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Offshore Drilling Operations - ODO

Discipline: Well Construction/Drilling
Level: Foundation
Instructors who teach this course:


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This course is designed to familiarize personnel with unique aspects of offshore operations, structures, and vessels, and how drilling rigs interact with them over the life of an asset. All styles of rigs are analyzed, including bottom-supported and floating, mobile and fixed. Advantages and disadvantages of specific rig applications are considered when clarifying selection criteria, especially HSE performance, technical capabilities, and full-cycle efficiency.

"This course starts from basic drilling and covers all process used to do drilling on both offshore and onshore with all drilling companies' usage and preference in the industry. " - Participant, India
Operator staff including engineering, geoscience, operations supervision and technical support, and HSE, drilling contractor rig crew and technical support personnel, and service company and logistics support personnel.
How To:
  • Identify differences between onshore and offshore operations
  • Clarify HSE and other risks associated with offshore operations (helicopter operations, boat operations, crane and deck operations, simultaneous operations, emergency response)
  • Identify offshore structures commonly used in the oil and gas industry and their typical applications (bottom-supported or floating, fixed or mobile, moored or dynamically positioned, single use and multi-use structures)
  • Identify various styles and designs of marine risers, subsea and surface BOPs, wellheads and trees
  • Determine differences between various rig types and how they interact with offshore structures over the life of an asset (platform rigs, barge rig, jackup rig, semi-submersible, drillship)
  • Identify operational effectiveness differences between various configurations of rig equipment, especially multiple activity centers
  • Specify rig selection criteria
  • Clarify logistical drivers for drilling and completion operations
  • Surface and subsurface characteristics unique to the offshore environment
  • HSE considerations for offshore and how it impacts planning, operations, and logistics.
  • Design options for offshore and onshore installations (platforms-both bottom-supported and floating; FPSOs, risers, and pipelines; wellheads and trees; shorebase; how these choices impact rig selection and project economics
  • Drilling rig styles (design capabilities, advantages and disadvantages, rig selection criteria, multiple activity centers to compress the critical path, rig strategy-how rig requirements change over the life of an asset)
  • Well construction sequences (surface and subsea wellheads, casing and cementing program strategies, drilling fluids selection, wellbore stability-narrow MW window, ECD management, lost circulation, NPT avoidance-well control, hole cleaning)
  • Transition to Completion / Intervention (barrier maintenance, job sequencing-batch mode or serial mode, intervention options)
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Offshore Drilling Operations - ODO
Discipline: Well Construction/Drilling
Level: Foundation
Duration: 3 days
Instructor(s): James Bobo, Aaron Klein, Marc Summers
This course is designed to familiarize personnel with unique aspects of offshore operations, structures, and vessels, and how drilling rigs interact with them over the life of an asset. All styles of rigs are analyzed, including bottom-supported and floating, mobile and fixed. Advantages and disadvantages of specific rig applications are considered when clarifying selection criteria, especially HSE performance, technical capabilities, and full-cycle efficiency.

"This course starts from basic drilling and covers all process used to do drilling on both offshore and onshore with all drilling companies' usage and preference in the industry. " - Participant, India
Designed For:
Operator staff including engineering, geoscience, operations supervision and technical support, and HSE, drilling contractor rig crew and technical support personnel, and service company and logistics support personnel.
You Will Learn:
How To:
  • Identify differences between onshore and offshore operations
  • Clarify HSE and other risks associated with offshore operations (helicopter operations, boat operations, crane and deck operations, simultaneous operations, emergency response)
  • Identify offshore structures commonly used in the oil and gas industry and their typical applications (bottom-supported or floating, fixed or mobile, moored or dynamically positioned, single use and multi-use structures)
  • Identify various styles and designs of marine risers, subsea and surface BOPs, wellheads and trees
  • Determine differences between various rig types and how they interact with offshore structures over the life of an asset (platform rigs, barge rig, jackup rig, semi-submersible, drillship)
  • Identify operational effectiveness differences between various configurations of rig equipment, especially multiple activity centers
  • Specify rig selection criteria
  • Clarify logistical drivers for drilling and completion operations
Course Content:
  • Surface and subsurface characteristics unique to the offshore environment
  • HSE considerations for offshore and how it impacts planning, operations, and logistics.
  • Design options for offshore and onshore installations (platforms-both bottom-supported and floating; FPSOs, risers, and pipelines; wellheads and trees; shorebase; how these choices impact rig selection and project economics
  • Drilling rig styles (design capabilities, advantages and disadvantages, rig selection criteria, multiple activity centers to compress the critical path, rig strategy-how rig requirements change over the life of an asset)
  • Well construction sequences (surface and subsea wellheads, casing and cementing program strategies, drilling fluids selection, wellbore stability-narrow MW window, ECD management, lost circulation, NPT avoidance-well control, hole cleaning)
  • Transition to Completion / Intervention (barrier maintenance, job sequencing-batch mode or serial mode, intervention options)
Instructors:

MR. JAMES E. BOBO retired from ConocoPhillips as a Principle Drilling Engineer. Mr. Bobo has served in various management and project leadership roles in drilling, production, gas processing, and gas gathering and information systems throughout the basins in the lower 48 states. In addition, he has served in key facilitator roles for well control operations in Papua New Guinea, Nova Scotia and high-pressure/high-temperature operations throughout the lower 48 states. Bobo is actively involved in society-level efforts related to continuing education, licensure, and professional development, along with the technical advisory boards for several universities. He earned his BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa.

MR. AARON L. KLEIN is based in Houston, Texas, and is the Vice President of Operations at PetrEX International, Inc. His training credentials with PetrEX include Leadership and Performance Skills Workshops, RigSMARTS Rig Crew Competency Training, Well Planning and Design, Train Wreck Avoidance, and more. Before joining PetrEX International, Inc. in 2005, he worked as a Drilling Foreman and Drilling Engineer for several major operators. Mr. Klein holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

MR. MARCUS A. (MARC) SUMMERS has over 30 years of oilfield experience and over 15 years of hands on training experience. He founded and ran PetrEX International, Inc., and is currently Discipline Manager of Well Construction/Drilling and a Sr. Instructor with PetroSkills. In 1980, he began working as a drilling engineer for Amoco for fifteen years in various locations around the world. His background includes operations, technical support, and drilling research functions. Since 1986 he has written a number of papers presented at SPE/IADC conferences and several articles published in Petroleum Engineer International, American Oil and Gas Reporter, etc. He received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma.


In-House Course Presentations
All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com

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