Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving offshore platform decommissioning.
Managing the Decommissioning of Retired Offshore Platforms
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to offshore platform decommissioning.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Assets involved in offshore platform decommissioning routinely outlive the engineers who commissioned them. Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations — it punishes it. The programme converts the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Every module pairs a short input on offshore platform decommissioning with structured practice on the participant's own material. Buying a tool rarely fixes this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations under scrutiny. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for offshore platform decommissioning, not for observers of it. The most reliable predictor of sound this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The programme closes with an action plan for this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build the internal capability for offshore platform decommissioning rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
Structure contracts and service agreements covering offshore platform decommissioning.
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around offshore platform decommissioning.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on offshore platform decommissioning for senior management.
Specify the instrumentation and data needed to monitor offshore platform decommissioning reliably.
Model the economics of offshore platform decommissioning under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Who Should Attend
Department heads accountable for the results of offshore platform decommissioning.
Commercial and planning analysts modelling offshore platform decommissioning.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over offshore platform decommissioning.
Facility and plant managers accountable for offshore platform decommissioning.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with offshore platform decommissioning in real time.
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for offshore platform decommissioning.
Course Modules
Offshore platform decommissioning: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The operating limits on offshore platform decommissioning and what happens beyond them
- Map the handovers in offshore platform decommissioning between functions and secure them.
- Confirm that lessons from offshore platform decommissioning are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to offshore platform decommissioning.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving offshore platform decommissioning.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in offshore platform decommissioning
- Confirm handover documentation for offshore platform decommissioning is complete and current.
- Identify where judgement in offshore platform decommissioning is legitimate and where it is not.
- Verify isolation points for offshore platform decommissioning are proven and documented.
- Confirm that those complying with offshore platform decommissioning understand why it exists.
Offshore platform decommissioning: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building lasting competence in offshore platform decommissioning
- Identify single points of dependency in offshore platform decommissioning and reduce them.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on offshore platform decommissioning.
- Plan the offshore platform decommissioning scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
- Establish the boundary of offshore platform decommissioning and record what sits outside it.
Session 2What the last incident involving offshore platform decommissioning should have taught us
- Define the safe operating envelope for offshore platform decommissioning and how deviations are detected.
- Estimate the resource offshore platform decommissioning requires to run as designed.
- Rank the weaknesses in offshore platform decommissioning by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios offshore platform decommissioning can create.
Offshore platform decommissioning: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Competence and handover on offshore platform decommissioning when experienced staff leave
- Build the internal briefing that explains offshore platform decommissioning to those affected.
- Identify the failure modes of offshore platform decommissioning with the highest consequence.
- Close out actions on offshore platform decommissioning rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Identify critical spares for offshore platform decommissioning and confirm lead times.
Session 2Holding contractors on offshore platform decommissioning to the standard you hold yourself
- Test the procedure for offshore platform decommissioning against a realistic scenario.
- Set escalation thresholds for offshore platform decommissioning that work out of hours.
- Model the economics of offshore platform decommissioning at low, base and high price cases.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on offshore platform decommissioning.
Offshore platform decommissioning: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Fitting offshore platform decommissioning into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of offshore platform decommissioning.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in offshore platform decommissioning.
- Review the instrumentation on offshore platform decommissioning for coverage gaps.
- Check that records of offshore platform decommissioning answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2The hard cases in offshore platform decommissioning and how to reason about them
- Confirm the inspection interval for offshore platform decommissioning is based on condition, not habit.
- Build the competence framework that supports offshore platform decommissioning.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to offshore platform decommissioning will be introduced.
- Check that the permit regime covering offshore platform decommissioning matches the actual hazard.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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