical oversight for the design and for deviations.
c Could be a fully auditable alternative. The Classroom is a Standard. The full capability should be demonstrated to meet or exceed the learning environment of the classroom. f Refreshers recommended because technologies, practices, designs, standards, etc. change with time.