OBJECTIVES
This course covers the technology of subsea production systems as used in deep water and in small or satellite oil and gas fields. It provides the technical knowledge needed to perform design, evaluation and operations of such systems. The course describes the hardware, the installation, the operation, the control and the maintenance of subsea production systems. Further, it presents the process of planing, designing and analyzing subsea development projects.

PREREQUISITES
The course assumes several years of working experience with offshore production operations and a solid engineering background in relevant disciplines.

DURATION
The course is available in three variants:

10 days      An in-depth analysis course at graduate engineering level.
5 days        A Crush course for practicing engineers
3 days        A brief technical orientation course

• Elements of subsea production system-an overview.
• The role of seabed production systems in relationship to bottom supported, compliant, tension leg and floating installations.
• Flexibility versus optimization in devising development scenarios.
• Statement of operational requirements.
• The subsea environment; elements of oceanography and marine-geotechnology
• Subsea drilling system, wellheads and wellbay inserts.
• Rig selection for development wells and for very deep water implications.
• wells architecture and completions of subsea wells.
• Production trees, manifolds, seabed processing, transfer and boosting system.
• Standards, codes, and specifications for subsea systems.
• Valve actuators, remote control and monitoring systems.
• Flowlines and tie-in methods.
• Production risers.
• Installation of subsea systems
• Maintenance of seabed systems and intervention in subsea wells.
• Marginal field evaluation and early Production systems
• Floating production and floating export systems.
• Organization of subsea development projects, management, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning.
• Field cases.
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