Perforating Pre Job-Safety Induction.

 Operator, Contractor, and perforating Service Company employees are all involved in
this type of operation.
 The coordination of all activities in connection with a perforating job should be under
the direction of the Company Man.
 a pre-job safety meeting with all involved personnel to be held prior to the job.
 The safety meeting should be repeated for the benefit of the new crews.
 The following suggestions are offered to minimize hazards involved in perforating
operations.

1. Perforating operations involving electrical detonators should not be carried out

during electrical or static-generating dust storms. All types of perforating gun
loading should be suspended during electrical/static storms.
2. Perforating operations involving electrical detonators will not be performed while a
mobile transmission set (radio or telephone) is in operation within 150 feet of the
well and/or the perforation truck. Cell phones should be controlled by surrendering
them to the Person in Charge. They should be turned off before rigging up the
perforating gun and not turned on until the Perforating Company and Operator
advise it is safe to do so.
3. On recovering the guns from the well, the guns should always be treated as live.
The use of radios or cell phones should be reestablished only when the guns are
confirmed to be disarmed. Certain types of modern Radio Frequency (RF) safe
detonators may not require radio silence. However, never assume these devices are
in use without consulting with the Operator and Service Company Supervisors.
4. There shall be no smoking except in designated smoking areas agreed upon by the
Operator, Contractor, and Service Company Supervisors. Personnel are to leave all
smoking materials, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and all matches and lighters in
their cars, designated smoking area, or crew change house to prevent anyone from
unknowingly “lighting up” on or near the rig floor during perforating operations.
5. Loading and unloading perforating guns will be done as far away from electrical
generation plants and electrical transmission systems as possible. The Service
Company Supervisor will measure for stray voltages. If stray voltages exist, it may
be necessary to shut down the rig light plant and/or generator. Explosion proof
flashlights will be used instead when necessary.
6. Arming and disarming of guns are the most critical phase and all personnel not
actually working on the gun will remain at a safe distance from the gun while it is
being prepared or unloaded. For electric line perforating, the logging cable safety
switch key must be removed from the logging unit and be in possession of the crew
outside the of the logging unit for all the following operational phases:
 (a) gun arming, rig up, run in the hole to 200-feet (61-meters) below ground
level or mudline,
(b) pulling out of hole at 200-feet (61-meters) below ground level or mudline,
(c) rigging down and gun disarming.
Note: The Operator and Service Company Supervisors may mutually agree to change the depth
at which the cable safety switch is allowed to be turned on and off based upon sound
operational reasons.

7. During arming, disarming, running in the hole to a depth of 200-feet (61-meters)

below ground level or mudline and pulling out of the hole at 200-feet (61-meters)
below ground level or mudline, all nonessential personnel will be relocated off the
rig floor. On POOH, at a depth of 200-feet retrieval of guns will stop until
nonessential personnel are relocated off the rig floor.
8. Under no circumstances are core-gun bullets or shaped charges to be hammered,
chiseled, or drilled when being loaded or unloaded.
9. Only employees of Service Company will load, unload, or handle loaded guns.
10. All unfired shots, scraps of explosive, and blasting caps will be removed from the rig
floor and properly disposed of after each perforating job by the Service Company.
11. When perforating using electric detonators, all unnecessary stray voltages should
be reduced to safe levels or eliminated. Then all equipment including wellhead,
derrick and logging unit will be properly grounded before perforating operations
are started.
12. Consideration should be given to the use of proper lubricators or shooting nipples
during perforating operations.
13. During the recovery of any fished explosive device, it is recommended that a
Service Company Representative familiar with the device is on hand during its
retrieval from the well.

8/1/2022
Rig ST-82 Supervisor
Mohannad Al-Huzaim