Assessing Well Integrity Risk: A Qualitative Model

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Disciplines: Reservoir

Course Description

For successful delivery of Well Integrity, there needs to be an understanding of the risks that can cause undesirable events such as safety hazards or loss of containment. Performing a risk assessment on a well, or type of well, will determine and rank the potential risks and provide information that allows limited resources to be applied in the most effective manner. 

• This Well Integrity Risk Assessment model follows a common qualitative risk assessment process; a team-based, structured brainstorming format, utilizing the What-If Methodology, to identify potential hazards associated with well barrier failure modes. In addition, the model has the following attributes: 
  
• Incorporates a method to segment well barriers into discrete sections for evaluation. The list of analyzed well barrier failure modes, along with their risk ranking, becomes the risk register for the well or type of well. 
  
• Is adaptable for assessing well barrier failure modes on a single well, or a group of wells having the same general design parameters. 
  
• Can be used to assess well barrier failure risk for any type of well and can be modified to conform to any company’s risk model. 
  
• Can be used as a management tool to provide guidance for how limited resources can be used effectively to continuously deliver well integrity. 
  Students will participate in the process with the goal of being able to apply the methodology to their own well portfolio."

Learning Level

Introductory

Course Length

Half- Day (4 hours)

Why Attend

There are several methods of assessing well integrity risk and the most common of those will be discussed in this class. A qualitative method specifically designed to address well integrity issues will be demonstrated in detail with the intention the student will learn how to apply it on their own well stock.

Who Attends

This training is appropriate for those that may be tasked to perform risk assessments on any type of oil, gas or service well. Engineers that are involved with managing well integrity or have the need to assess the risk on wells prior to intervention or workovers will benefit from this training.

CEUs

0.4 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this half-day course.

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