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Offshore Pipeline Design and Installation

Short course

In Bedfordshire ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Short course

What you will learn On successful completion of this short course you will:Understand the basic procedures in offshore pipeline design and installationBe able to select appropriate components for an installationHave a knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of different pipelaying techniquesUnderstand the problems caused by fluids carried within pipelines.

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Subjects

  • Installation
  • Design

Course programme

Core content
  • Overview of components – pipelines, risers, valves, pig launchers/receivers and flow metering equipment
  • Introduction to design procedures – physical properties, stress analysis, buckling and collapse, strain-based design
  • Fluid flow through pipes – basic hydrodynamics, multiphase flow, hydrate formation/prevention, wax formation/prevention
  • Pipelines steels – effect of processing: normalised quenched and tempered, thermo-mechanically treated and accelerated cooled steels. Seamless, HFERW and UOE manufacturing processes, corrosion resistant steels
  • Design for installation – S-lay, J-lay, deepwater, calculation of tensions, reeling
  • Thermal coatings – requirements, selection and application of coating, field joint coating systems
  • Pipelay methods – laybarge configurations, anchor handling/DP, reel barge, pipeline bundles, ‘pipe in pipe’, factors affecting productivity.

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Offshore Pipeline Design and Installation

Price on request