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About the course

This is a vital course to help engineers understand contractors’ output, design houses to apply calculations to projects and regulatory bodies to follow up-to-date industry codes. With discussions around industry developments and the latest technologies, this course explains the principles of subsea pipeline design.

Providing guidance on routing, diameter sizing and materials selection, this course enhances awareness of the numerous factors which must be considered when designing a pipeline.

Explaining how to assess design calculations to industry codes, as well as pragmatic approaches to analysis techniques, the tutor will work through a number of exercises with you, to promote application of knowledge learnt.

 

Learning outcomes

  • Describe key considerations for pipeline design
  • Describe the rules and process for pipeline routing
  • Explain the process for selecting pipeline diameter
  • Evaluate various pipeline materials and make appropriate recommendations
  • Compare various corrosion protection methods
  • Perform calculations based on industry codes

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timer icon Duration 4 Days
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About the Tutors

Dem Demetriou
BEng(Hons) MSc DIC CEng FIMarEst MBA FCMI

Dem is a specialist in project management, facilities engineering, materials engineering and general management and strategy. He has over 20 years’ experience and expertise, in FEED, detailed and conceptual design, procurement, topsides and construction.

Dem teaches the Design and Further design of subsea pipelines, Subsea project delivery and Value engineering for design optimisation.
 

About the Tutors

Alan Knowles
Eur Ing MICE AMICE

Alan has over 30 years’ experience in industry and has particular expertise in the installation and design of onshore and offshore pipelines, flowlines and landfalls and is an expert in finite element analysis.

He teaches the Design and Further design of subsea pipelines, Construction and Installation calculations for subsea pipelines and Reeling calculations.

 

About the Tutors

Graham Wilson
MEng (Hons) CEng MIMechE

Graham is Jee’s Head of Integrity Management and a chartered mechanical engineer with over 15 years’ industry experience. He has particular expertise in integrity management, design, fishing interaction studies and verification.

Graham teaches Integrity management courses, Corrosion defect assessment and Decommissioning programme development and execution. 
 

About the Tutors

John French
MEng, CEng, MIMechE

John has been working in the oil and gas industry since 2002 and is responsible for overseeing all design projects, from pre-FEED studies through to detailed design engineering. John’s current focus is on developing low-cost solutions to reduce installation and development costs for marginal fields.

About the Tutors

Martin East
CEng, MIMechE, NRA

As a chartered mechanical engineer, since 1988, Martin has been working in finite element analysis and has extensive experience of the Abaqus non-linear FEA software. He joined Jee in 1996 and his responsibilities included consultancy projects and analysis. As one of our most knowledgeable tutors he has presented many of Jee’s training courses.

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Jee Star Logo Design of subsea pipelines - course contents

Day 1

Pipeline routing

  • Rules for routing
  • Exercise
  • Route survey
  • Alignment sheets

Pipeline diameter

  • Sizing for flow
  • Fluid properties
  • Flow fundamentals
  • Single-phase flow
  • Multi-phase flow

Thermal design and insulation

  • Need for thermal design
  • Fundamentals of heat transfer
  • Pipeline heat transfer
  • Insulation design considerations
  • Insulation systems
  • Application of insulation
  • Operational problems in deep water

Day 2

Materials specification

  • Material selection
  • Review of material properties
  • Specification of line pipe

Corrosion

  • Internal corrosion
  • External corrosion
  • Chemical methods
  • External coatings
  • Cathodic protection
  • Anode design
  • Worked example

Day 3

Design for strength

  • Design principles
  • Bursting
  • Collapse
  • Buckling and combined stresses
  • Strain-based design
  • Worked example

End expansion and spoolpieces

  • End force and expansion factors
  • End expansion
  • Worked example
  • Temperature profile
  • Spoolpieces
  • Worked example

Day 4

On-bottom stability

  • Review of fundamentals
  • Oceanography
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Resistance
  • Stability analysis
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Worked example

Bottom roughness and intervention

  • Bottom roughness analysis
  • Span design codes
  • Span assessment
  • Static analysis
  • Vortex-induced vibrations
  • Intervention

  Very interesting. Good opportunity to have an overview of pipeline design  

Emanuel Pied , Doris Engineering


  Good link made between all the areas of design and very clearly presented methodology to be used by pipeline engineers, thanks to an experienced and patient tutor  

Charlotte Tisserand , Doris Engineering


  A great experience  

Jodann Bornhoft, Engineer, ExxonMobil


  A must for practicing pipeline engineers worldwide  

Arabome Tony Omozogie, Pipeline Engineer, Chevron Nigeria


  Jee course work is on point, refreshing and well packaged  

Kolawole Owolabi, Project Engineer, Chevron Nigeria


  The instructor is very knowledgeable and speaks very clear making him very easy to understand  

Tengku Dhalan, Facility Engineer, Chevron


  Insightful for engineers who have just started in design of offshore pipelines  

Harm Kuijpers, Project Engineer, Tebodin


  One week on a Jee course is like actually going out in the field for a full month  

Olusegun Aratunde , ExxonMobil

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