De-Risking Intervention Operations by "Understanding the Impact of Environmental Forces on an Operation"

Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction

Course Description

This course provides an overview of use/application of TR14 for intervention operations, and basic understanding of fatigue terminology and applications for intervention operations.

Course Objectives:

Understand the use of TR14 and fatigue screening using TR8
Understand the interaction for TR14 with other API documents (API-STD-17G, API-RP-17G1, API-RP-16Q and API-RP-2RD)
Address key considerations for subsea intervention - with respect to:
- Capacities and Load cases
- Global riser analysis
- How GRA outputs feed Well Specific Operating Guidelines
- Importance of fatigue assessment and fatigue screening

Agenda:

TR14 overview
Key considerations with relation to SS intervention:
- Common industry questions and
- Misconceptions
Build a Client level understanding of Riser Analysis process
Load cases and load classifications
How the Analysis outputs are used to develop Well Specific Operating Guidelines
- Exercise – Develop operating envelopes and watch circles.
Build a basic understanding of fatigue terminology using API TR8 & HPHT- Orientations and relevance to intervention operations.
- Exercise – Fatigue screening
How fatigue screening can be used for intervention operations
- Exercise – Fatigue screening

Learning Level

Intermediate

Course Length

7 hours

Why Attend

Broaden your understanding of impact of environmental loads on well interventions.

Who Attends

Engineers who are users of subsea well intervention equipment during the design and operation, facilities, drilling and completions engineers who enable hardware integration, and production engineers responsible for choosing appropriate operations to solve a subsea well issue.

CEUs

0.7 CEUs are awarded for this 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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We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.

Instructors

None

Brian Skeels is a Senior Technical Advisor and Technology Fellow with TechnipFMC. He has 43 years of experience in subsea completion hardware design, installation, intervention, and pipeline design. This experience includes:

5 years with Exxon Production Research Company working on Exxon’s famous SPS and UMC subsea systems.
38 years with TechnipFMC. As a TechnipFMC Senior Technical Advisor, he serves as a technical advocate for new technologies and strategic planning specialist for frontier technologies, HPHT, and remote well intervention, including efforts delving into subsea systems engineering and field architecture, riser and riser-less well intervention, ROV interfaces, remote robotics technology, hydrate remediation, and well plug and abandonment programs.
38 years of involvement in API’s Upstream Standards. Brian currently serves on API Subcommittee 17 executive committee. He served as a task group chair for 17G on subsea intervention systems and 17D on subsea tree and wellhead equipment, and 17TR8 for HPHT equipment design.
Serving on several Industry and professional society conference program boards.

Brian’s registrations and honors include:

Professional Engineer – State of Texas
Adjunct Professor – Subsea Engineering at University of Houston
ASME Fellow, TechnipFMC Technology Fellow
ASME Titanium Crawfish Award – for technology excellence in the oil industry
SPE Gulf Coast Section Projects, Facilities and Construction Award
OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for Individuals
ASME Gecoa Oil Drop Award – for distinguished and meritorious achievement and service in the field of petroleum mechanical engineering

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Ray Stawaisz brings over 40 years of drilling, completion and well intervention experience to the course. He is the current chairman of API 17G1 and supports various other API and task groups.

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