Department · Process Safety
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
Design integrity
11 documents: Well Suspension Policy · Performance Standard: SECE Operational Well Containment · Installation Performance Standard: Wells · Drilling and Well Control Equipment Standard …
11 docs →
Asset integrity
11 documents: Well Integrity Management System Standard · Well Integrity Manual: Offshore Operations · Well Examination Scheme · Well Integrity Risk Level Evaluation Process …
11 docs →
Operating integrity
8 documents: Well Control Standards · Well Intervention Delivery Standard · Contractor Management for Drilling and Well Activities · Pressure Control Manual for Drilling, Completions and Intervention …
8 docs →
People and culture
4 documents: Wells Policy · Wells Management System · Drilling and Completions Competency Assessment Procedure · Contractor Pre-mobilisation Competence Assessment
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