Who

should

attend

• Drilling Supervisors.
• Drilling Engineers.
• Drilling Managers.
• Toolpushers.
• Maintenance Supervisors.
• (Assistant) Drillers.
• (Assistant) Mechanics.
• Rig Managers.
• Drillers.
• (Assistants) Subsea Engineers (WCEC for Floating Rigs).
• Government inspectors who undertake regulatory checks on drilling rigs.

• Senior and Junior Subsea Engineers.
• Assistant/Trainee Subsea Engineers.

• (Assistant) Subsea Engineers who have successfully completed ModuSpec's SSEP, have ample field experience, want to enhance their knowledge and advance within the subsea discipline.

Timing &

structure

5-day course

A training period spread over 12 months that consists of:

• Four 5-day classroom modules.
• Practical assignments to be completed on the job between the modules.

A training period spread over 6-months that consists of:

• Two 5-day classroom modules.
• One practical assignment, to be completed between the modules.

Aims &

Course content

• Main well control equipment.
• Basic subsea mathematics (WCEC for Floaters).
• Conventional hydraulic and modern multiplex control systems.
• Calculating accumulator volumes, riser space-outs, poorboy degasser calculations.
• Testing BOP and choke and kill manifolds.
• Standards in the drilling industry (API, ASME, etc).
• Recognising recurring problems with auxiliary and well control equipment.
• Safe working procedures
• Symptoms indicating malfunctioning of well control equipment.

• Planning main operations including routine inspections and maintenance of various kinds of equipment among others: the conventional hydraulic and multiplex control systems, riser tensioner systems, direct acting tensioner systems, drill string or crown-mounted compensator systems.
• Greater understanding of the applicable systems and ability to troubleshoot defect (BOP-related) equipment.
• Hydraulic connectors.
• Calculations of: accumulator systems, riser tensioner, compressibility for pressure testing, choke and kill manifolds, poorboy degasser.
• BOP pressure testing and design.
• Deep-water operations and equipment.
• Subsea mathematics.

• Main components of subsea equipment.
• Hydraulic control systems, both standard and multiplex.
• Hydraulic connectors.
• Wellhead equipment.
• Riser tensioner systems.
• Subsea mathematics.
• Planning and carrying out repairs and maintenance of equipment (rams, ram bonnets, the annular element, hydraulic seals, choke and kill valves, gate valves, choke and kill manifold.
• Slip joint packers, etc.).
• Designing or altering BOP testing.
• Programmes.
• Riser running programmes for deep water.
• Basics of metallurgy and corrosion of the subsea and surface equipment.