Course Objectives

The Subsea Production Systems Course provides an overview of all the functionalities and key interfaces of subsea production systems. The course will refer to relevant industry standards for subsea systems. The sessions will cove challenges associated with subsea engineering.

Who Should Attend?

Offshore subsea engineers, Petroleum engineers, Project engineers, Operations engineers, Maintenance engineers and Technicians etc.

Course Overview

Introduction to Subsea Engineering:

- Where we are Today
- Overview of Offshore Production Facilities
- Overview of Subsea Drilling Operation.

Subsea Production & Control Equipment

Overview of Subsea Production Systems

- Wellhead
- Christmas Tree (XT)
- Manifold
- Pipeline End Terminations/Manifolds (PLETS/PLEMS)
- Tie-in & Jumpers Spools (Flexible or Rigid)
- Control Umbilical, Flying Leads
- Pipeline and Flowline
- Riser (Flexible or Rigid)
- Subsea Control Systems

Overview of Mechanical protection systems

Subsea Field Architecture.

- Stand-alone Field
- Daisy-chain Field
- Tie-back Field

Subsea Processing

- Subsea Separation and Re-injection
- Subsea Boosting
- Subsea Artificial Lift

Gas Lift (GL)

Electrical Submersible pumps (ESP)

Installation and Commissioning

Overview of a Typical Installation Engineering

- Installation analysis and procedure
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
- Mobilisation and Installation

Overview of Pre-commissioning operation

Overview of commissioning operation

Subsea Intervention

- Diving and ROV operation
- AUVs

Subsea Decommissioning

- Overview of decommissioning
- Host Facilities
- Production Systems
- Well Plug and Abandonment

Subsea Engineering Challenges and Future Trends

Learning Goal

This course has been designed to enable participants to

Understand the design of different subsea equipment

Understand how subsea systems are installed

Appreciate the challenges of subsea operations

Learn about new technologies and future trends

The primary learning objective for this course are met through a combination of interactive presentations, discussion, and exercises.

Course Materials

Handouts, materials