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Problem Solving and Decision Making
1.6 CEUs
A workshop designed to provide rig personnel with simple-to-use tools to evaluate well control problems to enable critical and well-reasoned decisions based on proven management concepts. Competence is the result of knowledge and experience. Experience teaches one how to differentiate between courses of action to minimize drilling risk. Examines how catastrophic well control failures happen. Course mentors are seasoned professionals with years of experience on rigs and working with drilling personnel at all levels. Includes handouts. Lunch is provided.
Length: 2 days
Course Content
Participants receive instruction in:
• The problem-solving cycle: root cause, cause and effect, is/is not analysis
• Decision making in a high-stress environment (TADMUS)
• Personal bias in decision making and risk assessment
• Assuring key well information gets to rig decision makers on the rig: checklists and failure reports
• Effective meetings: brainstorming, affinity charts, driving consensus
• Decision tools: Boston Square, Pareto chart, Six Hat processes
• Understanding issues: interviewing and asking the right questions
• Communications up, down, and sideways
Recommended For
Technical and operational personnel who are charged with making daily decisions involving the safety of people, operational integrity, and preservation of the rig and well in environmentally sensitive areas.
Dates
Cost: $3,000
