DeepWater Drilling & Completion - IFP Training Certificate

Course Content

• HSE & MAINTENANCE - Duration : 5 Days

  • Bridging document and drilling contractor safety management system.
  • Rig P&ID’s, hazardous area plans, station bills, fire/lifesaving plan, class/flag status reports…
  • Rig critical equipment that have an impact on the safety, rig operation and the environment.
  • Update of maintenance system history and stock level of critical spare parts.
  • Standards used in the drilling industry (e.g. API) and their implications for drilling equipment (i.e. annual 3^rd party inspections and audits…).
  • Rig acceptance documentation and Well Control Equipment Certification (i.e. CoC’s).

• MARINE - Duration : 5 Days

  • Deepwater Metocean environments.
  • Type of MODU’s rigs (moored vs dynamically positioned rigs).
  • Nautical basics.
  • Navigation and station keeping.
  • Stability and ballast control.

• DEEPWATER DRILLING - Duration : 15 Days

  • Deepwater geology and geoscience.
  • Deepwater pressure management.
  • Key and essential differences of deepwater.
  • Deepwater well planning and design.
  • Operating: key aspects of deepwater planning and project implementation.
  • Technology application:
  • Compensation and tension systems in deepwater.
  • Drilling riser string, subsea bop stack, associated operating equipment and specific optional equipment (i.e. riser gas handler, bop pressure intensifiers).
  • Subsea wellheads.
  • Subsea cementing jobs.
  • Hydrates.
  • Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) and Dual Gradient Drilling (DGD).
  • HPHT.
  • Operating limitations including positioning alerts (i.e. green, green advisory, yellow and red), emergency disconnections, "wait on weather" situations and simultaneous operations (SIMOPS).

• SUBSEA WELL CONTROL IN DEEPWATER ENVIRONMENT - Duration : 5 Days

  • Pressure analysis and kick control.
  • Subsea well control.
  • Particular cases: incidents during circulation, shallow gas, volumetric method, maasp, deviated well, kick during running of casing or during cement jobs, unshearable periods.
  • Subsea well control equipment: diverter, riser string, LMRP & BOP stack, BOP HPU, MGS, choke manifold and associated lines.

• DRILLING SIMULATOR EXERCISES - Duration : 5 Days

  • Deepwater case.
  • Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD).

• OFFSHORE WELL COMPLETION - Duration : 5 Days

  • Functions to be carried out and corresponding equipment:
  • Production string(s) configurations (conventional or tubing less, single or multi-zones).
  • Subsea completion and workover risers.
  • Subsea BOP.
  • Production wellhead: tubing head spool and Christmas tree (components, design).
  • Subsea X-mass trees.
  • Subsurface safety valve (subsurface controlled, surface controlled).
  • Tubing and connections (main characteristics, criteria of choice).
  • Packers and accessories (drillable or permanent, retrievable).
  • Bottom-hole devices (landing nipples, circulating devices…).
  • Tubing string design (fundamentals of tubing movement and forces):
  • Point to be verified.
  • Packer permitting free motion (tubing movement, tension on the tubing hanger).
  • Packer permitting no motion (packer to tubing force, tension on the tubing hanger).
  • Subsea completion present trends.

• DEEPWATER PROJECT - Duration : 10 Days

  • HSE and waste management.
  • Deepwater well architecture and its associated barriers related to geological hazards.
  • Well profile, anti-collision study and casing design.
  • Chronology of operations, BOP and well control procedures, drilling sequence review.
  • Fluids and cementing design.
  • Bit program, BHA strategy, surveying program and logging.
  • Drilling equipment specifications for deepwater vessel selection and “fitness for purpose”.
  • Well testing and completion.
  • Well intervention and stimulation.
  • Well suspension and abandonment.
  • Authorization For Expenditure (AFE) guidelines for time and budget estimations.
  • Presentation to a jury.