Plans for Management of Response

These contingency plans provide a guideline to assist an operator in responding to a well control incident.  The plans are divided into three levels of severity. 

• Level 1, is a well control incident where recovery can be accomplished by standard operating procedures (SOP) using onsite field personnel who have been trained to respond to such incidents, e.g. a well kick with drillpipe on bottom.  Technical support is usually not be required.
• Level 2, is a well control incident where recovery cannot be accomplished by SOP.   On-site field personnel may not be trained to respond to such incidents. For example: a well kick with initial complications (e.g. pipe-off bottom, loss zone and high kh reservoir open) or well kick that escalated during circulation (underground cross flow, major equipment failure).  Technical support is usually required, onsite personnel carry out recovery operations.
• Level 3, is an incident where well control has been lost (blowout).  The hydrocarbon flow may be to surface, subsea, or underground.  The onsite operations team is replaced by a blowout control team.

We produce these response plans in two formats:

• A paper, ring binder, format : Click here to see an example table of contents
• Adobe Acrobat electronic format