Real-time scenarios in the control cabin.
A coiled tubing unit’s control cabin in the browser. Trainees work the well control panel through a kick, a parted coil or a leak on test, and the well answers every move as it happens.
The next level of virtual learning.
A coiled tubing unit’s control cabin, built in 3D around the panel a crew actually works: the BOP levers, the accumulator and its gauges, the stripper and injector controls, the radio. Each scenario runs in real time and answers every move the trainee makes. We know of nothing like it in coiled tubing training.
The trainee runs the job.
Nothing is played for them. The well responds to what they do, and to when they do it.
Operate the levers
Drag a lever to close a ram and hold it until the ram is closed; let go and it springs back, as it does on the panel. A cutaway shows the ram moving inside the stack.
Read the gauges
Accumulator, BOP and wellhead pressure, and the returns against the pump rate. Every close draws on the accumulators, and only the power pack brings them back up.
Make the calls
Radio the crew at the right moment: stop the pump, close the choke, bleed off, line up the kill. A call made late, or not at all, costs points.
Decide the kill route
When the job forks, the trainee chooses: shear or hold, down the coil or through the kill line, how many barriers stand. Every choice is scored.
The moments that decide a job.
Each scenario is written in our own words from field practice, and each runs on the stack the client uses: a quad BOP with a dedicated shear-blind ram, or a dual combi.
Function test and pressure test
Every ram is closed, opened and closed again from the panel with the power pack stopped, so the accumulators do the work on their own. Then the stack is made up on the wellhead and tested, low then high.
- The ram sequence, lever by lever
- Accumulator pressure read and recorded at each stage
- Low and high tests, held and charted
Pressure test with a leak
The first test on the wellhead, with a seal weeping somewhere. The pressure creeps down on the gauge and the chart; the trainee has to see it, call it and stop.
- A slow loss to recognise, not a sudden one
- Bleed off before anything is touched
- Repair, then test again
Stripper test and element change
The stripper is tested with pressure through the tubing and packed until it holds. Later, on the job, its element fails: back it up with the rams, change it with no pressure on it, and open up again.
- Stripper pressure raised until the leak stops
- The pipe and slip rams as the backup
- Equalise before a ram is opened
A kick while running in
Running in on a live well, the returns climb above the pump rate and the wellhead pressure rises. Stop the coil, shut in, back up the stripper, prove the check valves, read the shut-in pressures and choose how to kill the well.
- The first signs, read from the returns
- The shut-in calls made on the radio
- The kill weight worked out, the route chosen
A parted coil
The coil parts at surface and the well flows up through it. Hold the string, cut it with the shear ram, pull the stub clear, seal with the blind ram, count the barriers and kill through the kill line.
- Why shear, and when
- The stub clear of the blind ram before it closes
- Barriers counted, not assumed
Accumulator fault
On the job, the accumulator stops charging and a weep drains it. The rams still have to work on what is left: stop the job, secure the well while there is fluid to do it, lock the rams, read the margin and decide when work may go on.
- Usable fluid, not just pressure
- The well secured first
- A clear call on when the job may go on
Learn it, then prove it.
The same scenarios serve both: a guided run to learn the sequence, an assessed run to show it can be done without help.
Guided
The step card says what to do next and, at a tap, why. Hints and a live score stay on screen. For learning the sequence and the reasons behind it.
Assessed
No hints, no reasons, no live score. The engineer runs the scenario alone, and the result is kept for each engineer, for the training record.
Scores and replays
Every lever, call and decision is logged against the clock. Deductions are itemised, and any run can be replayed from any moment.
The debrief
At the end of a run, the debrief goes through each mistake and points to the chapter of our training modules that covers it.
Phone, tablet or desktop.
The simulator runs in the browser and lays itself out for the screen it is on, from a desktop monitor to a phone held upright. There is nothing to download or install: it is virtual, in the browser, and a headset is not needed.
- Runs on
- Phone, tablet or desktop, in the browser
- Install
- Nothing to download; no headset needed
- Stack
- A quad BOP with a dedicated shear-blind ram, or a dual combi
- Access
- For client companies, behind their own sign-in
