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| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 332 | 18 – 20 Mar 2026 | Online | 1980 |
| DRL 332 | 14 – 16 Jan 2026 | Amsterdam | 2640 |
The purpose of this course is to develop practical skills and technical knowledge for the safe, effective, and efficient management of stuck pipe incidents, as well as fishing and sidetracking operations in drilling and workover environments. It is a highly participative program designed to equip drilling and workover personnel with the expertise required to prevent stuck pipe and to confidently execute fishing and sidetracking operations when necessary.
The course emphasizes best practices in design, planning, and job execution to proactively prevent stuck pipe and related conditional problems in drilling and workover operations. It focuses on both prevention and remediation strategies, integrating operational experience with structured engineering approaches.
Course Takeaways
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Plan, design, and engineer compliant drilling operations aimed at preventing stuck pipe incidents.
Apply hazard identification principles to reduce drilling and workover risks and effectively manage change to minimize stuck pipe occurrences.
Recognize and analyze early warning signs and symptoms of stuck pipe during drilling and workover operations.
Develop practical skills to prevent and mitigate both wellbore-related and formation-related stuck pipe mechanisms.
Apply best-practice fishing and sidetracking tools, methods, and techniques during drilling and workover operations, including plug-back cementing, whipstock orientation, milling, and directional drilling.
The program ensures that participants leave with both the technical understanding and operational confidence required to manage stuck pipe challenges effectively.
o Stuck Pipe Causation
o Goals and objectives
o COTCHA!
o Soft skills importance
o Preventative team work
o Debrief: the stuck pipe problem
o Stuck pipe causation
o Mechanisms of stuck pipe
o The team impact to prevent stuck pipe
o Completion Activities
o Preventing Stuck Pipe
o Freeing Stuck Pipe
o Pre-recorded data
o Freeing stuck pipe
o Jar Theory and procedures
o Best practice freeing methods
o Fishing theory
o Fishing tools
o Fishing application
o Milling tools
o Milling application
Debrief: Fishing and Milling
Sidetracking
o Well abandonment
o Plug back cementing
o Kick off methods
o Directional drilling
o Best operating practices
o Debrief: Sidetracking wells
Instructor is a C.Eng, CMarEng, FIMarEST, has over 40 years of experience as a drilling, well engineering, and operations specialist. He began his career with Shell International (1980–1987) as a drilling supervisor, later moving into staff-based engineering roles with Shell and BP between 1987 and 1993. From 1993 to 2005, he expanded his expertise through global consultancy assignments, working on deepwater, HPHT, exploration and appraisal frontier wells, and complex deepwater horizontal development drilling projects. His international experience spans Southeast Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China), the North Atlantic (West of Britain, Norway, Faroe Islands, and Greenland), the Black Sea, the South Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and West Africa. From 2005 onward, he held senior staff, consultancy, and advisory leadership roles in specialist drilling engineering with operating companies including Kerr-McGee, Maersk, Marathon Oil, Cairn Energy (UK), ONGC (India), Centrica (Norway), and Providence Resources (Ireland). During this period, he further refined his expertise across subsea, horizontal, platform infill, HPHT, deepwater, and ultra-deepwater drilling projects.
Persons associated in drilling or workover projects in well design, engineering, operational or organizational support functions. Drilling, Geology, Geo-Science, Completions, Contractor and 3rd party support roles or functions including team leaders, supervisors or management functions
Intermediate
o Prevent stuck pipe in drilling and workover through best practise design, planning and execution.
o Apply the technical skills to safely fish and side-track.
o Develop a multidisciplinary team-work to deliver trouble free drilling and workover operations.
o Construct an awareness of sidetracking methods in different formation types.
o Plug back cementing, open and cased hole side-tracking, and how to apply the tools, equipment methods and practices required.
Registration is now OPEN!
Ph.D. students, group and early bird registrants are eligible to DISCOUNT!
For more details and registration please send email to: register@petro-teach.com
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