Course Description

A course that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems for locating, extracting, processing and refining crude petroleum and natural gas, including prospecting instruments and equipment, mining and drilling systems, processing and refining systems and facilities, storage facilities, transportation systems, and related environmental and safety systems.

Course Objectives

·         Understand the Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties

·         Understand the Material Balance Equations and their Uses

·         Learning the Art of Fluid Sampling and Analysis

·         Understand the Reserve Estimates and Predictions

·         Understand the Crude Oil Composition & Analysis

·         Learning the Picking of Pressure Points

·         Understand the Coring and the Use of Core Data

·         Learning the Prediction of Pore Pressure

·         Understand the Multi Phase Flow of Fluids in Porous Media

Who Should Attend?

·         Petroleum Engineering

·         Geology

·         Earth Sciences

·         Geophysics, and other related area 

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Reservoir traps

·         Oil Reserve Estimates

·         Production Mechanism

·         Data Acquired

·         Well Testing & Production

·         Reservoir Types

·         Rock Properties

·         Rock Wettability

DAY 2

·         Fluid Properties

·         Fluid Composition

·         Fluid Types

·         Fluid Sampling

·         Crude Oil Properties

·         Formation Water Properties

·         Material Balance Equations and their Uses

DAY 3

·         Gas Reservoirs

·         Pressure Measurements

·         Plans for Development

·         Crude Oil Composition & Analysis

·         Processing Units & Degassing Stations

·         Asphaltene, Tar, and Wax Problems

·         Effects of Change of Reservoir Pressure

·         Heavy Oil

·         Samples from Core

DAY 4

·         Down Hole Sampling

·         H2S and CO2

·         The Art of Sampling

·         Picking of Pressure Points

·         Coring: What is Coring

·         Conventional Core Barrel

·         Core Jamming

·         Coring While Drilling

·         Sponge Core

·         Coring Tracer

·         Gamma Tracking on Core Samples

DAY 5

·         Corrosion: Basics of Corrosion

·         Factors Affecting Corrosion

·         Corrosion Rate & Mechanism

·         Forms of Corrosion

·         Analysis of Corrosion Data

·         Cementing: Basics

·         Cement-Mud Relationship

·         Slurry Dynamics

·         Rehology of Cement Slurry

·         Displacement Mechanism

·         Problems with Gas

·         Analysis of Cement data