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  2. Inter-American Defense College - Wikipedia

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    Inter-American Defense College Annex on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington D.C., March 21, 2024 . The Inter-American Defense College (IADC) is the educational entity of the Inter-American Defense Board, an independent entity of the Organization of American States. [5]

  3. Oil well control - Wikipedia

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    IADC, headquartered in Houston, TX, is a nonprofit industry association that accredits well control training through a program called WellSharp, which is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge and practical skills critical to successful well control. This training comprises drilling and well servicing activities, as well as course levels ...

  4. Well control - Wikipedia

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    the drilling and operating companies well control policies. For workover or completion operations, other methods are often used. Bullheading is a common way to kill a well during workovers and completions operations but is not often used while drilling. Reverse circulation is another kill method used for workovers that are not used for drilling ...

  5. Wild Well Control - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1975, Wild Well is the world's leading provider of onshore and offshore well control emergency response, pressure control, relief well planning, engineering, and training services. Wild Well Control was founded by Joe R. Bowden Sr. in 1975 (July 15, 1932 – November 12, 2006). [3] Its main competition was Red Adair and Company.

  6. Completion (oil and gas wells) - Wikipedia

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    The tubing may also have flow control mechanism. Single-well concentric kill string: within the well a small diameter concentric kill string is used to circulate kill fluids when needed. Single-well 2-tubing completion: in this instance 2 tubing strings are inserted down 1 well. They are connected at the lower end by a circulating head.

  7. List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

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    WSS – well services supervisor (leader of well services at the wellsite [citation needed]) WSS – working spreadsheet (for logging [citation needed]) WSSAM – well site sample; WSSOF – WSS offset profile [clarification needed] WSSUR – well seismic survey plot; WSSVP – WSS VSP raw shots; WSSVS – WSS VSP stacks

  8. Measurement while drilling - Wikipedia

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    A drilling rig is used to create a borehole or well (also called a wellbore) in the earth's sub-surface, for example in order to extract natural resources such as gas or oil. During such drilling, data is acquired from the drilling rig sensors for a range of purposes such as: decision-support to monitor and manage the smooth operation of ...

  9. Blowout (well drilling) - Wikipedia

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    The burning well was finally capped 67 days later by the Texas well-control company Boots & Coots. One of the most troublesome gushers happened on 23 June 1985, at well #37 at the Tengiz field in Atyrau , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union , where the 4,209-metre deep well blew out and the 200-metre high gusher self-ignited two days later.