Offshore and Deep Water Drilling
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Offshore and Deep Water Drilling Course
Introduction:
This five-day training offers a thorough, practical session covering the principles of offshore drilling. The brand-new 5 Day MBA in Offshore Drilling is intended for individuals who are new to offshore drilling and want a thorough understanding of how everything actually operates. You will learn about offshore drilling operations, technology, and expenses in this practical training course. It will also cover topics like environmental concerns and health and safety.
Course Objectives:
Participants will learn how to:
- Get to grips with the fundamentals of offshore drilling and find out how it differs from land drilling
- Learn all you need to know about the drilling rig, basic well design, drilling bits, routine drilling operations, and much more
- Find out how to carry out a drilling cost analysis
- Discover how to estimate drilling costs, calculate the daily rig rate, and account for variable costs
- Consider the reasons for directional drilling, as well as looking at the tools and measurements involved
- Find out how to select and evaluate a drilling bit, as well as optimizing your drilling hydraulics
- Learn all about the role of weather conditions, supply vessels and seaport facilities
- Explore health, safety, and security in the offshore drilling environment
Who Should Attend?
The following oil & gas company personnel will benefit from the knowledge shared in this course.
- Drilling engineers
- Drilling superintendents and foremen
- Reservoir Engineers
- Petrophysists
- Geoscientists
- Economists and planners
- Facilities planning engineers
- Accountants
- Mid-level management
Course Outlines:
Big Picture of the Oil & Gas Industry
- Meaning of petroleum
- Typical oil and gas company objectives
- Industry streams
- World reserves and production
- Peak oil
- Production management
- Quotas and capacities (OPEC/Non-OPEC)
- Market distribution and dynamics
- Role of IOCs, NOCs and regulatory bodies
- Glossary of terms
Fundamentals of Drilling
- The drilling rig: types and components
- The drilling team
- Drilling fluids (mud) and circulating system
- Basic well design
- Drilling bits
- Directional and horizontal drilling
- Routine drilling operations
- Well monitoring
- Well control
- Wellbore problems and preventions
- Special drilling operations (coring, fishing, etc.)
Case Studies: Mud weight window, rig horse-power and drilling depth
Offshore Drilling
- Differences between land and offshore
- Water depth and rig types (deep water MODUs – Mobile Offshore Drilling Units)
- Sea bed preparation
- Fixed platform
- Floating drilling and station keeping
- Motion compensation
- Conductor casing (jetting/riserless drilling)
- Subsea BOP stack
- Marine/production riser for various deep water applications
- Slip joint
- Rotating head
- ROVs
Drilling Cost Analysis
- Drilling cost estimation
- Authorization for Expenditure (AFE)
- Daily rig rate
- Fixed operating costs
- Variable costs
- Drilling contingencies
- Non-productive time
- Drilling performance and optimization
Case Studies: Cost per foot, bit performance
Directional/Horizontal Drilling
- Reasons for directional drilling
- Definitions
- Directional tools
- Well trajectories
- Directional drilling measurements
- Hole cleaning
- Extended reach wells (case study)
Drilling Bits
- Types of bits
- Rock failure mechanisms
- Bit selection and evaluation
- Factors affecting rate of penetration
Drilling Hydraulics