Workovers and Well Intervention – Planning, Execution, and Optimization of Rig-Based and Rigless Operations

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Recognise the importance of communication, coordination, and teamwork when executing well intervention activities.
• Develop robust Scopes of Work and detailed intervention programmes to ensure that effective planning leads to safe, successful field execution.
• Identify and understand the three primary reasons for performing well interventions:
  • Well integrity failures
  • Declining inflow performance (formation damage, skin)
  • Declining tubing/outflow performance and associated causes
• Diagnose well problems and select the most appropriate intervention method.
• Manage key safety and environmental risks, including well control, sour gas exposure, and naturally occurring radioactive scale (LSA).
• Understand production-related concerns during interventions, with emphasis on minimising formation and completion damage.
• Gain a detailed understanding of wireline, coiled tubing, and hydraulic workover operations and associated equipment.
• Appreciate the challenges and requirements of subsea and riserless interventions.

This course is designed for personnel involved in the planning, supervision, or execution of well workover and intervention activities. It is particularly relevant to:

• Well intervention, completion, and workover engineers
• Production and operations engineers
• Well service supervisors and field specialists
• Drilling and subsurface professionals involved in mature field management
• HSE professionals supporting well operations

• Intermediate
• Advanced

The course combines illustrated lectures with videos, animations, case studies, and classroom exercises to reinforce key concepts. Real-world examples from land, platform, and subsea wells are used to demonstrate the practical application of planning and execution principles.

Your expert course instructor is a Well Completions and Interventions Engineer with over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, specialising in well completions, interventions, and well control. He began his oilfield career as a slickline operator, working for several service companies before joining BP as an offshore well service supervisor, where he managed day-to-day well intervention operations across BP’s North Sea platforms and subsea wells — including coiled tubing, e-line, slickline, stimulation, and well testing.

He later moved into an office-based engineering role, where he was responsible for planning, programming, and organising intervention activities for numerous offshore wells, including those in the Bruce and Magnus fields. In 1995, he transitioned into completion design, becoming responsible for the design and installation of platform and subsea completions in several of BP’s North Sea developments, frequently travelling offshore to oversee installation work.

A highly experienced technical trainer, he has delivered over 200 courses on completions, interventions, and well control worldwide for leading operators such as BP, Shell, and Chevron. He also authored Shell’s internal advanced well control manual (Completions and Interventions), which remains in use today, and was involved in the development of an MSc course in Mature Field Management at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Your expert course instructor is the author of the book Well Control for Completions and Interventions, a widely referenced text in the industry, and has also served as an expert witness before the International Court of Arbitration.

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