About

New Zealand is set to see an increase in exploration and production of oil and gas over the next decade, and with exploration comes the need to drill!

Marine Drilling for the Oil Industry is a brand new, 3-Day in depth executive overview for managers in the Oil/Petroleum exploration & extraction industry.   Attendees will gain an understanding of drilling activities, how floating production works, along with technical, and commercial implications of various approaches and equipment.

Key Learning Objectives:
•  Learn the different types and functions of drilling rigs
•  Understand how Drilling Rigs Operate
•  Learn how wells are drilled from platforms and Subsea
•  Get up to date with the latest Advances in deepwater Drilling
•  Understand Deepwater Floating Production Systems
•  Understand the Requirements of the full Deepwater Field Development
•  Apply Safety and Environmental Issues to practice

This course is a must attend for all in the sector who require an in depth knowledge about rigs, wells, drilling practises and environmental issues facing those in the exploration and production sectors of the industry.

Who Should Attend?
•  All managers working on offshore environments
•  Operations Managers
•  Recent graduates in the oil industry
•  Consultants to the Oil industry

Training Methodology:
This intensive three-day master class will combine tutorial sessions and case studies with interactive learning exercises. All attendees will be provided with a workbook and a certificate of completion.

Outline

DAY ONE

Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO OFFSHORE DRILLING RIGS AND MARINE DRILLING ACTIVITIES
•  Introduction and Background
•  General arrangement
•  Operational capability and drilling equipment facilities on typical fixed platforms
•  Jackups
•  Barges
•  Drillships and semi-submersibles
•  Operating and standby or survival condition for mobile platforms
•  Mooring procedure and station keeping for semisubmersible and drill ships
 
GLOBAL ENERGY REVIEW
•  World Oil Reserves and Production
•  World Gas Reserves and Production
•  What Oil Price?  
•  World Energy Consumption
•  The Important Future for Gas and LNG
•  Alternative Energy Approaches

Offshore Drilling Rigs

JACK-UP RIGS
•  Background
•  Jacking mechanism
•  Spud cans
•  Moveable cantilever
•  Drill derrick and several examples of jackup drilling rigs including general layout and storage capacity and rig regulations

SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE DRILLING RIGS
•  Background
•  Vessel details and semisubmersible examples
•  Layout for equipment and storages
•  Vessel motions and motion compensation devices
•  Rig regulations

DRILL SHIPS / DRILLING BARGES
•  Background
•  Vessel details and drill ship examples
•  Layout for equipment and storages
•  vessel motions and motion compensation devices
•  Rig regulations
•  Drillship barge examples

Drilling Rig Components & Operation

DRILLING RIG COMPONENTS
•  Drilling Power System
•  Hoisting Systems
•  Rotating Systems
•  Pipe handling system

DRILLSTRING DESIGN AND REQUIREMENTS
•  Drill pipes
•  Collars and stabilizers
•  Bottomhole assembly

DRILLING MUDS SYSTEMS
•  Background and Requirements
•  Mud Formulations
•  Circulation Equipment
•  Mud cleaning Equipment.

Q & As. + Close

DAY TWO

Drilling Offshore Wells

DRILLING REQUIREMENTS FOR PLATFORMS & PRODUCTION HOSTS (SPARS & TLPs)
•  General requirements
•  Drilling guides and templates
•  Well Control
•  Well completion

DRILLING A SUBSEA WELL
•  Sequence of drilling a Subsea Well.

Drill Vessel Operations

OFFSHORE DRILLING COMPONENTS
•  Drilling template
•  Temporary and permanent guide bases
•  Guide wire and guide line less systems
•  Subsea wellheads including subsea BOPs
•  Marine riser
•  LRP
•  Motion compensation and drilling control system

SURFACE & SUBSEA BOPs; HOOK-UP & TESTING OPERATIONS
•  Integral components and operating principles of different subsea BOP equipment and choke line manifolds
•  Hook up and testing of BOP equipment.

POSITION AND STATION KEEPING FOR FLOATING DRILLING RIGS rigs:

Part A  -  Mooring:
•  Mooring requirements
•  Mooring regulations for drilling vessels
•  Mooring system design
•  Setting and moving the mooring pattern

Part B  -  Dynamic positioning:
•  Background
•  Dynamic position concept
•  Basic feed back and control
•  Position measurement
•  Thrusters and dynamic position rig design.

WELLS AS PART OF A PRODUCING FIELD
•  Field Wells Layout
•  Geology Concerns
•  Heavy Oil Requirements
•  Dominating Weather Patterns
•  Well Intervention Requirements.

ADVANCED DRILLING RIGS

Drilling rigs with dual drilling activity:
•  Design of twin drilling derricks for semis and drillships
•  Working principles – Main and Auxiliary Rotatys
•  Operational capabilities in relation to drilling and equipment and casings
•  Stack up and operational advantages.

Automated Tubular Handling Systems
•  Tubular stacking and handling
•  Joint Make-up systems
•  Loading systems.

Examples of Drilling Activities

DRILLING EXAMPLE  -  DRILL THRU XMAS TREE
Dalia Field, Angola.  
•  Drill thur Xmas Trees
•  Drilling Process
•  Jetting the Conductor
•  Drilling the Surface hole
•  Running and Cementing the Casing
•  Running the Tree
•  Running the BOP
•  Completing the Well.

Q & A + Close

DAY THREE

DRILLING EXAMPLE  -  BATCH DRILLING WITH DUAL ACTIVITY RIG
Greater Plutonio Field, Angola.  
•  Details of Dual Activity Rig
•  Batch Setting Process
•  Complete sequence of drilling activities.

Safety and Environmental Issues

SUBSEA WELLS RELATED SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
•  Requirements for subsea drilling
•  Typical subsea drilling and casing programme
•  Problems associated with rig movements
•  Safety requirements and review of past incidents involving loss of life

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RELATED TO OFFSHORE DRILLING
•  Environmental requirements offshore drilling
•  Environmental impact assessments
•  Use and discharge of drilling muds and fluids and cleaning and disposal of drill cuttings
 
REVIEW & DISCUSSIONS OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON INCIDENT IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
•  Background
•  The Blowout
•  The Sinking of the Rig
•  The Oil Leak and BP's various attemps to stop the leak
•  The Oil Spill and Cleanup
•  The Implications for future Deepwater Activities

New Drilling Vessels Concepts

NEW MARINE DRILLING VESSEL CONCEPTS
•  6th Generation Rigs
•  Sevan Cylindrical Drilling Vessel
•  Huisman Itrec Drilling Tower.

Drilling Contracts and Costs

PREPARATION OF CONTRACTS (DRILLING RIGS), NEGOTIATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
•  Classification, analysis and evaluation of drilling contracts
•  Detailed development of the drilling job
•  Selecting drilling rig equipment capability
•  Development of the contract and the presentation and adjustment of each party's own position
•  Management system of supervising and implementation of drilling contracts
•  Dispute case resolution by international law
•  Drill Rig Costs – Capital Cost Examples and Rental Rates

Facilitator

In-house Training