Deep and Ultra Deepwater Petroleum Development

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Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations

Course Description

This course will enable participants to have a better understanding, awareness, and comprehension of upstream deepwater petroleum activities, including how commercial hydrocarbons are licensed, assessed, explored, appraised, drilled, completed, and the technologies currently being applied. Attendees will gain knowledge that can be used to add value and sustain growth in deepwater petroleum and energy related business ventures.

Each section is covered briefly as a module with the real learning experience found within the presenter discussions, based on global offshore, subsea and deepwater operating knowledge and experiences. Drilling, completion and field development best practice examples will be discussed.

Learning Level

Introductory - Intermediate

Course Length

1 Day

Why Attend

Attendees will be instructed using interactive formats, numerous deepwater case studies based on the instructor's global knowledge and industry accepted operating and best practice experiences. The following has been identified as the program objectives.

Upon completion of this training course, participants will:

• Gain a better understanding how deepwater upstream operations are conducted and implemented, and the problems, risks, and technology challenges faced.
• Review the technical challenges of today’s deepwater projects.
• Understand project drivers of “Quality, Time, Costs and ‘HSE’ safety issues.”
• How deepwater wells are managed, controlled, and translated into measurable, sustained growth and added business value.
• Understand aspects of upstream deepwater operations from license acquisition to how best prospects are selected, explored, drilled, appraised and developed through to production delivery.
• Gain a better understanding of upstream deepwater processes, techniques and application to better manage project problems, financial, operational and/or investment risks that exist.
• Review and understand aspects of deepwater regulatory safety and environmental standards and instructions to assure that compliant results are delivered in today’s changing socio-economic climate.

Who Attends

This course is designed for drilling engineers, geologists and G&G personnel, managers and support functions from operator companies, as well as engineers and managers from service providers that are, or are about to be, involved in deepwater drilling operations.

CEUs

Engineers are responsible for enhancing their professional competence throughout their careers. Licensed, chartered, and/or certified engineers are sometimes required by government entities to provide proof of continued professional development and training. Training credits are defined as Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or Professional Development Hours (PDH).

Attendees of SPE training courses earn 0.8 CEUs for each day of training. We provide each attendee a certificate upon completion of the training course.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.

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SPE reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule courses at will. Notification of changes will be made as quickly as possible; please keep this in mind when arranging travel, as SPE is not responsible for any fees charged for cancelling or changing travel arrangements.

We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.

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