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IADC
Well Control
Accreditation
Program
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NEW
-- WellCAP PLUS!
Click logo below for details.
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The WellCAP program is based on the
principle that proper training, emphasizing the knowledge and practical
skills critical to successful well control, produces competent rig
crews. Using quality benchmarks developed together with operators,
drilling contractors, professional trainers and well control
specialists, WellCAP
ensures that well control training schools adhere to a core curriculum
developed by industry.
Accreditation is achieved only after an extensive review of a provider's
curriculum, testing practices, faculty, facilities, and administrative
procedures.
Constantly adapting to industry needs,
WellCAP offers the building blocks for a comprehensive well control
culture throughout the organization. At the Introductory Level,
WellCAP provides basic well control knowledge for floorhands, derrick
workers and non-technical personnel. The Fundamental and
Supervisory Levels address practical well control skills for derrick
workers, assistant drillers, drillers, toolpushers, superintendents and
drilling foremen.
IADC's new elite
WellCAP Plus offers a
completely new approach to well control instruction, addressing team
problem-solving and decision making skills for experienced management
and operations personnel.
WellCAP offers benefits to all involved:
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Operators and drilling contractors
can be confident that their rig crews have undergone suitable
instruction, resulting in an internationally recognized training
certificate. They are also able to reduce costs previously
caused by duplicate training and have access to training
documentation and records.
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Governments and regulatory bodies
benefit from measurable standards, the establishment of core
curriculum and job skill guidelines, and an
industry-administered program of self regulation.
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The training provider obtains
recognition by meeting industry-developed benchmark
standards for quality and training.
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The industry overall has access to
continuously-updated curriculum guidelines for a variety of rig
operations. Curriculum has been developed for drilling,
workover and completion, well servicing, coiled tubing,
snubbing, wireline operations and underbalanced operations.
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WellCAP requires adherence to a core curriculum
as well as both written and simulator testing.
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"MMS commends IADC
for the WellCAP program and acknowledges the value WellCAP could
bring in providing minimum well control training requirements to
lessees and contractors worldwide."
-- Federal
Register, 14 August 2000
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WellCAP has
been adopted by the Offshore Operators Committee (OOC) in the United
States to comply with Subpart O training regulations issued by the US
Minerals Management Service (MMS). WellCAP has also been adopted
as the internal training standard for world-class operators such as
Chevron, Petrobras and PEMEX and contractors like Transocean, Diamond
Offshore and Nabors Drilling International.
In 1997, IADC formed an
alliance with the International Well Control Forum (IWCF). This
joint effort is known as the International
Alliance for Well Control (IAWC).
IADC WellCAP
Certificates Issued* - 3rd Qtr 2010
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Program Course
Level |
Qty |
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Introductory |
1,156 |
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Fundamental |
4,115 |
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Supervisory |
9,307 |
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Total |
14,578 |
*WellCAP
certificates issued by accredited Training Providers. Numbers are
updated quarterly.
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