Well control is an extremely critical operation that requires a lot of good planning and professional implementation. The selection of the proper kill method that is required to kill the well safely and efficiently either drilling or production well is a tedious decision. It requires a lot of accurate data from the current well conditions which will help the decision makers in their selections. Selecting the wrong kill method may end up with an unsafe and a high costly operation. This paper introduces an excel sheet program to select optimum well kill method that will help the engineering team as well as the operation team to take the proper decision regarding the optimum well control method to be applied. This paper provide a program built using simple excel sheet in which input data are well information. This information is analyzed and used to answer some questions. The answers for these questions have different weights. The system will select the highest score for these answers which will choose the optimum kill method based on the input data and the weighted value and provide kill sheet for the well according to the selected method. The program is tested in two different cases for drilling oil and gas wells. The system selected different kill methods based on each well criteria. The outputs were compared with a commercial simulator and the results are comparable which indicate that such a cheap excel program can be used easily and economically.
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