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A5 Well Examination Rev 1 PDF
Well Examination
Rev No: Date Description Compilation Reviewer
QC & SIGN-OFF
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction
While Operating Company’s wells are a significant asset they are also a significant potential
liability.
To ensure that Operating Company’s wells’ risks are as low as reasonably practicable all company
wells’ designs, their drilling plans and operations are examined by a competent independent well
engineer referred to as a Well Examiner. While this may be a regulatory requirement in some
countries Operating Company have adopted the practice to ensure that all well drilling and
completion operations
Although Operating Company ensures it employs competent drilling engineers and supervisors, it is
the Project Drilling Manager who ensures this initially as he is accountable to Operating Company
for the well designs, plans and operations. However, the potential impact of well or drilling failure
is so significant Operating Company apply two further mitigations to identify and correct any
omissions or errors;
• Operating Company’s Drilling Technical Authority (who is independent of both the project
team and asset) reviews all well designs and plans and receives all Daily Drilling Reports
(DDRs). The close proximity provides early response and reaction.
• Furthermore Operating Company engages a competent industry authority to examine its
well designs, plans and operations. As this external verification is independent of the
project, asset and Operating Company’s well engineering and operations function it
reassures both company and industry regulators about the reliability of Operating
Company’s wells and drilling operations.
The Well Examiner applies a standard methodology sometimes referred to as a “Written Scheme of
Verification” and qualifies the design or plans. NB: As operator Operating Company retains liability
for the well, its design and plans, consequently the examination does not certify the well, its
designs or plan.
At the instruction of Operating Company Ltd Well Examination may also be implemented in the
Company’s well operations conducted in locations other than the UKCS.
Regulation 18 of the UK’s Design and Construction Regulations requires well operators to have a
written scheme of examination (referred to as the "Arrangements for Examination" in the
regulations), to ensure that wells are “designed, commissioned, constructed, equipped, operated,
maintained, suspended and abandoned so that as far as is reasonably practical there can be no
unplanned escape of fluids from the well and that the risk to the health and safety of persons from
it, anything in it, or in the strata to which it is, are as low as reasonably practicable”.
It is a requirement of the DCR regulations that well examination shall be undertaken by an
Independent and Competent person who is sufficiently knowledgeable and separate from the
immediate well operators line management.
The Operating Company scheme of Well Examination employs risk based principles allowing the
independent Well Examiner to use his/her skills, experience and knowledge to vary the degree of
examination required during well design, well construction and well operations to ensure that the
appropriate measures have been employed to reduce risks to as low as reasonably practicable
(ALARP) levels.
Reasonably practicable is a narrower term than "physically possible" and implies a computation
must be made in which the quantum of risk is placed on one scale and the sacrifice whether in
money, time or trouble involved in the measures necessary to avert the risk is placed in the
other. If it can be shown that there is a gross disproportion between them and that the risk is
insignificant in relation to the sacrifice, then Operating Company Energy as the duty holder
discharges the burden of proving that compliance was not reasonably practicable.
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In addition to fulfilling Operating Company Energy requirements to comply with the DCR
regulations the Scheme offers the following additional benefits:
• It provides data for peer reviews and audit processes;
• It can be used by Joint Operating Partners to review and monitor the performance of
Operating Company Energy;
• It provides quality assurance of well related regulatory submissions; and
• It allows technical review by input from an experienced well engineer.
The Arrangements for Examination shall be subject to periodic review and revised as appropriate.
A presentation illustrating the main features and operation of the Operating Company Ltd Scheme
of Well Examination is available for the induction new staff by following the attached link.
All activities highlighted in bold using the word “shall“ are considered to be mandatory.
Participants
Senior Drilling Engineer
Drilling Engineer
Completion Engineer
Subsea Engineer
Drilling Superintendent
Drilling Supervisor
Drilling Project Manager
Head of HSE Ops
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Drilling Engineer
• provides the data (design documentation, Daily Drilling Reports etc) to the Well Examiner to
enable the examination of the design and construction phases to be carried out;
• provides responses to any queries raised and to any formal Comment Sheets issued by Well
Examiner; and
• informs the Well Examiner of any changes to the programme, and/or dispensations from policy
that might be issued.
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If the well plan has to be amended for any reason it shall be done using Operating Company Ltd's
approved management of change procedures.
All equipment used in Operating Company Ltd wells during construction, intervention and
operational activities shall be fit for its intended purpose and shall comply with Operating
Company Ltd approved specifications listed in Appendix 3 and meet appropriate industry
standards. Prior to commencement of any well operation Operating Company Ltd shall have
confirmed with the Installation Owner that safety critical items of equipment available on the
installation (e.g. blow-out preventers, choke manifolds, degassing equipment, wireline lubricators)
are suitable for the pressures and flow rates expected during the well operation.
Wells shall be operated in accordance with the appropriate Operating Company Ltd documented
procedures. All controls necessary for the safe operation of a well shall be in place and fully
functioning or the necessary dispensations in place. Tree valves and sub-surface safety valves
shall be cycled and tested at a frequency established from risk and reliability data in line with
Operating Company Ltd approved procedures to ensure that they meet the desired performance
standard.
Well design shall always take into consideration the need for future suspension or abandonment.
The design shall be such that suspension or abandonment can be completed in a safe manner in
accordance Operating Company Ltd approved policies and that there shall be no unplanned
escapes of fluids thereafter.
The "Arrangements for Examination" and all well examination records shall be kept at the
Operating Company Energy Edinburgh Office, which is at the following address:
50 Lothian Road
Edinburgh
EH3 9BY
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Swab Production
Valve Wing Valve
Upper
Master
Valve
Lower
Master A Annulus A Annulus
A Annulus A Annulus
Valve GLMV GLWV
MOV2 MOV1
C Annulus C Annulus
MOV1 MOV2
Subsurface
Subsurface Safety
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Element Task
Offshore Onshore Others
Producing,
Injecting and
Suspended
Platform Engineer
Drilling Engineer
QHSE Manager
Well Examiner
Manufacturers
OIM
DTI
IVB
Set Integrity Performance Standards C R C A I C C C C I
Verification of all platform safety critical
I R A I I R
equipment.
Verification/Inspection of manufacture
I I C R
of safety critical well components
Physical verification/Inspection of
I I A I I I R
safety critical well components
Examination of pressure containing
I I A I R
envelope of platform and subsea wells
Record Well Data A R I I
Bleed down annulus A R I I
Integrity Test Platform Xmas Tree
A R R R R I R I
Valves
Test Platform Xmas Tree ESD System A R I I I
Director
Group Technical Engineering & Operations
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Operating Company
Principal Drilling Engineer
Well Examiner
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Design
Conforms N Well Examiner
to completes
Standards Comment
Sheet(s)
Well Examiner
completes Design
Examination Sheet
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Comment
Sheet(s)
Construction
Sheet updated
by Well
Examiner
Examination Report
to
Capricorn Files
Well
Construction N Well Examiner
as per issues
Design Comment
Sheet(s)
End of
Operations
Drilling Project
Examination
Manager
Report
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Comment
Sheet(s)
Well Integrity
Data Package
reviewed by
Well Examiner
Examination Report
To
Senergy Ltd Files
Well
Integrity as per N Well Examiner
performance issues
standard Comment
QHSE Manager Sheet(s)
Well Examiner
completes Well
Integrity Review
Sheet
Bi-annual
Well Manager Well
Integrity Operations
Report
Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
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or Date 1 Issued Number
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Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
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or Date 1 Issued Number
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Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
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HSE Notification - continued Correct design factors Correct design factors used
used
Kick tolerance conforms with standards
Casing used conforms with design
Casing pressure test conforms with casing
design requirements and standards
Mud Programme Confirm mud weight range adequate,
accounting for pore & frac gradients, riser
margin
Cementing Programme Casing cementation conforms with casing
design
Wellhead Programme Pack-off and wellhead pressure tests
conforms with Casing Design and Standards
Drilling Hazards Check all hazards affecting well integrity
have been included – mechanical, pressure
and environmental
Check shallow gas and seabed hazards have
been included
Check maximum BHT and surface
temperature included
Check maximum surface pressure included
Check toxic gas hazards have been included
Notes: 1 – Information is correct or acceptable (i.e. within given parameters) or provide the date of application, acknowledgment, consent, or expiry.
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Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
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or Date 1 Issued Number
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Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
Reviewed Completed Issued Number
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Document – Programme
Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference
Examined Operation
Reviewed Issued Number
Completed
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Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
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Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
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Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
Acceptable Reviewed
or Date 1 Issued Number
Notes: 1 – Information is correct or acceptable (i.e. within given parameters) or provide the date of application, acknowledgment, consent, or expiry.
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Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
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or Date 1 Issued Number
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Document – Programme Information Examined Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Operation
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Document – Programme Information Examined Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Operation
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Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
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Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
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FIGURE 11: DESIGN EXAMINATION SHEET – WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS FIXED INSTALLATION OR PLATFORM…. SHEET 1 OF 2
Well Name: Installation or Rig: Date:
Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
Acceptable Reviewed
or Date 1 Issued Number
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FIGURE 11: DESIGN EXAMINATION SHEET – WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS FIXED INSTALLATION OR PLATFORM…. SHEET 2 OF 2
Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
Acceptable Reviewed
or Date 1 Issued Number
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FIGURE 12: CONSTRUCTION EXAMINATION SHEET - WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS FIXED INSTALLATION OR PLATFORM. SHEET 1 OF 1
Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
Reviewed Completed Issued Number
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FIGURE 13: DESIGN EXAMINATION SHEET – WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS MODU…. SHEET 1 OF 3
Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
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or Date 1 Issued Number
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FIGURE 13: DESIGN EXAMINATION SHEET – WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS MODU…. SHEET 2 OF 3
Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
Acceptable Reviewed
or Date 1 Issued Number
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FIGURE 13: DESIGN EXAMINATION SHEET – WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS MODU…. SHEET 3 OF 3
Document Reviewed Information Examined Information Verified Correct Date Comment Sheet
Acceptable Reviewed
or Date 1 Issued Number
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FIGURE 14: CONSTRUCTION SUMMARY SHEET - WORKOVERS AND WELL INTERVENTIONS MODU. … SHEET 1 OF 1
Document – Programme Information Information Verified Planned Actual Date Comment Sheet
Information Reference Examined Operation
Reviewed Completed Issued Number
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FIGURE 15 EXAMPLE OF WELL INTEGRITY REVIEW SHEET FOR PRODUCTION AND SUSPENDED WELLS
Project Period covered by Integrity Data Name of Well Examiner:
Well Details Tree Valve Tests SSSV Tests Annulus Bleed Down
Monitoring
Well Type Status Integrity Integrity Date Tree valve Result Date Result Frequency Date last Result Well Action Review Comments
Number Design test tests last SSSV annulus bleed Integrity require Date
Review procedures performed and last down problem d Y/N
Completed Approved logged tested Y/N
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