Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) For Pipelines: Design, Example and Stress Analysis (previously recorded live training)
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Author: David Willoughby
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Level: Advanced
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Study time: 3.5 hours
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Course overview
**This is a previously recorded virtual training, now provided in on-demand format.**
In this training course, participants gain a comprehensive understanding of a crucial element in HDD design: the assessment of whether HDD methods can feasibly navigate obstacles using contemporary tools and techniques.
Technical feasibility is established through a comparative analysis between proposed crossings and past installations. This exploration delves into the multifaceted factors involved in evaluating the feasibility of an HDD project, with a particular focus on the initial site survey. This survey entails both surface and partial subsurface investigations, taking into account various factors, such as natural and man-made features, subsurface conditions, earth materials, stratification, groundwater, topography, and human activities.
Additionally, the course addresses the evaluation of the risk associated with inadvertent drilling fluid flow to the surface due to hydrofracture and offers insights from real-world feasibility studies.
In this training course, participants gain a comprehensive understanding of a crucial element in HDD design: the assessment of whether HDD methods can feasibly navigate obstacles using contemporary tools and techniques.
Technical feasibility is established through a comparative analysis between proposed crossings and past installations. This exploration delves into the multifaceted factors involved in evaluating the feasibility of an HDD project, with a particular focus on the initial site survey. This survey entails both surface and partial subsurface investigations, taking into account various factors, such as natural and man-made features, subsurface conditions, earth materials, stratification, groundwater, topography, and human activities.
Additionally, the course addresses the evaluation of the risk associated with inadvertent drilling fluid flow to the surface due to hydrofracture and offers insights from real-world feasibility studies.
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Video time: 3.5 hours
David Willoughby
Content SME for Horizontal Directional Drilling
ABOUT DaVid
Mr. Willoughby has 40 years of experience in engineering, pipeline design, corrosion control, and management in the petroleum and utilities pipeline industry. His experience includes gas transmission and distribution systems, petroleum facilities, and water/sewer pipelines from conception through design, construction and testing, economic evaluation, and project field supervision.
Mr. Willoughby has been responsible for the design, permitting, inspection, and construction administration of numerous horizontal directional drills (HDD) on pipeline projects.
He is the author of several articles and two books published by McGraw-Hill, The Plastic Piping Handbook (2002) and Horizontal Directional Drilling (2005).
Mr. Willoughby provides HDD training to the pipeline and utility industries. He has presented at the engineering workshop at N.C. Utilities Commission Office of the Pipeline Safety Conference and the Southern Gas Association Annual Conference.
Mr. Willoughby’s HDD training is used to provide Professional Development Hours (PDU) for professional engineers in many states, including Texas.