Kick Detection Automation Software

Kick Detection Automation Software

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Kick Detection Automation Software

Software integrated into drilling control software or as a stand-alone installation for the express purpose of automating the detection of a well kick. Kick detection software includes:
  1. The software itself.
  2. Integration of the software into the drilling control and data systems onboard the rig.
  3. Policies and procedures for the use of kick detection software.
Leadership and management oversight to ensure the software is being properly utilized. Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Well Control Incident Reporting

Well Control Incident Reporting

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Well Control Incident Reporting

Sharing individual company well control incident statistical information with the industry and/or with regulators, which includes defining standard information to be shared and the format of that information, the means of gathering and distributing that information, and the safe use of that information to improve performance. Well control incident reporting includes:
  1. Defining performance metrics for well control
  2. Developing a database and format for capturing data
  3. Determining who owns and maintains the data and the database
  4. Clearing legal and other obstacles to companies sharing their data
  5. Determining what data is reported, to whom, and how.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Sharing and Implementation of Lessons Learned

Sharing and Implementation of Lessons Learned

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Sharing and Implementation of Lessons Learned

The process of standardizing a well control event investigation, gathering and distributing lessons learned to the industry, and then implementing the lessons learned within the industry in a systematic way that enables results to be shared with others without legal risk. Sharing and implementation of lessons learned includes:
  1. Clearing legal and other barriers to an organizations’ sharing of lessons learned
  2. Defining a format for lessons learned to be shared
  3. Creating a means of collecting and sharing lessons learned: the database, who owns it, what information is made available, how the information is shared and with whom
A structured means of implementing lessons learned: communications to appropriate personnel, access to lessons learned when the information is needed, training, and alterations of policies, procedures, equipment, systems and training based on lessons learned. Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Process Safety Culture

Process Safety Culture

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Process Safety Culture

Building a systemic culture of understanding process safety to promote the reduction and ultimate elimination of unplanned events. Process safety culture includes:
  1. Defining process safety culture as it relates to the drilling industry
  2. Determining the elements that constitute a process safety culture
  3. Embedding process safety culture elements into training, policies, procedures and leadership
  4. Tracking process safety events and incorporating lessons learned from them.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Barrier Management

Barrier Management

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Barrier Management

The ongoing process of assuring that sufficient barriers are in place to prevent the unintentional release of hydrocarbons. Barrier management includes:
  1. The definition of a barrier to the unintentional release of hydrocarbons
  2. Determining the strength or effectiveness of a barrier
  3. Systems to determine and ensure that the appropriate number and type of barriers are in place at each stage of the well control lifecycle
  4. Tracking the engagement, effectiveness and integrity of barriers in place during the well lifecycle
  5. Determining personnel roles and responsibilities for barrier management at the wellsite.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
BOP Reliability Database

BOP Reliability Database

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BOP Reliability Database

The creation of a global, centralized database of blowout preventer reliability information, the analysis of which can offer solutions to improve blowout preventer performance. A BOP reliability database includes:
  1. Defining the BOP data to be captured
  2. The means of capturing, qualifying the integrity of and distributing the data
  3. Consensus on the ownership and management of the data and its distribution
  4. Clearing legal and other obstacles to sharing data
  5. The terms of analysis of the data to determine improvement opportunities.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Communications at the Wellsite

Communications at the Wellsite

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Communications at the Wellsite

Promoting clear lines of communication, roles, decision authority, and responsibility regarding policies and procedures in a well control context at the wellsite. Communications at the wellsite include:
  1. Defined stakeholder personnel at the wellsite: drilling contractors, operators, and vendors
  2. Defined and mutually agreed well control policies and procedures at the wellsite
  3. Defined and mutually agreed well control roles, responsibilities and decision authority among stakeholder personnel at the wellsite
  4. System to ensure communication of the above reaches wellsite stakeholder personnel with defined roles, responsibilities and decision authority.
  5. System to ensure role and responsibilities are carried out during a well control event
  6. Follow-up reviews to determine and implement lessons learned in communication from the well control event.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Procedural Discipline

Procedural Discipline

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Procedural Discipline

Ensuring that personnel consistently adhere to defined well control procedures that are clear, correct and easily understandable. Ensure that personnel think before acting, and if a better way is identified, it is reviewed, vetted and approved by the author of the original procedure before a change is made. Finally, ensure that procedural discipline can be measured, recorded and reported. Procedural discipline requires:
  1. A defined set of well control procedures that are agreed to by all stakeholders, including bridging documents between drilling contractors, operators and service providers that address well control procedures
  2. Training of personnel on those procedures, and periodic reinforcement of that training
  3. Worksite availability of procedures via printed or electronic means
  4. Management awareness and correction of personnel when they deviate from procedures
  5. Management investigation and correction of the source of procedural deviations
  6. Management of Change process for procedures, including updating printed or electronic procedures.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Personnel Credentialing

Personnel Credentialing

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Personnel Credentialing

Standardizing the terms on which personnel who are engaged with direct or indirect aspects of well control performance are considered competent to perform the well control-related tasks required of their position, and defining the process to credential personnel to those terms. Personnel credentialing includes or requires:
  1. Defining personnel engaged with direct or indirect aspects of well control
  2. Defining the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) required of personnel.
  3. Defining the terms of assessment of the KSAs for each position.
  4. Creating the means of credentialing individuals who successfully complete the requirements of the credential.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute
Scenario-Based Well Control Training

Scenario-Based Well Control Training

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Scenario-Based Well Control Training

A group or team well control training that blends human factors and technical training through a series of lectures, exercises and well control scenarios that have the team or group interact to resolve well control issues, often achieved through the use of simulators. Feedback is given to each participant to further their human factor development and technical aspects of well control performance. Scenario-based well control training includes:
  1. Team or group-learning environment
  2. Human factors and technical skill training and coaching
  3. Well control scenarios that involve all participants, whether desktop or simulator-driven.
Source: Well Control Institute. Well Control Institute