THE IADC INTERNATIONAL WellControl Conference and Exhibitionscheduled for 7-8 Dec at the JW MarriottHotel in Dubai promises toleave the conference attendeewith the latest initiatives andproactive solutions for wellcontrol management.

The conference is sponsored bySaudi Aramco, ADCO, KuwaitOil Company and PetroleumDevelopment Oman (PDO).

Event sponsors are Pride Ara-bia, MB Petroleum Services,National Drilling Companyand ITM Dubai.

The conference will open at8:00 am with remarks by IADCPresident Dr Lee Hunt andRandy L Neshold, Vice Presi-dent-Operations, Dubai Petro-leum Company.

Session Chairman HarveyBauman with MB PetroleumServices moderates the WellControl session beginning at9:00 am that features two pre-sentations and an alternatepresentation.

The first paper by Helio San-tos with Impact SolutionsGroup discusses AutomaticKick Detection and ControlMethod Reduces Cost andRisk.

Steve Smith with SaudiAramco makes the next pres-entation, Well Control IssuesWith Submersible Pumps AndSmart Well Completions.

The alternate presentation isManaged Pressure Drilling Technolo-gy Enhances Conventional Drilling,Offshore and Onshore by Adam Lloydwith Weatherford Oil Tools MiddleEast.

The second Well Control session runsfrom 10:30-noon, which will be moderat-ed by Mr Bauman.

The first presentation of the session willbe made by Bader Al-Azmi withKuwait Oil Company who will discussLive Well Fishing Using A Snubbing

Unit On A Deep Jurassic Well, AnUnusual Well Control Situation.

The second presentation of the sessionis Well Stability Analyzer Early KickDetection System by Richard Stef-fensen with National Oilwell. The ses-sion closes with WellCAP Plus: A TeamApproach to Well Control Events pre-sented by Bob Burnett with Global-SantaFe Corporation and the IADCWell Control Committee Chairman.

Lunch and prayers is from Noon-1:30 pmwith time to view the exhibition. Lunchis sponsored by National Drilling Com-pany.

A panel discussion begins at 1:30.Update on Iraq is moderated by DrMohammad Abed Mazeel Al-Aboudi,

Director General of IraqDrilling Company. Dr Al-Abou-di will lead a discussion on cur-rent E&P operations in Iraq.The discussion will include rep-resentatives from the IraqiSouth Oil Company and NorthOil Company.

From 2-4 pm will be a sessionon HSE and Risk moderated bysession Chairman NoureddineHadj-Moussa with NationalDrilling Company.

The first presentation will beManaging QHSE in an Emerg-ing Technology: The Under-balanced Drilling Experienceby Abdullah Al-Mandhari withWeatherford Oil Tools MiddleEast.

The next presentation will beBlowout Ignition Criteria byDavid Barnett with Wild WellControl.

Following that presentation willbe a discussion on Wellboreand Reservoir Damage Suf-fered from a Blowout and ItsImplications for ForwardDrilling, Completion andReservoir Production Opera-tions by Neal Adams with NealAdams Services.

This will be followed with AModel for Applying Risk Man-agement Principles to Under-balanced Drilling by MarkWerner with Saudi Aramco.

An alternate presentation isDemonstration of the Advantages ofDynamic Lubrication versus Conven-tional Stepwise Lubrication in aFull-Scale Research Well by RishiRamtahal with BP Trinidad.

The first day’s sessions end at 4:00 pm

Wednesday, 8 Dec, begins with registra-tion from 7:00-8:00 am.

A session on Underbalanced Drillingruns from 8-10 am, which is moderatedby session Chairman Khalid Al-

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Abdulqader with Saudi Aramco. Thefirst presentation is Sajaa Underbal-anced Coiled Tubing Drilling LessonsLearned by Randy Pruitt with BPSharjah.

The next presentation by CharlieLeslie with Halliburton Energy Ser-vices discusses Problems and Solu-tions for Underbalanced Drilling ofMultilateral Wells in a Mature Field.

James Chopty with Weatherford OilTools Middle East makes the next pres-entation, Drilling Underbalanced inHassi Messaoud.

The third presentation is Well Controlin Underbalanced Drilling Opera-tions: Life Cycle Philosophy by JohnRamalho with Shell InternationalE&P.

A coffee break follows this session from10-10:30 am after which a session onTraining begins from 10:30-Noon moder-ated by session Chairman PatO’Shaughnessy with National DrillingServices Company.

The first Training presentation is byClaire Davy with EITICAT, who willdiscuss Well Control Training Devel-oped to Suit the Needs of Specific Per-sonnel.

The second presentation by MustafaEideh discusses Well Control Train-ing Values.

The final presentation of the trainingsession is Preparation of a WorkableWell Control Emergency ResponsePlan for Kuwait by Willem Vollen-brock with Kuwait Oil Company.

A panel discussion follows, In Pursuitof Well Control Competency: Focusingon Practical Skills, moderated by Nor-man Edwards, IADC Director of Opera-tions-Middle East and Asia.

The panelists include Randy Pruitt, BP,Khulgan Albarry, Saudi Aramco, andMagdy Zaky Agaiby, Arabian DrillingCompany.

The conference closes following thispanel discussion.

Special thanks go to the IADC Interna-tional Well Control Conference andExhibition Committee for planning thisinformative conference.

They include Khalid al-Abdulqader,Saudi Aramco; Nayef Al-Anzi, KuwaitOil Company; Walter MacKinlay,ADCO; Eamon Gordon, PDO; Noured-dine Hadj-Moussa, NDC; Harvey Bau-man and Hafidh Soud Al Busaidi, MBPetroleum;Charlie Yester, Noble Inter-national Ltd; Pat O’Shaughnessy,NDSC; Mike Derbyshire, Pride Inter-national; Lester Carson, Signa Engi-neering; and Norman Edwards andSteve Kropla, IADC.

Be sure to visit with the exhibiting com-panies: Alert Disaster Control ( Mid-dle East) Ltd; ARNCO TechnologyTrust Ltd; Boots & Coots Services;Cudd Well Control; Randy SmithTraining Solutions; TechTran Inter-national; Well Control School; andWild Well Control. n

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