Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for drilling operations
- Access, interpret and apply compliance documentation relevant to the work activity
- Obtain, confirm and apply work instructions for the allocated task
- Identify, manage and report all potential hazards
- Communicate emergency response and occupational health and safety requirements, including the possibility of wellbore influx and well control, to crew members
- Resolve and maintain coordination requirements with others at the site prior to commencing and during work activities
- Check, clean and lubricate equipment, including mud riser/conductor/connections and rectify and report faults
- Check tool requirements and assembled in wellhead area
- Commence drilling operations
- Double-check drilling program requirements to ensure safe operations
- Undertake surface hole drilling in accordance with Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and drilling program, and confirm with operator's representative
- Commence intermediate and main hole drilling operations
- Monitor, maintain and record drilling parameters in line with drilling program
- Calculate and maintain kill sheet requirements and carry out and record integrity tests in line with drilling program
- Maintain accurate tubular tallies
- Inspect and prepare casing running tools and casing for operation
- Maintain drilling operations
- Undertake cementing preparations in accordance with operator's instructions and company procedures
- Run casing and prepare for cementing in accordance with job safety analysis, and cement in accordance with well engineering prognosis
- Undertake preparations, and give assistance in drilling stem tests and logging and coring operations
- Instruct crew on safe core recovery procedures
- Put arrangements in place for nippling-up and drilling out
- Drill intermediate and/or main holes
- Prepare for hole abandonment