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.

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Subsea Pipeline Repair Techniques. It covers the common failure modes in subsea pipelines, degradation mechanisms and leaking detection strategies; the inspection triggers, lifecycle phases and criticality for repair strategies; the damage assessment, wall thickness and cracking depth evaluation; the structural and flow assurance considerations and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA); and the repair planning methodologies and subsea repair design considerations.

Further, the course will also discuss the reliability, availability, maintainability (RAM) analysis and risk-based inspection (RBI) approach to repair strategy; the differences in execution scope and timelines, emergency response kit components, lessons learned from past unplanned repair events and mobilization and rapid deployment protocols; and the diver-assisted repair techniques, ROV-based repair techniques and mechanical repair systems.

During this interactive course, participants will learn the composite and epoxy-based repairs, welding and hot-tap repair techniques and isolation and pipeline preparation techniques; the clamp installation tools and guides, spool and jumper handling skids, custom-engineered support tools and tool deployment frames and alignment jigs; the vessel selection for intervention, equipment mobilization and deck layout planning; the launch and recovery systems (LARS) and weather windows, metocean data and DP systems; the NDT methods, seal pressure testing, hydrotest procedures, structural monitoring and sensor integration, post-repair validation and commissioning; the digital twins and simulation tools for repairs, subsea condition monitoring with AI analytics, real-time repair modeling and visualization; and the integration with digital asset management systems.