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The background factors that led to the development of floating production systems
How and where oil and gas can form in the Earth and how it is located
The importance of the geological information to predict how the oil will flow
How a well is drilled
The factors that will make oil flow from the source to the production facility
The effect of weather, sea conditions, economic and political factors on the development
of a floating production system
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How International agreements assign seabed and sub seabed minerals and oil rights to
individual countries
How the UK awards licences to companies to exploit any oil and gas deposits within its
domain
How a country’s government gains fiscal rewards for their oil and gas resources
Module breakdown:
How International agreements assign seabed and sub seabed minerals and oil rights to
individual countries
How the UK awards licences to companies to exploit any oil and gas deposits within its
domain
How a country’s government gains fiscal rewards for their oil and gas resources
Module breakdown:
Hull
Hydrodynamics and model testing
New construction or tanker conversion
FLNG/FSRU
Offshore LNG storage
Current projects
FSRU concept
Accommodation and helideck
Topsides plant layout
Mooring systems
Type: spread or turret moored
Components
Design
Installation
Turrets
External turrets
Internal turrets
Fluid swivel
Risers
Flexible dynamic risers
Hybrid riser towers
Steel catenary risers
That reservoir fluids (oil and gas), vary from field to field and this will determine the
processing system requirements
The working principles of separators, inter-heaters, electrostatic coalescers and their
typical uses in oil separation
The working principles of gas compressors, coolers and dehydration equipment in the
gas compression and treatment systems
How hydro-cyclones, degassers work
The treatment of water injection
The purpose of filters, sterilising units. deaerators and water injection pumps and also
sulphate removal
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the legislation requirements for the level of retained oil in the produced water for
disposal into the sea and the process equipment to achieve this.
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The reasons why oil and gas industry operations are risk sensitive and therefore why
safety, risk and reliability engineering is crucial
The principles of a Safety Case Approach and how this difference from a Rules Based
Approach
The main techniques employed in identifying the major hazards in an FPSO
How safety critical elements are identified and the safety scheme verified
The Alarp principle
How the layout of the FPSO is designed with regard to safety
The importance of Emergency Response planning and the elements included
The principles of the Environmental Impact Assessment and the growing importance of
this today
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2014
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