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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for work
   • Receive and give shift handover
   • Identify work requirements
   • Identify and control hazards
   • Coordinate with appropriate personnel
   • Check well and its gathering system is ready for commissioning
   • Determine appropriate schedule and priorities for work
2. Accept handover of well and gathering system
   • Ensure documents and other records provided match 'as is' plant and equipment
   • Check all issues have been satisfactorily resolved
   • Confirm status of individual items being handed over
   • Ensure plant and equipment are operationally sound and in accordance with contract
   • Accept handover when appropriate
   • Complete logs and reports in accordance with procedures
3. Commission well in accordance with procedures
   • Commission support systems
   • Commission wellhead and components
   • Make adjustments to bring well to stable operation
4. Commission gathering system in accordance with procedures
   • Commission support systems
   • Introduce product to gathering system
   • Check all equipment is operating correctly
   • Take action to solve problems
5. Monitor and adjust well and gathering system to meet production requirements
   • Take required readings
   • Ensure telemetry and controls are functional
   • Adjust downhole pump speed to maintain correct liquid level
   • Monitor nearby wells for impact of new well
   • Complete other site checks
   • Liaise with relevant operational personnel as required
   • Make appropriate adjustments to ensure new well is performing as required
   • Adjust new well and gathering system to balance the overall production to meet requirements
6. Finalise commissioning activities
   • Complete commissioning tasks as appropriate
   • Ensure identified faults are correctly logged/reported for action
   • Ensure incomplete tasks are scheduled for follow-up
   • Ensure all logs and reporting are complete and understood
   • Check all systems are operational and all relevant personnel are informed

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Regulatory framework	The latest version of all legislation, regulations, industry codes of practice and Australian/international standards, or the version specified by the local regulatory authority, must be used, and include one or more of the following: legislative requirements, including work health and safety (WHS) industry codes of practice and guidelines environmental regulations and guidelines Australian and other standards licence and certification requirements All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment (HSE) requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between performance criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.
Hazards	Hazards include one or more of the following: electricity gas gases and liquids under pressure structural hazards structural collapse equipment failures industrial (machinery, equipment and product) equipment or product mass noise, rotational equipment or vibration working at heights, in restricted or confined spaces, or in environments subjected to heat, dusts or vapours flammability and explosivity hazardous products and materials unauthorised personnel sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions slippery surfaces, spills or leaks extreme weather other hazards that might arise
Procedures	All operations must be performed in accordance with relevant procedures. Procedures are written, verbal, visual, computer-based or in some other form, include one or more of the following: emergency procedures work instructions standard operating procedures (SOPs) safe work method statements (SWMS) formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant
Routine problems	Routine problems are predictable problems with known solutions and include one or more of the following: leakage solids (formation fines) vibration loss of control of pressure and/or flow hydrate formation and blockages liquid slugging corrosion erosion sulphate reducing bacteria scale formation equipment failure change in product parameters (e.g. temperature, flow, pressure and level) fouling or contamination
Non-routine problems	Non-routine problems are unexpected problems, or variations of previous problems and must be resolved by applying operational knowledge to develop new solutions, either individually or in collaboration with relevant experts, to: determine problems needing action determine possible fault causes develop solutions to problems which do not have a known solution follow through items initiated until final resolution has occurred report problems outside area of responsibility to designated person Operational knowledge includes one or more of the following: procedures training technical information, such as journals and engineering specifications remembered experience relevant knowledge obtained from appropriate people
Support systems and equipment	Support systems and equipment include as appropriate to the well system: fuel gas lubricating oil check valves control valves remote terminal unit telemetry (communications to base) control systems distributed control systems (DCS) screens other systems and equipment
Product	Product includes anything produced by a process step and so includes: intermediate products, such as the product from one process step, which then becomes the feed for another
Logs and reports	Logs and reports include one or more of the following: paper or electronic-based logs and reports verbal/radio reports reporting items found which require action

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include the ability to:

undertake readings and operate and monitor well system

analyse and interpret network communication and data on individual wells and recommend action to ensure flow meets plant and organisation needs

perform site checks, start-up/shutdown procedures, and isolations and de-isolations

interpret fluid level readings and maintain fluid levels

plan and coordinate the work of the team

isolate the causes of problems and distinguish between causes of problems/alarm/fault indications, including:

instrumentation failure/malfunction

electrical failure/malfunction

mechanical failure/malfunction

control system failure/malfunction

mismatch between flow rates and system requirements

wear, tear and corrosion of plant and equipment

quality measurement inaccuracy (e.g. analyser or sampling deficiency)

systemic/recurring problems

identify hazards and risks and apply risk control procedures

calculate volumetric flow rates and equipment efficiencies.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

oil/gas formation, structure and completions for coal seam gas (CSG), traditional or other oil/gas formations

coal type and structure or other bedrock structures

well design and construction

inter-well communications (e.g. pressure, flow and other technical parameters)

well status data (e.g. well flows, flow rates, pressure and temperature, and downhole conditions and information)

hydrate formation

free flow and pumped wells

pumping principles

gas flow principles

gas/water separation principles

draining and venting requirements

corrosion control, chemical handling and safety data sheets (SDS)

flange pressure and temperature ratings (basic)

cathodic protection (basic)

downhole drawings (DHDs) and their application to plant/well operation

remote terminal unit, functions, operation and problems

pump, drivehead, fuel gas systems operations and principles

fluid dynamics and statics as relevant to the system

reservoir management

all items on a schematic of the remote system and the function of each

methods of changing production rates and the advantages and disadvantages of each

effect of specific climatic and environmental factors

water testing and gas break through testing techniques

function and troubleshooting of major components and their problems

hierarchy of control

hazards that may arise in the job/work environment, and:

their possible causes

potential consequences

appropriate risk controls.

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