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Pipelines 101, 102, and 103 - May 11th and 12th Classes

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.