Advanced Effective Well Integrity

Management along Well Integrity

Forum (WIF) Guidelines
In accordance to the Norwegian Petroleum Authority Curriculum

13 - 16 March 2016, Hotel TBC, Abu Dhabi

Testimonials
“Rein has been a constant source of technical and managerial advice, able to bring a deep holistic understanding to any
Well Services issues, regardless of the level of the problem. He has a complete knowledge and experience across all aspects
of Well Servicing, which he is only too happy to share with the entire team.”
~Iain MacDonald, Senior Well Intervention Engineer (SubSea), Shell
“Rein is a highly experienced well services professional with excellent technical discipline skills. He has good mentoring,
coaching and facilitation skills. He was able to propose and implement significant improvements to development well
completion design within a tight deadline and despite the poor support infrastructure.”
~Erik Koppe, Drilling Operations Manager, Addax Petroleum

Course Director Key Learning Points

Rein Maatjes, • Discuss and teach completion design topics to create an
“integer” well with lowest life cycle maintenance cost
CEO, Lowlands from a WIM prospective
Management Consultancy • Get familiarise with concepts and principles of Well
Integrity Management system and identify roles and
responsibility in the organization
• Analyse well integrity failure modes, its effects and
mitigating actions.
• Determine management system to follow up the well
integrity issues emerging from tests in the field
• Explore different techniques to prevent internal and
external well integrity issues like corrosion
Rein Maatjes is a well-known and respected Well Services • Develop preventive maintenance strategies to manage
Operation specialist. He spent 35 years with Shell, in various the well integrity issues
management positions around the world. Endorsed By:
•  The Technical Authority for Well Integrity at Shell Involved Delegates are required to sit for
in creating a global standard system for Well Integrity a gradable examination at the
Management System at Shell end of the fourth day.
•  Involved in the setting-up of Shell’s global Well
Engineering Training Matrix, Brought To You By:
•  Co-author of several SPE papers
•  Part of a Shell team that has set the fastest offshore
development from drilling an exploration well to 4,500
mtr, abandon it, re-drill a production well till putting the
well in production. Today, this record still stands.
•  Gold Chairman’s Award (2010) by H.E. the Minister
of Oil and Gas in Oman, for a High Pressure Fracturing
Operation modus operandi
•  Reduced cost for daily paraffin removal by 90% in
remote jungle environment
•  Completion design evolution in the Rabi field, taking
wells from 1,250 BPD to 15,000 BPD from the same Partial Client List
reservoir • Petronas-Carigali Snd Bhd, • Intetec Ltd, Malaysia
•  Familiar with both onshore and offshore operations Malaysia • Shell Gabon. Gabon
•  Design and installation of extended reach (7,800m) 7” • Petronas Snd Bhd PMU, • Woodside Energy Australia
water injection wells on arctic platform Malaysia • Conoco Indonesia
•  Managed fracturing operations in the world’s highest in • PTTEP, Thailand • China National Logging
• Qatar Petroleum Development Corporation (CNLC)
situ rock strength
Company (QPDC) Qatar • New Field Malaysia
•  Early development of HP gas well fracturing • Petrofrac Malaysia • Murphy Oil Corp Malaysia
methodology in tight reservoir • Maersk Middle East • Kebabangan Petroleum
• Petarmina, Indonesia Operating Company KPOC
• ENI, India
• FMC Dubai

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Introduction
Well Integrity Management should have the highest priority and attention in each E&P Company. It
is simply about protecting the most valuable Asset of the Company, preventing costly environmental
incidents and whilst protecting the Operators reputation, it is securing extension of Production licenses
and/or securing future licenses; being the Operator of Choice.
It therefore makes full sense to invest in the right equipment in design for sustained integrity, have the
correct management processes in place and a competent Well Integrity Team.
The Well Integrity discipline is to be a career development step for engineers in the organisation. It needs
to be part of the skill profile of each manager in Wells, Production Operations and Petroleum Engineering
discipline group.
On a Global level, there are very little official Policies and Guidelines for Well Integrity Management. Most
such documents reside with the Operators, whilst most Government do not have Governance, nor the
competence to enforce. This Class teaches staff to become competent in the Well Integrity Management.
The Class follows the Norwegian Petroleum Authority’s Well Integrity Forum’s advised curriculum. It finishes
with an exam and upon passing the candidate receives a certificate® of competence in Well Integrity
design and management issued by Lowlands Management Consultancy.
The landscape of WIM does not have official certification yet like IWCF.
This certificate® from a well established and recognized consultant like Lowlands, who have proven
track record on management level in WIM in one of the largest Operators, is certainly a good first step.
It shall be noted in this context that other lecturers are from field supervisor’s level background or from
the Service Industry.
Only by learning from a trainer who has worked at a management level with an Operator, you can
appreciate the full spectrum of well issues such as which policies are most effective, what to expect
and what to check from vendors, to the whole package needed to do your well integrity justice and
maximise Ultimate Recovery from the reservoir.
Ultimately the Operator is fully accountable for the integrity management of its wells; to the Government
and to shareholders.

Class Content
The Class teaches the process behind the full Well Integrity Management
System (WIM), from the onset in the Field Development plan, through its The Class contains
design, construction, production to final abandonment of the asset at the
end of its life. group exercises and
interactive exercises.
Using this curriculum gives the Operator externally verified and certified staff.
Several case studies (amongst others Macondo and Montara blowout) are Real Case Histories are
used in the Class to learn from past mistakes. used to illustrate the
The Class contains breakout session whereby a real case incident on WIM sessions.
topics are to be solved followed by presentation to the Class. The final exam
contains all topics of a WIM process and has a pass mark of 75%.

Who Should Participate

Personnel directly responsible and or involved in Well Integrity are to have Daily Schedule
the recommended training. 08:00 Registration
08:30 Morning session begins
•  Well Integrity team members. 10:00 Refreshment and networking
•  NOC Well Integrity enforcing Authorities break
•  Senior Production operation personnel OIM, production managers, 10:30 Morning session continues
Field coordinators 12:00 Lunch
•  Drilling/completion/intervention engineers. 13:00 Afternoon session begins
14:30 Refreshment and networking
•  Service-company Sr field engineers and operators with delegated break
responsibilities in well integrity 15.00 Afternoon session continues
16:30 End of day

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Course Agenda
Annulus Bleed-Down
Day One - Discussion on what should be reported and the reasons
Roles and Responsibilities for Well Integrity for bleed-down during production. Discussion of the
- Who monitors / who do they report to / who fixes? Who sources of tubing to annulus communications (e.g.; pipe/
‘manages’ the Well Integrity System? cement etc).
•  Introduction, magnitude of Well Integrity Problems, - Living with Sustained Annulus pressure.
Areas of treat for managing Well Integrity. Exercise on Annulus pressure.
•  Well Integrity Process flow, checks and balances and Exercise on Well Intervention dangers wrt Well
Roles and Responsibilities in the organization. Integrity.
•  WI Activity management model. Wellhead Maintenance Activities
•  Preventive maintenance reduces operating cost. - Discussion of the importance of regular and adequate
•  Class exercise on Preventive maintenance well maintenance.
•  Case study: Macondo Well Blowout in the GOM; - SCSSSV Testing - discuss frequency/acceptance criteria/
investigative study and recomendations of the incident. functionality/control line integrity/repeat tests
•  Class exercise on the Macondo Incident’s root cause. - Xmas Tree Valve Testing - discuss functionality/
Basic Wellbore Physics acceptance criteria
- Discussion of formations / pressures / overbalance / - Void Monitoring - discussion of the implications for
underbalance / temperature increases when wells flow etc. hydrocarbons in voids/repair methods Monitoring
•  The effects of pressure and temperature on well equipment, accuracy and maintenance
completions strings. • Maintenance process.
•  Effects on completions of pressures, change from over • Technology and tools for Well Integrity diagnostics and
to under pressure, temperature effects. monitoring.
•  Sintef Injection study and completion design inputs. - Leaking water injector and subsequent decision on the
well from an integrity risk point of view
Basic Well Construction with Emphasis on Barriers
- Description of minimum barrier requirements with the
provision of a typical Well Bore Schematic. Discuss tubing Day Four
burst / collapse etc. Discuss SCSSVs / ASVs / Xmas trees / Exercise to review learning of day three.
tubing. Schematics, incl.
•  Fundamentals of Well Integrity: Well completion string Case history on consequences of failure to monitor well
design, safety criteria and load cases. integrity.
•  Understanding of Barriers and Well Barrier Elements in wells.
•  Internal corrosion; Co2 and H2S effects. Critical design-changes in the life of a well affecting Well
Integrity, its prevention and solutions
Class exercise on Well Barrier understanding.
Exercise on real case Emergency Control Room event
Day Two around loss well well control
Exercise to review learning of day one. Failure Modes And Effects Analyses FMAE, developing the
Completions design and functional specifications or document.
accessories. Formulating a Well Failure Model WFM document; the
process and the need for it.
Importance of Well Bore Schematics in changed status of the
well: from drilling to completion to production and back to Handover of Wells
intervention. - Necessity to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
Class exercise on Completion design. - Discussion of the information required and who gets it. An
Class exercise on WBS in changed status of the well example Well Handover
- Documentation will be discussed and provided.
Basic Well Control Requirements
- Using case studies the Class discusses hydrates / sand / Documentation
corrosion - erosion / Well Intervention Ops etc. Well start - Discussion of the need for keeping good well integrity
up/shut down. records.
•  Using IWCF examples and questions. - Discussion and description of the need for non-
Well Integrity Hazards conformance system for operating wells not in
- Using case studies, the Class discusses Well Intervention accordance with the ‘Standard’.
Operations and effects on completions.
- Well start up/shut down. Risked based Well Maintenance frequency understanding.
•  Annulus Monitoring and importance of reporting / trending. Demo of real Well Integrity Management System-WIMS
•  Discussion of operating and design limits (pressure, software
temperature, flowrates etc). Describe and provide typical
Annulus Monitoring Spreadsheet. Exam for a Well Integrity Competent Certificate.
•  Discussion of annulus leak rate and other acceptance
criteria. Case studies:
•  Discussion risk resulting from annulus leaks. • Macondo blowout, Montara blowout with official review
Exercise on internal corrosion. team analyses discussed and anlalysed.
• Catastrophic failure of outer casing.
Case Study on external corrosion and collapse of conductor • Effect of one blowout on a platform to other surrounding
casing. wells
The requirement of grouting the riser on offshore wells. • Consequence of incorrect Procurement policy and its
Exercise on finding solution for none grouted wells preventing effect on drilling a well
corrosion. • Blowout on land of effluent via the outside of the well
Exercise on making a Well Integrity verification program and structure
repair options.
Documents needed to Manage Well Integrity: (real case
Day Three samples discussed and handed-out)
• Handover Sheet
Exercise to review learning of day two. • Failure modes and effects analyses (FMAE)
Case study on loss of Well Control and exercise on • Well Failure Model (WFM)
consequences. • Combined Operations and Well Intervention
check sheet.
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