Advanced Well Integrity Management – Securing the Well Lifecycle from Concept Selection to Final Abandonment

By the end of this 5-day Advanced Well Integrity Management program, participants will be able to:

1. Implement a standards‑aligned Well Integrity Management System (WIMS) that defines governance, accountability, assurance activities, and continuous improvement across the full well lifecycle.
2. Apply barrier philosophy and acceptance criteria in practice by defining barrier architecture, verifying barrier status, and managing degradation using a risk‑based integrity envelope approach.
3. Translate global regulatory and industry requirements into executable field practice, drawing on principles from NORSOK, ISO well integrity standards, and well examination expectations.
4. Design completion systems for long‑term integrity and low life‑cycle cost, including material selection, corrosion mitigation, reliability planning, and accommodation of changing operating modes such as injection, artificial lift, stimulation, and late‑life operation.
5. Diagnose well integrity anomalies and failure mechanisms using structured failure models, integrity testing protocols, and evidence‑based assessment of SCP, MAASP, and operating envelope excursions.
6. Select, justify, and plan remediation strategies—both rig‑based and rigless—to restore containment and reinstate the barrier envelope, including complex multi‑barrier failure scenarios.
7. Manage deviations and derogations through robust Management of Change (MOC), including defensible risk acceptance, operation under constrained envelopes, and clear triggers for intervention, shut‑in, or abandonment.
8. Make informed end‑of‑life integrity decisions, including life‑extension screening, well suspension design, and abandonment planning aligned with regulatory, environmental, and long‑term liability considerations.
9. Interface effectively with assurance and regulatory functions, including well examiners, audits, and inspections, by preparing clear evidence packs, documentation, and performance justification.

This training is designed for people directly accountable for or engaged in Well Integrity, including its design, verification, and intervention. Individuals who may be mandated to do this training include: Completion Engineers, Well Services Engineers, Well Integrity Management Engineers, Drilling, and Well Intervention Engineers (including Drilling Supervisors and Drilling Superintendents), Production Technologists, and Production Operations Personnel (including Offshore Installation Managers and Area Production Supervisors), as well as Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) personnel.

• Intermediate
• Advanced

The course is delivered through an integrated blend of expert-led instruction, real-world case studies, and facilitated technical discussion to connect standards with operational reality. Learning is reinforced through structured workshops, decision-based exercises, and lifecycle case reviews that mirror real integrity challenges. Participants actively apply concepts using diagnostic workflows, design reviews, and governance scenarios to build practical, defensible decision-making capability.

Your course leader has over 40 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry. During that time, he has worked exclusively in well intervention and completions. After a number of years working for intervention service companies (completions, slickline & workovers), he joined Shell as a well service supervisor. He was responsible for the day-to-day supervision of all well intervention work on Shell’s Persian/Arabian Gulf platforms. This included completion running, coil tubing, e-line, slickline, hydraulic workovers, well testing and stimulation operations. An office-based role as a senior well engineer followed.

He was responsible for planning, programming and organising of all the well engineering and intervention work on a number of fields in the Middle East. He had a brief spell as a Site Representative for Santos in Australia before joining Petro-Canada as Completions Superintendent in Syria, then moved to Australia as Completions Operations Superintendent for Santos, before returning to Shell as Field Supervisor Completions and Well Interventions in Iraq where he carried out the first ever formal abandonment of a well in the Majnoon Field. While working on rotation, he regularly taught Completion Practices, Well Intervention, Well Integrity and Reporting & Planning courses all over the world. In 2014, he started to focus 100% on training and became the Technical Director for EneryEdge.

Since commencing delivery of training courses in 2008, he has taught over 300 courses in 31 cities in 16 countries to in excess of 3,500 participants.

Recent assignments included the following:

• Field Supervisor based in Iraq
• Completions Operations Superintendent for Santos responsible for 4 Rigs, 2 Frac spreads, 2 CTU Units and various rigless operations, in excess of 300 major interventions per year
• Involved in rig assist Frac Operations in the 3rd largest CSG Field in the World
• Carrying out new technology analysis study for HFR Geo Thermal Wells
• Have also been on loan to a number of “Coded Projects” in Middle East for the purposes of preparing Wells Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications for OCTG’s, Wellheads, Completion Equipment and all aspects of Well Services (Coil, Slickline, Well Testing etc)
• Utilised as a Regional Technical resource for input on Completions, Well Services & Well Integrity within the Middle East on behalf of Shell EPM
• Carried out a Global Support role reviewing Special projects, troubleshooting non-routine operations and acting as a Global Well Integrity Expert
• Actively delivered Distance Learning Support to newly recruited Well Service Engineers

 Consultancy experience

Your expert course leader has delivered extensive consultancy services across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Americas, supporting operators, service companies, state-owned companies, and government regulators. His experience spans the full well life cycle, including well design, completions, interventions, well integrity, suspension, and abandonment, across conventional and unconventional developments in onshore, offshore, shallow water, and deepwater environments. His work has included peer reviews, technical studies, audits, and investigations, as well as the development of bespoke training and competency programmes for multi-national, multi-disciplinary teams.

A core focus of his consultancy has been the review, development, and implementation of Well Integrity Management Systems (WIMS). This has included detailed gap analyses, system rewrites, and large-scale rollouts in accordance with international and regional standards such as ISO 16053 (Part 1), Norsok D10 Rev 4, Norsk Oil & Gas Rev 6, and local regulatory requirements. His scope has covered preparation of top-level WIMS documentation, detailed well integrity procedures (including barrier verification, maintenance and testing, and data recording), wells management standards, well failure modelling, risk assessments across entire well stocks, RACI charts, competency frameworks, database reviews, and tenders for well integrity software solutions such as Safewells, iWIT, Exprosoft, and Girling McIntosh. These assignments have included organisations managing portfolios in excess of 5,000 wells, supported through in-country and remote delivery.

In addition, he has undertaken a wide range of specialist technical and assurance assignments. These include completion design studies for pilot wells (covering concept selection, engineering calculations, sensitivity analysis, perforation options, material take-offs, specifications, and cost estimates), peer reviews of HP sour subsea gas and water injection wells, regulatory audits against Codes of Practice for coal seam gas well integrity, and reviews of service company SOPs with associated rollout training. He has also participated in major accident hazard investigations, including perforation system incidents, addressing operational practices, personnel competency, equipment condition, triggering mechanisms, risk management, communications, regulatory compliance, and human factors, and delivering comprehensive reports with recommendations, action tracking plans, and senior management presentations.

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