The International Well Control Forum (IWCF) is establishing technical taskforces involving industry specialists to help drive up the quality of well control training, ensuring it remains current and relevant.

The independent, not-for-profit organisation, which sets international training standards for well control, is making the move as part of a raft of new measures in response to the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) guidelines following the Macondo incident in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

IWCF is seeking volunteers from across the industry to take up roles on eight new taskforces including: drilling, well intervention and completion, quality of training, level 5, crew resource management, enhanced certificate renewal, strategy group and High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT).

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