Day 1

Deepwater Fundamentals, Essentials

DW Essentials and Differences

• Definitions, environments
• Delivering deepwater projects
• Well design, engineering and operations

DW Project Standards, Rules, Regulations

• Deepwater trends and drivers
• Project management essentials
• Control and metric principles

DW Rigs, Equipment, Systems

• Rigs, equipment challenges and selection
• Pipe handling systems, station keeping
• Riser compensation, tensioning systems
• Subsea BOP and auxiliary equipment
• Marine systems, supply and logistics chain

DW Geology and Geoscience

• Deepwater geoscience environments
• Deepwater geoscience hazards
• Pressure, stability, wellbore management

Debrief: Review of Day 1

Day 3

Deepwater Well Construction, Management

Deepwater Casing, Tubular Design, Well Integrity

• Deepwater casing design
• Annular pressure build up and wellhead growth
with worked examples
• Well integrity failure prevention and mitigation
case studies

Deepwater Pressure and Stability Management

• Pressure prediction and detection
• Pressure management in deepwater
• Wellbore stability management

Deepwater Drilling & Cementing

• Deepwater drilling fluids
    – Water based, oil based
    – Challenges
    – Solutions and application
• Deepwater cementing:
    – Challenges
    – Cementing technologies
    – Solutions and application

Deepwater Situational Problems Hazards, Risks

• Labelling deepwater drilling problems
• Problem solving, risk management and decision
making with case studies and examples
• Contingency and response management

Debrief: Review of Day 3

Day 2

DW Design, SSBOP, Riser and Subsea Equipment

Deepwater Structural String Design

• Structural string design
• Wellhead and structural string guidelines
• Worked examples and case studies

Deepwater Riserless Drilling

• Riserless convention and non-convention
• Shallow hazard prediction and mitigation
• Deepwater riserless drilling, with worked examples
and case studies

DW Subsea Capital Equipment

• Diverters and marine risers
• Riser and associated components
• BOP and wellhead integrated design

DW Conductor, Wellhead, SSBOP/Riser Design

• Drilling riser and wellhead equipment
• Riser behavior, operating criteria
• Riser analysis, case study examples

Debrief: Review of Day 2

Day 4 l 5

Day 4: DW Well Integrity, Control, Assurance

Well Control ‘Level 1’ Assurance Management

• Primary ‘level 1 deepwater well control
• Standard operating procedures.
• Best practices, competency training

Deepwater Secondary ‘Level 2’ Well Control

• ‘Level 2’ deepwater well control
• Non-standard operating procedures
• Best practices, competency training

Deepwater ‘Level 3’ Well Control

• Learning from DW well control failures
• Macondo investigative media file
• ‘Level 3’ emergency contingency response

Deepwater Well Control Group Exercise

• Deepwater level 1, 2 & 3 case studies, individual and
work group exercises

Debrief: Review of Day 4

Day 5: Deepwater Technology, Well Abandonment

Deepwater Adaptive Technologies

• What technologies are for DW?
• Review of adaptive DW technologies
• Technology applications.
• What’s the future for deepwater?

Deepwater Well Abandonment

• Well integrity assurance in suspension and
abandonment
• Suspending deep-water wells
• Temporary abandonment
• Permanent abandonment
• Case study examples

Debrief: Review of Day 5

Final course review and feedback