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FPSO Operation & Maintenance

FPSO Operation & Maintenance

1 Weeks
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Course Content

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CityDatePriceStatus
GenevaSwitzerland
October 14, 2026
€4,900
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AmsterdamNetherlands
October 16, 2026
€4,900
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LondonUnited Kingdom
October 21, 2026
£4,800
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TunisTunis
October 28, 2026
€4,400
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DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
November 1, 2026
€4,400
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Kuala LumpurMalaysia
November 4, 2026
€4,800
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ParisFrance
November 29, 2026
€4,900
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LisbonPortugal
December 10, 2026
€4,800
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SingaporeSingapore
December 27, 2026
€5,100
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OnlineOnline
January 2, 2027
€2,400
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IstanbulTurkey
January 11, 2027
€4,400
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Course Information

Duration

1 Weeks

Category

Oil & Gas

Level

Professional Level

Certificate

Included

INTRODUCTION

Floating production, storage, and offloading facilities combine offshore production systems with marine, storage, and export capabilities. Their successful operation depends on close integration between topside processing, marine systems, utilities, cargo handling, maintenance, and safety functions. Harsh offshore conditions create demanding requirements for equipment reliability, structural integrity, corrosion management, and emergency preparedness. Operational disruptions can affect production, personnel safety, environmental protection, cargo schedules, and commercial performance. This course provides a structured examination of the major systems and practices supporting floating production facility operations and maintenance. Participants study hydrocarbon processing, marine systems, storage, offloading, utilities, maintenance strategies, and asset integrity management. The program emphasizes practical monitoring, troubleshooting, inspection, reliability improvement, and safe operating discipline. Case studies help participants evaluate realistic equipment failures, process deviations, and operational emergencies. The course provides a strong professional foundation for improving offshore production reliability, safety, availability, and lifecycle performance.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:

  • Explain the configuration and operating principles of floating production, storage, and offloading facilities.
  • Describe major topside, marine, utility, storage, and export systems.
  • Understand hydrocarbon processing and production operations within floating offshore facilities.
  • Analyze cargo storage, transfer, offloading, and marine operating requirements.
  • Apply systematic troubleshooting methods to common process and equipment problems.
  • Develop effective preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.
  • Evaluate corrosion, inspection, structural integrity, and equipment reliability challenges.
  • Understand process safety, emergency shutdown, firefighting, and emergency response systems.
  • Improve operational availability through performance monitoring and maintenance optimization.
  • Integrate operations, maintenance, safety, and integrity perspectives in offshore decision-making.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:

  • Offshore production operators responsible for process monitoring, control, storage, and export activities.
  • Marine engineers supporting vessel systems, utilities, stability, and offshore operating requirements.
  • Maintenance engineers responsible for rotating, static, electrical, and instrumentation equipment reliability.
  • Process engineers supporting production performance, troubleshooting, optimization, and safe operating conditions.
  • Mechanical engineers responsible for pumps, compressors, vessels, piping, and critical equipment.
  • Instrumentation professionals supporting automation, alarms, shutdowns, and safeguarding systems.
  • Integrity specialists managing inspection, corrosion, structural condition, and risk-based maintenance.
  • Safety professionals supporting process hazards, emergency response, and offshore risk management.
  • Managers overseeing offshore production, maintenance, reliability, safety, and asset performance.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1: FPSO Configuration, Offshore Operations and Integrated Facility Systems

  • Overview of floating production facility concepts, configurations, and operational functions.
  • Integration of subsea production, risers, topsides, storage, and export systems.
  • Major topside processing systems and their operational relationships.
  • Vessel layout, hazardous areas, access, and offshore operating constraints.
  • Production reception, separation, treatment, measurement, and stabilization fundamentals.
  • Utility systems supporting continuous and safe offshore production operations.
  • Control rooms, operating procedures, communications, and shift management practices.
  • Key performance indicators for production, availability, reliability, and safety.
  • Major operational risks affecting floating production facility performance.

Day 2: Process Operations, Utilities and Production System Performance

  • Oil, gas, and produced water processing system operating principles.
  • Separator control, interface management, and production stability requirements.
  • Gas compression, treatment, dehydration, and fuel gas operations.
  • Produced water treatment, discharge, reinjection, and environmental monitoring.
  • Power generation, electrical distribution, and essential utility system dependencies.
  • Cooling, heating, compressed air, nitrogen, and chemical injection systems.
  • Process monitoring using trends, alarms, samples, and operating parameters.
  • Troubleshooting reduced production, equipment trips, and process instability.
  • Optimizing production while respecting equipment and safety operating limits.

Day 3: Marine Systems, Cargo Storage and Offloading Operations

  • Marine system functions supporting safe floating facility operations.
  • Ballast management, stability, loading conditions, and vessel trim considerations.
  • Cargo tank arrangements, level monitoring, and inventory management principles.
  • Crude oil storage, circulation, heating, and quality preservation requirements.
  • Cargo transfer pumps, piping, valves, and export system configurations.
  • Offloading preparation, tanker coordination, communications, and transfer operations.
  • Mooring systems, turret arrangements, station keeping, and environmental loading.
  • Managing cargo contamination, overfill, spills, and transfer abnormalities.
  • Emergency shutdown and response during marine and offloading incidents.

Day 4: Maintenance, Reliability, Inspection and Asset Integrity

  • Maintenance strategies for critical offshore equipment and production systems.
  • Preventive, predictive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance applications.
  • Criticality assessment and prioritization of maintenance activities.
  • Reliability monitoring for pumps, compressors, turbines, and rotating machinery.
  • Inspection requirements for vessels, piping, tanks, structures, and marine systems.
  • Corrosion mechanisms, monitoring methods, coatings, and cathodic protection.
  • Planning shutdowns, maintenance campaigns, spares, and offshore resources.
  • Managing maintenance backlogs, work orders, and performance indicators.
  • Integrating operations, maintenance, inspection, and engineering improvement activities.

Day 5: Process Safety, Emergency Response and Operational Optimization

  • Major accident hazards associated with offshore production and storage facilities.
  • Fire and gas detection, alarms, shutdowns, and safeguarding philosophies.
  • Emergency depressurization, relief, flare, and isolation system requirements.
  • Firefighting systems, evacuation, rescue, and emergency response coordination.
  • Managing simultaneous operations and permit-to-work requirements.
  • Root cause analysis of equipment failures and recurring operational problems.
  • Improving availability through reliability and maintenance performance analysis.
  • Managing environmental risks, spills, emissions, waste, and discharge requirements.
  • Developing integrated strategies for safer and more efficient facility operations.

COURSE DURATION

Duration: 1 Weeks

This intensive professional program is delivered over five consecutive training days and combines expert instruction, technical explanations, system reviews, practical exercises, offshore scenarios, troubleshooting workshops, case studies, and guided discussions to develop comprehensive capabilities in floating production operations, marine systems, cargo handling, maintenance, reliability, asset integrity, process safety, emergency response, and operational optimization.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

The program is delivered by an internationally certified expert with extensive practical and consulting experience in floating offshore production facilities, offshore operations, marine systems, hydrocarbon processing, maintenance engineering, reliability, asset integrity, process safety, emergency response, and operational optimization, providing participants with practical knowledge derived from real offshore environments and international practices.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Yes, it integrates production, marine, maintenance, reliability, integrity, and safety topics.

CONCLUSION

This program provides a comprehensive understanding of floating production facility operations, maintenance, and integrated offshore systems. Participants develop practical capabilities in production, marine operations, cargo handling, troubleshooting, reliability, and asset integrity. The course strengthens operational decision-making, process safety, emergency preparedness, and maintenance performance. Practical exercises connect engineering principles with realistic offshore production and equipment challenges. Graduates leave better prepared to support safe, reliable, efficient, and optimized floating production operations.

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