Offshore engineering projects in the oil and gas sector present significant technical and commercial challenges. A thorough understanding and competency among the project team members throughout the various phases are crucial for the successful completion of these projects.
This Energy training course is designed to equip participants with a solid foundation in Offshore Engineering. It will prepare them to effectively contribute to the design, fabrication, construction, offshore installation, hook-up, commissioning, and start-up phases of offshore projects. This Offshore Engineering training course is ideal for field and discipline engineers, project engineers, cost estimators, construction and fabrication engineers, contract administrators, construction supervisors, and engineers.
The Offshore Engineering training course will cover:
- Field Development Planning (FDP) and Offshore Project Management overview
- Design engineering and procurement processes
- Substructure and topside fabrication, load-out
- Sea transportation and offshore installation
- Hook-up, testing, commissioning, and start-up procedures
Particular emphasis will be placed on the principles and steps involved in these processes, supported by engineering calculations, flowcharts, and diagrams to enhance learning. The course will also reference relevant international standards and typical client engineering requirements.
Key topics include:
- Overview of Field Development Planning (FDP) and project management
- Design engineering processes, deliverables, and flowcharts
- Fabrication techniques (e.g., cutting, welding, blasting, painting)
- Erection and assembly methods, including cranes and lifting techniques
- Load-out procedures, preparation, and ballasting
- Sea-fastening engineering and implementation
- Marine vessels and installation equipment used in major and support operations
- Structure and topsides installation methods
- Pipelaying and riser installation processes
- Subsea installation and diving support
- Hook-up workpack development and execution
- Mobilization of marine vessels, construction, and marine crews, along with equipment
- Engineering discipline-specific hook-up activities
- Commissioning, start-up, and handover to the client
By the end of this Offshore Engineering training course, participants will be able to:
- Grasp the key concepts of field development planning (FDP) and project management
- Comprehend the complexities involved in offshore engineering activities
- Recognize the entire lifecycle of offshore engineering, from the design phase through to commissioning and start-up
- Understand fabrication, erection, load-out, and sea-fastening processes at fabrication yards
- Learn how to select the appropriate major support marine vessels and installation equipment for offshore installation
- Gain in-depth knowledge of structure and topsides installation methods
- Understand the procedures for pipelaying, riser installation, subsea installation, and diving support activities
- Be familiar with the processes involved in mobilizing marine vessels, construction crews, marine teams, and equipment
- Understand the scope of hook-up and commissioning tasks across various engineering disciplines
This Energy training course will be conducted in a classroom. Examples and video clips of past offshore fabrication and load-out activities, as well as offshore installation activities will be used to aid the learning and understanding of the subject matters. Participants will also take part in group classroom exercises to reinforce their learning experience. Each participant will receive a set of course materials. There will also be pre-course as well as post-course assessment tests.
This Energy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Field Engineers, CSRs, Construction Supervisors, Project engineers
- Operations engineers
- Workpack engineers
- Structural engineers
- Metocean engineers
- Pipeline discipline engineers
- Subsea equipment engineers
- Various discipline engineers (structural, piping, equipment, electrical, instrumentation)
- Maintenance engineers
- Contract admin, buyers and procurement executives
- Cost estimating, project control and planning engineers
- Diving and diving support personnel
- Managers and executives who are new to Offshore engineering projects
- Other engineers and technicians who need to update their current Oil and Gas industry experience and wanting to move to Offshore Field development Projects
- University engineering lecturers who wish to be CPD-certified by Institution of Engineers (IEM) at their respective countries
Day One: Field Development (FDP), Project Management and Design Engineering
- Pre-course assessment test
- Course learning objectives vs course participants’ expectations
- Overview of Field Development Planning (FDP
- Project Management team (PMT), roles and responsibilities
- Contracting, subcontracting and procurement activities
- Design engineering process, deliverables and flowchart
- Health, safety, environment and security requirements, including training requirements and qualifications of personnel
- Emergency response procedure (ERP)
- QAQC requirements, documentation and drawings controls
Day Two: Fabrication and Onshore Construction
- Fabrication yard layout, load-out methods, workshops and major equipment types, foundation preparation and preliminary works
- Planning and schedule , fabrication cost-time-resource (CTR) estimating
- Fabrication, erection and assembly of major structures, substructures;, topsides and living quarters
- Pipeline procurement, concrete coatings, pipeline load out and transportation
- Welding and welder qualifications
- Blasting and painting activities;, testing and inspection requirements
- Typical manpower and fabrication equipment planning and management
- Skid and packaged equipment procurement, Factory acceptance testing (FAT), delivery, storage and preservation and installation
- Weight control and weighing of structures in fabrication
- Yard pre-commissioning activities
- Jacket commissioning, trial fitting and ship loose items management
- Pile and conductors make-up and fabrication, transportation arrangement consideration and load out
- Load-out planning, engineering for substructures and topside; and load-out execution, ballasting techniques and calculation
- Insurances, commercial and warranty surveys
Day Three: Offshore Facilities, Pipelaying and Subsea Installation I
- Offshore transportation and installation phases, including planning and scheduling
- Major and support marine vessels, major equipment types
- Offshore installation considerations, engineering and calculations
- Weight control and onshore weighing reports of structures
- Transportation analysis and sea-fastening
- Launching, lifting and installation of substructures
- Upending of substructures
- On-bottom stability, pile and conductor make-up, piling and grouting of substructures
- Lifting analysis of topsides and modular topsides construction
- Float over of integrated topside deck
- Geotechnical and geomatics surveys
- Anchor-pattern preparation and approval
Day Four: Offshore Facilities, Pipelaying and Subsea Installation II
- Vessels availability, contracting and procurement activities and considerations
- Cost-time-resource (CTR) estimating for transportation and installation
- IPOP and pre-execution reviews
- Mobilisation preparations
- Insurances, commercial and warranty surveys
- Metocean activities and installation window considerations
- Substructures installation - launching, lifting, self installation & novel methods
- Topsides installation - modular lifts, float-over and novel methods
- SIMOPS considerations for offshore installations
- Pipeline and riser installation
- Reel pipelines and umbilicals laying
- Subsea equipment installation and diving support activities
- Insurances, commercial and warranty surveys
Day Five: Hook-up Construction and Commissioning (HuCC)
- HuCC project planning and scheduling, monitoring and reporting
- Workpack process and execution
- Procurement - cost-plus and overheads
- Construction and marine crew manpower recruitment and mobilisation
- Onshore minor fabrication
- Mobilisation of major and support marine vessels
- Overview of marine operations
- Onshore supply base and Load-out activities
- Logistics support activities
- Hook-up activities, namely blasting and painting, cutting, fitting and welding, piping and piping supports, platform appurtenances, electrical and instrumentation works
- Pre-commissioning activities, hydrotesting, NDT and inspection
- Commissioning activities and dossiers
- Start-up (first oil, first gas), hand-over and punch-list items
- Post-project activities, final documentation, change-order and variation orders, lesson learnt database and dissemination
- Course summary
- Post-course Assessment Test
