Conventional and Deep Offshore: Structures

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Synthesis

Day 1 :A. DEFINITION
Historical aspects
Mobile platforms
Fixed platforms: GBS and jacket
Classification
Films: Troll, Frigg, Dunbar

Day 2 :
B. DESIGN
Loads
Basic design
Additional checks
Multidiscipline design
C. FABRICATION
Steel (high strength steel, brittle fracture)
Nodes (rolled plate nodes, casted nodes)
Assembly (skidding beams, roll-up and bottles)
Load out (with or without the tide, sea-fastening)
Film: North cormorant

Day 3 :
D. INSTALLATION: JACKET
Transport and sea-fastening
Launching (launching barge, rocker arm, positioning)
Lifting (lifting barge, maximum lifting weight)
Foundations (pile installation driven pile insert pile bucket foundation)
Film: Virgo

Day 4 :
E. INSTALLATION: TOPSIDES
Modules (small and large)
Hook-up and commissioning
Integrated deck
Installation inshore on GBS: mating
Installation offshore: lifting, mating, float over
Films: Amenam, Troll, Sakhalin, Dunbar

Day 5 :
EXAM
RESULTS
Quick overlook on deep offshore
Films: Dalia Pazflor & Matterhorn

Language

Français & Anglais

Audience type

Bachelor/Master students in petroleum engineering or civil engineering or mechanical engineering.

Planned duration

5 days x 3 1/2 hours but duration could be tailored to meet students levels and/or University program. Films will be shown, at each lecture

Support material

Paper booklet with a selection of the main / Slides in English / Slides in Russian available

Prerequisite

Objectives

To acquire technical and practical knowledge on platforms and pipelines designed and installed on conventional offshore (water depth between and 5 meters).