BOP Inspection and Testing

Course Summary

If BOPE inspection and/or testing is required on the division’s Permit to Conduct Well Operations (Form OG 111), inspections must be made by a division representative accompanied by the operator’s and/or contractor’s representative. The division inspector must verify that all of the requirements for casing, BOPE, hole-fluid monitoring equipment, and pressure rating are satisfied.

Learning Objectives

This course serves as a guide for Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (division) engineers, this course covers the following:

• Testing the actuating system
• Testing the accumulator unit
• Emergency back up system
• Accumulator back up system
• Testing the BOPE stack, choke and kill system, and auxiliary equipment.
• Subsea BOPE inspection and testing
• Subsea Pressure testing
• Subsea preventer actuation testing
• Testing the auxiliary equipment

Course Author

California Department of Conservation

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Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

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This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

Mechanical Engineering

Oil & Gas and Petrochemical Engineering