Petroleum Production and Operation Engineering

Introduction

Petroleum Exploration and Production is an awareness level course designed for professionals associated with the oil and gas industry. The course content is designed to expose the participants to the full life cycle of the oil and gas industry. Participants will understand the functions of companies involved throughout the cycle and their roles and responsibilities.

The course will provide an overview of technologies, workflows, and processes that enable the oil and gas industry to explore, appraise, develop and produce hydrocarbons. Throughout the course, participants will learn the risks and rewards associated with the industry along with their social, environmental and financial impacts.

The course structure and pace apply a logical approach to learn safe, least cost, integrated analytical skills to successfully define and manage oil and gas operations. Applied skills guide the participant with a framework to make careful, prudent, technical oil and gas business decisions. Currently emerging practices in the exploitation of unconventional resources including shale gas and oil, and heavy oil and bitumen complement broad, specific coverage of conventional resource extraction.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:

• Recognize geological models to identify conventional and unconventional (shale oil and gas and heavy oil) hydrocarbon accumulations
• Understand key principles and parameters of well inflow and outflow
• Build accurate nodal analysis models for tubing size selection and problem well review
• Design and select well completion tubing, packer, and other downhole equipment tools
• Plan advanced well completion types such as multilateral, extended length, and intelligent wells
• Design both conventional and unconventional multi-stage fractured horizontal wells
• Apply successful primary casing cementing and remedial repair techniques
• Select equipment and apply practices for perforating operations
• Plan well intervention jobs using wireline, snubbing, and coiled tubing methods
• Manage corrosion, erosion, soluble and insoluble scales, and produced water handling challenges
• Apply well completion and workover fluid specifications for solids control and filtration
• Employ the five main types of artificial lift systems
• Identify formation damage and apply remedial procedures
• Design and execute successful carbonate and sandstone reservoir acidizing programs
• Understand the causes of sand production and how to select sand control options
• Understand the proper use of oilfield surfactants and related production chemistry
• Identify and successfully manage organic paraffin and asphaltene deposits
• Choose cased hole production logging tools and interpret logging results
• Understand modern conventional fracture stimulation practices
• Understand multistage, horizontal well shale gas and shale oil massive frac job design and operations
• Review heavy oil development and extraction including mining operations and current modern thermal processes

Training Methodology

The course is delivered in a combination of lecture-style and computer-based training. In addition, a significant amount of time is set aside for small working group activity when addressing case study problems. Extensive use is made of case study material to underline the key aspects of the course and to give the delegates exposure to current best practice.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed to petroleum engineers, production operations staff, reservoir engineers, facilities staff, drilling and completion engineers, geologists, field supervisors and managers, field technicians, service company engineers and managers, and especially engineers starting a work assignment in production engineering and operations or other engineers seeking a well-rounded foundation in production engineering.

Course Outline

• Importance of the geological model
• Reservoir engineering fundamentals in production operations
• Understanding inflow and outflow and applied system analysis
• Well testing methods applicable to production operations
• Well completion design and related equipment
• Primary and remedial cementing operations
• Perforating design and applications
• Completion and workover well fluids
• Well intervention: wireline, hydraulic workover units, and coiled tubing
• Production logging
• Artificial lift completions: rod pump, gas lift, ESP, PCP, plunger lift, and others
• Problem well analysis
• Formation damage
• Acidizing
• Corrosion control
• Scale deposition, removal, and prevention
• Surfactants
• Paraffin and asphaltenes
• Sand control
• Hydraulic fracturing
• Unconventional resources: shale gas and oil, heavy oil and bitumen