UniServe Wells Management LLC provides emergency well control services for complex onshore, offshore, subsea, mature-field, and unconventional well events. Our emergency support covers the full response cycle, from first technical assessment and event stabilization to relief well planning, kill design, intervention execution, recovery, and post-event review.
Our role is to help operators regain control safely, reduce uncertainty, and move from reactive crisis management to disciplined technical execution.
Well Control SME Advisors
UniServe provides experienced Well Control Subject Matter Expert advisors to support operators during critical well events, high-risk intervention planning, drilling emergencies, and complex pressure-control operations. Our SME advisors help client teams assess well status, validate barriers, review pressure data, evaluate escalation risk, and guide technical decisions under time-sensitive conditions.
Key Support Areas
- Well control event assessment
- Barrier status review
- Pressure trend interpretation
- Kill option evaluation
- Operational risk review
- Technical decision support
- Independent challenge and assurance
- Support to incident command and crisis management teams
Well Control Event Management
UniServe supports operators with structured well control event management from the first call to final recovery. Our approach brings technical planning, operational coordination, field execution support, and stakeholder communication into one controlled response framework.
Key Support Areas
- Initial event classification
- Incident response structure
- Well control strategy development
- Technical workstream coordination
- Equipment and personnel mobilization planning
- Source control option assessment
- Daily technical briefings and action tracking
- Recovery planning and close-out review
Relief Well Planning
Relief well planning is a critical component of well control contingency and emergency response. UniServe supports operators with relief well planning for drilling, completion, production, abandonment, and complex intervention scenarios where direct access to the original well may be unsafe, limited, or technically impractical.
Key Support Areas
- Relief well feasibility assessment
- Relief well trajectory planning
- Intercept strategy development
- Dynamic kill planning support
- Ranging and target definition
- Rig and equipment readiness review
- Relief well execution sequence
- Integration with blowout contingency plans
Relief Well Implementation
When relief well execution becomes necessary, UniServe supports the operator through planning-to-field transition, technical coordination, wellsite supervision support, and implementation oversight. We work with the operator's drilling team, directional drilling providers, ranging specialists, mud engineers, well control contractors, and crisis management teams.
Underground Blowouts
Underground blowouts create complex subsurface flow conditions that can be difficult to diagnose, monitor, and control. UniServe supports operators with technical assessment, flow-path evaluation, pressure analysis, intervention planning, and kill strategy development for underground blowout scenarios.
Key Support Areas
- Underground flow diagnosis
- Pressure and volume trend review
- Crossflow and charging risk assessment
- Casing and barrier integrity review
- Kill strategy evaluation
- Relief well or direct intervention assessment
- Monitoring and verification planning
- Post-event well integrity review
Complex Kill Design & Execution
Complex well kills require strong engineering, accurate pressure understanding, careful fluid selection, and disciplined execution. UniServe supports operators with kill design and execution planning for blowouts, underground flow, high-pressure wells, depleted reservoirs, fractured formations, and wells with uncertain barrier conditions.
Key Support Areas
- Dynamic kill planning
- Bullheading assessment
- Volumetric kill support
- Lubricate-and-bleed strategy review
- Kill fluid and density selection
- Pump rate and pressure modelling
- Equipment and surface line readiness
- Execution monitoring and adjustment
Subsea Well Control Intervention
Subsea well control events require specialist planning because access, visibility, equipment deployment, and intervention options are more complex than conventional surface operations. UniServe supports operators with subsea well control intervention planning, technical advisory, emergency response support, and source control strategy.
Key Support Areas
- Subsea well control assessment
- Subsea tree and wellhead intervention planning
- ROV-assisted operation support
- Capping and containment strategy review
- Intervention vessel readiness review
- Disconnect and contingency planning
- Relief well integration
- Post-event verification and recovery support