FPSO Operations & Maintenance Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze FPSO concepts, configurations, and applications, including new-build and converted hulls and spread-moored and turret-moored arrangements, on Day 1.
• Describe FPSO marine systems, including ballast, cargo tanks, inert gas, crude oil washing, tank cleaning, and marine utilities.
• Explain mooring systems, turrets, swivels, risers, and umbilicals and their operating and integrity requirements.
• Describe topsides processing systems, including separation, oil stabilization, produced water treatment, gas compression, dehydration, gas and water injection, and flaring.
• Explain FPSO utilities, including power generation, fuel gas, cooling, heating, nitrogen, fresh water, and HVAC systems.
• Apply safe offloading practices for tandem and side-by-side operations with shuttle tankers, including hawser, hose, and fiscal metering operations.
• Integrate marine and process operations, including cargo management, stability, and production continuity.
• Develop maintenance strategies for FPSO equipment using preventive, predictive, risk-based, and reliability-centered approaches.
• Apply integrity management practices to the hull, topsides, mooring, turret, risers, and pressure systems, including inspection and corrosion management.
• Explain class, flag state, coastal state, and international maritime and oil and gas regulatory requirements for FPSOs.
• Apply safety systems, including emergency shutdown, fire and gas detection, fire protection, evacuation, and emergency response, to FPSO operations.
• Evaluate FPSO operating models, performance management, life extension, and decommissioning considerations by the end of Day 5.

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Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain how an FPSO works as an integrated marine and production facility.
• Describe the main marine systems and their roles in safe operation.
• Explain how mooring, turret, swivel, and riser systems work and fail.
• Describe the topsides process from well fluids to export-quality oil.
• Explain the key utilities that support FPSO operations.
• Plan and supervise safe offloading operations.
• Coordinate marine and process activities to maintain safety and production.
• Develop effective maintenance strategies for FPSO equipment.
• Manage hull, topsides, mooring, and riser integrity.
• Explain the regulatory and class requirements that apply to FPSOs.
• Apply FPSO safety systems and emergency response arrangements.
• Assess options for improving performance and extending FPSO life.

Course Outline