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Wild Well Control:

Safely Resolving Complex Well Control Events with Advanced Engineering Expertise

Wild Well has established itself as a preeminent global leader in advanced engineering and well control, providing a comprehensive range of services to meet the industry's ever-evolving needs. The company has earned its reputation by effectively addressing the most complex oil and gas incidents worldwide while prioritizing safety, efficiency, and innovation.

Wild Well's highly experienced personnel and customized equipment enable it to respond quickly to any situation in which the integrity of a wellbore or operation is in jeopardy. The company is best known for its emergency response to challenging well control events that elevate the risk/consequence profile on location. With a successful track record of modeling hundreds of wells in various environments, Wild Well specializes in capping operations performed under extreme conditions.

The resolution to a well control event can require a unique skill set beyond the scope of typical drilling operations. Wild Well's engineering team can assist clients in designing and executing remedial efforts to facilitate a return to a standard drilling environment.

Wild Well recognizes the importance of having competent, well control personnel available and knowledgeable about the operations, whether in the office or the field. This approach ensures that the safest and most effective options are available to resolve any well control event. Whether implementing traditional Constant Bottom hole Pressure Methods or non-traditional techniques to regain the primary barrier envelope, Wild Well Control maintains the experience and knowledge to assist clients in safely navigating any well control event.

Services

Well Control Engineering

WELL CONTROL ENGINEERING OFFICE SUPPORT

Well Control Engineers can be deployed to a client’s office to assist the engineering staff and management team in developing diagnostic plans.

Well Control Engineering

WELL CONTROL ENGINEERING FIELD SUPPORT

Well Control Engineers can be deployed to field locations to help client personnel with on-site well control operations.

Modeling Design

Advanced Well Control Modeling Services for Safe and Effective Well Management

Wild Well Control provides comprehensive well control-related modeling services as part of our well control engineering offerings. Our modeling services are an integral part of well planning and execution. They can be used in the pre-planning process, real-time well control event support, or post-event evaluations.

Our modeling suite is built on the industry-standard OLGA and Drillbench multiphase software engines, which are widely recognized for their ability to evaluate multiphase flow dynamics in a wellbore accurately. By leveraging the power of these software packages, we can provide our clients with detailed insights and analysis that enable them to make informed decisions and ensure their wells' safe and effective management.

Well Control Modeling

Modeling

Blowout Rate Modeling

Blowout rate modeling uses multiphase simulations to calculate the maximum expected flow rate from producible reservoirs or target formations for a given well and reservoir configuration.

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Dynamic Kill Analysis

Dynamic kill analysis offers a dynamic simulation of blowouts as well as operating parameters for the necessary kill process.

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Broaching Simulation & Analysis

Broaching simulation and analysis consist of evaluating a shut-in well’s behavior once pressure at the casing shoe exceeds the fracture gradient of the surrounding formation.

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Bullheading Analysis

Bullheading analysis consists of multiphase simulation and analysis of the well control parameters (e.g., pressure, density, pump rate, etc.) required to successfully bullhead a well.

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Dynamic Temperature Modeling

Dynamic temperature modeling simulates the dynamic temperatures that a rig’s well control systems could potentially encounter during kick circulation.

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Shut-in Analysis

Shut-in analysis determines the maximum pressure in a well when considering shutting it down using a capping stack. It helps mitigate the risks associated with hard vs. soft shut-in methods.

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Real-Time Support for Critical Well Operations

Working from the office or on-site as part of the drilling team, Well Control Engineers are available to provide real-time well control expertise and engineering support during critical well operations.

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Surge/Swab Modeling

In HPHT wells with small margins, it is critical to maintaining circulation during swabbing operations to avoid underbalanced conditions.

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Thermal Expansion Modeling

During well kill operations, thermal expansion of the drilling fluid is suspected in masking the correct shut-in pressure values. To address this, Wild Well performs multiphase simulation-based analyses to determine the potential for thermal expansion issues for a given well

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Well Control Modeling

Wild Well uses Drillbench Rig site Kick software to generate integrated, time-transient, multiphase flow simulations to examine the total dynamic behavior of the wellbore and its contents from time of influx through flow check shut-in and subsequent kill operations.

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Well Control Risk Assessment

The well control risk assessment process involves identifying, evaluating, and ranking well control risks associated with drilling and intervention operations.