Wednesday, July 16 2014

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Wednesday, Jul 16, 2014 4:30 p.m.

Session III of the Summer Series on “Floating Production Systems” presents an overview of TLP production systems, what drives their design, and a bit of TLP History. The design of an offshore production platform requires consideration of many factors which influence the design, including payload and performance requirements, the met-ocean and geotechnical environments, construction methodology …
9 AM - 10:30 AM
Wednesday, Jul 16, 2014 9 a.m.

In spite of more than 20 years of advances in the application of geomechanical principles to improve understanding of its causes and improvements in drilling practices to reduce its effects, wellbore instability continues to be perhaps the largest single source of non-productive drilling time. Costs associated with overly conservative drilling and casing designs which are …