Subsea Awareness Course Spring 2025

Starts: Mon, Mar 24, 2025 8:00 AM CST
Ends: Thu, Mar 27, 2025 5:00 PM CST
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The SUT-US Subsea Awareness training provides foundational knowledge for individuals entering the industry and those needing a refresher on operational perspectives and latest technology. The training offers industry professionals a broad introduction to subsea, covering the various sectors, operations and emerging technologies.

The upcoming training is planned to take place in-person in Houston, Texas as shown in the program below. The confirmed venues are as listed below.

Who should attend
Engineers, managers, financial analysts, and others new to the offshore industry, or those transferring from other disciplines within the industry. This course is also great for engineers who have worked in subsea previously but would benefit from a refresher course and exposure to the latest technology.

Registration
Cost full course
SUT members - $3,500
Non-members - $3,800

Cost per session
SUT members - $875
Non-members - $950

Registration cost includes meals, and the SUT-US can confirm for facility tours based upon the locations below.

SUT corporate members interested in group registration, register 10 employees for the cost of 7. Click here to contact us.

Course Program

Day 1 - March 24: Subsea Trees Subsea Completions Manifolds & Tie In Systems Systems Integration Systems Approach Facility View / Tour Location: TechnipFMC Generation Park 13460 Lockwood Rd Houston, TX 77055	Day 2 - March 25: Field Development Planning Systems Engineering Operators Perspective Pipelines Installations Flow Assurance Location: SLB 6401 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77041
Day 3 - March 26: ROV Operaions & Applications Subsea & Production Controls Umbilicals & Terminations Pipeline Repair Light Well Intervention and workover controls Facility View / Tour Location: Oceaneering 11911 FM 529 Houston, TX 77041	Day 4 - March 27: Floating Production Systems Subsea Processing Subsea Operations Case Study Field Development Strategies Field Development Strategies Offshore Renewables Location: Wood PLC 17325 Park Row Houston, TX 77084 Co-Lab, Stallion Building

Some of our presenters

Carlos Avila

Carlos Avila has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Tulsa. Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela. Subject matter expert on Multiphase Flow, Multiphase Flow Conditioning, Gas/Liquid and Liquid/Liquid separation and Compact separation (14+ years in Chevron). Experience in Flow Assurance from design phase to operations support. Multiphase Flow and Droplet size prediction expertise for Separation and Flow Assurance applications. Experience as Research & Development (R&D) program manager. Expertise in Gas-Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone (GLCC) separator from design to operations support for both metering and debottlenecking applications. Carlos is enthusiastic mentoring on different topics including Multiphase Flow and GLCC separator to engineers, interns, and university students. Interests in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Multiphase Flow Metering. Dr. Avila holds multiple patents and has authored and co-authored over 25 publications. In 2021, Dr. Avila created “Avila Multiphase Flow Consulting, LLC” to provide training and technical services in the Multiphase Flow area. In 2022, Carlos worked as a Sr. Project Scientist at SPL (Assured Flow Solutions) applying Project Management skills, technical oversight, QA/QC to Flow Assurance experimental projects for Major Operating Oil Companies and Chemical suppliers and providing modeling support on Transient Multiphase Flow and Droplet size prediction. In 2023, Carlos joined Wood as a Staff Flow Assurance Consultant to help lead projects on Flow Assurance and renewable energy synergies, provide guidance in the areas of technology and core competency and assist in the training and development of other Wood Flow Assurance personnel.

Ian Still, Independent Contractor

Ian has over 30 years of subsea systems engineering experience in the hydrocarbon development and production processing industry, working in many global shallow and deepwater basins in his career. As principal systems engineer with Shell International he held the office of Subsea Systems Technical Authority contributing and validating the portfolio of concept identification, definition and execute projects in Brazil, GoM, Nigeria, Malaysia and Australia. He was accountable for HPHT 400°F and 20ksi subsea hardware development, subsea processing technology programs, and held authority over corporate technical standards for subsea equipment in addition to serving on API sub-committees. He holds an honors BSc in Engineering from Robert Gordon University, is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and a member of the International Council of Systems Engineering.

William M. Taggart IV, PE - Engineering Consultant

William M. Taggart IV - A professional engineer for over 30 years, worked on major projects in deepwater oil/gas, shale oil, copper mining, and refineries. His initial 16 years was spent with a consulting engineer firm in New Orleans designing project for multiple industries. He then spent 16 years with Murphy Oil, designing and troubleshooting oil/gas facilities in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Eagleford Shale, Permian Shale, and internationally. He is recognized as a subject matter expert for the systems that control industrial applications and protect the personnel, equipment, and the environment from those industrial processes. Now focused on large scale energy storage as founder and CEO of Cavern Energy Storage which is developing long duration energy storage for the Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi region. The company is developing underground pumped storage hydroelectric using salt dome caverns to provide an efficient 20-hour electricity storage solution for the Gulf Coast.He is also the author of “Fixing America: An Engineer’s Solution to our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems”. A book that Kirkus Reviews called “A timely, level-headed analysis of America’s most polarizing political issues.” This book takes America’s problems and analyzes them with a nonpartisan, factual, data-driven approach to reach simple solutions that can be implemented. The book invites a discussion of the issues that America is grappling with.

Thank you to our Sponsors:

Past attendees include:
- Shell
- BP
- PEMEX
- Chevron
- BHP Billiton
- Halliburton
- Southwest Electronic Energy Inc.
- Saipem America Inc.
- Instituto Tecnologico del Petroleo y Energia
- RISE ENERGY
- Oxy
- Endeavor Management

Note: Specific course content and structure subject to modification. For registration information contact us at click here.

Organizing Committee: SEO-Atlantic

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