Advance Course in Maintenance in offshore industries

 

Who should attend?

Mechanical, chemical Engineers, Supervisors and technicians. Control and operational technician’s maintenance. Maintenance and safety technicians.

Objective


To implement the modern preventive maintenance to keep all the machinery in offshore at good running condition.
To introduce advance techniques to produce quantified risk assessment (QRA)
Hazard modelling and course analysis
Emergency shut down and escape.


Organisation Responsibility

To Design Syllabus for the course, to meet all the requirements described.
To prepare a manual [hard & soft copy]
To Nominate an Instructor who has the expertise & high qualifications in the field.
To apply sophisticated training techniques to enable the participants to develop the required skill.
To schedule the period of the course & the daily time table
To Determine the venue & the date of the course [In-house courses will be negotiable

  

1. Oil and gas production facilities

1.1 Introduction to offshore industries.

1.2 Conventional offshore production.

1.3 Sub sea production systems.

2. Dynamics of Floating structures

2.1 Introduction to floating structures.

2.2 Design and selection.

2.3 Data on existing offshore semi-submersibles.

2.4 Stability and payload.

2.5 Structural Geometry and layout.

2.6 Operational aspects.

2.7 Motion response

2.8 Variation in motion response at constant displacement.

3. Floating production systems

3.1 Argyll field.

3.2 Argyll operating parameters.

3.3 Buchan operating parameters.

3.4 Secondary recovery.

3.5 Original development plan.

3.6 New designs of floating facilities.

3.7 Tanker based production.

3.8 Risk analysis of a floating production facility.

4. Offshore loading and storage facilities

4.1 Introduction and considerations.

4.2 Catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM).

4.3 New designs proposed.

4.4 Tanker based storage.

4.5 Sub sea storage (seabed supported).

4.6 Special purpose floating systems.

 

 

 

5. Submerged production systems

5.1 Requirements/ design criteria.

5.2 Installation methods: Buoyancy, positioning, downhaul.

5.3 Operations.

5.4 Maintenance of sub sea systems.

5.5 Evolution of maintenance.

5.6 Wet versus dry systems- Economic comparison.

6. Selecting and training the offshore workforce

6.1 Selecting the right staff.

6.2 Criteria and measurement tools.

6.3 Improving selection and training procedures.

6.4 Medical status of oil and gas worker.

7. Industrial relations on offshore installations

7.1 Introduction to industrial relations.

7.2 The structure of industrial relations offshore.

7.3 Accident prevention.

7.4 Offshore support operations.

7.5 Crew resource management.

8. Quantified Risk Assessment (QRA)

8.1 Introduction to QRA.

8.2 History of offshore QRA.

8.3 QRA in relation to other analysis methods.

8.4 Objectives and limitations.

8.5 Relevant regulations and standards.

9. Hazard modeling and cause analysis

9.1 Blowout hazard study.

9.2 process hazard study.

9.3 Riser/ pipeline hazard.

9.4 Fire load and smoke assessment.

9.5 Explosion load assessment.

9.6 Collision hazard.

9.7 Dropped object hazard.

9.8 Structural failure study.

 

 

10. Emergency shutdown and escape

10.1 Emergency shutdown systems.

10.2 Evacuation, escape and rescue.

10.3 The assessment of evacuation and escape.

10.4 Offshore safety and their criteria.