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InterOil hosts intensive well control course - Palm - 04-18-2013
Interoil keeps cranking things up toward the project getting going. Hosted an intensive well drilling control course at Napa Napa training local PNG people to get them involved. Good stuff
InterOil hosts intensive well control course
InterOil completed an intensive well control training for its drilling team yesterday at Napa Napa outside Port Moresby.
The five day training was conducted by international accredited oil and gas training expert Harness Energy from Australia. Apart from its drilling team, InterOil also extended the invitation to staff of the Department of Petroleum and Energy and Orion to attend the course.
The course taught drilling engineers the art of well control and included intensive technical training, theory and a simulation exam.
“The course is intensive and participants who pass receive an international qualification that can get them a job in any drilling company in the world.
“This course is a requirement and is of international standard,” said Harness Energy trainer Dean Devenish.
InterOil Drilling Superintendent Gerald Nicholson said the training gave the drilling team access to an international qualification with the aim of getting more Papua New Guinean drillers at the front end of the team."
Orion is OrionGroup which is an employment placement company; they placed people on the PNG LNG project and likely will do same with Gulf LNG. Getting things lined up and ready to go. Harness Energy is very diverse:
RE: InterOil hosts intensive well control course - Stavros - 04-18-2013
Now why would IOC want to train PNG nationals on well control? Surely not to enable OSH to have local talent at competitive cost.
I know ... IOC wants to hire them for drilling their own upcoming multiple wells.
RE: InterOil hosts intensive well control course - Palm - 04-18-2013
Exactadactly. This appears to be more pre-planning of getting things ready to hit the ground running. It also says IOC sees itself as continuing to handle the exploration and drilling functions as part of the joint venture for operations. Per the article the majority of this was done for IOC's drilling team and to add "more Papua New Guinean drillers at the front end of the team". That means things are about to get bizzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
RE: InterOil hosts intensive well control course - jft310 - 04-19-2013
My guess crew for the second IOC rig. About time we saw it used. IOC must have a source of funds to pay for two rigs drilling at the same time
RE: InterOil hosts intensive well control course - ArtM72 - 04-19-2013
PRE is also going to be needing crews as well. Seems reasonable the locals get experience with IOC prior to moving to PRE's rigs.
I like the idea of the DPE people going through the training. Always valuable to have government people know what's going on...that is valuable if you are doing things the right way. Not all companies are like that.
RE: InterOil hosts intensive well control course - petrengr1 - 04-19-2013
This is probably the most important kind of training that is needed for the drilling operations in over pressured fields like Elk/Antelope. Limestone reefs and fractured limestone are subject to loss of circulation. With the combination of these two, over pressure and loss of circulation, you have the perfect recipe for a blow out if you do not have very qualified personnel on duty and awake at all times, 24 hours a day.
IOC nearly got in trouble with the drilling of Elk-1. They well kicked and it took them months to get the well back under control. After that they prepared by raising the rig floor to accommodate additional Blow Out Preventer (BOP) equipment and implemented the use of the Dual Down-hole Deployment Valves.
I personally congratulated Phil at last year’s AGM on the accomplishment of the successful drilling of the Antelope Wells without experiencing a blow out. These wells have been successfully drilled under very severe circumstances. There are many drilling contractors and operators that could not accomplish this with out the well blowing out. With wells capable of the flow rates demonstrated by the Elk and Antelope Wells it would be very difficult to bring one of these wells under control if it ever blows out. This is my number one worry about bringing in other companies, drilling contractors etc. We have to be sure all of the rigs are manned by qualified, trained personnel 24 hours a day without exception.
How important is it? A bad blow out could be the end of IOC.
RE: InterOil hosts intensive well control course - Getitrt2 - 04-19-2013
petrengr1: Would you please explain that last statement as to how that could be? If not here, perhaps elsewhere.