Advanced Drilling Inspection & Maintenance
Why Attend
Course Objectives
Course Methodology
Why Attend
In order to ensure optimum performance of your rig, reduce downtime and maintain safety of your personnel, planned maintenance and accurate inspections are essential.
This five-day course teaches the inspection and maintenance procedures required to ensure equipment integrity on land rigs. Participants learn to implement the relevant standards and understand industry requirements so that they can verify the condition of a rig’s equipment and improve safety, thus reducing the number of accidents and protecting the asset.
Course Objectives
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this training course, the participant(s) will be able to:
- Improve the awareness of what a rig inspection involves.
- Increase the knowledge of several important standards from API.
- Improve the basic knowledge of well control equipment and well control equipment standards.
- Independently carry out a basic visual (External & Internal) rig inspection.
- Describe the main inspection criteria for major equipment.
- Identify major items that have an impact on the safety and operation of a rig.
- Recognize the indicators of the overall condition of a drilling rig (Condition Level).
- List the relevant standards (such as API) and their implications for drilling equipment.
- Understand the basics of EX equipment installed in hazardous areas.
- Evaluate basic maintenance and inspection procedures on the rig to identify compliance with good practices.
- Be aware of the whole rig equipment & specifications (Onshore & Offshore) – (Drilling / Workover / Pulling Unit).
- Be aware of all NDT Inspection Categories.
- Be aware of how rig dimensions & clearance measuring process (Grooves, Sheaves, Bearings…) are taken and measured.
- Be aware of all API CAT III (SOF for 6 Months) Procedures & Certifications Process.
- Be aware of all API CAT IV (COC for 5 Years) Procedures & Certifications Process.
- How to write professional inspection reports.
- How to run Ready to Drill Integrity Test (RDIT).
- Be aware of all rig equipment function tests.
- Be aware of all Rig Acceptance Process based on a detailed Check List.
Course Methodology
Course Methodology
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of total tuition hours:
- Lectures
- Workshops, work presentations
- Group Work in case study & Practical Exercises
- Videos and general discussions
- Pre-Test and Post Test
The course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons without prior notice to participants.
Course Outline
Day - 1
Day 1
Discussion around all Standards & Definitions
Discussion around all Standards & Definitions
- Brief about NDT methods:
- VT Inspection
- UT Inspection
- MPI Inspection
- PT Inspection
- RT Inspection
- Drilling Equipment
- Masts and Derricks
- Hoisting System
- Drilling Lines Inspection
- Driller’s console
- Drilling Equipment Cont.
- Crown
- Travelling Block
- Drawworks
- Rotary Table
Day - 2
Day 2
Drilling Equipment Cont.
Drilling Equipment Cont.
- Top Drive and Swivel
- Mud pump
- Main characteristics
- Mud pump checklist
- Hyperlinked Videos and drawings for the mud pump
- Mud pumps: photos and drawings
- Mud system
- Main characteristics
- Mud system checklist
- Mud systems: photos and drawings
- Diesel engine
- Main characteristics
- Hyperlinked video illustrating the internal components for the diesel engines
- Diesel engine checklist
- Diesel engines: photos and drawings
- Emergency generator checklist (mainly offshore)
- Emergency generator: photos
- Air compressor
- Air compressors: photos
Day - 3
Day 3
Electrical Equipment
Electrical Equipment
- General Electrical Equipment
- Introduction & General Consideration
- Hyperlinked videos for DC motors construction
- Electrical safety
- Electrical safety equipment checklist
- Electrical safety: photos
- Hazardous Area Equipment
- A basic introduction to hazardous-area equipment
- Hazardous areas are classified in three different zones:
- Explosion-proof (EXd)
- Increased safety (EXe)
- Pressurized-enclosure (purged) (EXp)
- Intrinsically safe (EXi)
Day - 4
Day 4
Well Control Equipment
Well Control Equipment
- Ram-type Preventer
- Main characteristics
- Operation of the rams
- Types of rams
- Ram preventer checklist
- Ram-type BOPs: photos and drawings
- Annular Preventer
- Main characteristics
- Principle of annular preventers
- Differences between all types of Annular
- Annular preventer checklist
- Annular preventers: photos
- Gate Valve
- Main characteristics
- Gate valve checklist
- Gate valves: photos and drawings
- Well Control Equipment Cont.
- BOP HPU, Accumulator units
- Introduction
- Main characteristics
- BOP HPU checklist
- BOP HPU: photos and drawings
- Choke and Kill Manifold
- Main characteristics
- Choke and kill manifold checklist
- Choke and kill manifold: photos and drawings
Day - 5
Day 5
Types of Certificates
Types of Certificates
- Certificate of Conformance (COC)
- Statement of Compatibility (SOC)
- Statement of Fact (SOF)
- Certificate of Service (COS)
- API CAT III (SOF for 6 Months) Procedures
- API Categorization of Critical, Major, Minor Findings While Rig Inspection
- API CAT IV (COC for 5 Years) Procedures
- API CAT IV (COC for 5 Years) Certifications Process
- 3rd Party Inspector Requirements