COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of blowout preventer (BOP) control systems-choke manifold. It covers the well control, barriers, risk management and causes of kicks; the kick warning signs and kick indicators; the well control management, influx characteristics and behaviour, barriers and shut-in procedures; the well control equipment’s /BOP/diverters including blowout preventer (BOP) equipment and redundant BOP equipment; and the casing bowls, sliplock, lower kelly cock valve and bleed-off system. During this interactive course, participants will learn the mud-gas separator(s) (degasser), primary degasser and secondary degasser (critical sour wells); the flare line(s), flare pits, flare tanks and kill system; the flexible hoses, degasser vent line, winterizing BOP, accumulator, bleedoff, and kill systems; the BOP control systems, accumulator system and backup nitrogen (N2) system; the BOP floor controls, remote controls, master hydraulic control manifold location; the BOP function test and accumulator sizing calculations; the BOP component hydraulic fluid requirements and sizing calculation; and the backup nitrogen sizing calculations and usable backup N2 fluid volume at a minimum pressure of 8400 KPA.