management de projet

Purpose of the course One week lecture on Offshore Field developments: Process, Concepts and Facilities. The course content was as follows: o Introduction o Shallow water developments o Deep water developments o Subsea systems, flowlines, risers o FPSO o New technologies o Development concept sélection process. Examples and case study. Audience: At Unicamp, a mix of 12 Master and PhD students. At USP: 16 students, undergraduates (preparing an engineering degree in petroleum engineering) plus some external attendees (incl. one teacher from another private university.). Learning objectives Give the students an overview of shallow water and deep offshore developments including surface and subsea facilities used. Present development study, selection and project processes. Means: Lectures, exercices, movies . A case study was introduced to the students addressing development topics such as production capacity, artficial lift, number of rigs and wells, field architecture, planning. They had to work in groups of 3-4 and present their projects orally and in writing the last day of the week. Appraisal At UNICAMP: students were evaluted by means of individual quizzes and projects. Results were sent to my contact, Professor Morooka. At USP: students were only appraised through their collective project. For logistic reasons (departure back to France on Friday night), there was no sufficient time to perform the quizz and retrieve the course assessment forms. Up to date projects reports were all received , corrected and sent back to my contact Professor Cabral de Azevedo. Comments Feedback was very good, from both teachers (Pr Moorooka and Cabral de Azevedo who partly attended the course) and students. Lectures by teachers from the industry are much appreciated. At UNICAMP, Master or Ph students seemed more motivated, participative and receptive. Some undergraduated students from USP were lacking maturity to take full benefit from such course. In addition, USP courses were scheduled in the evening between 5 and 8:30 pm after an entire school day. This made things even more difficult. However, it should be noted that the 16 students were assiduous from Monday thru Friday. In the future, courses should be prioritized towards students in Master or PhD who are more in a professional state of mind. If undergradutes must be considered, lectures should be more general and focus for example on project management or economics rather than on hardware, facilities or operations. In addition lectures should be integrated to their academic cursus and above all, not scheduled « after hours ». We should also commend both universities for their warm welcome especially UNICAMP where I was given the opportunity to visit labs,and meet with other teachers. They even dedicated one student to pick me up everyday at the hotel and to assist me for misc. logistics matters.