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Critical Components |
| The Well Control Management System is based on the United States, National Interagency Incident Management System, (NIIMS) guidelines for emergency management. It consists of five major subsystems that collectively provide a total system approach to well control and management of its potential hazards for three levels of increasing severity. These subsystems are: |
Risk Management. |
This subsystem deals with managing 3 levels of well incident risk and identifies: well control hazards, assesses the risk and impact of the hazards, identifies current controls to minimize well control hazards, identifies current ability to respond and mitigate the incident, identifies current controls to minimize incident escalation and identifies current ability to recover from an incident. This is the well and/or field specific contingency planning phase. |
Technology Management. |
This subsystem deals with managing the technology (equipment, techniques, procedures, software, materials, QA/QC, etc.) required to avoid and recover from, 3 levels of well control incidents during drilling, completion, workover and production. This technology management must cover the types of wells being drilled and produced and will change with different operating environments (e.g.,: HPHT, deep water, shallow gas, sour gas, multi-laterals, horizontals, sensitive operating environments, unusual geology, etc.). |
Incident Response Management. |
This subsystem details the Incident Response. It combines: facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications operating within a common organization to: respond, intervene and recover from three 3 levels of well control incidents. |
Training and Drills. |
This subsystem is designed to assures adequate qualifications of personnel and contractors exists and for critical personnel certification requirements. Training can covers broad areas depending on the responsibilities of the personnel (field personnel, engineers, managers), from: company procedures and policies, well control training for 3 levels of severity, safety and emergency response training and management, drills to test the effectiveness of plans and capabilities of personnel, management of risk and information, etc. |
| Information Management. | This subsystem deals with managing the ability to access and effectively utilize the required information to avoid and recover from, 3 levels of well control incidents during drilling, completion, workover and production. The system combines software data bases on procedures, equipment, contractors, services, software engineering tools, etc., to manage the first four platforms of Well Control Management. |
