Production Operations

Course Description

Course participants will become familiar with both proven historical production practices as well as current technological advances to maximize oil and gas production and overall resource recovery. 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.

What Do Participants Learn?

• 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
  

Who Should Attend?

• 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
• Engineers starting a work assignment in production engineering and operations or other engineers seeking a well-rounded foundation in production engineering

What Will the Learning Experience Include?

Phase: 1

Introduce

• Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
• Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
• Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.

• During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
• Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
• Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
• **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.

Phase: 2

Explore & Practice

Phase: 3

Apply

• Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
• To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
• Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
• Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)

• Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
• Participant's Evaluation
• Trainer's Evaluation

Phase: 4

EVALUATE