Stuck Pipe Prevention
Explore comprehensive stuck pipe prevention training to enhance your skills and mitigate drilling challenges effectively. Practical approach, industry-driven.
Level
Intermediate
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About Training
This course provides drill crews, supervisors and service personnel practical techniques for eliminating or significantly reducing stuck pipe prevention as well as steps to minimize a stuck pipe event and get free quickly. Where possible the course uses the organization’s data, and the course can be customized to specific situations encountered. Past stuck pipe incidents can be analyzed to determine, what was done correctly and where techniques could be improved.
Lack of communication and awareness among drilling rig engineer and crews are key factors in stuck pipe incidents. Stuck Pipe Prevention course emphasizes good communication, “team thinking” and quick action in the problem-solving process of preventing and freeing stuck pipe
Training Objectives
The objectives for the course are;
- Learn the preventative actions to avoid stuck pipe Incidents.
- Know the first actions for freeing pipe
- Learn the parameters which affects Hole Cleaning
- Have a better understanding of Wellbore stability
- Have a better understanding of how a drilling jars works
- Review back-off operation and main Fishing operations
- Review main considerations when setting a cementing plug
- Exchange your experience with colleagues regarding Stuck Pipe
- Minimize the occurrence/frequency and cost impact of Stuck Pipe Incidents
Audiences
This course is intended for the disciplines listed below, as well as anyone with a specific interest in the topic:
- Wellsite Drilling staff
- Wellsite Service Provider staff such as directional drillers and MWD staff
- Drilling Engineer and Completion Engineers
- Drilling Contractor supervisory personnel
- Other relevant technical and operational staff
Instructor
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Steve Nas
Experienced well engineer and well engineering instructor with an MSc in Drilling Engineering and over 40 years of drilling and well engineering experience. Skilled in many facets of advanced well engineering such as Deepwater Managed Pressure Drilling, High Pressure – High Temperature, Geothermal, Well Integrity, Well Control and Well Abandonment operations. Experience working for operators, drilling contractors and service providers delivering a wide range of engineering solutions for complex wells.
Developed and presented numerous training courses related to well design, managed pressure drilling, high pressure high temperature operations, casing design, advanced well control, well control emergency response planning and well abandonment.
Skilled in thermal and multiphase hydraulic modelling for geothermal and underbalanced drilling and blowout kill calculations. Experienced in engineering solutions for well abandonment, relief well planning and coiled tubing drilling.
Coauthored several SPE books and numerous SPE papers and Member of SPE, ICOTA, IADC, IWCF, Energy Institute.
Daily Aims
- Welcome and Introductions
- References
- Definition of stuck pipe
- Stuck pipe statistics
- Major Stuck pipe mechanisms
- Geological Causes
- Pathway Causes
- Mechanical Causes
- Prevention and Monitoring
- Stuck pipe warning signs
- Solids and Hole cleaning
- Torque and Drag
- Wellbore stability
- Stuck pipe steel mechanics
Day 1: Exercises/Case Studies
- Drilling parameters
- Tension and torque limitation
- Recommended practices
- Well Engineering analysis
- Rig Sizing
- Connection practices
- Tripping and Back reaming
- Differential Sticking
- Jar Placement
Day 2: Exercises/Case Studies
- Roles and Responsibilities
- First Responses
- Free point and Back-off
- Fishing Tools
- Fishing Techniques and Economics
- Cement Plugs and Sidetracking
Day 3: Exercises/Case Studies
Training Schedule
| Code | Start Date | End Date | Locations | Cost | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PST0439-202601 | 22 Apr, 2026 | 24 Apr, 2026 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | USD 3195 | Steve Nas |
| PST0439-202602 | 18 May, 2026 | 20 May, 2026 | Bandung, Indonesia | USD 3195 | Steve Nas |
| PST0439-202603 | 05 Oct, 2026 | 07 Oct, 2026 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | USD 3195 | Steve Nas |
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Align with API/ASME standards. Trusted by major operators.
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Led by industry veterans with real field experience.
Real Case Studies
Practical application of concepts through real world scenarios.
Practical Skills
Hands on calculations and decision making for FFS outcomes.
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Delivered to Aramco, ADNOC, SABIC, and other major operators.
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Professional Training Aligned with Industry Standards
Practical, industry ready training designed for real work environments
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