Offshore and Deepwater Drilling Operations: Mexico City

Course overview

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. The course enables participants to develop the knowledge and skills to design, engineer and apply a practical approach to a deepwater project's drilling operations success.

A practical and participative course that shall enable a multidisciplinary project team to develop the skills
and knowledge to design, engineer and safely drill a deepwater well.

The course is designed for

A practical and participative course that shall enable a multidisciplinary project team to develop the skills
and knowledge to design, engineer and safely drill a deepwater well.

Course objectives

• Deliver the awareness required for a multidisciplinary team's skills-set to be developed to enable the practical design, engineering and safe drilling operation of a deepwater well.
• Develop the knowledge required to recognize and analyze the difficulties, challenges and opportunities that exist in deepwater drilling, design, execution and how to mitigate operations risks to as low as reasonably practicable
• Equip participants with the required tools to evaluate, organize, plan, implement and control a deepwater well's drilling operating process from the project start to its end
• Know the drilling differences between normal offshore and deepwater wells
• Develop a wider skill to deliver a deepwater well's safe drilling and operational requirements
• Enabled to label and identify key project hazards and risks presented within deepwater drilling, and have the knowledge to practice, control and mitigate the operating conditions and contingencies required
• Develop the knowledge to adapt the technologies best suited for deepwater drilling operations

Course outline

Deepwater Fundamentals, Essentials
DW Essentials and differences

• Definitions, environments
• Delivering deepwater projects
• Well design, engineering and operations
• Media files 'Deepwater drilling'

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
• Media files supplement in this session

DW Geology and geoscience

• Deepwater geoscience environments
• Deepwater geoscience hazards
• Pressure, stability, wellbore 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
• Media files supplement in this session

DW Subsea Capital Equipment

• Diverters and marine risers
• Riser and associated components
• BOP and wellhead integrated design
• Media files supplement in this session

DW Conductor, Wellhead, SSBOP/Riser design

• Drilling riser and wellhead equipment
• Riser behavior, Operating criteria
• Riser analysis, Case study examples
  

Deepwater Well Construction, Management
Deepwater casing, tubular design. well integrity

• Deepwater casing design
• Annular pressure build up and wellhead growth
• 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
• Media files supplement in this session

Deepwater Drilling & Cementing

• Deepwater drilling fluids
  • Water based, oil based
  • Challenges
  • Solutions and application
• Deepwater cementing
  • Challenges
  • Cementing technologies
  • Solutions and application
  • Media files supplement in this session

Deepwater Situational Problems Hazards, Risks

• Labelling deepwater drilling problems
• Problem solving, risk management and decision making. Case studies, examples
• Contingency and response management
  

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

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