Department · IOGP 510
Wells
Scope
Well design, drilling, completions, workovers, well intervention, well integrity through life, and well examination. The function that owns the well from concept through to abandonment — including its integrity as a barrier between the reservoir and the surface.
The reframing
"Wells is one of the few functions that is hard to misframe — drilling a well is unambiguously technical, risky and consequential. The harder question is whether the framework around the wells is doing what it claims. Well examination (Element 10) is independent assurance, not just an audit. Well integrity (Element 6) is barrier management, not just inspection. If those distinctions are blurred, regulators notice."
Footprint across the framework
E01
Commitment and Accountability
This is where the company declares how seriously it takes well risk — barrier philosophy, well integrity policy and well control commitment.
2 docs →
E02
Policies and Standards
This element holds the mandatory well rules — design, control, barrier, suspension and abandonment, examination and regulatory compliance.
7 docs →
E03
Organisation, Resources and Capability
This element holds wells capability — organisation, the well operator and well examiner roles, contractor capability and competence by sub-discipline.
2 docs →
E04
Stakeholders and Customers
This element holds the multi-party interfaces at the centre of which wells sit — regulator, partners, contractors and supply chain.
3 docs →
E05
Risk Assessment and Control
This element holds the core of wells safety — risk assessment, barrier management, well control risk, SIMOPS and abnormal-situation management.
5 docs →
E06
Asset Design and Integrity
This element holds the systems and tools that enable wells to be designed and monitored correctly — well design systems, real-time monitoring, data management and barrier verification.
6 docs →
E07
Plans and Procedures
This element holds the executable plans — well planning, drilling, completion, intervention, suspension and abandonment, and emergency response.
7 docs →
E08
Execution of Activities
This element holds wellsite execution — supervision, real-time decision authority, permit-to-work integration and contractor execution oversight.
5 docs →
E09
Monitoring, Reporting and Learning
This element captures how every well makes the next one better — performance KPIs, integrity monitoring, incident reporting, lessons learned and offset reviews.
2 docs →
E10
Assurance, Review and Improvement
This element holds the independent assurance of wells — well examination, TA review, peer review, audit and management review.
4 docs →
Where Wells pivots into other departments
→ SubsurfaceTargets, formation pressures, fluid properties
→ EngineeringWell design standards, equipment specifications
→ Operations & MaintenanceProducing well handover, intervention coordination
→ CommercialDrilling and well services contracting