Introduction
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This introductory course outlines the delivery of complex Deepwater drilling projects. It further explores why project management and a multidisciplinary approach is essential to a project’s success.
Course Objectives
The course enables participants to develop the knowledge and skills to design, engineer and apply a practical approach to Deepwater projects’ drilling operations.
Who Should Attend?
Persons engaged in deep-water or complex well’s drilling projects; e.g., in well design, engineering, operational or organizational functions such as admin, technical, finance, QHSE, logistics, services, support, drilling, geology, geo-science, petroleum, reservoir, completions, workover, and production.
Course Outlines
Deepwater Fundamentals, Essentials
DW Essentials and Differences
- Definitions, environments
• Delivering Deepwater projects
• Well design, engineering and operations
DW Project Standards, Rules, Regulations
- Deepwater trends and drivers
• Project management essentials
• Control and metric principles
DW Rigs, Equipment, Systems
- Rigs, equipment challenges and selection
• Pipe handling systems, station keeping
• Riser compensation, tensioning systems
• Subsea BOP and auxiliary equipment
• Marine systems, supply and logistics chain
DW Geology and Geoscience
- Deepwater geoscience environments
• Deepwater geoscience hazards
• Pressure, stability, wellbore management
Deepwater Well Construction, Management
Deepwater Casing, Tubular Design, Well Integrity
- Deepwater casing design
• Annular pressure build up and wellhead growth
with worked examples
• Well integrity failure prevention and mitigation
case studies
Deepwater Pressure and Stability Management
- Pressure prediction and detection
• Pressure management in deepwater
• Wellbore stability management
Deepwater Drilling & Cementing
- Deepwater drilling fluids
– Water based, oil based
– Challenges
– Solutions and application
• Deepwater cementing:
– Challenges
– Cementing technologies
– Solutions and application
Deepwater Situational Problems Hazards, Risks
- Labelling deepwater drilling problems
• Problem solving, risk management and decision
making with case studies and examples
• Contingency and response management
DW Design, SSBOP, Riser and Subsea Equipment
Deepwater Structural String Design
- Structural string design
• Wellhead and structural string guidelines
• Worked examples and case studies
Deepwater Riserless Drilling
- Riserless convention and non-convention
• Shallow hazard prediction and mitigation
• Deepwater riserless drilling, with worked examples
and case studies
DW Subsea Capital Equipment
- Diverters and marine risers
• Riser and associated components
• BOP and wellhead integrated design
DW Conductor, Wellhead, SSBOP/Riser Design
- Drilling riser and wellhead equipment
• Riser behavior, operating criteria
• Riser analysis, case study examples
DW Well Integrity, Control, Assurance
Well Control ‘Level 1’ Assurance Management
- Primary ‘level 1 deepwater well control
• Standard operating procedures.
• Best practices, competency training
Deepwater Secondary ‘Level 2’ Well Control
- ‘Level 2’ deepwater well control
• Non-standard operating procedures
• Best practices, competency training
Deepwater ‘Level 3’ Well Control
- Learning from DW well control failures
• Macondo investigative media file
• ‘Level 3’ emergency contingency response
Deepwater Well Control Group Exercise
- Deepwater level 1, 2 & 3 case studies, individual and
work group exercises
Deepwater Technology, Well Abandonment
Deepwater Adaptive Technologies
- What technologies are for DW?
• Review of adaptive DW technologies
• Technology applications.
• What’s the future for deepwater?
Deepwater Well Abandonment
- Well integrity assurance in suspension and
abandonment
• Suspending deep-water wells
• Temporary abandonment
• Permanent abandonment
• Case study examples