Stuck Pipe Prevention
Why Attend
Course Objectives
Target Audience
Course Methodology
Why Attend
- Understand the main causes and mechanisms of stuck pipe.
- Recognize early warning signs and risk indicators.
- Learn practical techniques to prevent stuck-pipe incidents.
- Improve drilling parameter monitoring and decision-making.
- Understand appropriate freeing and recovery procedures.
- Reduce NPT, equipment damage, and fishing costs.
- Improve well control and operational safety.
- Strengthen communication and teamwork between drilling, mud, directional, and rig personnel.
- Apply industry best practices to minimize stuck-pipe risk.
Course Objectives
The Stuck Pipe Prevention course aims to equip drilling personnel with the knowledge and practical skills to identify, prevent, and respond to stuck-pipe incidents. Participants will learn to recognize early warning signs, understand the common causes of stuck pipe, apply effective preventive practices, and take appropriate corrective actions to minimize non-productive time and well costs.
Target Audience
Target Audience
- Drilling Supervisors / Company Men
- Drillers and Assistant Drillers
- Drilling Engineers
- Directional Drillers
- Mud Engineers
- MWD/LWD Engineers
- Rig Crew
- Wellsite Geologists
- HSE Personnel
- Well Intervention / Fishing Specialists
- Relevant drilling and service-company personnel
Course Methodology
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of total tuition hours:
- PowerPoint presentations with lecture
- Case studies and quiz
- Time for questions and answers and interaction
- Live examples from trainer’s personal experience
- Guidance for further professional development
- The course will be delivered through Microsoft Teams.
- We will provide daily attendance sheet report about each participant.
Course Outline
Day - 1
Day 1
- Introduction to causes of pipe sticking
- Stuck pipe definitions
- The statistics of stuck pipe
- Understanding your project risk profile
- Offset data review
- Mechanisms of stuck pipe
Day - 2
Day 2
- The directional profile and its role in increasing stuck pipe risk
- Basic Well Planning to avoid stuck pipe
- Formation pressure prediction
- Fracture pressure determination
- Casing setting depth selection
- Casing design
- Planning and preparation
- Drilling Fluids Selection
Day - 3
Day 3
- Solids Control
- Hole cleaning
- Loss of Circulation
- Kicks and Blowouts
- Torque and drag as a fundamental component of stuck pipe
Day - 4
Day 4
- Pipe recovery
- Initial action
- Locating the stuck interval
- Back-off operations Fishing job classification
- Stuck pipe
- Parted pipe
- Junk
- Wire line tools
- Engaging the outside diameter: overshot, box taps, die collars
- Engaging the inside diameter: Taper taps, releasing spears, DST tools
Day - 5
Day 5
- Rig site well monitoring and how to correctly monitor a well
- Tubing punchers & tubing cutter
- Rigsite practice, design of and monitoring compliance with procedures
- Identifying the stuck pipe mechanism, rigsite guidance and the HSE approach to drilling incidents
- Drilling and tripping practices guidelines
- Fishing operation, plan, tools and cost