Wireline & Slickline Operations Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the role of wireline operations in well intervention, surveillance, and well integrity management on Day 1.
• Distinguish between slickline, braided line, and electric line and evaluate wire materials, strength, fatigue, and corrosion considerations, including sour service.
• Describe wireline surface units, winches, and depth and tension measurement systems and their calibration and use.
• Apply pressure control equipment requirements, including wireline valves, lubricators, stuffing boxes, grease injection heads, tool traps, and tool catchers.
• Plan safe rig-up, pressure testing, and rig-down of wireline equipment and apply well barrier principles during wireline operations.
• Select slickline toolstring components, including rope sockets, stems, jars, accelerators, and knuckle joints, for different operations.
• Plan and execute common slickline operations, including drifting, tagging, gauge cutting, bailing, and lead impression block runs.
• Plan setting and pulling of plugs, gas lift valve change-outs, sliding sleeve shifting, safety valve operations, and memory gauge surveys.
• Plan electric line operations, including cased hole logging, production logging, perforating, plug and packer setting, pipe recovery, and tractor conveyance.
• Apply explosives safety, depth control, and depth correlation practices for electric line operations.
• Apply wireline fishing techniques to recover stuck tools, parted wire, and debris and prevent common causes of fishing jobs.
• Apply job planning, risk assessment, operations in deviated, high-pressure, and sour wells, and reporting and quality control practices by the end of Day 5.

Who Should Attend

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain the role and value of wireline services in well operations.
• Choose between slickline, braided line, and electric line for different jobs.
• Operate and verify depth and tension measurement systems correctly.
• Specify and inspect pressure control equipment for wireline operations.
• Rig up, pressure test, and rig down wireline equipment safely.
• Select appropriate toolstrings and service tools.
• Plan and supervise routine slickline operations.
• Plan plug, valve, sleeve, and gauge operations effectively.
• Plan electric line logging, perforating, and setting operations.
• Apply explosives safety and depth control practices.
• Plan and supervise wireline fishing operations.
• Identify and manage wireline operational risks.

Course Outline