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Deepwater drilling involves the construction of wells in deep marine environments using highly advanced drilling technologies. Compared to conventional drilling, deepwater operations present significantly greater technical, operational, and environmental challenges. This five-day course addresses the key aspects of deepwater drilling, providing both fundamental knowledge and practical insight. The course begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of deepwater drilling, including the unique challenges and operational considerations associated with deepwater environments. It then examines the specialized equipment required for deepwater operations, such as floating rigs, subsea systems, and riser systems.
Subsequent sessions cover tubular design, cementing practices, and the underlying technical challenges specific to deepwater wells. Well control considerations are discussed in detail, emphasizing the additional requirements necessary to ensure safe and reliable operations in deepwater settings.
The course concludes with a review of emerging adaptive technologies and abandonment systems, equipping participants with an understanding of current innovations and best practices in deepwater well construction and lifecycle management.
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRL 331 | 19 – 23 Oct 2026 | online | 3300 |
| DRL 331 | 13 – 17 Jul 2026 | Amsterdam | 4400 |
o DW Essentials and differences
o DW Project Standards, Rules, Regulations
o DW Rigs, equipment, systems
o DW Geology and geoscience
o Deepwater structural string design
o Deepwater Riserless Drilling
o DW Subsea Capital Equipment
o DW Conductor, Wellhead, SSBOP/Riser design
o Deepwater casing, tubular design. well integrity
o Deepwater Pressure and Stability Management
o Deepwater Drilling & Cementing
o Deepwater Situational Problems Hazards, Risks
o Well control 'level 1' assurance management
o Deepwater Secondary 'level 2' well control
o Deepwater 'level 3' well control
o Deepwater Well Control Group exercise
o Deepwater Adaptive technologies
o Deepwater Well Abandonment
Peter Aird, C.Eng, CMarEng, FIMarEST, has over 40 years of experience as a drilling, well engineering, and operations specialist. He began his career with Shell International (1980–1987) as a drilling supervisor, later moving into staff-based engineering roles with Shell and BP between 1987 and 1993. From 1993 to 2005, he expanded his expertise through global consultancy assignments, working on deepwater, HPHT, exploration and appraisal frontier wells, and complex deepwater horizontal development drilling projects. His international experience spans Southeast Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China), the North Atlantic (West of Britain, Norway, Faroe Islands, and Greenland), the Black Sea, the South Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and West Africa. From 2005 onward, he held senior staff, consultancy, and advisory leadership roles in specialist drilling engineering with operating companies including Kerr-McGee, Maersk, Marathon Oil, Cairn Energy (UK), ONGC (India), Centrica (Norway), and Providence Resources (Ireland). During this period, he further refined his expertise across subsea, horizontal, platform infill, HPHT, deepwater, and ultra-deepwater drilling projects.
Persons engaged in deep-water or complex well's drilling projects; in well design, engineering, operational or organizational functions such as admin, technical, finance, QHSE, logistics, services, support, drilling, geology, geo-science, petroleum, reservoir, completions, workover and production.
o Intermediate
The objectives of this workshop are to enable participants to:
oDeliver the awareness required for a multidisciplinary skills to be developed to enable the practical design, engineering and safe drilling operation of a Deepwater well.
o Develop the knowledge required to recognize and analyze the difficulties, challenges and opportunities that exist in deepwater drilling, design, execution and how to mitigate operations risks.
o Equip participants with the required tools to evaluate, organize, plan, implement and control a deepwater well's drilling operating process.
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