Fundamentals of Marine Drilling 2015

Key Topics

• Mobile Marine Drilling Rigs
  • Semi-submersible drilling rigs
  • Jack-up drilling rigs
  • Shallow water drilling barges
  • Drillships
  • Specifications, functions and examples
  • Tender assisted drilling barges
• Background to Marine Drilling
  • Reservoir and exploration activities
  • Background and history of marine drilling
  • Drilling costs
  • Shallow and deep water drilling requirements
  • Well testing
  • Rig utilisation
  • Drilling offshore wells
  • Well plugging
• Marine Drilling Systems
  • Subsea equipment and marine risers
  • Drilling from platforms
• Drilling Rig Components
  • Rig floor operations and layout
  • Basic rig components
  • Drawworks
  • Derricks
  • Rotary table drilling
  • Pipe handling and tubular storage
  • Drillstring components
  • Top drive drilling
  • Drillpipe, drill collar, stabilisers, reamers, measurement and logging systems
  • Drillbits
  • Cementing
  • Drilling muds
  • Bottom hole assemblies
  • Casing
  • Well control
  • Horizontal drilling
• Field Development and Advanced Drilling Approaches
  • Advanced drilling approaches
  • Fields developed with wet and dry tree systems
  • Dual activity drilling rigs
  • Examples of sixth generation drill rigs
  • Drill through Xmas trees
  • Batch drilling
  • New drilling vessel concepts
• Mobile Rig Station Keeping and Blow Out Preventer Systems
  • Blow Out Preventer (BOP)
  • Drilling rig station keeping
  • Offshore safety

Who should Attend

Explorations and production professionals, Employees involved in land-based projects, Technical workers involved in offshore drilling and Related oil and gas industry professionals, including:

• Project team members
• Drilling engineers
• Pipeline engineers
• Process plant engineers
• Offshore operators
• Subsea engineers
• Offshore suppliers and contractors
• Marine engineers
• Legal, financial and contract staff
• Oil and gas industry managers
• Oil industry general staff