Description

Delivery

• Duration: 5 full days (minimum 28–32 hours, excluding assessment time)

• Mode: In-person, instructor-led classroom or interactive virtual class

• Schedule: Consecutive daily modules, concluding with written assessment(s)

• Requirement: IWCF Candidate Registration (CR) Number

• Certificate Validity: 2 years upon successful completion and passing all assessments

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Method

• Curriculum: Official IWCF Well Intervention Pressure Control Level 3 syllabus, aligned to IOGP and industry standards

• Instruction: Expert-led lectures, group discussions, real-world case studies, videos, instructor demos, and class workbook exercises

• Practical Training: Scenario-based exercises for detection, immediate response, and barrier management across coiled tubing, snubbing, and wireline

• Assessment:

  • Written exams in both Completion Operations/Equipment and at least one selected module: Coiled Tubing, Snubbing, or Wireline (minimum 70% pass mark per section)

  • Participants select at least one well intervention module for assessment (cannot be changed post-assessment)

• Learning Resources: Workbooks, handouts, self-study and revision materials, personalized feedback

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Course Overview

This intermediate-level IWCF program is designed for operators and senior crew directly responsible for the safe control of well pressure during intervention operations. It develops robust understanding and hands-on skills in well intervention and completion basics, equipment and tool function, pressure control calculations, well barrier verification, and incident response for a range of techniques:

• Coiled tubing

• Snubbing (hydraulic workover)

• Wireline (slickline, e-line)

Emphasis is on well integrity management, barrier philosophy, detection, shut-in/contingency procedures, and the specific challenges of each intervention method under live well conditions.

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Training Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain well intervention pressure control principles across coiled tubing, snubbing, and wireline

• Identify potential well control hazards and warning signs in various well intervention operations

• Demonstrate knowledge of barrier types, installation/verification, and failure modes

• Conduct shut-in and primary/secondary control procedures specific to each intervention method

• Operate, rig-up, and test completion and pressure control equipment safely, including lubricators, BOPs, rams, snubbing units, etc.

• Apply key well control calculations (hydrostatics, kill weight, volume, pressure)

• Respond to loss of well control, plan for emergencies, and implement contingency measures

• Understand and apply IWCF and industry well intervention standards

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Designed For

• Level 3 (Operator): Equipment Operators in Coiled Tubing, Snubbing (HWO), Wireline (slickline, E-line), Workover/Intervention Operators, Wellsite Engineers, and anyone expected to shut in a well or maintain pressure control during interventions

• Level 4 (Supervisor): Intervention Wellsite Supervisors, Superintendents, Company Men, Office-based Well Intervention Planners, OIMs, Toolpushers, Completions/Workover Engineers, Crew Chiefs, Senior Well Testing/Service Supervisors, and any supervisory personnel with operational decision authority in intervention pressure control

• Prerequisites:
  Level 3: Field experience required; prior IWCF certificate not mandatory, but role familiarity is assumed
  Level 4: Supervisory field experience assumed; previous IWCF certificate (Level 3 or 4) recommended but not strictly required