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Deepwater Operations II
3.5 CEUs
Prerequisite: Basic understanding of deepwater either from job exposure or attendance in the Fundamentals of Deepwater course.
Intermediate-level school covering selected drilling engineering and operations areas as applied to the floating deepwater environment. Presented in a workshop format involving class participation in calculations designed to demonstrate drilling concepts, explore problem areas and promote discussion. Covers the topic from a generalist’s perspective with the goal of providing the student with the tools and knowledge needed to interact with subject-matter experts on a wide range of common deepwater themes. Includes handouts. Lunch provided. Participants receive handouts.
Length: 4.5 days
Course Content
Participants receive instruction in:
• Deepwater geology
• Overburden, fracture strength, and pore pressure workshop
• Kick tolerance, wellbore stability, and fracture strength
• Earth modeling and drilling windows
• Casing design considerations
• Conductor and structural pipe design workshop, and conductor jetting workshop
• Deepwater cementing design considerations
• Barrier design placement and assessment workshop
• Pump and dump technical and operational design workshop
• Subsea wellheads and configuration
• Metocean, winds, waves, and currents
• Rig stability workshop
• Permanent and anchored mooring systems design and placement
• Understanding mooring system designs and programs
• Dynamic positioning and operational zones
• Shallow hazards and the shallow hazard survey
• Rig selection, topside equipment, and ROV operations
• BOP control systems, secondary controls, and the dead man system
• Risers, flotation, slip joints, and tensioners
• Riser design requirements and interpretation
• Buoyancy design and tensioner capacity workshop
• Diverters and riser degassers; evaluating degasser and diverter designs
• Managing shallow water flows
• Formation, inhibition, and treating gas hydrates
• Mud system design considerations for deepwater
Recommended For
Technical and operational personnel requiring a more detailed understanding of key areas that impact deepwater exploration and development drilling operations. Valuable for professionals actively engaged in deepwater projects and those who otherwise seek to understand the many technical factors affecting deepwater drilling operations. Participants should be familiar with the language of drilling and comfortable with technical analysis of the natural and mechanical forces affecting drilling operations.
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Cost: $3,500
