This course is designed to equip operator personnel with the essential skills to effectively plan and manage High-Pressure High-Temperature (HPHT) wells. Participants will gain a deep understanding of wellbore monitoring, kick prevention, response strategies, and the management of wellbore behavior in HPHT environments.

This course prepares participants to handle well control challenges, particularly in complex HPHT environments, ensuring they are equipped to manage wellbore risks safely and efficiently.

Course Objectives

• Well Design and Operational Challenges: Learn to tackle the unique challenges in designing and executing HPHT wells.
• Risk Mitigation Techniques: Master proven strategies to minimize risks and enhance safety in HPHT operations.
• Specialist Materials and Services: Understand the specialized materials and services required to operate safely and efficiently in HPHT environments.
• HPHT Well Control: Gain practical insights into handling well control issues and operations specific to HPHT conditions.
• HPHT Guidelines and Procedures (JOM): Familiarize yourself with industry guidelines and standard procedures for HPHT wells, ensuring compliance and operational success.
• Rig Selection: Learn the importance of choosing the right rig to ensure safe and efficient operations under extreme pressure and temperature conditions.
• Tubular and Connection Selection Criteria: Understand the factors that influence the selection of appropriate tubulars and connections in HPHT wells.
• Drilling and Completion Fluids: Learn how to select and manage the right drilling and completion fluids tailored for HPHT conditions.
• Understand integration of conventional HPHT practices in an MPD environment

This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage HPHT wells from design through to completion, optimizing performance and ensuring operational safety. This course is suited for planning and operations supervision team, a companion to the series of one day rig crew training,  which is usually integrated to the operators crew induction training prior to mobilization.

Course Agenda

Day 1 - HPHT Well Design

• HPHT Unique Risks
• Fluid Design
• Casing Design and Contingencies
• Cement Design

• Rig selection and equipment specifics

   

Day 2 - HPHT Well Construction

• Well Planning process
• Managing Wellbore Behavior
• Bottom Hole Pressure Management
• Well Control Strategies
• Case Histories

Day 3 - HPHT Well Life Cycle Strategies

• Joint Operations Manual
• Wellbore evaluation
• Managing thermal induced pressures
• Diagnostics and intervention
• Well Integrity Management
• Integration of MPD with conventional HPHT practices

HPHT Course Content Customization for Corporate In-House Training

Our HPHT course can be integrated to meet the specific needs of your organization, ensuring the training is directly applicable to your operations. For in-house corporate sessions, we can tailor the course content to incorporate details from your ongoing or upcoming HPHT projects, well control challenges, and operational specifics. This ensures maximum relevance and immediate impact. 

Customized Content Includes:

• Client-Specific HPHT Case Studies: We integrate case studies from your HPHT projects to analyze previous well control challenges and solutions, allowing participants to apply course knowledge to real-world scenarios in your operations.
• Project-Specific Risk Assessments: Focus on identifying and quantifying well control risks specific to your HPHT wells, including site-specific analysis of potential issues to ensure safe and efficient operations.
• HPHT Well Control Challenges in Your Operations: Tailor the course to address the particular well control challenges in your organization, whether during planning, drilling, or completion of HPHT wells. Interactive discussions and problem-solving activities will be based on your team’s actual experiences.
• Corporate Well Control Procedures & Standards: Align training with your company’s internal well control procedures, policies, and regulatory requirements to reinforce best practices and strengthen operational safety across HPHT projects.

This tailored approach ensures that your team is equipped with the knowledge and practical skills to tackle HPHT well control challenges effectively, improving safety, efficiency, and risk management across your operations.

Course content customization fee (one-time) shall be chargeable based on man day effort dependent on scope and extent of customization required.  

Course Instructor: Colin Stuart, B.Eng, FIMechE
Over 40 years' experience worldwide as both a Drilling and Petroleum Engineer. Established Stuart Wright in 2006. Colin's experience includes working with Operators and Drilling Contractors in North Sea, USA, SE Asia and Australia.

Throughout his career, Colin has specialized in complex well design and operation including HPHT and deepwater including significant rig site experience. Colin has led numerous HPHT projects up to 20k psi and 520°F including the first ever 20k psi well. Colin has taught HPHT training courses to various operators and drilling contractors including: Santos, Woodside, BP UK & Caspian Sea, Total, Bien Dong, Apache, Petronas, Transocean, Inpex and Premium Drilling.

Colin’s recent field experience includes working on complex HPHT and Managed Pressure Drilling wells in Australia and Malaysia, keeping him at the forefront of industry challenges. He is also an active global Expert Witness in loss of Well Integrity events, offering his expertise to the oil and gas industry and regulators.

Learning Level: Intermediate

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for professionals with some prior experience in well control and drilling operations who wish to deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills in managing HPHT conditions. It is particularly beneficial for:

• Well Planning Engineers
• Operations Engineers
• Drilling Supervisors
• Operations Geologists
• Service Company HPHT Managers

• HPHT Well Integrity Engineers

   

Participants will gain the advanced expertise needed to handle the challenges of HPHT well control, improving safety and efficiency across operations.