Upon completion, participants will have the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the relationships and dependencies across the E&P industry.

By the end of this course delegates will learn about:

• • Exploration/production overview
  • Basic petroleum geology principles
  • Basic petroleum geophysics principles
  • Log interpretation basics
  • Drilling basics
  • Basic reservoir engineering
  • Basic production engineering
  • Basic facilities engineering
  • Business principles governing E/P

Newly hired engineers and geoscientists, petroleum engineers, production operators, technicians and industry personnel

Oil & Gas Reservoirs

• • Characteristics of rocks
  • Origin of oil
  • Reservoir Traps
  • Reservoir Fluid Composition

Drilling

• • Exploration
  • Rotary drilling rig
  • Drill bits
  • Hoisting, rotating and circulating system
  • Conductor casing
  • Drilling fluid / mud pump
  • Surface casing
  • Intermediate casing
  • Logs and tests
  • Production process casing

Oil Well Completion

• • Perforated completion
  • Open hole completion
  • Perforated liner completion
  • Tubing and packers
  • Tubingless completions
  • Multiple completion
  • Wire trapped screen completion

 Wellhead

• • Casing head
  • Tubing head
  • Christmas tree

Reservoir Drives

• • Dissolved-gas drive
  • Gas-cap drive
  • Water drive
  • Combination drive

Artificial Lift

• • Beam pumping
  • Sub surface hydraulic pumping
  • Electric submersible pumping
  • Gas lift

Reservoir Stimulation

• • Fracturing
  • Acidizing
  • Chemical treatment

Additional Recovery

• • Water flooding
  • Miscible processes
  • Thermal processes

 
Separation & Treatment

• • Two-phase separation
  • Three-phase separation
  • Emulsion treatment
  • Gas handling and treatment

Oil Well Testing

• • Potential tests
  • Bottom hole pressure tests
  • Productivity tests
  • Bottom - Hole Temperature Determination
  • Fluid Level Determination

Oil Lease Storage and Measurement

• • Oil storage
  • Oil measurement
  • LACT units
  • Computers in production process operation

Special Problems

• • Water
  • Paraffin
  • Hydrogen sulfide

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