Pipelines 101, 102, and 103 - May 11th and 12th Classes
May 13, 2016
May 11th and 12th 15 students atteneded Oil and Gas PIpelines 101- Introduction to Oil and Gas Pipelines, 15 students attended Oil and Gas Pipelines 102 - Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction and Economics, and 7 students attended Oil and Gas Pipelines 103 - Oil and Gas PIpelines Technical Topics. Student comments included the following:
Overall Comments
- Great 2 days - packed with good info.
- Really enjoyed the class. I wish I'd gotten to take it when I first started in the industry.
- This was a great class. I learned a lot. Excellent instructor.
- Excellent. You covered a lot in 2 days. I have learned a lot.
- Loved class. Thank you.
- Great presentation. Keept materials interesting while presenting in a way that is easy to understand.
101
- Pictures are helpful. Lot of details.
- The details provided were the perfect amount.
- Everything presented was clear and understandable.
- Overview of scheduling and control operations were well expalined.
- Great dramitization in Control Room section.
- Very helpful to include formation of oil and gas and overview of major US oil fields.
- Good explainaintion of associated facilities and how they fit together - very helpful.
- Diagrams helped in understanding control room opt and data analyzed.
- Intrerity flow process chart was great.
- Liked the breakdown and formula for MAOP.
- Loved this section (critique of Regulations section).
- Great information on history and foundation of midstream.
- This really helped me understand what the integrity engineers on my floor do.
- This connected to a lot of things I have been learning on the job.
- Tom made this topic more interesting than I ever thought it would be (critique of Control Room Operations).
102
- Company specific examples were helpful.
- The videos were great.
- The commentary on decisions and risk was helpful.
- Videos - expecially of HDD were helpful.
- Very helpful to understand pigging.
- Very useful. Just the right amount of detail. Very relevant to our jobs.
- Calculations and diagrams were very helpful to understand economic concepts.
- Overview of scada systems and roles and functionality well explained.
- Great HDD video.
- Presented in way which was very easy to understand.
- Wonderful. Great to understand the business side of things, as the business incentives are what drive the pipeline operations.
- The photos showing the step by step running of the pig were extremely helpful.
103
- Great information, I'd like to learn more about hydrauilics and dig into it more - good introduction.
- Never had any information on design but this definetely grabben my interest.
- I liked how you circled back to expand and review.
- Perfect (critique of the hydraulics section).
- i like that you saved Engineering and Design to the end. it was a great way to reveiw and reinformce earlier learned concepts.
- The scada pictures were a big help (critique of the leak detection section).
- Very well explained.
- Thank you for providing the facility type diagrams for rule of thumbs.