Advanced Underbalanced Drilling Techniques

An applied course in underbalanced drilling techniques built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on underbalanced drilling techniques both accrue interest. The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations; it has added to it. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place underbalanced drilling techniques among the areas with the widest performance spread. The course sets out a working method for the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability that participants can apply the week they return. What blocks progress on this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for underbalanced drilling techniques. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Structure contracts and service agreements covering underbalanced drilling techniques.

02

Handle the trade-offs in underbalanced drilling techniques between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.

03

Specify the instrumentation and data needed to monitor underbalanced drilling techniques reliably.

04

Identify the failure points in underbalanced drilling techniques most likely to cause loss, and control them first.

05

Estimate what underbalanced drilling techniques costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.

06

Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on underbalanced drilling techniques.

07

Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from underbalanced drilling techniques.

Who Should Attend

01

Process safety and technical safety specialists reviewing underbalanced drilling techniques.

02

Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes underbalanced drilling techniques.

03

Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on underbalanced drilling techniques.

04

Department heads accountable for the results of underbalanced drilling techniques.

05

Contract and procurement staff supporting underbalanced drilling techniques.

06

Project engineers delivering capital work involving underbalanced drilling techniques.

Course Modules

01

Underbalanced drilling techniques: process safety, permits and isolation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The operating limits on underbalanced drilling techniques and what happens beyond them

  • Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Set out the decisions in underbalanced drilling techniques that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Establish the boundary of underbalanced drilling techniques and record what sits outside it.
  • Check that management of change is applied to every modification of underbalanced drilling techniques.

Session 2The environmental exposure created by underbalanced drilling techniques

  • Reduce the variation in how underbalanced drilling techniques is carried out between teams.
  • Verify six months later that changes to underbalanced drilling techniques have held.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of underbalanced drilling techniques before proposing changes.
  • Rehearse the briefing on underbalanced drilling techniques that would follow an incident.
02

Underbalanced drilling techniques: incidents, lessons and continual improvement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What to measure in underbalanced drilling techniques and what to ignore

  • Review incident and near-miss history involving underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Model the economics of underbalanced drilling techniques at low, base and high price cases.
  • Review the instrumentation on underbalanced drilling techniques for coverage gaps.
  • Confirm handover documentation for underbalanced drilling techniques is complete and current.

Session 2The decisions in underbalanced drilling techniques that cannot be delegated

  • Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Confirm that those complying with underbalanced drilling techniques understand why it exists.
  • Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Set escalation thresholds for underbalanced drilling techniques that work out of hours.
03

Underbalanced drilling techniques: integrity, inspection and condition assessment

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading condition data on underbalanced drilling techniques before failure, not after

  • Verify isolation points for underbalanced drilling techniques are proven and documented.
  • Identify the failure modes of underbalanced drilling techniques with the highest consequence.
  • Build the competence framework that supports underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios underbalanced drilling techniques can create.

Session 2Competence and handover on underbalanced drilling techniques when experienced staff leave

  • Define the safe operating envelope for underbalanced drilling techniques and how deviations are detected.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Prepare the summary of underbalanced drilling techniques that senior management will read.
  • Benchmark the organisation's underbalanced drilling techniques against comparable operations.
04

Underbalanced drilling techniques: economics, price exposure and investment case

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The cost of underbalanced drilling techniques and how to present it

  • Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Establish the alarm philosophy applying to underbalanced drilling techniques and remove nuisance alarms.
  • Remove steps in underbalanced drilling techniques that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Confirm that lessons from underbalanced drilling techniques are shared beyond the team that learned them.

Session 2What the instrumentation on underbalanced drilling techniques is and is not telling you

  • Check that the permit regime covering underbalanced drilling techniques matches the actual hazard.
  • Agree the smallest change to underbalanced drilling techniques that would be visibly useful.
  • Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to underbalanced drilling techniques.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to underbalanced drilling techniques will be introduced.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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