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Drilling, Intervention and the Benefits of Simulation Oil and gas safety training services were already in a state of rapid evolution before the pandemic began. However, COVID-19 highlighted the urgent need to digitally transform these services to provide the industry’s workforce with the appropriate safety training through the more flexible models that digital tools can provide. A key area in this accelerated evolution is the increasing relevance of simulation and simulators, which can accurately model specific drilling and well control scenarios to train workers and managers in the delicate art of managing an offshore crisis. This focus on simulation represents a milestone for the evolution of both safety training services and also the industry’s safety culture as a whole. Mark Denkoweski, Drilling Services Manager for the Gulf of Mexico at international safety training and equipment services provider RelyOn Nutec, has spent 16 years of his oil and gas career working offshore in North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and West Africa for companies that included GlobalSantaFe, Transocean and Frontier Drilling, including a decade-long sting at the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). “All of my past combined experiences have helped me understand the industry’s safety culture and how it has evolved over the years,” he said. Simulators enhance a mechanism that has always been prominent in safety training: role playing. In course packages, such as IADC’s WellSharp Plus and International Well Control Forum’s (IWCF)
