Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around drilling rig operation and maintenance.
Efficient Maintenance and Operation of Onshore and Offshore Drilling Rigs
An applied course in drilling rig operation and maintenance built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
In energy operations the cost of getting drilling rig operation and maintenance wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. Assets involved in operation and maintenance routinely outlive the engineers who commissioned them. This programme builds the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Applied research in energy and hydrocarbon operations consistently shows that early structure around drilling rig operation and maintenance reduces downstream rework. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability. Moving operation and maintenance from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of drilling rig operation and maintenance is examined, not just described. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about operation and maintenance. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assess the technical and commercial risk attaching to operation and maintenance across the asset life cycle.
Identify the failure points in drilling rig operation and maintenance most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from operation and maintenance.
Establish escalation routes for drilling rig operation and maintenance that work outside normal hours.
Model the economics of operation and maintenance under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Verify that contractors working on drilling rig operation and maintenance meet the same standard as direct staff.
Who Should Attend
Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on drilling rig operation and maintenance.
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for operation and maintenance.
Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering drilling rig operation and maintenance.
Staff seconded into improvement work on operation and maintenance.
Public sector officials applying drilling rig operation and maintenance within a regulated framework.
Contract and procurement staff supporting operation and maintenance.
Course Modules
Drilling rig operation and maintenance: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit and isolation regime that drilling rig operation and maintenance actually requires
- Verify six months later that changes to drilling rig operation and maintenance have held.
- Map the handovers in operation and maintenance between functions and secure them.
- Confirm the inspection interval for drilling rig operation and maintenance is based on condition, not habit.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving operation and maintenance.
Session 2What to measure in operation and maintenance and what to ignore
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of drilling rig operation and maintenance.
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of operation and maintenance.
- Anticipate the objections drilling rig operation and maintenance will raise and prepare the answers.
- Compare the cost of operation and maintenance with the cost of its absence.
Operation and maintenance: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reviewing operation and maintenance when nothing has gone wrong
- Verify isolation points for drilling rig operation and maintenance are proven and documented.
- Set escalation thresholds for operation and maintenance that work out of hours.
- Define acceptance criteria for drilling rig operation and maintenance in advance.
- Confirm handover documentation for operation and maintenance is complete and current.
Session 2What the instrumentation on operation and maintenance is and is not telling you
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to drilling rig operation and maintenance.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on operation and maintenance.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on drilling rig operation and maintenance.
- Identify critical spares for operation and maintenance and confirm lead times.
Operation and maintenance: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the investment case for operation and maintenance that finance will accept
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in drilling rig operation and maintenance.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to operation and maintenance.
- Set out the decisions in drilling rig operation and maintenance that require sign-off and by whom.
- Confirm that lessons from operation and maintenance are shared beyond the team that learned them.
Session 2The cost of drilling rig operation and maintenance and how to present it
- Close out actions on drilling rig operation and maintenance rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Check that records of operation and maintenance answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Arrange the handover of drilling rig operation and maintenance so capability survives staff changes.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about operation and maintenance.
Operation and maintenance: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The operating limits on operation and maintenance and what happens beyond them
- Define the safe operating envelope for drilling rig operation and maintenance and how deviations are detected.
- Agree the smallest change to operation and maintenance that would be visibly useful.
- Check that drilling rig operation and maintenance still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Define the trigger that would require operation and maintenance to be redesigned.
Session 2Reading condition data on operation and maintenance before failure, not after
- Identify the failure modes of drilling rig operation and maintenance with the highest consequence.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to operation and maintenance and remove nuisance alarms.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios drilling rig operation and maintenance can create.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to operation and maintenance.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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