Prepare the technical case for capital investment in well control and blowout prevention.
Well Control and Preventing Sudden Blowouts
A concise, decision-focused programme covering well control and blowout prevention end to end.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
In energy operations the cost of getting well control and blowout prevention wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on blowout prevention both accrue interest. Progress on the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Across sectors, teams that rehearse well control and blowout prevention outperform teams that only plan it. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations are used deliberately. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a operating procedure for blowout prevention as they go. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on well control and blowout prevention and revise it on evidence. It concentrates on the parts of blowout prevention that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Agree the first three actions on blowout prevention that will be taken on returning to work.
Verify that improvements to well control and blowout prevention have held six months after they were introduced.
Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on blowout prevention.
Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from well control and blowout prevention.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on blowout prevention for senior management.
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving well control and blowout prevention.
Who Should Attend
Project engineers delivering capital work involving well control and blowout prevention.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of blowout prevention directly.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing well control and blowout prevention.
Officers preparing reports on blowout prevention for boards or oversight committees.
Operations and production engineers responsible for well control and blowout prevention.
Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on blowout prevention.
Course Modules
Well control and blowout prevention: instrumentation, data and condition monitoring
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit and isolation regime that well control and blowout prevention actually requires
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to well control and blowout prevention.
- Review the instrumentation on blowout prevention for coverage gaps.
- Plan the well control and blowout prevention scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
- Set out the decisions in blowout prevention that require sign-off and by whom.
Session 2Fitting blowout prevention into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Model the economics of well control and blowout prevention at low, base and high price cases.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on blowout prevention.
- Define the safe operating envelope for well control and blowout prevention and how deviations are detected.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of blowout prevention current.
Blowout prevention: planning, shutdowns and execution windows
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the instrumentation on blowout prevention is and is not telling you
- Arrange the handover of well control and blowout prevention so capability survives staff changes.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of blowout prevention before proposing changes.
- Set the review interval for well control and blowout prevention and who attends.
- Define the trigger that would require blowout prevention to be redesigned.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on blowout prevention starts
- Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for well control and blowout prevention.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving blowout prevention.
- Verify isolation points for well control and blowout prevention are proven and documented.
- Record what was learned when blowout prevention did not go as planned.
Blowout prevention: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Competence and handover on blowout prevention when experienced staff leave
- Prepare the summary of well control and blowout prevention that senior management will read.
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of blowout prevention.
- Agree what will be standardised in well control and blowout prevention and what will not.
- Identify where judgement in blowout prevention is legitimate and where it is not.
Session 2Making well control and blowout prevention work when resources are constrained
- Identify critical spares for well control and blowout prevention and confirm lead times.
- Confirm the inspection interval for blowout prevention is based on condition, not habit.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on well control and blowout prevention.
- Check that the permit regime covering blowout prevention matches the actual hazard.
Blowout prevention: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in blowout prevention that cannot be delegated
- Set escalation thresholds for well control and blowout prevention that work out of hours.
- Confirm that lessons from blowout prevention are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to well control and blowout prevention will be introduced.
- Identify the failure modes of blowout prevention with the highest consequence.
Session 2The operating limits on blowout prevention and what happens beyond them
- Rank the weaknesses in well control and blowout prevention by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios blowout prevention can create.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on well control and blowout prevention.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when blowout prevention underperforms.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
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- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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