T-2 / PSST / Subpart O

Course Outline

Prerequisites: This course shall have no formal pre-requisite.

Course Length: 7-8 hours a day, for 3 days.

Class Size:  The maximum number of students that may be trained and tested per instructor shall be fifteen (15) in the classroom session and fifteen (15) in the practical session.

Course Objective:

• To provide inexperienced and experienced students with recommended practices and guidelines to perform safely while working with production safety systems found in the oil & gas industry.
• Students will be given the knowledge and taught these skills in a classroom and practical setting. 
• Students should be able to demonstrate these necessary skills during practical examination and demonstrate knowledge during written examination.

Course Design:

• Power Point© / Lecture / Audio Video / Visual Aids
• Demonstrations
• Practical Exercises

Successful Course Completion:

• Requires a minimum score of 75% on the written and 100% on the practical.  The score on the practical shall be determined by the student’s knowledge and performance in testing of the safety systems.
• Students will have no more than three (3) hours to complete the exam.
• Grades shall be calculated by dividing the number of questions answered correctly by the total number of exam questions (211).
• Successful completion of practical sessions is also mandatory.

Course Content Summary:

• Classroom
• Practicals

Breaks - 5 to 15 minutes (approximately every hour)

Lunch –1 Hour

Course Outline:

Day 1:

• Introduction to T-2 requirements
• Hydrocarbon reservoirs
• Explanation of how reservoirs and traps are formed
• Drilling concepts
•  Types of drilling rigs and the overall process of hydrocarbon extraction from reservoirs
• Processing of hydrocarbons
•  Introduction to well heads and their components
• Production equipment operations
• Basic explanation of separators, treaters and other types of production equipment
• Safety systems versus control systems
•  How safety systems are integrated with control systems

Day 2:

• Sub Part O manual
• MMS, API, and Coast Guard regulations and requirements
• Common names versus MMS identifications
• Introduction to abnormal conditions and undesirable events
• Potential problems and trouble shooting of production equipment
• Primary and secondary protection
• MMS 30 CFR 250 & 254
• Oil and gas drilling and production operations in OCS waters
• API recommended Practices
• Introduction to API-RP 14C and its requirements
• Coast Guard Title 33 CFR
• Parts – 140, 144, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 67.

Day 3:

• Review / Summary
• Hands on practical session
• Examination

Practical Session:

Practical training shall be documented using API RP 14C recommended practices for analysis, design, installation, and testing of basic surface safety systems.  

Hands on Training

• Practice setting and testing basic surface safety systems.
• Testing of the well control panel and its associated timing devices. 

Training Center Provided Material

• PPE
• Training Manual

Student Requirements

• None

Reference Material / Documents

• API RP 14C, 30 CFR 250 & 254.