Course Description

The Participants will acquire an understanding of the geological principles employed to find, develop and produce oil and gas reservoirs, the type of data required to build a model of the subsurface, and the different methods used to display information. This course will demystify the language used by geoscientists and help participants understand the relevance of petroleum geology within the overall framework of the upstream oil and gas industry.

Course Objectives

·         How to recognise the components of the structure of the Earth

·         How to identify the main rock types, their origins and their roles in petroleum generation and entrapment

·         How drilling, completing and reworking a well affects its ability to produce

·         What can be done within open-hole and cased wells, as a part of reservoir management

·         How drilling practices can damage or stimulate producing wells

Who Should Attend?

·         Petroleum engineers 

·         Technical – reservoir engineers

·         Drilling engineers

·         Processing engineers

·         Commercial – commercial analysts

·         Decision makers

·         Oil and gas investors or development projects

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Overall drilling practices

·         Language of drilling

·         Reservoir rock and fluid properties

·         Rigs & rig equipment • Drilling string components & design

·         Bits

·         Fluids & hydraulics 

·         Rig operation

·         MWD

DAY 2

·         Well control 

·         Hole problems & stuck pipe

·         Drilling risks

·         Cores and coring

·         Casing design & installation

·         Primary cementing

·         Directional, horizontal, multilateral & under-balanced drilling

DAY 3

·         Wellhead & trees

·         Zonal isolation

·         Tubing, packers & completion equipment

·         Safety & flow control devices

·         Open hole completions

·         Basic completion types

·         Perforating

DAY 4

·         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

DAY 5

·         Paraffin & asphaltenes 

·         Recompletions

·         Reworks

·         Sidetracking

·         Deepening

·         Coiled tubing