
Discover why workover operations restore reservoir pressure and production, and explore mechanical and natural failures, wellbore configurations, cementing, packer completions, and artificial lift options like jet pumps and ESP.
Explore why workovers occur to boost reservoir production, including converting production wells to injection wells and using water injection; identify how faults, corrosion, and fishing operations drive well maintenance.
Prioritize safety in oil and gas workovers with permit-to-work, supervisor oversight, and pre-job safety meetings. Monitor well integrity, manage pressures, and address aging wells with proper PPE and risk controls.
Discover the main workover tools and equipment and the site layout, with focus on safety briefing, crew roles, and essential systems from mud and fire pumps to tubulars and connections.
Explore well control equipment, including the blowout preventer, safety valves, and crossovers, and learn how to prepare, monitor, and secure the well during workovers with wireline operations.
Understand the wellhead and Christmas tree, including casing head spool, annulus valves, the protection and baseplate, and learn how adapters and size differences influence installation before operations.
Explain how the blow out preventer (bop) secures wells during workovers with annular and other preventers, accumulator-powered nitrogen, remote and floor control panels, and key shutdown procedures.
Explore workover fluids, including prime completion fluids such as sodium chloride, potassium chloride, or calcium chloride, and learn how hydrostatic pressure and fluid levels guide perforation decisions.
Learn oil killing methods for workovers, starting with forward circulation to replace hydrocarbons with hydrostatic pressure. Use volumetric methods when circulation fails, perform flow checks, and assess available power.
Explore artificial lift methods used to boost oil well production, including ESP, hydraulic pumps, gas lift with progressive gravity pump, and related surface and installation considerations.
Learn common workover abbreviations, including safety valve, back 12, and double up, double down, and understand roles, pressure checks, casing readings, and API preventer terminology for safe operations.
Identify on-site roles and responsibilities for workover operations, including contractor personnel, company personnel, supervisors, third-party staff, housekeeping, and security, plus accommodation and service providers.
This is a Workover introductory course that targets people who are new to the Workover or new to the oil industry in general. In this course you are going to get a gist about different Workover operations aspects. I created this course and my aim is to summarize my experience into this course because I know what it looks like to start from scratch in the field.
So I think this course is a great start for those who have no idea about what it is looking like working in the oilfield so that they can be ready for there next job interview or maybe you are just started to work and you want to keep up to speed with the other workers, so this course is a great start for you:
First, we are going to have an idea about Workover in general; why do we conduct workover operations? And WO considerations such as safety for instance. Then we are going to cover topics related to Well control equipment; WO BOP or blow out preventer; Wellhead and XMT. In chapter three, we are going to have an idea about ; Workover killing methods and workover fluids; Then in chapter four; we will learn about the different Artificial lift Methods; Finally, we are going to wrap this introductory course up by giving you an idea about some Workover terms and the people who are working in the rigs, some of their job titles and their tasks.
After completing this course, you would be set to learn more advanced topics in our next course which is Workover Advanced Course. Please if you have any feedback regarding the course, do not hesitate to leave your comment in the review sections.