The course will feature:

• • Origin, nature, and occurrence of petroleum
  • Identifying and classifying rocks - source rocks, reservoir rocks, and seals
  • Sedimentology and stratigraphy
  • Depositional environments and their significance to reservoir rock prediction
  • Geologic time and dating geologic events
  • Structural geology - folding and faulting
  • Formation of petroleum traps
  • Surface and subsurface mapping methods
  • Reconstructing geologic events through field work, maps, and cross sections
  • Exploration methods - generating and evaluating prospects
  • Working with logs
  • Sources of data
  • Oil shows at the wellsite
  • Formation evaluation

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• • Recognize the components of the structure of the Earth
  • Identify the main rock types, their origins and their roles in petroleum generation and entrapment
  • Understand how drilling, completing and reworking a well affects its ability to produce
  • Understand what can be done within open-hole and cased wells, as a part of reservoir management
  • Understand how drilling practices can damage or stimulate producing wells

Petroleum Engineers, Technical & Reservoir Engineers, Drilling Engineers, Processing Engineers, Commercial Analysts, Decision Makers, Investors in oil and gas sector

Course Outline:

• • Overall drilling practices
  • Language of drilling
  • Reservoir rock and fluid properties
  • Rigs & rig equipment
  • Drilling string components & design
  • Bits
  • Fluids & hydraulics 
  • Rig operation
  • MWD
  • Well control 
  • Hole problems & stuck pipe
  • Drilling risks
  • Cores and coring
  • Casing design & installation

• • Primary cementing
  • Directional, horizontal, multilateral & under-balanced drilling
  • Wellhead & trees
  • Zonal isolation
  • Tubing, packers & completion equipment
  • Safety & flow control devices
  • Open hole completions
  • Basic completion types
  • Perforating
  • Open & cased hole logging 
  • Formation damage & treatment
  • Completion fluids
  • Multiple completions
  • Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing & deep perforating 
  • Formation & sand control: screens, chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new & novel techniques
  • Scale & corrosion
  • Paraffin & asphaltenes 
  • Recompletions
  • Reworks
  • Sidetracking
  • Deepening
  • Coiled tubing

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