About
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.
Target Audience
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
Participants 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