Juru Bor (Driller) study plan

Map the key occupational safety, health and environmental duties that apply to a driller on a land or offshore rig, and state which regulator or standard each duty comes from.

Explain how a permit-to-work system, a job safety analysis and a pre-tour safety meeting fit together before a high-risk task starts.

Describe the driller's specific role in well control: who detects a kick, who calls it, and who operates the blowout preventer.

List the primary and secondary well control barriers on a rig and give one failure example for each barrier type.

Identify the personal protective equipment required on the drill floor and the situations where additional respiratory or gas-detection protection is needed.

Explain the causes of a kick, including swabbing, lost circulation, underbalanced mud weight and poor hole fill on trips.

Interpret the standard kick indicators: flow with pumps off, pit volume gain, pump pressure and stroke changes, gas or chloride changes, and drilling break.

Describe the correct immediate actions on detecting a kick, including stopping operations, sounding the alarm and recording shut-in pressures.

Compare hard shut-in and soft shut-in procedures and state when each is used.

Calculate slow circulating rate pressure and identify the inputs needed before a kill operation.

Identify the main components of a rotary drilling rig: prime mover, drawworks, rotary table or top drive, mud pumps, derrick and substructure.

Describe the inspection and maintenance points a driller checks on the drawworks, travelling block, hook and drilling line before and during a tour.

Explain how weight on bit, rotary speed, pump rate and torque interact, and what each parameter change signals about hole conditions.

Describe drilling break, torque and drag trends, and how to respond to each without compromising well control.

Explain slip-and-cut practices and drilling line service records for the deadline and ton-mile calculations.

Walk through a full shut-in sequence from alarm to stabilized pressures, naming the driller's actions at each step.

Explain the difference between shut-in drill pipe pressure and shut-in casing pressure and what each tells you about the kick.

Describe blowout preventer stack components, including annular, pipe rams, blind rams and shear rams, and the function of each.

Explain BOP testing frequency, low-pressure and high-pressure test sequences, and the driller's role in the test.

Describe the function of the choke manifold, accumulator and remote BOP controls during a well control event.

Describe the functions of drilling fluid: hole cleaning, pressure control, bit cooling, lubrication and wellbore support.

Explain mud weight, equivalent circulating density, and how annular pressure changes with pump rate and cuttings load.

Identify the causes and warning signs of lost circulation and describe the first response steps.

Explain wellbore instability indicators such as cavings, tight hole and stuck pipe, and how they differ from a kick.

Describe the correct procedure for making a trip, including hole fill, flow checks and trip sheets.

Explain the rigging principles for slings, shackles and lifting points, including safe working load, load angle and inspection rejection criteria.

Describe safe manual handling techniques and how to plan a lift or carry to avoid back and hand injuries on a rig floor.

Describe the correct response to a rig fire, including alarm levels, muster, isolation and the use of the correct extinguisher class.

Explain the actions for a man-down or medical emergency, including first aid priorities, casualty movement and medevac request content.

Describe the response to a well control emergency such as a gas release or blowout, including muster and emergency shutdown.

Explain the driller's communication duties during a shift handover, including what must be passed on about well status and equipment.

Describe the standard alarm and communication protocol between driller, derrickman, mud logger and toolpusher during a well control event.

Identify the records a driller is responsible for, including tour reports, BOP test records, drill pipe tally and safety meeting attendance.

Explain how to write a clear incident or near-miss report that supports investigation and follow-up.

Describe the environmental controls for mud, cuttings and waste handling and the driller's role in preventing spills.

Review all eight domains and rank your weakest three by self-test score.

Re-derive the key well control formulas from memory, including kill mud weight and initial and final circulating pressures.

Rehearse the shut-in sequence and kick indicators until you can state them without notes.

Complete a full-length timed practice set and review every wrong answer to its root cause.

Write a final one-page personal cheat sheet of the twenty facts you are most likely to forget under exam pressure.