Subsea Production & Control Systems Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze subsea field development concepts, architectures, and tieback options and their advantages and limitations on Day 1.
• Describe subsea wellheads and vertical and horizontal subsea trees and their functions, valves, and interfaces.
• Explain the function and design of manifolds, templates, pipeline end terminations and manifolds, jumpers, flowlines, and risers.
• Describe umbilical systems, including hydraulic, chemical, electrical, and fiber optic functions and termination and distribution arrangements.
• Apply relevant API and ISO standards for subsea production and control equipment.
• Compare subsea control system types, including direct hydraulic, piloted hydraulic, and electro-hydraulic multiplexed systems, and evaluate all-electric control developments.
• Explain the operation of subsea control modules, master control stations, hydraulic and electrical power units, subsea distribution units, sensors, and communications.
• Apply subsea safety functions, including emergency shutdown, subsea isolation valves, and high-integrity pressure protection systems.
• Assess flow assurance risks, including hydrates, wax, asphaltenes, scale, and slugging, and the use of chemical injection, insulation, and heating.
• Evaluate subsea processing technologies, including multiphase boosting, separation, compression, and water injection.
• Plan installation, commissioning, inspection, maintenance, and repair activities using remotely operated vehicles and intervention vessels.
• Develop subsea integrity management, condition monitoring, and reliability improvement plans and consider life extension and decommissioning 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 subsea production systems are configured and tied back to host facilities.
• Describe the main components of subsea wells, trees, and manifolds.
• Explain how flowlines, risers, and umbilicals connect subsea equipment to the host.
• Apply key subsea standards in equipment specification and review.
• Compare subsea control system types and select appropriate options.
• Explain how subsea control modules and topside control equipment work together.
• Describe subsea safety functions and how they protect people and assets.
• Identify flow assurance risks and appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Explain the role and benefits of subsea processing and boosting.
• Plan subsea inspection, maintenance, and intervention activities.
• Develop integrity monitoring plans for subsea equipment.
• Diagnose common subsea control and production problems.

Course Outline