COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.
Continuous innovation has characterized the oil and gas industry throughout its history. In recent decades, new technologies have been key to finding and extracting recoverable oil and gas resources. Offshore Survey has the most fast paced technology within the offshore petroleum industry. There are continual developments in areas such as global positioning systems (GPS), swathe and laser based bathymetry systems, acoustic positioning and in the use of autonomous underwater vehicles.
The offshore oil and gas industry relies upon survey and positioning for exploration, facilities planning, construction and maintenance. Exploration surveys include positioning and orientation of exploration drilling rigs. The planning and installation of offshore production platforms and pipelines also requires accurate survey techniques and precise positioning.
This course is designed to provide an updated overview of the Offshore Survey within oil and gas fields. The course covers this interesting technology from precise positioning to acquisition and processing of data including information on quality and movement of seawater at offshore development sites. The course covers the Hydrographic “analog” search and survey tools. These include echosounders, sidescan sonars, swathe bathymetry, autonomous underwater vehicle, pingers, boomers, and multi-electrode sparkers. The course will focus on Multibeam Echo Sounders, Airborne Laser Bathymetry, Satellite Navigation (GPS) and Differential Corrections of Satellite Navigation (DGPS). Further, the course will introduce new technologies such as Worldwide GNSS Augmentation, Electronic Charts, Underwater Positioning and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).