Integrate drilling fluid management with the wider process safety management system.
Drilling Fluid Management and Operational Performance Improvement
Move drilling fluid management from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in drilling fluid management; it has added to it. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations both accrue interest. Where the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting drilling fluid management, ready to be adapted internally. It suits anyone whose decisions touch this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations, in large organisations and small ones alike. The programme takes participants through the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make drilling fluid management hard in practice. Buying a tool rarely fixes this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Model the economics of drilling fluid management under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Distinguish the parts of drilling fluid management that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Structure contracts and service agreements covering drilling fluid management.
Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on drilling fluid management.
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that drilling fluid management is under control.
Set the minimum documentation for drilling fluid management that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Who Should Attend
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for drilling fluid management.
Project engineers delivering capital work involving drilling fluid management.
Commercial and planning analysts modelling drilling fluid management.
Managers in small and medium organisations who own drilling fluid management alongside other duties.
Internal auditors reviewing how drilling fluid management is designed and operated.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with drilling fluid management in real time.
Course Modules
Drilling fluid management: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping drilling fluid management alive after the initial push
- Identify where judgement in drilling fluid management is legitimate and where it is not.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in drilling fluid management.
- Confirm handover documentation for drilling fluid management is complete and current.
- Check that the permit regime covering drilling fluid management matches the actual hazard.
Session 2Building the method for drilling fluid management step by step
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of drilling fluid management current.
- Identify the failure modes of drilling fluid management with the highest consequence.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on drilling fluid management.
- Define the safe operating envelope for drilling fluid management and how deviations are detected.
Drilling fluid management: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on drilling fluid management to the standard you hold yourself
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when drilling fluid management underperforms.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates drilling fluid management is under control.
- Model the economics of drilling fluid management at low, base and high price cases.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on drilling fluid management.
Session 2Building lasting competence in drilling fluid management
- Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for drilling fluid management.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on drilling fluid management.
- Prepare the summary of drilling fluid management that senior management will read.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving drilling fluid management.
Drilling fluid management: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the investment case for drilling fluid management that finance will accept
- Verify isolation points for drilling fluid management are proven and documented.
- Confirm that reporting on drilling fluid management reaches the people who can act.
- Review the instrumentation on drilling fluid management for coverage gaps.
- Establish the boundary of drilling fluid management and record what sits outside it.
Session 2The permit and isolation regime that drilling fluid management actually requires
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios drilling fluid management can create.
- Define acceptance criteria for drilling fluid management in advance.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to drilling fluid management.
- Confirm that lessons from drilling fluid management are shared beyond the team that learned them.
Drilling fluid management: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the last incident involving drilling fluid management should have taught us
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to drilling fluid management.
- Compare the cost of drilling fluid management with the cost of its absence.
- Verify six months later that changes to drilling fluid management have held.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to drilling fluid management will be introduced.
Session 2What the instrumentation on drilling fluid management is and is not telling you
- Set out how exceptions to drilling fluid management are requested and approved.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to drilling fluid management and remove nuisance alarms.
- Build the internal briefing that explains drilling fluid management to those affected.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of drilling fluid management.
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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