Recent participants include professionals from:

• Advanced Drilling Fluids
• Asia Connecting Center
• ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (ATP)
• Baker Hughes
• Caerketton Ltd
• Crondall Energy Consultants
• Heriot-Watt University

• James Walker
• Kosmos Energy Ghana HC
• Mærsk Oil and Gas
• Petromar Angola
• Rothschild
• Senergy
• Talisman-Energy
• TNK-BP
• Weatherford

• Hydrafact
• ADTI
• OMV Petrom S.A.

...and many more who wished to improve their employability through developing their understanding of Petroleum Engineering

Professionals who wish to enhance their existing skills set to support their employment and career progression in the Oil and Gas Industry.

Course requirement

A degree in science or engineering is desirable.

Introduction

• A brief history
• Origin of petroleum
• Plate tectonics
• Units in petroleum engineering
• Overview of the industry
  
  

       Geology

• Petroleum geology and geophysics
• Fluid migration
• Reservoir formation
• 2, 3 and 4 D seismic
  
  

Drilling

• Drilling operations (onshore, offshore)
• Rig components
• Top drive
• Formation pressure
• Leak off test
• Drilling problems
• Coring
• Casing design
• Cementing
• Cement log (CBL/VDL)
• Directional drilling
• LWD
• MWD
  
  

Production

• Field development (onshore, offshore)
• Logging (open/cased hole)
• PLT
• Production technology
• Inflow Performance
• Vertical lift
• Flow through chokes
• Nodal analysis
• Well completion
• Downhole and surface components
• Perforation
• Intelligent wells
• Wireline operations
• Well intervention
• Workover
• Coiled tubing
• Abandonment
• Well Integrity Management
• Artificial lift
• Formation damage
• Well test
• Well stimulation
• Sand control
  
  

Reservoir Engineering

• Reserve estimation
• PVT and phase behavior
• Equation of State
• PVT tests and reports
• Properties of reservoir fluids (density, viscosity, IFT)

• Reservoir rock properties
• Production mechanisms (primary, secondary, EOR/IOR)
• Material balance
• Reservoir simulation
  
  

Processing

• Oil production
• Processing and treatment
• Gas production and processing
• as/oil transportation
  
  

Flow assurance

• Hydrates
• Scale
• Wax
• Asphalting
• Corrosion
• Slugging

• Pigging
• Emulsion
• Foaming
  
  

Additional topics

• Heavy oil
• Unconventional reservoirs
• CO2 capture transport and storage
• Digital fields
• Refining
• End products and their usage
• Environment

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.