JO Simultaneous Operations Checklist

(Complete the General Section and the sections applicable to the concurrent activities)

Field: Structure: Date:

SimOps
Controller

Has SimOps Controller reviewed roles and responsibilities  Yes  No (If No, state why Pre-Work 
not.)
Initial 
Weekly 

Activities: Company Representatives:

I. General
II. Production Operations
III. Rig Operations

IV. Construction Operations (includes

Instrumentation and Electrical)
V. Heavy Lifts

Simultaneous Operations Checklist Y N NA Remarks or explanation if No

I. General (Sections A, B, & C)
A. General Information
1. Is a simultaneous operations plan located on the structure?
2. Has a SimOps Controller been assigned to the structure?
3. Has 24-hour supervisory coverage been provided for all
simultaneous operations?
4. Has a simultaneous operations audit of the operations been
performed prior to commencement?
5. Are weekly audits performed?
6. Is the simultaneous operations log filled out daily?
7. Have all required personnel on the platform report to their team coordinator and been instructed in:
a. SimOps procedures?
b. Emergency procedures and coordinated alarms?
c. Fire-fighting equipment and locations?
d. Emergency shutdown equipment and locations?
8. Is a record of personnel in the area being maintained?
9. Are diagrams of the fire-fighting, station bill, and electrical area
classification posted and up-to-date?
10. Has status of high pressure well (1000 psig service) been
reviewed?
11. Has status of wells which produce greater than 10 ppm of H2S
been reviewed?
12. Do all wells have SSV and either SSCSV or SCSSV installed and

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tested or shut in?
13. Are all wells that produce greater than 0.1% sand evaluated to
determine if they should be shut-in or production rate reduced to
produce sand below this limit?
14. Do all flowlines have a sand probe installed to alarm when cut?
15. Do gas lift wells have method to shut-in gas lift gas on low
pressure?
16. Except on gas lift wells and wells where the source pressure is
negligible (micro annuli), is casing pressure bled down or VR
plugs installed?
17. If a safety device or system is bypassed for
maintenance, is the well(s) shut in?
18. Are all systems free of any visible signs of leakage?
19. Are all open ended lines plugged or blind flanged,
unless designed to be open?
20. Are firewalls in place to protect production equipment from:
a. Adjacent wells or flowlines?
b. Fire or sand impingement?
21. Are wells or other production equipment protected from falling
hazards?
22. Are all vents piped to a safe area or a flare boom?
23. Are all drains equipped with vapor traps and/or check valves to
prevent migration of gases?
24. Is curbing installed to prevent migration of flammable liquids?
25. Is the ESD system tested for proper operation prior to
commencing SimOps,
a. and then monthly thereafter?
B. Fire Prevention
1. Is a weekly fire drill performed for both day and night crews?
2. Is good housekeeping practiced on location?
3. Is smoking restricted to designated areas only?
4. Do all engines contain spark arresting exhausts, suitable electric
starters and alternators, and an automatic device that shuts down
the engine on an ESD?
5. Is all electrical equipment suitable for the area where it is
installed? (Reference structure area classification drawing for
Division 1 and 2 areas)
6. Do gas detectors initiate an audible alarm when 20% LEL gas is
detected?
7. Do gas detectors initiate isolation/shut-in action when 60% LEL
gas is detected?
8. Is each gas detection system calibrated and tested every 90 days
for operation?
9. Are smoke/thermal detectors installed and tested in all buildings
where personnel regularly or occasionally sleep?
C. Fire Protection Equipment
1. Are large wheeled or dry chemical extinguishers in the vicinity of
well bay and production areas?
2. If facility has a firewater system, is fuel or power available for at
least 30 minutes of run time of the fire pump after shut-in?
3. Is each firewater pump tested for operation weekly?
4. Are dry chemical systems inspected monthly?

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5. Are fire protection systems properly marked?
II. Production Operations
A. Through Tubing Perforating, Coil Tubing, Kill Jobs, and Stimulation Activities
1. Are daily safety meetings held prior to work?
2. Has a Work Team Leader been designated?
(Production Supervisor or representative?)
3. Is this work conducted under an ALERT status?
4. Are operations performed only during daylight hours unless
approval has been obtained by the Area Controller/Permit
Approver?
5. Are all non-essential personnel removed to a safe distance when
using explosives or corrosive chemicals?
6. Are proper lifting procedures being followed?
7. Is the lubricator equipped with a BOP and grease seal stuffing
box?
8. Is the SCSSV locked out of service, signs posted, and the well
manned until the SCSSV is returned to service?
9. Is the surface safety valve capped with a manual lockout wheel
which has a fusible stem?
10. Are all radios silenced during perforating?
a. When tools are armed above the mudline?
11. Have people been notified of radio silence?
12. Is the check valve installed in the kill or injection line adjacent to
the well during kill or stimulation operations?
13. Are kill or injection lines properly secured?
B. Wireline Operations
1. Are daily safety meetings held prior to work?
2. Are production wireline operations under the supervision of a
Production Representative?
3. Are crown valves shut on all wells within 20 feet of wireline work?
4. Do all adjacent wells have their needle valves removed when
performing wireline work?
5. Has the wireline lubricator been inspected for wireline wear?
6. Is the lubricator purged before pressuring up H. P. wells?
7. Is the lubricator tested before entering H. P. wells?
8. Does the pressure rating of the lubricator equal the working
pressure of the tree?
9. Is diesel prohibited from use to pressure up on lubricators?
10. Is the lubricator equipped with a hydraulic stuffing box or grease
seals?
11. Are all safety systems in service whenever wireline operations
are conducted except on the well being serviced?
12. Does the lubricator have a single or a double ram manual
wireline valve installed?
13. Is a full opening safety valve used in the top of the lubricator
when wireline work is performed on a bunkhouse structure?
14. Is the SSV capped with a manual lockout wheel which has a
fusible stem?
15. Is an ESD station located by the wireline unit?
16. Is the wireline lubricator properly supported?
17. Is the wireline unit properly secured?

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18. Is a person stationed near the well when wireline is run in the
hole to manually shut-in the well as required?
19. Is the lubricator vented to the flare boom?
20. Is all hot work suspended during wireline operations?
21. Does the wireline unit engine contain a spark arresting exhaust, a
suitable electric starter and alternator, and an automatic device
that shuts down the engine on an ESD?
C. Blasting and Painting Operations
1. Are daily safety meetings held prior to work?
2. Is the company Paint Representative informed before vessels or
lines are bled down to zero psi?
3. Are the times of installation and removal of protection on gas
detector heads recorded?
4. Are paints and thinners stored in a safe location?
5. Have critical lines and vessels been identified, checked, and
determined if safe to blast?
6. Have these lines identified as critical been marked with a unique
color?
7. Are lines determined as critical to blast either:
a. Shut in and bled down?
b. Replaced or repaired?
c. Not blasted and painted?
8. Have insulating materials or other protective coverings on engine
exhausts or heated services been inspected for breaks or gaps,
and repaired before wrapped?
9. Are rupture discs properly protected and piped to a safe location?
10. Are insulating flanges identified, and the micarta ring protected?
11. Is all waste (sandblast grit, paint, etc.) handled in compliance with
the Waste Management Plan and regulations?
III. Rig Operations
A. Drilling - General
1. Communications should be interfaced between the rig floor and
production office
2. Are ESD stations located at the following locations in addition to those required by regulations at the:
a. Driller’s console?
b. Drilling Rep’s office?
c. Production Operator’s office?
d. Wireline unit?
3. Are gas and/or fire detection devices located at the following locations in addition to those required by regulations:
a. At mud pits and pumps?
b. At shale shaker?
c. At rig degasser?
d. At rig floor?
e. In the generator building?
f. In the electrical control room?
g. In the Operator’s office?
h. In designated welding area?
i. In temporary buildings?
4. Are tubing pressures monitored and recorded daily?

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5. Are casing pressures monitored and recorded daily?
6. If rig DC motor cooling ducts are installed, are they properly
sealed?
B. Sand Washing
1. Has the platform been placed under an ALERT status prior to
commencement of sand washing operations?
2. When sand washing a dual well, is the other string, protected by
closing the subsurface valve or installing a tubing plug?
3. Has the Area Controller approved removal of the plug to ascertain
if communication exists?
C. Killing and Well Stimulation
1. Is the platform placed under an ALERT status prior to
commencement of kill and well stimulation operations?
2. Are all non-essential personnel removed to a safe
distance from operations?
3. Are all temporary lines secured with chain or cable?
4. Is a check valve installed in the kill line adjacent to the well?
D. Wireline Operations
1. Is drilling wireline conducted under an ALERT status?
2. Are all non-essential personnel removed to a safe distance when
using explosives or corrosive chemicals?
3. Is a lubricator bolted to the preventers used during open hole
logging and perforating operations?
4. Are all radios silenced during perforations?
a. When tools are armed above the mudline?
5. Has the shorebase been notified of radio silence?
6. Is a wireline set, cast iron bridge plug, sized for the current
production casing on location during all perforating runs?
E. Directional Control (precautionary)
1. Is the projected drilling path closer than the minimum permissible
distance in the Action Guidelines for Simultaneous Operations?
2. If yes to question 1, is the platform under an ALERT status until
the operation is beyond this minimum distance?
3. If the path is within the minimum:
a. Are the affected wells plugged at the appropriate landing
nipple?
b. Is the pressure above the plug bled to zero?
c. Are all casing pressures of wells checked daily for changes?

4. Are magnets installed in the mud return flowline to

collect metal?
5. Are drill cuttings monitored for indications of cement?
6. Are unusual drilling conditions monitored?
(High torque, slow progress, vibration, etc.)
7. Are all directional plots up-to-date and available on the rig?
8. If mud motors are used, has approval been obtained from the
drilling manager?
F. Clean Up of Wells or Testing Through Flare Boom
1. Has the platform been placed under an ALERT status prior to
commencement of testing operations?
2. Are all non-essential personnel removed to a safe

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distance from operations?
3. Are all temporary lines secured with chain or cable?
4. Have all vessels been checked for operation?
5. Are all valves and piping installed in the proper position?
G. Rig Operations – Moving Rig On or Off Platform
1. Are all flowlines bled down zero psi?
2. Are all wells shut-in at the surface and subsurface valve, and bled
down zero psi?
3. Are all casing pressures bled down to zero psi?
4. Is equipment and interconnecting piping bled down to zero psi?
5. If crossing pipelines or pig traps are endangered by the lift, are
they protected or shut-in and bled down zero psi?
H. Rig Skidding
1. Has the platform been placed under ALERT status prior to
commencement of skidding operations, or nipple up or down?
2. Has the status of wells beneath the skid or lift path been
reviewed?
3. If wells are shut-in, are they shut-in at both the surface and
subsurface valves and their casing annuli bled down, VR plugs
installed, or valves protected?
4. Has status of all hydrocarbon bearing vessels, flowlines, gas lift
headers, and piping beneath the skid or lift path been reviewed?
5. If necessary, is all equipment adequately protected or bled down?
6. Have all lifting slings been inspected for wear, burrs, broken
strands, and been certified and permanently tagged with
maximum capacity?
I. Driving Conductor Pipe
1. Are all producing wells shut-in at the surface and subsurface
valve and bled down to zero psi above the valve?
2. If welding is required, is it performed according to the Hot Work
JOSOP and the Simultaneous Operations Plan?
3. Have the flowlines of the affected wells been bled down to zero
psi?
IV. Construction Operations (includes Electrical and Instrumentation – I&E)
1. Are daily safety meetings held prior to work?
2. Is hot work suspended during an ALERT status?

3. Has a general ignition source permit been approved by the Area

Controller for all hot work?

4. Has a daily hot work certificates been submitted and approved by

the Permit Approver, and was he/she notified of the time when
the hot work will begin?
5. Are the conditions of the daily hot work certificate being followed?
a. The area adjacent to and under the hot work inspected for
potential hazards?
b. Combustible gas detector tests are conducted before and
continuously during hot work?
c. A Firewatch is present with no other duties?
d. Sufficient portable fire extinguishers are located at the work
site?
e. A fire water system is available with one hose discharging at

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the work site?
f. The area is monitored for 30 minutes after completion of hot
work by the Firewatch?
6. Is all hot work performed in established safe welding areas?
7. In welding areas 10 - 35 feet from equipment which is in service,
have the following additional precautions been taken:
a. Visual inspection and non-destructive testing (ultrasonic or x-
ray) of vessels and piping within the area to determine their
condition?
b. Soaping of flanges, valve bonnets, tubing fittings, or other
connections for leak detection?
c. The use of fire retardant tarps, metal, or fire resistant
shields?
8. Are vessels and equipment within 10 feet of hot work shut in and
bled down?
9. Are vessels and piping within 10 feet of hot work which have
contained hydrocarbons and are open to the atmosphere been
isolated and had their contents rendered inert?
10. Are all wells shut in when performing hot work in well bays?
11. Are welding machines located in unclassified locations and tied
into the platform ESD system?
12. Are welding leads insulated and in good condition?
13. Are oxygen and acetylene bottles secured in bottle racks,
equipped properly, and free of grease and oil?
14. A hot work certificate has been issued for use of electrical tools.
15. A hot work certificate has been issued for use of pneumatic tools.
16. All extension cord receptacles and connections are located within
the hot work area or rated for the area classification?
17. Extension cords have been visually inspected?
18. Have possibilities for accidentally shutting down the facility been
protected against?
19. Is all electrical equipment suitable for the area where it is to be
installed?
20. Are all tubing fitting installers certified with proper certificates?
21. Have insulating materials or other protective coverings on engine
exhausts or heated services been inspected for breaks or gaps
and repaired before wrapped?
22. Are rupture discs properly protected and piped to a safe location?
23. Are insulating flanges identified, and the micarta ring protected?
24. Is all waste (sandblast grit, paint, etc.) handled in compliance with
regulations?
V. Heavy Lifts by Stationary Cranes
A Heavy Lift is defined as a non-routine lift (drilling, workover,
construction, wireline, etc.) which is equal to or greater than 75% of
the rated capacity of the crane, at either a dynamic or static condition.
Rated capacities as per load chart.

1. Are all heavy lift crane operations conducted in accordance with

the JO Crane Program and the Lifting and Rigging SWP? (At a
minimum, this requires that a lift team be established, a pre-lift
meeting be conducted, and a written Heavy Lift JSA is prepared.)
2. Are all personnel working on the platform informed of the
anticipated lifts by the WTL? (During the heavy lift, all work in the
vicinity of the lift path should be stopped and all personnel not

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involved in the lift operation should be cleared from the area.)
3. Is it understood that heavy lifts not related to diving should not be
performed when diver is in the water?
4. Has the lift path been evaluated to determine the consequence of
a dropped load and dropped objects?
(If the protection is inadequate or does not exist, then all
producing wells and process equipment within the lift path area
should be shut in and bled down prior to making the lift.)
5. Are the crane and slings visually inspected prior to
the start of lifting operations?
6. Are the slings tagged with their rated lifting
capacity?
7. Has the crane had its heavy lift inspections?
8. Are the Crane Operator and riggers certified?
9. Is hot work shut down during major lifts?
10. Are crane records, sling certifications and
inspections records in proper order?

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