NExT Oil_Gas Training Course Catalog

Oil & Gas Technical Training and Career Development A Schlumberger Company

2012-13

COURSE CATALOG 40 New Courses ■■

31 Technical Courses

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5 Software Courses

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4 Field Courses

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oday, the E&P industry faces significant human resource challenges. Companies with a deficit of mid-career expertise are under huge pressure to accelerate the development of their young professionals. And as the industry focuses on hard-to-extract oil and gas resources, professionals at all levels need to acquire fresh skill sets and understanding of new technology. NExT* Network of Excellence in Training is a Schlumberger company dedicated to the professional development of the E&P industry’s geoscientists and engineers. The comprehensive NExT portfolio of courses, programs, and competency services is perfectly suited to address these challenges. With a truly global presence and 10 years of experience delivering training to oil and gas companies in more than 50 countries, NExT understands the world’s oil and gas fields and can customize solutions to match your specific needs. In addition, our association with Texas A&M, University of Oklahoma, and HeriotWatt University ensures that NExT training reflects the latest in academic and industry knowledge. New for 2012, we have added 40 new courses to our growing course curriculum and expanded our technical training programs with new programs for Exploration, Geomechanics, and Unconventional Resources. For training on industry-leading software tools from Schlumberger Information Solutions, we have added new courses for the latest release of Petrel, Techlog, and PetroMod. With more than 1,000 public classes worldwide, our clients can develop their software and science expertise faster. OIL & GAS COURSES Currently, we offer more than 340 practical technical and software courses designed for today’s engineers and geoscientists. The NExT technical team of oil and gas experts is committed to sourcing the best instructors, producing materials to the highest standard, and ensuring that the curricula evolve to embrace the latest technology advances. Our teaching faculty numbers more than 1000 instructors, all experts in their fields, with a wide variety of technical and regional experience.

Training Programs For greater training needs—to build or transform your team or organization—we offer in-depth, customized programs designed to bring oil and gas professionals to a required level of autonomy faster. Each program is truly unique, with the right blend of training modes to suit your training objectives and the cultural requirements. The blend is made from courses, e-learning, simulations, software, and handson tasks, all delivered in your offices or in world-class Schlumberger training centers in the Middle East, Russia, Europe, or the US. The goal always is to complement knowledge gained in the classroom with experience gained in the workplace. Competency Management For measuring the impact of your technical development programs, NExT also offers competency management to test and verify the progress of your employees. Through a process of assessment, planning, development, and verification, your company can correctly target and maximize returns on its training investment. Studies have proven that the competency-based approach to training is the only sure way of accelerating each employee’s time to expertise. There is simply no more efficient way of developing your workforce than by basing it on a solid foundation of competency management. NExT training is here to help move your professional workforce forward. We look forward to serving you and hearing about your training needs and aspirations.

Hooman Sadrpanah Managing Director NExT Network of Excellence in Training [email protected]

In the following pages, you’ll find discipline maps that explain our public course offering. Each color-coded map shows courses grouped by discipline and proficiency level to help you find the right ones for you. You can register for a public course or find out more by visiting us at NExTtraining.net/classes. As always, any of our courses can be tailored to your in-house training program. To find out more or to ask questions about public courses, please e-mail us at [email protected].

Visit NExTtraining.net/classes for the latest calendar or to register for a course.

TABLE of CONTENTS

Geology

Ocean

Geophysics

Petrophysics Drilling Technology Reservoir Engineering Production Surface Facilities Management and Economics

* : Software Intensive Courses Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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Unconventional Resources & Geomechanics

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Information Management

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Techical Index Software Index

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Contacts x

geology NExT’s Geology curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Geology course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Geology curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Structural Geology Advanced Applied Structural Geology in Hydrocarbons System Analysis

Skill

Carbonate Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

Clastic Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

Sequence Stratigraphy Principles and Applications

Exploration and Prospect Definition

Field Appraisal and Development

Geologic Assessment of Reservoir Seals and Pay

Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling

Evaluation and Management of Fractured Reservoirs

Reservoir Geology

Subsurface Facies Analysis

Deepwater Sedimentary Systems

Economics of Petroleum Exploration

Fluvial and Deltaic Depositional Systems

Play to Prospect Methods and Workflow

Fractured Reservoir Characterization with Emphasis on Carbonates

Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

Introduction to Geologic Interpretation of Seismic Profiles

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy

Prospect Appraisal and Petroleum Economics

: 3D Reservoir Modeling Workshop Applied Geostatistics

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Petroleum Systems and Exploration and Development Geochemistry Clastic Reservoir Characterization

Global Tectonics and Geologic Prospecting Tools for Exploration

Clastic Sedimentology for Exploration and Development

Foundation

Structural Geology

Geology of Clastic Reservoirs

Petroleum System Analysis

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Introduction to the Geology of Coalbed Methane

Subsurface Mapping

Introduction to Biostratigraphy

Operations and Wellsite Geology Well Placement Fundamentals

Borehole Geology: Dip and Image Interpretation Fundamentals of Exploration for Hydrocarbons

Development Geology

Petroleum Geology

Awareness

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Introduction to Geology


geology

Field Courses

GeoFrame GeoFrame CPS-3 Advanced Mapping and Volumetrics

Petrel

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GeoFrame Litho ToolKit: Facies Classification

PetroMod

Techlog

Petrel Introduction : to Structural & Fault Analysis Module (RDR)

Techlog Advanced Analysis

South Pyrenean Foreland Basin – Spain

Petrel Fracture Modeling

Fluvial and Deltaic Architecture with Advanced Petrel Modeling Field Course :

Petrel Play to Prospect Risk

Techlog Core Data

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Techlog Fluid Contact Analysis

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Techlog for Geologists

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PetroMod Advanced : Topics — 1D, 2D, and 3D

: Techlog Formation Evaluation

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PetroMod Petroleum Resource : Assessments with Special Reference to Petroleum Systems Modeling

Techlog : Formation Evaluation with Quanti.Elan

Subsurface Integration Field Courses – Guadalupe Mountains, USA

Petrel Property Modeling

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PetroMod Petroleum: Systems Modeling for Shale Plays

Carbonates and Evaporites – Abu Dhabi

: Petrel Structural Modeling

PetroMod Pressure : Calibration in Petroleum Systems Modeling

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PetroMod Quantification : of Uncertainty Analyses in Petroleum Systems Modeling

Petrel Workflow Editor and Uncertainty Analysis

Advanced

Techlog Borehole : Image Interpretation

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Petrel Multipoint and Conditional Facies Modeling

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Skill

PetroMod Structural : Analysis for Petroleum Systems Modeling

GeoFrame Geology Office

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GeoFrame CPS-3 : Mapping Fundamentals GeoFrame Fundamentals

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Petrel Mapping and : Geologic Workflows

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Petrel Well Correlation

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Techlog Python Techlog Fundamentals

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Petrel Geology

Petrel Fundamentals

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PetroMod Introduction — 1D, 2D, and 3D

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Awareness


geology Introduction to Geology

Borehole Geology: Dip and Image Interpretation

Development Geology

Fundamentals of Exploration for Hydrocarbons

Awareness — 4 days

Foundation — 3 days



This introductory geology course focuses on the key concepts and principles of geology as applied to the oil and gas industry. You gain an overview of the fundamentals of geology and its impact on the processes of petroleum exploration, development, and production.

Structured for an understanding of the development life cycle, material encompasses the gathering and interpretation of geologic data, the preparation of geologic models, and the quantification of subsurface uncertainty. Learn the fundamental skills to construct geologic models and understand the factors that affect field operations and field management. Apply geologic concepts, construct maps and sections, and validate computer-generated interpretations. Calculate subsurface volumes and assess their uncertainties, prepare a well proposal, and plan appraisal wells and assess their economic value. You acquire practical experience by working in teams on an actual field study.

The fundamentals of all aspects of petroleum exploration are explored in this course. Learn the workflow of an exploration venture, from collection of regional data and assessment of plate tectonic setting to prospect and play analysis. Experience a multifaceted, master exercise that is woven throughout the course, in addition to many smaller exercises used to practice tools, techniques, and concepts covered in the lectures.

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History and economics of petroleum

This course covers the basics of dip and image measurement techniques in the borehole environment with an introduction to structural and stratigraphic dip interpretation. Learn about electrical dipmeter tools, inclinometry systems, and dip correlation algorithms. Compare the application and limitations of electrical, acoustic and LWD data acquisition and processing systems.

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Earth structure and plate tectonics

COURSE CONTENT

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Major rock types

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Reservoir evaluation

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Structural style and stress fields

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Dipmeter and image devices

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Folds, faults, unconformities, and fractures

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Borehole direction and elongation applications

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Structural and hydrocarbon traps

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Calculation of dips from images

COURSE CONTENT

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Clastic depositional systems

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Carbonate depositional systems

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Geologic mapping and cross sections

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Petroleum systems Source rocks and types of organic matter

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Traps and seals: Definitions and types

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Correlation and stratigraphy

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Pore systems and diagenesis

Dipmeter processing programs and presentations Interpretation of structural and stratigraphic features and structural dip

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Basic fracture analysis

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Borehole stress fields and principal far-field stress

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Unconformity analysis

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Carbonate depositional environments

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Characterization of the pore system

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Porosity and permeability

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Building a static reservoir model

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Seismic methods and petroleum geology

Fracture and fault analysis for reservoir characterization

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Stratigraphic concepts

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Sand-shale sequences log analysis

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Fluvial channel environments

AUDIENCE

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Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of geology

Transitional depositional environments

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Delta channels and front deposits

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Deep water marine clastic deposits

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Fundamentals of wireline logging and interpretation

PREREQUISITES None

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COURSE CONTENT n

Scope of oil and gas business

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Subsurface models, input data, and modeling concepts

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Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, engineers, and technicians wanting to improve their use of borehole image and dipmeter data in integrated studies PREREQUISITES None

Structural types, traps, fault seals, maps and sections, and correlations

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Clastic sedimentary environments

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Basic well technology, horizontal wells, well data, log and core data, uncertainties, and mapping

Fault analysis using dip patterns, image data, and stereonet plots

AUDIENCE

Gathering, processing, and interpreting seismic data

COURSE CONTENT n

Exploration workflow and global distribution of oil and gas

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Basin formation and type

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Nonseismic methods

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Interpretation of basin stratigraphy

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Seismic method

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Interpretation of source rock data

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Siliciclastic reservoirs

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Geology from wireline logs

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Carbonate reservoirs

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Trapping geometries

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Facies mapping

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Kitchen and prospect

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Burial history reconstruction

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Generation and migration of hydrocarbons

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Assessment of prospect risk and uncertainty

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Plays and petroleum systems

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Volumetrics, risk, and uncertainties

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Subsurface development options

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Volumetrics and subsurface uncertainties

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Static and dynamic models

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Field operations, well design, and geologic input

AUDIENCE

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Development options, project planning, and phased costs

Geologists and geophysicists involved in exploration and appraisal projects

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Impact of subsurface uncertainty on project economics

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE

Basic applied petroleum geology and exposure to exploration

Engineers and geologists involved in reservoir appraisal and development projects PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of reservoir and petroleum geology

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GEOLOGY Geology of Clastic Reservoirs

Introduction to Biostratigraphy


Operations and Wellsite Geology





Instruction focuses on in-depth analysis of the distribution, geometry, and sedimentary architecture of clastic reservoir facies. Learn the criteria for distinguishing reservoir facies using wireline log and core data, how to interpret facies distributions at regional and field scales, and how to integrate this information into exploration and development projects. Numerous case studies are used to illustrate the nature of clastic reservoirs, and exercises employing log and core data support classroom lectures.

Biostratigraphic information is a tool routinely used in many operations, and this introductory course covers its fundamental E&P applications and limitations. Structured to provide basic, practical knowledge, the course material includes the main fossil groups used in geologic operations, sample processing techniques, marker identification, and use of biostratigraphic charts in the geologic interpretation of drilling sections.

This introductory course reviews the origins of coalbed methane (CBM); controls on its occurrence, composition, and production; assessment of resources and producibility in various geologic settings; influences on its permeability and production rates; hydrologic issues and water production; and methods of drilling, completing, and stimulating CBM wells.

In this thorough overview of wellsite data acquisition and quality control, learn the formation evaluation techniques used by wellsite geologists. A combination of lectures and practical exercises enhance your understanding of drilling problems caused by subsurface conditions and the application of wellsite data in exploration and development projects.

COURSE CONTENT n

Fluvio-deltaic facies

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Sedimentary architectures

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Alluvial fan, fluvial, eolian, shore face, deltaic, and shelf environments

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Reservoir facies

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Data integration, quality control, and analysis techniques using outcrop data, core photos, wireline logs, isopach maps, and seismic attribute maps

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, operating personnel, and other asset team members responsible for exploration, development, or production of clastic reservoirs PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of sedimentary geology

Understand the most common mistakes made while studying samples and interpreting the fossil assemblages. Learn to correctly assess the stratigraphic level during drilling and interpret the paleontological associations. COURSE CONTENT n

Biostratigraphy definitions and principles

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Main microfossils: Foraminifera, calcareous nanoplankton, palynomorphs

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Biostratigraphical studies while drilling

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Sample processing according to fossil group

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Sample picking and identification of major fossil groups

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Types of biostratigraphic studies and fossil groups according to geologic section

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Design sampling strategy while drilling (exercise)

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Biostratigraphic chart and zones

n

Biomarkers: Index and facies fossils

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Paleoenvironment assemblages and biofacies

n

Principles of absolute and relative datation

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Examples from several basins clarify the controls on CBM occurrence and producibility and demonstrate the origins of CBM fairways, or sweet spots. Properties of contrasting systems (thermogenic versus biogenic and water-productive versus water-free systems) are described in terms of origins, gas resources, and CBM play characteristics.

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Petroleum geology, depositional environments, and stratigraphy

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Drilling operations

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Drilling problems and well control

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Logging operations: Petrophysics, acquisition, fundamentals, and tools

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Operations geology: Duties, responsibilities, and well-planning processes

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Wellsite geology and mud logging services

n

Hydrocarbon detection (data acquisition), sidewall and conventional coring (acquisition and coring of poorly consolidated rocks)

COURSE CONTENT n

Coal depositional systems

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Resource delineation

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Structural settings

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Maceral types and reservoir fluid composition

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Coalbed gas origins and coal thermal maturity

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Lithological and composite well logs

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Wellsite contracting: Drilling, mud logging, wireline services, coring, and quality control

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Cuttings: Descriptions, abbreviations, lithologies, and log correlations

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Coalbed permeability

n

Hydrologic analysis

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Estimation of coal tonnage and coalbed gas volumes

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Coalbed gas drilling, completions, stimulation, and production

AUDIENCE

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Water lift methods for coalbed gas wells

Geologists participating in well drilling or wellsite operations

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Water-disposal methods

PREREQUISITES

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Coalbed gas exploration models

Basic understanding of geology

Time scale and biostratigraphic zonations

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Age interpretation based on fossils

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Use of lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, and discontinuitybounded stratigraphical units

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Key biostratigraphic events in earth’s history

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Transgressive-regressive (T-R) cycles, sequences, and interpretation

n

Key sequence stratigraphy surfaces

PREREQUISITES

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High-resolution biostratigraphy

None

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of the geology of coalbed methane

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geology Petroleum Geology




With this course, enhance your knowledge of the fundamentals of geology and how they are integrated with engineering data to effectively and optimally manage reservoir development. Learn which geologic data are needed to describe the 3D geometry of a reservoir. Understand the tools and techniques available for reservoir characterization and how the resulting data can be combined and harmonized.

A petroleum system comprises the crucial geologic elements and processes that must work together to create a hydrocarbon-bearing basin: source rock, reservoir, seal trap, migration, and the correct timing of hydrocarbon generation. One of the main components in the analysis of petroleum systems is the study of hydrocarbon charge: source, burial, generation, migration, and the products.

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Clastic depositional systems

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Sequence stratigraphy concepts

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Carbonate depositional systems

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Carbonate reservoir properties

The core design of this course is integration of geology with geochemical information, and PetroMod* petroleum systems modeling software is used for exercises. Emphasis lies on heat flow, burial, recognition and evaluation of source rocks, thermal maturity aspects, and the basic petroleum geochemistry needed for basin formation. Learn about various basin types in their plate tectonic contexts and their hydrocarbon charging systems.

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Geologic mapping and cross sections

COURSE CONTENT

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Hydrocarbon source rocks and petroleum systems

COURSE CONTENT n

Geologic principles, major rock types, geologic time and age dating, structural features, and plate tectonics

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Trap types and mechanisms

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Play fundamentals

n

Petroleum system processes, event correlation, and biostratigraphy

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Pore systems and diagenesis

n

Porosity types in carbonate and clastic rocks, clay types

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Geologic modeling: Reservoir heterogeneity, scales of investigation, and flow units Deterministic and stochastic modeling, use of seismic data in modeling Seismic methods and use of seismic tools in petroleum geology

AUDIENCE Geoscientists and petroleum engineers PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of geology

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Types of basins and burial histories

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Heat flow and source rocks

n

Hydrocarbon generation and migration

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Basic petroleum geochemistry

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Biodegradation, gas, and pressures

Structural Geology

Subsurface Mapping



This course introduces the main elements of geomechanics and employs them as the basis for understanding structural geometries, kinematics, and the universally applicable geomechanical approach. You learn basic interpretation and mapping techniques for each tectonic regime. A portable sandbox demonstrates analog modeling of the main tectonic regimes. Bringing actual problems or challenges for general discussion and integrated hands-on problem solving is encouraged.

This mapping course delivers the practical skills you need to apply geologic concepts, construct maps and sections, and validate computer-generated interpretations. Learn the need for consistency between structural models and manual evaluations. Calculate subsurface volumes and assess their uncertainties. Explore fault dimensions and properties and perform fault seal analysis. Acquire experience in practical techniques while working in teams.

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Introduction to geomechanics and general fault characteristics

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Extensional tectonics, including theory, examples, analog models, seismic interpretation, structural geometries, and fault properties

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Strike-slip tectonics, including theory, case history, analog models, seismic interpretation, structural geometries, and fault properties

n

Structural reservoir types, in situ stress analysis, and fault sealing mechanisms (also in sand-sand juxtapositions) with a focus on the 3D nature of this tectonic setting, including pitfalls and traps in structural interpretation

n

AUDIENCE Geologists and geophysicists involved in exploration and appraisal

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Geologic concepts and global tectonics

n

Geophysical methods and production of seismic data

n

Hydrocarbon basin mapping and analysis

n

Planning, gathering, and managing geologic data

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Well log correlation

n

Mapping of reservoir parameters and structures, and integration of seismic data

n

Structural styles and trapping conditions

n

Subsurface stresses and pressures

n

Reservoir architecture and geologic modeling

Structural reservoir types and fault sealing mechanisms with mechanics of fault reactivation (inversion tectonics)

n

Oil and gas volumetric calculations

n

Fault dimensions, properties, and sealing capacities

n

Salt tectonics

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Review of case histories

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Fault sealing and top seal integrity

AUDIENCE

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Fracture systems, including fracture mechanics, reservoir examples, and outcrop examples

n

Analysis of fault and fracture systems, including fractal properties of faults and fractures, and prediction of subseismic faults

Geologists, petroleum engineers, and geophysicists involved with development of oil and gas reservoirs, and geologists seeking knowledge of correlation and structural and stratigraphic mapping

n

PREREQUISITES Knowledge of applied petroleum geology

Compressional tectonics, including fold and thrust belts, fault reactivation, and multiphase tectonics

COURSE CONTENT

AUDIENCE Geologists wanting a solid understanding of structural geology theory and applications

PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic applied petroleum geology

PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic geology concepts


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GEOLOGY 3D Reservoir Modeling Workshop

Well Placement Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

W NE

Introducing the fundamentals of geologic well placement, sometimes called geosteering, this course encompasses both the processes and techniques required for placement of high-angle and horizontal wells using geologic and petrophysical data acquired while drilling. Reviews include technologies and tools for directional drilling, LWD, and MWD. Learn from examples using different methods to geosteer horizontal wells and their applications.

Skill — 10 days n

Acquisition of positioning and drilling-related data Tools and techniques for formation evaluation

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Introduction to geologic well placement Applications, technologies, and processes

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Three placement methods

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Tools and techniques

Formation evaluation and other measurements and applications

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Influence of measurements on high-angle wells

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Application of well placement methods Model-compare-update: Modeled log response and interpretation

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Real-time dip analysis

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Remote-boundary detection

Review of reservoir geology

AUDIENCE

Essential elements for well placement

Members of multidisciplinary asset teams, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers, and geoscientists involved in decisions on implementing a geologic placement process for horizontal and high-angle wells

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Important structural features for well placement

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LWD

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COURSE CONTENT n

MWD

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Directional drilling Fundamentals

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Technologies and techniques for controlling borehole location

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PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of drilling and formation evaluation

Applied Geostatistics

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In this workshop, you obtain a hands-on practical workflow for building a static reservoir model using Petrel software. Instruction delivers a solid presentation of the theory and methodologies behind 3D reservoir modeling with practical applications. Learn a step-wise approach to model building that starts with an overview of reservoir modeling, takes you through building of a structural framework, continues with layering and gridding, and populates the model with reservoir properties. Gain valuable experience in use of volumetrics with uncertainties and basic geostatistics. COURSE CONTENT n

Review of Petrel software data import and export

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Well correlations: Make and edit well tops

n

Structural modeling: Fault modeling, grid design, quality checking, zonation, and layering

n

Review of statistics and data analysis

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Basics of geostatistics and variogram analysis, introduction to kriging and estimation techniques

Skill — 5 days

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This course focuses on application of the various tools known as geostatistics using both readily available and specialist software packages. These tools are now essential in most of the important aspects of E&P: gridding and contouring for maps, upscaling for reservoir simulation and basin modeling, and analysis of spatially referenced data of all kinds. Course emphasis is on practical applications and the understanding of context rather than on algorithm details and mathematics. Learn to choose the most appropriate geostatistics techniques and apply them correctly for E&P best practices. Receive a practical introduction to what is available in geostatistics software and take useful tools back to the workplace. COURSE CONTENT n

Introduction to geostatistics and trends in spatial datasets

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Effects of scale: Heterogeneity and discontinuity, data scale versus modeling scale, upscaling

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Spatial trends in gridding and contouring: Minimizing errors, kriging

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Use of new data: Bayesian and geostatistics, history matching, sequential and indicator simulation

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Quantifying uncertainty: Methods, Monte Carlo and other stochastic simulations

n

Deterministic and property modeling, including facies modeling

n

Integration of property data (petrophysics, seismic, and well test data)

n

Stochastic and conditional simulations

AUDIENCE

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Volumetric calculations exercise, with multiple realizations and ranking

n

Upscaling design and properties

Petroleum geologists and geoscientists preparing data for reservoir simulators, engineers involved with exploration and development of oil and gas reservoirs, or anyone wanting insight into obtaining the most value from geospatial data

AUDIENCE Practicing geoscientists or engineers looking for a practical approach to building 3D reservoir models with Petrel software PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of Petrel software

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of subsurface characterization and competency in Microsoft ®Excel application

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geology Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

Carbonates and Evaporites —Abu Dhabi

Clastic Sedimentology for Exploration and Development

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Through lectures and exercises, instruction focuses on the impact of sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and diagenesis in E&P of carbonate reservoirs. Learn how carbonate reservoirs form and the unique attributes that affect interpretation techniques, including geometry, facies, and diagenetic alteration.

Abu Dhabi is one of the world’s classic localities for studying recent and Holocene carbonates and coastal sabkha evaporites. In this field-based study, experience first-hand the geologically “modern” sequence stratigraphy with complete exposure of the sediments and rocks. Observe how the depositional, diagenetic, and erosional processes combined to create this complex stratigraphic subsea architecture, which can be extremely difficult to interpret. Increase your ability to think laterally when faced with creating 3D models from limited subsurface exploration or development data.

This course covers the fundamentals of clastic sedimentology at scales for both regional exploration and detailed reservoir characterization. Reviews of the main types of sedimentary basins are presented in the context of crustal dynamics. Descriptions of plate tectonics and the production and transport of clastic material are included for different tectonic, topographic, and climatic settings.

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Major controls on occurrence and nature of carbonate platforms, depositional environments, and facies; facies models for rimmed carbonate platforms and ramps Carbonate grain types and early lithification in subtropical lagoon, beach, and reef environments

n

Principles of carbonate sequence stratigraphy

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Miocene fault-block carbonate platform, its stratigraphic geometries, facies associations, depositional sequences; recognition of potential reservoir facies

n

Application of carbonate sequence stratigraphy and seismic stratigraphy to rimmed shelves and ramps

n

Tectonic and basinal controls on carbonate platform types; introduction of Bosence’s new genetic classification and its implications for E&P studies

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Near-surface diagenetic environments, processes, and products in carbonate rocks and their relation to sequence stratigraphy; burial diagenesis; porosity and permeability evolution in carbonate reservoir rocks; reservoir rock types; and classification of carbonate reservoirs

COURSE CONTENT n

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Sedimentary and diagnetic responses to relative sea-level variations and climatic changes in a proximal carbonate ramp setting Geologic observation and development of carbonate depositional models based on sequence stratigraphic observations

n

Reservoir heterogeneity, facies correlations problems, depositional trends, aspect ratios, and scale

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Classic modern peritidal submarine environments

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Syn-sedimentary and structural deformation with fractures

AUDIENCE Geologists and petrogeologists wanting to understand carbonate and evaporite environments and how field outcrops relate to recorded data

W NE

Emphasis is on the practical interpretation of subsurface data-seismic, core, and wireline logs-for facies analysis and reservoir characterization. Examples draw from different facies, ages, and basinal settings. Sedimentary fluid dynamics are related to sedimentary bed forms, which in turn are related to the lamination and bedding styles that characterize most sandstones. The processes of sediment gravity flows are related to their product textures and depositional units. These principles are applied to different depositional settings (alluvial, deltaic, coastal, shallow-marine, slope, deep-marine and aeolian), focusing on the sediment supply, distribution of processes in space and time, and resultant organization of depositional facies. Particular attention is given to the principles by which depositional settings are interpreted using both outcrop and subsurface data and to the best correlation methods for different settings.

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Types of sedimentary basins in different tectonic contexts

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Large-scale tectonic settings of main types of sedimentary basins and relationship between structural style and fill patterns

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Effects of base-level changes and syn-depositional tectonics on sediment distribution patterns

n

Correlation in different sedimentary settings

n

Role of analogs in building reservoir models in different depositional settings

n

Sediment generation and supply in different settings

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Fluid dynamics and rheology of erosion, transport, and deposition

n

Basic mechanics of sediment erosion, transport, and deposition; resultant bedforms and sedimentary structures

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Postdepositional processes and products

AUDIENCE Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers looking for overview of sedimentary organization across a range of scales in different basinal and environmental settings PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of geology and sedimentary process

PREREQUISITES Basic background in geology with some knowledge of carbonates

AUDIENCE Technical professionals involved in exploration for and development of carbonate reservoirs PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic geology


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GEOLOGY Clastic Reservoir Characterization

Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

Deepwater Sedimentary Systems

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 3 days

Employing both lectures and multidisciplinary team exercises, this course enhances your understanding of the depositional parameters that define reservoir architecture, of the prediction of subsurface reservoir architecture, and of the impact of heterogeneities on reservoir performance at different scales. Gain an awareness of the needs of all parties involved in reservoir performance prediction. Exercises include making a presentation on strategies for the development of a clastic oil reservoir.

Designed as an overview of clastic stratigraphic analysis and sequence stratigraphy, course material focuses on the geologic characteristics of a reservoir. An understanding of how depositional processes control the distribution of clastic reservoir and nonreservoir rocks is a fundamental part of E&P decision making. Through a combination of lecture and exercises, you learn to apply sound sedimentological and stratigraphic concepts when building fit-for-purpose subsurface models.

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Framework for reservoir modeling

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Depositional processes and deposits

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Geologic features influencing hydrocarbon recovery Clastic reservoir architecture and determination of architecture from seismic, well log, test, and core data Geologic controls on porosity and permeability Trap types and reservoir compartmentalization Faults, fractures, and fluid flow: Sealing capacity of faults and shale baffles

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Fundamentals of clastic reservoir architecture and subsurface fluid flow

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Fluvial systems and reservoir characteristics of fluvial deposits

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Fluvial architecture and reservoir geometry

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Deltaic coastal systems and reservoir characteristics of deltaic deposits

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Nondeltaic coastal systems and continental shelves

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Lacustrine systems: Main controls on lake formation

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Deepwater clastic systems and reservoir characteristics of turbidite deposits

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Stratigraphic prediction: Historic context, scope, and limitationsWalther’s Law

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Seismic stratigraphy: Fundamentals, techniques, and strata patterns

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Sequence stratigraphy: Fundamentals, controls, terminology, and controls on sea-level changes

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Fluvial, deltaic, and turbidite systems in a sequence stratigraphic context

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High-resolution sequence stratigraphy

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Field and reservoir architecture, development implications, and impact

AUDIENCE

Addressing the complexities of deep marine systems, this course teaches the evolution of these facies on the slope and in the open ocean, how they build into distinctive architectural elements, and how to recognize them. Analyze and interpret seismic records, sea floor images, well logs (including borehole image logs), core materials, and outcrop characteristics of deepwater reservoir components with an emphasis on internal architecture as related to reservoir performance. Perform hands-on case studies of deepwater plays from around the world to illustrate characteristics unique to their exploration, appraisal, development, and reservoir management. COURSE CONTENT n

Deepwater overview and building blocks

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Downslope, along-slope, and open-ocean systems

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Basic knowledge of geology and sedimentary processes

Characterization of architectural elements: Nature and recognition

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Channel style and geometry

Geoscientists and engineers wanting an introduction to clastic stratigraphic analysis and sequence stratigraphy

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Lobes, mounds, and sheets

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Deepwater massive sands

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Thin-bedded turbidites

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Core acquisition and analysis and interpretation ranging from geologic data to engineering models

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Review of deepwater drilling, seismic sequence stratigraphy, and deepwater plays

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Principles of upscaling and application of geostatistics

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Subsurface models

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Capture of subsurface uncertainties in volume estimates

AUDIENCE Geoscientists or engineers involved in exploration, appraisal, or development of clastic oil and gas accumulations PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of reservoir geology

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers involved in exploration and development of deepwater plays; project managers for deepwater plays and reservoir production PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic petroleum geology, basic stratigraphy, and basic sedimentology


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geology Economics of Petroleum Exploration

Fluvial and Deltaic Depositional Systems

Fluvial and Deltaic Architecture with Advanced Petrel Modeling Field Course

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 7 days

This course focuses on the business side of exploration. How does a company decide whether to go forward with a particular project? Learn how a structured decision analysis and portfolio optimization process uses the hydrocarbon volumes and risk analyses provided by exploration geoscientists to identify the projects with the best economic potential.

Structured to provide a holistic understanding of fluvial and deltaic depositional systems, this course promotes a better understanding of the sediment transport and deposition factors affecting potential basins and reservoirs. Learn the types and phases of depositional systems, from erosional sources to sediment deposition and storage in various fluvio-deltaic settings. Recognize the inherent attributes of heterogeneity present at various scales (basin, sandstone body, and localized facies or rock unit), which contribute to a solid understanding of potential reservoir characteristics of the deposits. Enhance your knowledge of updip systems and their role in delivering sediment to deepwater settings.

This field and classroom-based reservoir geology and modeling course covers applied techniques for reservoir geocellular modeling. Focused on teaching the course participants novel and practical methods to build realistic models of fluvial and deltaic sediment body architecture, demonstrated using Petrel software.

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Business side of exploration

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Comparison of exploration projects under different fiscal regimes

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The role of project economics

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Calculation of cash flow and net present value (NPV)

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Worldwide fiscal regimes and their impact on exploration

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Probabilities, risk, and project risk assessment

Alluvial systems and deposits

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Fundamentals of decision analysis and decision trees

Alluvial and deltaic depositional systems

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Relative sea-level-driven analysis of coupled alluvial systems

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Expected monetary value

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Value of information

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Comparative analysis of multiple projects

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Alluvial architecture and reservoirs, including principles, models, and applications to the subsurface

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Nature and significance of deltaic systems and their deposits

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Lowstand systems tract incised valleys, forced regression, and shelf-edge deltas

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Syn-sedimentary deformation in deltas

Strategy and portfolio analysis

AUDIENCE Exploration geoscientists and managers wanting to understand economics of petroleum exploration PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic petroleum geology and petroleum systems

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Petrel is used by participants to integrate core and well log data in a series of deterministic model exercises. The results are compared with other traditional Petrel modeling techniques and each is then evaluated against outcrop reality in order to determine which techniques are the most suitable for analogous subsurface reservoir modeling studies. The course follows the typical workflow of a sub-surface 3-D modeling study and is aimed at making a series of realistic predictive models of reservoir geometry and architecture using detailed knowledge of sedimentology and sequence stratigraphic concepts. This course blends lectures, modeling exercises, and over 10 field courses to sites in Grand Junction, Colorado and Green River, Utah. A full day by day agenda can be found at NExTtraining.net

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Diagnostic outcrop, core and log interpretation of fluviodeltaic environments and facies

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Integration of core, log, and reservoir properties to define flow units

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Building conceptual models and sequence stratigraphic framework for reservoir modelling

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Correlation techniques from well data

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Deterministic modelling techniques

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Using hierarchy, zone logs and layering

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Comparison of results from different modelling techniques and implications for static connectivity

AUDIENCE Geologists and reservoir modelers PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals or minimum 3 months of Petrel use. Physical ability for field courses: Sites include national monuments, cliff line exposures, and roadside stops in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Altitudes are from 1,500 to 2,000 m, temperatures from 15 to 30 degC, relative humidity of 15%. Walking is over generally flat terrain but one 2 km hike has a maximum elevation change of 100 m. Transport is by vehicles on blacktop and loose-surface roads.

AUDIENCE Geologists and geophysicists wanting to become familiar with the basic principles of fluvial and deltaic depositional systems PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic stratigraphy and sedimentary structures


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GEOLOGY Global Tectonics and Geological Prospecting Tools for Exploration Skill — 5 days

W NE

A combination of lectures and hands-on practical exercises introduce the fundamentals of an effective petroleum system. Emphasis is on global tectonics and how basins are formed, filled, and deformed as well as use of key geologic prospecting tools. Although the course focus is on clastic rocks, especially turbidites, material also reviews carbonate rocks and evaporite formations. The Atlantic Margin basin is the source for discussions of petroleum system elements. Gain an introduction to key aspects of source rock, migration, overburden rock, reservoir characteristics, seal rock, traps, timing, and preservation elements. Learn the fundamental tools for exploration petrophysics. Correlate different well logs that show faults and stratigraphic variation. Create contour maps and learn to present faults in map view. COURSE CONTENT n

Overview: Five laws of geology

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Petroleum systems: Basin formation, plate tectonics, source rocks

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Unconventional petroleum systems

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Basin filling: Evaporate and carbonate petroleum systems

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Salt: Deformation, sutures and inclusions, rubble zones, imaging below salt

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Petrophysics for exploration Rock and fluid properties, porosity and permeability

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Pressure, compaction, and compartmentalization

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Biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, accommodation space

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Stratigraphic sequences: HST, FSST, LST, TST

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Log correlation and annotation methods, chronostratigraphic correlation

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Fractured Reservoir Characterization with Emphasis on Carbonates

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy

Skill — 3 days

Skill — 5 days

This course covers essential fractured reservoirs topics with a focus on geology, geomechanics, and reservoir engineering techniques from appraisal through development to secondary recovery. Exercises and materials are geared toward fractured carbonate reservoirs.

This two-part course focuses on the practical application of sequence stratigraphy through a hands-on approach. Part 1 (Days 1 and 2) reviews the fundamentals that are often required for effective sequence stratigraphic work. Part 2 deals with the various aspects of sequence stratigraphy. The material avoids what can sometimes be confusing jargon, and uses many exercises to emphasize the main concepts and applications. Learn to apply this knowledge to either regional-scale exploration or reservoirscale development.

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Fractured reservoir overview and definition

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Key concerns and workflows for fractured reservoir analysis

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Fractured reservoir characterization workflows, tools, and techniques

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Structural geology and rock mechanics basics

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Fracture modeling fundamentals, including data integration, generating simulation inputs, and volumetrics.

Data contouring workflow

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Application of multiple working hypotheses

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Mapping: Structural, faults, isopachs

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Geometric and amplitude anomalies

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Application of direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHIs)

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Fluvial, deltaic, and turbidite deposits

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Migration

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Basin filling and deformation

Exploration geoscientists and managers wanting a fundamental understanding of petroleum systems and key geologic prospecting techniques

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Faulting as pathways and seals

PREREQUISITES

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Structural traps

Knowledge of basic petroleum geology and petroleum systems

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Review of fundamentals for siliciclastic depositional environments and processes: Sedimentary processes, sedimentary structures in cores and outcrops, depositional environments

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Concepts of sequence stratigraphy: Base level, accommodation and sediment supply, modes of shoreline migration, key surfaces and sequence boundaries, formation of systems tracts and sequences

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Reservoir-scale sequence stratigraphy: Correlation of wireline logs, mapping of parasequences and incised valley deposits, recognition of key sequence stratigraphic surfaces using cores and wireline logs

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Seismic sequence stratigraphy: Fundamental seismic stratigraphy concepts and advanced seismic techniques

Case studies with software examples (Note this is not a software training course)

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AUDIENCE

COURSE CONTENT

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Fractured reservoir characterization principles and workflows

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers PREREQUISITES A basic understanding of geology and reservoir characterization

AUDIENCE Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers wanting an essential understanding of reservoir and seal facies, geometry, and architecture PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of geologic and reservoir fundamentals


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geology Introduction to Geologic Interpretation of Seismic Profiles Skill — 5 days

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The objective of this practical, completely workshop-based course is a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of geologic interpretation of seismic profiles. COURSE CONTENT n

Interpretation of reflection seismic profiles Evolution, geologic seismic interpretation, geophysical datasets

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Interpretation fundamentals: Stratigraphy, structure, restoration, models

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Mesoscal geologic models Extensional margins, compressional, combinations (Borneo dataset)

Petroleum Systems and Exploration and Development Geochemistry


Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Applications-oriented, this course presents interpretation guidelines to evaluate prospective source rocks and define petroleum systems. Learn about the main applications of geochemistry to reduce the risk in E&P: total organic carbon (TOC), rock-evaluation pyrolysis, vitrinite reflectance, thermal alteration index, kerogen elemental analysis, geochemical logs and maps, reconstructed generative potential calculations, and gas chromatography.

To understand the prospect, you must understand the play. To understand the play, you must understand the petroleum systems. This exercise-rich course touches on all aspects and fundamentals of petroleum systems and how they apply to an explorationist’s evaluation of a play or prospect.

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Normal faulting Basement (Nevada, Newark, African Rift)

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Transform faults (Rio Grande Rift, southeastern Australia)

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Plays and petroleum systems as foundation for evaluations

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Fundamentals of petroleum geochemistry

Role of key petroleum system elements in evaluations

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Basic geochemical measurements and interpretation pitfalls

Types of petroleum system models and their applications

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Best practices and pitfalls

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Inputs for volumetric calculations

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Probabilistic volumes and estimates for prospect success

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Estimates of prospective hydrocarbon volumes

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Development of play concepts, feasibility analysis, and evaluation of hydrocarbon potential

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Construction of the original petroleum generative potential of spent source rock

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Half grabens (Shetland, Dongpu)

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Half graben inversions (North Sea, Indonesia)

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Baltimore Canyon, Tarfaya, Gulf of Mexico, Angola, Brazil, Iran, and Aquitaine

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Classic models (Melville Island, Sichuan)

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Foredeep basins: Stratigraphy (Alaska, Alberta) and structural (Po Plain)

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Folded belts: With and without basement (Wind River and Casper)

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Triangle zones (Morocco, Andes, Dagestan)

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Gravitational (Angola, Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria)

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Orogenic float (western North America and northern South America)

AUDIENCE Interpretation geophysicists and geologists PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of geophysical principles

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Identification and quantification of elements and processes that control petroleum systems Collection of oil and rock samples and evaluation of data quality Use of biomarkers and isotopes to correlate oils and source rocks and assess thermal maturity and biodegradation

AUDIENCE Exploration and development geologists, geochemical coordinators, managers, and geoscientists wanting more knowledge of petroleum systems, petroleum geochemistry, and basin modeling PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic petroleum geology and petroleum systems

AUDIENCE

Prospect Appraisal and Petroleum Economics Skill — 5 days Prospect appraisal and petroleum economics are presented in the context of the E&P decision process. Learn to translate prospect evaluation into probabilities of hydrocarbon volumes and, ultimately, into monetary value by means of development economics for the prospect and the wider prospect area. Gain an understanding of how to assess the economic value and overall risk of an exploration prospect or development project to qualify and quantify the uncertainty associated with a volumetric prediction in context of the expectation curve and to better account for external factors that may affect project economics. COURSE CONTENT n

Distribution of worldwide reserves

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Descriptive statistics and probability theory, definition of relevant distributions

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Estimation and parameterization of variables for prospect appraisal, including their uncertainties

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Elementary reservoir engineering principles and reserve definitions

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Principles of Bayesian statistics and application to prospect appraisal

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Review of basic economics, different fiscal systems, and petroleum contracts

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Development project economics and sensitivities to internal and external factors, and project-ranking criteria

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Decision analysis

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Exploration economics based on expected monetary value

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Scenario development

Exploration geologists and geophysicists PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of geology

AUDIENCE Explorationists involved in prospect generation; team leaders, exploration managers, and petroleum engineers involved in economic evaluation; and finance staff involved in investment in E&P projects PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic petroleum geology as it relates to exploration


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GEOLOGY Reservoir Geology

South Pyrenean Foreland Basin — Spain

Subsurface Facies Analysis

Subsurface Integration Field Courses Guadalupe Mountains, USA

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 12 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Gain a working knowledge of the main techniques geologists use to qualify and quantify subsurface reservoir properties. In this course, the focus is on both conceptual understanding and practical applications using hands-on exercises and case histories. Understand the geologic controls on reservoir properties, including the fundamental principles of reservoir rocks, fluids, and fluid movement in the subsurface. Learn the main techniques for developing oil and gas fields, including conventional methods of determination of net pay in the reservoir and improved techniques using data from core, sidewall core, cuttings, conventional plug measurements, and capillary pressure tests.

In this Field Course, you gain a solid understanding of geologic concepts and hands-on experience. Learn to recognize and interpret tectonic structures, sedimentary structures, sedimentary facies, and syn-sedimentary structures. Goals include creation of stratigraphic logs, panoramas, cross sections, and a simple geologic map plus interpretations of a seismic line and the sedimentary evolution of a basin.

This integrated approach to subsurface facies analysis combines image and dip data interpretation with outcrop studies and uses high-resolution seismic data to refine complete reservoir models. Learn from examples and case studies.

This “integration” Field Course to the Guadalupe Mountains, USA, is a workshop where petrophysical, geologic, and reservoir and production engineering aspects are developed through applied exercises. World-class outcrops and subsurface examples of clastic deepwater turbidites and shelf-margin carbonates are the basis for the exercises. Learn about the underlying uncertainty and assumptions used in reservoir analysis tools and how to apply a subsurface integration model as the basis for problem-solving processes.

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Formation of a foreland basin

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Cross section of the Pyrenees, geomorphology with notion of mountain chain and basin, and relationship with geologic map

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Phases in field history

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Relationship between exploration and production

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Syn-sedimentary structures, including dynamics of sedimentary basin control parameters of the sedimentary record, and basin types Study of a compressive front, including morphology, geometry of layers and structures, panorama technique, relations with the geologic map, and importance of decollements levels

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Primary tasks of geologists

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Tools and data used by development geologists

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Overview of reservoir descriptionwhat is needed and when

Mapping of a compressive zone and realization of a cross section

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Well logging techniques

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Clastic reservoirs

Sedimentology: Alluvial system, coastal plain, coast, marine, and turbidites

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Capillary pressure

Pyrenees profile and field: Analysis of a panorama

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Caprock, fault, and intraformational seals

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Pore-level reservoir properties

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Recovery efficiency and relative permeability

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Sedimentary facies and basin synthesis

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Sedimentary dynamics of a foreland basin: Characteristic sedimentary facies and realization of a synthetic log at basin scale

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Reserves and net pay

AUDIENCE Engineers, geologists, petrophysicists, and managers looking for a straightforward, intuitive presentation of principles governing hydrocarbon accumulations and the rock properties that control their practical extraction PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of E&P processes

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Stratigraphic analysis including stratigraphy, sedimentary architecture, genetic units, correlation, and seismic stratigraphy Deformation and sedimentation relationship with a syn-sedimentary anticline and its effect on sedimentation and stratigraphy

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Data acquisition, processing, and structural analysis

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Structural analysis using image and dip data

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Sedimentology and continental settings

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Eolian sediments

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Fluvial sediments and fluvial settings (various models)

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Deltaic, coastal, and shelf siliciclastic settings

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Deltaic sediments

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Coastal and shelf sediments

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Deepwater and carbonate sediments

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Carbonate models and facies in coastal and shelf settings

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Fractured reservoirs

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Fracture systems

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Fractured reservoir case studies

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Geothermal systems in volcanic rocks

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Pore scale: Rock-typing techniques; integration of pore geometry data (capillary pressure, wettability, and relative permeability) with porosity, permeability, and texture

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Well log scale: Tool responses and resolution in thin-bedded sands, laminated sands, mixed lithologies, dolomites, and limestones

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Production scale: Integration of reservoir engineering parameters (pressure responses, compartmentalization, differential pressure, and production and injection profiles) with rock types and flow units

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Mega scale: Integration of reservoir geometry, sequence stratigraphy, seismic imaging, large-scale compartments, reservoir-drive mechanisms, and production allocation and regulatory constraints into

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Numerical models

AUDIENCE Geoscientists, engineers, and technical staff responsible for analysis and integration of image and dip data to enhance understanding of exploration plays and field development PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic geology and reservoir modeling

Reservoir analog: Serraduy-Roda sandstones, including location in the basin, stratigraphic architecture of the deposit, recognition of facies, and reservoir implications

AUDIENCE Team leaders, geoscientists, petrophysicists, reservoir and production engineers PREREQUISITES Fundamental knowledge of exploration, exploitation, or production

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers wanting increased exposure to field geology PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic petroleum geology


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geology :

Applied Structural Geology in Hydrocarbons System Analysis

Evaluation and Management of Fractured Reservoirs

Geologic Assessment of Reservoir Seals and Pay

Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 3 days

Advanced — 5 days

In this course, learn about the processes for rock deformation and apply this knowledge to improve your strategic exploration planning and the interpretation of existing data. Understand the impact of structural geology in controlling subsurface fluid flow and the standard techniques for estimating the flow consequences of deformation. Employ a new geomechanics paradigm that focuses on key aspects of deformation systems.

From both an exploration and development point of view, this course teaches the evaluation of fractured petroleum reservoirs. Acquire techniques that employ outcrop and subsurface rock data, petrophysical data, rock mechanic principles, and reservoir performance data. Learn how to control short-term and long-term performance in fractured reservoirs and the types of data necessary to evaluate and manage them.

COURSE CONTENT

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In this course, basic petrographic, wireline, and capillary pressure data are used to evaluate reservoir rock quality, pay versus nonpay, expected fluid saturations, seal capacity, depth of reservoir fluid contacts, and transition zone thickness. Study the use of two-way capillary pressure analyses to approximate recovery efficiency during primary or secondary recovery. Gain hands-on experience working with reservoir data in four practical workshop exercises.

In this modeling course-designed for an understanding of integrated reservoir studies from outcrop to fluid flow simulator-you learn practical requirements and workflows for modern 3D reservoir characterization. Employ deterministic and stochastic modeling to quantitatively integrate diverse data types, model reservoir heterogeneity, assess model uncertainty, and prepare the reservoir model as input to a flow simulator. Learn best practices for modeling and data integration using modeling software. Participate in an informal, interactive discussion of the agenda topics, illustrated with case studies and demonstrations using Petrel or equivalent software. In some course venues, your work with the modeling software is hands-on.

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Relevance of structural geology and rock mechanics Rock mechanics and structural geology Textures of deformed rocks and relationship to deformation mechanisms

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Workflows in a fractured reservoir, from early analysis to detailed reservoir modeling

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Screening techniques to determine natural fracture effects in new and existing fields

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Review of fracture system origin

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Reservoir properties of the fracture system

Deformation environments

Interaction of fracture and matrix porosities

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Identification of geomechanical issues

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Basin formation and geodynamics, reservoir depletion

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Classification of fractured reservoirs

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Acquisition and manipulation of subsurface fracture data

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Common structural elements

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Fault zones, flexural-slip folding, and fracture processes

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Role of basement and relationship to sedimentary cover Deformation in the hydrocarbon system

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Prediction of relative fracture intensity by rock type and across a structure in one reservoir unit Measurement and application of in situ reservoir stress states

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Prediction and imaging of production sweet spots

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Determination of optimal well paths

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Static conceptual fracture modeling and preparation for stimulation

AUDIENCE

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E&P geoscientists and reservoir engineers involved in subsurface interpretation or planning

Production and development problems by reservoir type

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Considerations for designing depletion scenarios

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Review of structural features on seismic data: Interpretation pitfalls and rules

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE

Working knowledge of geosciences, including geology, petrophysics, and rock types

Geoscientists and reservoir engineers wanting to understand how fractured reservoirs differ from conventional reservoirs and how to approach their studies systematically, and personnel working with fractured basement reservoirs for groundwater and/or geothermal resources PREREQUISITES

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Introduction to evaluation of reservoirs, seals, and pay

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Fundamentals and uses of capillary principles in reservoir evaluation including free-water level, porous plate, centrifuge, and mercury injection techniques

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Integration of petrophysical and geochemical techniques to evaluate seal potential

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Basic principles of fault seal analysis

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Seal evaluation in dynamic petroleum systems: Examples from East Java and Northwest Shelf, Australia

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Effects of pore geometry on relative permeability and capillary pressure Methods to determine net pay with data from core, sidewall core, cuttings, and conventional plug measurements in conjunction with capillary pressure data Prediction of recovery efficiency, calculation of recoverable reserves, and evaluation of reservoir management options

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Introduction to geostatistical reservoir modeling

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Data quality control and data analysis

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Concepts of spatial analysis and modeling

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Computer workshop

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Kriging and collocated cokriging

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Stochastic simulation and risk analysis

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Preservation of reservoir heterogeneity

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Structural modeling: Sequence stratigraphy, seismic faults, and horizons

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3D property models (rock type, porosity, permeability, and water saturation) and 3D petrophysical models

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Upscaling for the flow simulator

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Exploration and development geologists and reservoir engineers wanting to increase knowledge on principles governing hydrocarbon accumulations and their practical applications

Asset team members responsible for development of reservoir models that use geostatistical techniques

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of geologic and reservoir fundamentals

PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of geologic techniques and processes; structure and sedimentation; and static and dynamic reservoir modeling. Basic experience with Petrel software

Applied knowledge of reservoir geology or reservoir engineering Return to Matrix Click Here

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GEOLOGY Sequence Stratigraphy Principles and Applications

Petrel Fundamentals

Advanced — 5 days


This workshop provides the fundamentals and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy you need for petroleum E&P projects. Learn to recognize sequence stratigraphic surfaces and system tracts on well log cross sections, seismic lines, and outcrop profiles. Discussion includes points of agreement and differences of various sequence stratigraphic approaches (models), and guidelines for a standardized workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis.

This course is the foundation for all other Petrel* courses, teaching new users how to get started with this versatile software program. Instruction covers the interface, visualization tools, and the basic usage of this application. You are guided from project setup to plotting of the modeling results. Topics include data import, visualization of wells and seismic data, creation of surfaces and simple grids, geometrical models, maps, and intersections.

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Historical development of sequence stratigraphy

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Stratigraphy types: Chronostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and event stratigraphy

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Sequence stratigraphic analysis methods using outcrop, core, well log, and seismic data Workflow for sequence stratigraphic analysis Fundamental sequence stratigraphy: Depositional trends, stratal stacking patterns and terminations, accommodation, relative sea-level changes, forced and normal regressions, and transgressions Sequence stratigraphic surfaces, maximum regressive surface, maximum flooding surface, transgressive surface of erosion, flooding surface, and drowning unconformity System tracts, depositional sequences, genetic stratigraphic sequences, T-R sequences, and standardization of sequence stratigraphy Applications to depositional systems: Fluvial, coastal, shallow-water clastic, deepwater clastic, and carbonate systems; hierarchy of sequences; and sequence boundaries

GeoFrame CPS-3 Mapping Fundamentals

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Petrel software introduction

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Project setup, coordinates, and units

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Data import

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Interface and visualization

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Making and editing surfaces

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Making a simple grid

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Geometrical modeling

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Plotting


This course provides the fundamentals you need to produce accurate reserves maps using GeoFrame* CPS-3 mapping software. Fully integrated with GeoFrame Geology and Geophysics modules, CPS-3 software provides accurate surface mapping operations for all mapping requirements. COURSE CONTENT n

PREREQUISITES General knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics or reservoir engineering, as well as elemental software skills

Access well and seismic locations, seismic interpretation, markers, zone properties, grids, and other GeoFrame data for mapping


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From this course you gain the fundamentals needed to efficiently manage GeoFrame* projects and project data. Learn to use the GeoFrame integrated reservoir characterization system to describe the subsurface precisely throughout your E&P workflow. The course focus is on the functionality common to all GeoFrame applications. COURSE CONTENT n

GeoFrame data model concept and how data relate to each other

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Creation of contour maps and manipulation of base map display

Functionality: Create, edit, back up, restore, and delete projects

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Creation of grid horizon and fault surfaces using various algorithms

Assignment of access rights to secure specific data types

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Use of gridding algorithms and how to set parameters

Loading of project well data in several formats

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Surface operations, z-field arithmetic, smoothing, and refinement

Tasks: Browse, list, find, edit, and display various data types

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Set match and merge rules

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QC steps for structural volumetric envelopes

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Generation of property grids from well zone data

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Workflow for calculation of reservoir volumetrics

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Overview of GeoFrame Model Editor, Map Editor, and Color Palette Editor modules and CPS-3 macro language

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, geoscientists, petroleum engineers, and technical IT personnel with no prior experience in Petrel software

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GeoFrame Fundamentals

AUDIENCE New users of GeoFrame software, including database administrators and application support staff, and development and exploration geologists and geophysicists PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists and application support staff PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers responsible for applying sequence and seismic stratigraphy to correlation, facies analysis, and delineation of stratigraphic traps PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of geology and geophysics


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geology :

GeoFrame Geology Office Foundation — 3 days

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Creation of maps in Basemap Plus software, displaying wells and seismic surveys, and generation of reservoir zone property maps Creation of log templates in the WellComposite* application and posting of log signatures with Basemap Plus software Use of WellComposite software to create multiwell displays, including log curves, markers, and lithology data Use of WellPix* software to pick geologic markers, faults, and zones Use of ResSum reservoir zone properties and thickness calculations software Creation of cross sections incorporating enhanced composite displays Integration of seismic trace and interpretation data with geologic data within the cross-section module, in time and depth domains Creation of facies zonation with LithoQuickLook* software and incorporation into composite displays

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists and geophysicists PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course

Petrel Geology Foundation — 3 days


:

The goal of this course is to teach you to build a subsurface model in Petrel software. You are guided through a standard 3D modeling workflow including fault building, gridding, and vertical layering. After the 3D grid is constructed, it is populated with properties. You complete the workflow cycle by calculating the volume based on the created 3D grid. COURSE CONTENT n

Petrel* Studio

n

Editing input data

n

Stratigraphic modeling

n

3D grid construction

n

Pillar gridding

n

Making a horizon

n

Zones and layering

n


n

Upscaling well logs

n

Facies modeling

n

Petrophysical modeling

n

Making contacts

n

Volume calculations

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel with prior experience in Petrel software. PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or similar Petrel experience, general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics, as well as elemental software skills


:

Petrel* software offers various options for well correlation. This course gives a general overview of correlation and introduces you to well data import procedures with different formats and the use of the Reference Project tool. It focuses on setting well section templates, and the value of sharing templates between projects, wells, and well section windows. Interpret and edit stratigraphic and fault well tops (markers) along well paths based on log readings. Learn advanced discrete and continuous log interpreting and editing options based on existing logs. Apply the different techniques in a typical working order, from simple exploration wells to production phase. COURSE CONTENT n

n

Project organization, including Studio Favorites, Studio Find, and Studio Annotate features Import procedures for wells and logs, including the Reference Project tool

Petrel Mapping and Geologic Workflows Foundation — 2 days

:

In this course, you focus on standard 2D workflows related to geological mapping. You study the different gridding algorithms and when to use them. You learn about creation of isochore maps from well tops, isochore processing, and surface operations. You gain exposure to the 2D volume calculation workflow, in addition to extraction and plotting of maps from a 3D model. COURSE CONTENT n

Display and color management

n

Creating and editing surfaces

n

Gridding algorithms

n

Isochore modeling

n

Surface operations

n

Extracting information from an existing 3D model

n

Plot setup and print options

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geoscientists, petroleum engineers, and technical personnel

n

Working and setting with well section and templates

n

Seismic and 3D model backdrop

PREREQUISITES

n

Continuous and discrete log interpretation (manual, calculator, and neural nets), and log edits

Petrel Geology course or similar experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology

n

Well top interpretation and edits

n

Time-depth relationship

n

Creating point well data attributes

n

Plotting and presenting results in different windows

n

Workflows for exploration, appraisal, development, and production phases

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geoscientists and petroleum engineers PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or equivalent Petrel experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology


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GEOLOGY PetroMod Introduction— 1D, 2D, and 3D Foundation — 5 days

:

This course is structured to provide the fundamentals on PetroMod software, which combines seismic information, well data, and geologic knowledge to model the evolution of a sedimentary basin. Understand how the software predicts whether and how a reservoir has been charged with hydrocarbons, including source and timing, migration routes, quantities, and fluid type in the subsurface or at surface conditions. Gain a comprehensive overview of the 1D, 2D, and 3D basic workflows in basin modeling. COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

Introduction to petroleum systems modeling Structural and geochemical features of a petroleum system model 1D Workflow

Techlog Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

The Techlog interactive suite brings all your petrophysical and geological data together. Learn the fundamentals of this application and its base modules Techplot, Techdata, and Quanti. Understand the use of the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data in the system, including core and images. Topics include deterministic calculations and the principles behind the application workflow interface for single- and multiwell use. COURSE CONTENT

n

Multiwell management

¢

Basic plotting tools

¢

Calibration data using the Well Editor and calibrating models

n

User-defined programming language

Creating and editing lithologies

n

Advanced Techlog modules

Special tools such as intrusion and fracturing

2D Workflow Building a 2D model based on cross sections

¢

Creating and editing horizons and faults

¢

Assigning properties: Lithofacies, organofacies, geologic ages, QC, and pitfalls

¢

Python programming inside Techlog software

¢

¢

¢

History and concept

¢

Data management and QC techniques

Workflows for deterministic evaluation using Quanti module

¢

AUDIENCE Development and exploration log analysts and petrophysicists, geologists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel with no prior experience using Techlog software

n

Programming basics Python syntax and coding rules

n

Running your own equations in a multiwell and multizone environment

n

n

3D Workflow

Data QC and harmonization, file import (Techlog database) Custom plots (Techlog plot)

¢

Mathematical and scientific tools (NumPy and SciPy packages)

n

Assigning properties and geologic ages, QC, and pitfalls

¢

Running the simulator

¢

Analyzing results (output modules) and calibrating results

¢

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, and geochemists with little or no prior experience in PetroMod software

Advanced scripting Introduction to advanced basics such as multidimensional lists and dictionaries

Introduction to oriented object programming

COURSE CONTENT n

Fracture theory

n

Point well data and image log import and display

n

Creating tadpoles and rose diagrams

n

Stereonets, dip, azimuth; filters and fracture sets

n

Generation of fracture intensity logs and cumulative logs

¢

n

Reading and writing files Text, CSV, and Excel files

n

Fracture density maps

n

Upscaling of well logs and 3D modeling of intensity

n

Building stochastic fracture models

n

Fracture attribute generation

n

Upscaling fracture properties

n

Use of multiple fracture drivers

¢

Importing and loading data from Excel files

¢

Reporting

¢

n

Creating modules and custom libraries

AUDIENCE

:

Gain an introduction to fracture modeling in relation to how it is used in Petrel* software and the oil industry in general. You learn to focus on which input data are available and how they can be used in the Petrel application. You study various Petrel processes and their use in viewing, quality checks, and manipulation of the input fracture data. In the Petrel application, fracture modeling is split into two processes: generation of a fracture network model and upscaling the fracture attributes to generate fracture porosity, permeability, and sigma factor. Increase your understanding of the fracture network model, which consists of a discrete fracture network and implicit fracture properties. Use various geologic, structural, and seismic fracture drivers for fracture intensity description and ultimately combine them using artificial neural networks. Discussion includes how output fracture properties can be used for simulation.

¢

Constructing 3D models from maps Editing horizons and faults

Skill — 2 days

¢

¢ ¢

Python modules

¢

Running the simulator

Analyzing results (output modules) and extracting data

Application workflow interface for Python platform

¢

PREREQUISITES None

Introduction to the Python editor Opening and running scripts

¢ ¢

Introduction to Python Scripting

¢

n

n

:

COURSE CONTENT n

Software developers or geoscientists with basic programming skills interested in a general understanding of Python scripting in the Techlog software

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course or similar experience in Petrel software, and general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics

Techlog Fundamentals course

PREREQUISITES

:

Petrel Fracture Modeling

This course is designed to introduce users to programming basic and advanced scripts in the Techlog* software. Learn how to create, edit, open, and run scripts in a Techlog workflow. Topics include Python™ syntax and programming skills, Python and Techlog modules (libraries), and advanced scripting including reading and writing and creating Techlog modules.

Techlog interface and data structure

n

Input data and boundary conditions


n

¢

n

:

Techlog Python

Development and exploration geologists PREREQUISITES

None


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geology :

PetroMod Advanced Topics — 1D, 2D, and 3D Skill — 5 days

:

In this course featuring PetroMod* petroleum systems modeling, you construct complex geological models, control the processing of the models, learn the options and tools for petroleum migration modeling, and interpret and analyze the results. Through lectures and hands-on exercises, you alternate between 1D, 2D, and 3D modeling, which makes use of all packages. COURSE CONTENT

Petrel Play to Prospect Risk Skill — 2 days

n

Pressure boundary condition controls and aquifer flow

n

Gridding, sampling, and area of interest controls

n

Simulator options

n

Modeling petroleum migration

n

Pressure modeling approaches

n

Combinations of simulation and migration modeling methods

n

Seal leakage and breakthrough, and hydrocarbon column heights


:

This course covers play chance determination, lead identification, and prospect assessment using Petrel* software and Petroleum Systems Quick Look and Play to Prospect Risk tools. Learn to build play fairway maps for trap, reservoir, charge, and seal; transform them into play chance maps; and create probabilistic volumetric and chance of success prospect assessments. Instruction includes how to keep a play and prospect evaluation updated with new information.

n

Modeling petroleum systems

n

Gridding and regridding options

n

n

n

Editing and correcting maps prior to model building

Multiphase and multicomponent modeling methods

Create reservoir property maps with well calibration

n

Defining uplift and erosion using maps

Interpretation and analysis of modeling results

n

n

Create seal capacity maps

n

Define trap presence maps and trap sizing

n

Identifying facies changes, importing facies maps, and using images to create facies maps

n

Incorporating high-resolution facies distributions based on seismic data

n

Local grid refinement for viewing locally defined, high-resolution models within a larger PetroMod model

n

Fault handling, including property changes

n

Control of salt and mobile shale movements with pillowing, penetration, and paleogeometry tools

n n

Modeling igneous intrusions Structural modeling packages

n

Controlling petroleum systems models

n

Thermal boundary conditions and geometric boundary conditions

n

Map viewers and 1D, 2D, and 3D data exchange

n

Exporting data and images

COURSE CONTENT

n

Define charge generation masses

n

Create Play Chance maps for charge generation and timing

AUDIENCE

n

Geologists, geophysicists, and geochemists working in PetroMod software

Charge generation versus trap timing relationship

n

Simulate hydrocarbon flow paths

n

Evaluate migration in vertical and faulted scenarios

n

Transform property maps into Play Chance

n

Risk and uncertainty analyses

PREREQUISITES PetroMod Introduction — 1D, 2D, and 3D course, and experience using PetroMod software

n

Assess prospect for reserves, chance of success, and economics

AUDIENCE Geologists, exploration geoscientists, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES Experience with Petrel software and surface-polygon operations

Skill — 3 days

:

Structured for users with fundamental Petrel* modeling skills, this course covers basic geostatistics, data preparation, data analysis, facies, and petrophysical modeling. Learn different ways to create property models and how to condition models to existing models and secondary data. Understand the concepts, algorithms, and software functionalities in property modeling. The first half of the course focuses on basic geostatistical concepts such as variograms, kriging and Gaussian simulation, and testing of both methods to find their benefits and limitations. Premodeling processes such as well data preparation, data analysis, and log upscaling are also covered. The second half of the course focuses on facies and petrophysical modeling using stochastic methods. Data analysis and the use of existing models and secondary data are demonstrated as key issues in the modeling sequence to guide the result. COURSE CONTENT n

Geostatistics fundamentals

n

Data preparation, including well log calculations and upscaling for discrete and continuous data

n

Facies modeling

n

Data analysis

n

Sequential indicator simulation

n

Object-based facies modeling

n

Truncated Gaussian simulation

n


n

Data analysis

n

Sequential Gaussian simulation

n

Gaussian random function simulation

n

Modeling using secondary data

AUDIENCE Exploration, development, and production geologists; petrophysicists; and reservoir engineers wanting to understand more about property modeling PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course or similar experience in Petrel software, and general knowledge of petroleum geology


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GEOLOGY Petrel Structural Modeling Skill — 3 days

:

This course covers the different Petrel* approaches to building models that capture geologically complex regions and the steps for robust QC. Learn how to build advanced structural models with complex and reverse faults and truncations. Demonstrations include a combination of the standard pillar gridding approach to 3D grid construction with fault modeling plus the structural framework approach. Understand how to use these processes for fault modeling while interpreting seismic data, and learn to build a 3D grid with faults. COURSE CONTENT n

Preprocessing input data

n

Corner point gridding approach

n

Fault modeling including lateral and vertical truncations

Petrel Workflow Editor and Uncertainty Analysis Skill — 2 days

:

The goal of this course is twofold, to provide insight into the Workflow Editor and the uncertainty and optimization process. Learn how to create your own workflows for batch processing and operations, in addition to setting up, editing, and repeating processes with new data for a complete reservoir modeling workflow. Become familiar with sensitivities and uncertainties of a base case volumetric reservoir model. Discussions include structural uncertainties related to surfaces and velocities, as well as stochastic parameters related to fluid contacts, facies, and petrophysical uncertainties. COURSE CONTENT n n

Skill — 5 days

Running predefined workflows

Pillar gridding

Creating user-defined workflows

n

Making horizons

n

n

Editing 3D grid and horizon fault lines

Updating 3D models with new input data

n

Structural framework approach

n

Uncertainty and optimization process

n

Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis setup

PetroMod Petroleum Resource Assessments with Special Reference to Petroleum Systems Modeling

:

Based on the use of PetroMod* software, this course presents the tools and workflows used in the exploration for a shale gas system. Learn use of PetroMod software in hands-on exercises. COURSE CONTENT n

Global review of shale gas exploration

n

Shale gas: Reservoir and charge, characterization, properties, and challenges

n

Methods for petroleum resource assessments

n

Conventional and unconventional petroleum resource assessments

n

n

Theoretical aspects of geomechanics (hands-on exercises)

Applications and case histories of petroleum systems modeling for petroleum resource assessments

n

n

Geomechanics for shale gas with full petroleum system assessment individual basin exercise

Technical requirements for petroleum resource assessments using petroleum systems modeling

n

n

Field example of Latin America exploration

Data requirements and workflows for resource assessments using petroleum systems modeling

n

Current and future state of petroleum systems modeling and its ramifications for both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resource assessments

AUDIENCE

Fault framework modeling

n

Structural uncertainty

Horizon modeling

n

Fluid contact uncertainty

n

Modeling while interpreting

n

Property uncertainty

PREREQUISITES

n

Stair-step faults and listric faults

n

Salt modeling methods

Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course, or similar experience in Petrel software, and general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics

Definitions and rationale for petroleum resource assessments

Shale gas charge, trap and seal, Langmuir adsorption, principles

n

PREREQUISITES

n

n

n

Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, and technical personnel with prior experience in Petrel software

COURSE CONTENT

Advanced petroleum system modeling methods

Unconventional gas exploration geologists, basin and petroleum systems modelers, and geomechanics and geochemical experts

Geoscientists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel with prior experience in Petrel software

Improve your understanding of advanced methods for assessment of petroleum resources.

n

Geometry definition

AUDIENCE

:

PetroMod mapping of facies, total organic content, and hydrogen index

n

AUDIENCE

Skill — 3 days

n

Workflow Editor interface and logic

n

n

PetroMod Petroleum Systems Modeling for Shale Plays

Introduction to PetroMod course (within last 2 years)

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE Geoscientists involved in basin-scale to country-scale petroleum resource assessments and improved quantifications of undiscovered hydrocarbons PREREQUISITES None

Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course or similar Petrel experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology


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geology :

PetroMod Pressure Calibration in Petroleum Systems Modeling Skill — 3 days

:

PetroMod Quantification of Uncertainty Analyses in Petroleum Systems Modeling Skill — 2 days

:

Pore pressures in the subsurface are critical at all stages of hydrocarbon E&P. During the evolution of a sedimentary basin, pressure conditions influence source rock maturation, migration paths, reservoir porosity and permeability, seal capacities, and the prediction of hydrocarbon reserves. Understanding the risk of high overpressures is key to ensuring a successful well design when predrilling a prospect.

Expand your expertise in uncertainty analyses with the PetroRisk* risk management system module. Discussion includes statistics, uncertainty analysis in model building, and model calibration. Use theory and practical exercises to evaluate the impact of uncertainties in input data on individual models and to understand dependencies and correlations between geological processes and model uncertainties.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

n

Theory of overpressure development in sedimentary basins

n

Calibration of a 3D petroleum systems model for porosity and pore pressure

n

Predictions about undrilled parts of the model area once the model has been calibrated against present-day measured porosity and pore pressure values

n

n

Perform PVT-controlled fluid flow simulations to predict accumulated hydrocarbon compositions and properties (API, GOR) Employ model-building skills to improve your models and their predictive potential

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, and geochemists PREREQUISITES PetroMod* Introduction: 1D, 2D, & 3D course, and experience using PetroMod software

n

PetroRisk user interface

n

Importing and editing input uncertainties

n

Performing statistics runs and evaluating output results

n

Populating the model with risk points for which output results are stored

n

Risk data analysis using 1D, 2D, and 3D Viewer

n

n

Calibrating model to fit measured values Developing workflows for risking and calibrating a model

PetroMod Structural Analysis for Petroleum Systems Modeling Skill — 3 days

:

Sediment space is primarily created by structurally and thermally induced subsidence. The structural evolution of sedimentary basins controls sediment deposition and forms structural traps and pathways for hydrocarbons. In this course, you learn how the timing of structural activity affects petroleum system development. You study complex tectonic development in salt basins: unique physical properties and a strong influence on depocenter distribution make it necessary to understand the dynamics of salt movement. You populate a petroleum systems model by understanding the structural evolution of the basin to quantify paleoheat flow and paleowater depth and define interpolations of facies distributions and fault properties for migration. You understand that in areas of strong compressional tectonic deformation, as in fold and thrust belts or toe-thrust regions of passive margins, definition of paleogeometries is necessary to understand the maturity and migration pathways of the petroleum system. COURSE CONTENT

AUDIENCE

Updates to the petroleum systems model in structural basin analysis

Geologists, geophysicists, and geochemists

Implementation of structural information

PREREQUISITES PetroMod* Introduction—1D, 2D, and 3D course, and experience using PetroMod software

n

n

n

Integration of structural information with a petroleum systems numerical model: Pitfalls and limitations

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, and geochemists

Techlog Formation Evaluation Skill — 5 days

:

Explore the use of Techlog* base modules: Techplot, Techdata, Quanti, and Quanti.min. In this class, you achieve a good foundation in the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data in the system, including core and images. Increase your knowledge of deterministic calculations and the principles behind the application workflow interface for single- and multiwell use. Study multiple log and component inversion techniques, thin-bed analysis, and integration of different types of data to enhance the interpretation process. Understand how to perform day-to-day tasks within the Techlog suite and learn advanced techniques for improving the analysis results. COURSE CONTENT n


n

Data management and QC

n


n


n

Workflows for deterministic evaluation using Quanti modules

n


n

Thin-bed analysis techniques

n

Multiple-component inversion

AUDIENCE Development and exploration log analysts and petrophysicists PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course

PREREQUISITES PetroMod* Introduction—1D, 2D, 3D course, and experience using PetroMod software


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GEOLOGY Techlog Formation Evaluation with Quanti.Elan Skill — 2 days

GeoFrame CPS-3 Advanced Mapping and Volumetrics

:

This course introduces experienced log interpreters to building log interpretation models and generating solutions with the Quanti.Elan solver of Techlog*. COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

n

Load and quality control data (from DLIS or LAS files) Pre-computation estimation of critical parameters for interpretations including mineral, rock and fluid endpoints

Advanced — 3 days

:

Advanced — 2 days n

Mechanics and internal operation of convergent gridding algorithm

n

Mathematics and mechanics of integral algorithms

n

Computation and display of grid errors for data point values

You perform quick and detailed lithology estimations with the GeoFrame* Litho ToolKit complete collection of lithofacies tools and analysis techniques. Learn the various techniques that can be used to generate lithofacies.

COURSE CONTENT

n

Incorporation of GIF and TIF images

COURSE CONTENT

Functionality of CPS-3 application

n

Table lookup feature

Gridding operations

n

Fault surfaces, fault traces, and blank and fill polygons

n

Zone averages and interaction of CPS-3 software with ResSum* software for properties and thickness calculations

n

IESX* seismic interpretation software, GeoFrame Basemap* software, and their interaction with CPS-3 software

n n

Algorithms

Log response equations with emphasis on neutron porosity and resistivity-based saturation equations

n

Mapping and modeling techniques

n

Integration of CPS-3 software with GeoFrame applications

Initialization and construction of formation evaluation models

n

Organization of internal data into coordinate systems

n

Transforming CPS-3 data from one coordinate system to another Import and export of data

n

Zoning and classification groups

n

Combining formation evaluation models

n

n

Post processing

n

Use of rotated grids

n

Customization with Python™

n

Single and dual-surface, arithmetic operations, and logical operations

AUDIENCE

n

Development and exploration geologists

Development and exploration geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers

Simple macros

n

Edit and generalization of simple macros

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES

n

Results and difference of gridding algorithms

Techlog Fundamentals course and formation evaluation experience using Techlog software.

n

InDepth velocity analysis and depth conversion software and its interaction with CPS-3 software

Familiarity with CPS-3 basic operations and menus

:

:

Enhance your understanding of the CPS-3* mapping and surface modeling software tool kit — a set of mapping and modeling functions that enable you to create many combinations of useful workflows.

n

AUDIENCE

GeoFrame Litho ToolKit Facies Classification

n

Deterministic methods using multiwell, multicurve GeoFrame LithoQuickLook* software

n

Estimation of missing log curves using neural network techniques

n

Creation of multiwell facies logs using any log data as input

n

Application of cutoffs on multiple curves

n

Artificial neural networks (supervised and unsupervised neural network) for generating facies logs

n

Multidimensional histograms

n

Clustering methods

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course


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geology :

Petrel Introduction to Structural & Fault Analysis Module (RDR) Advanced — 4 days

:

This new Petrel* module, developed by the Rock Deformation Research group, provides a broad suite of tools for all aspects of visualizing, mapping, modeling, and analyzing faults in the Petrel workflow. Learn new ways to integrate fault geologic information into the reservoir simulation process. Examples show the impact of fault integration into simulation models on prospect evaluations, volumes, and simulation responses. The course highlights critical risk factors that influence the analysis of prospects and field development programs and the workflows to capture the likely structural nature of the prospect or field and to understand the implications. COURSE CONTENT n

Exploration New methods for fault identification and mapping

¢

Property predictions and analysis for Petrel structural framework modeling

¢

Fault dip and dip direction: Mapping seismic onto faults and juxtaposi tion analysis

¢

Tools for data cleanup for prospect creation and preparation for geomodeling

¢

Streamlining the seismic interpretation process with structural sense checks

¢

Creating trap maps and trap analyses

¢

Fault juxtaposition mapping

¢

Fault geometry and property analysis

¢

Petrel Multipoint and Conditional Facies Modeling Advanced — 2 days

Prediction of hydrocarbon column heights using capillary seals

¢

Integration of geometric and property uncertainties in analyses

¢

n

Development Fault seal mapping

¢

Fault communication mapping

¢

Geomodel analysis tools for QA

¢

Fault and grid geometric analysis

¢

Fault throw and displacement analysis, including profiles and cumulative frequency plots

¢

Susceptibility to failure of faults

¢

Fault property predictions, calcula tions, and filtering

¢

Reservoir juxtaposition analysis

:

This course focuses on facies modeling, the main method for guiding petrophysical models. Material includes demonstrations of pixel- and object-based models and studies of complex hierarchical models that combine multiple methods. Emphasis is on advanced property modeling tools such as the multipoint geostatistics process. Discussions include the theory behind this process, covering how to create good training images, incorporate soft probability data, vary direction, and scale in the final simulation model. In addition, you learn about the geobody modeling tool for extracting seismic bodies and using them directly as hard data in the modeling process.

Techlog Advanced Analysis Advanced — 5 days

In this course, you focus on using the Techlog* software interpretation and processing capabilities for the management of wellbore image data, pressure data, core data, and special core data. Learn interpretation workflows for analysis of these data as well as specialized tasks such as facies and rock type detection and propagation. Enhance your understanding of multiwell and multiuser aspects, and advanced processing and analysis within the Techlog application. COURSE CONTENT n

Core data: Loading, shifting, correcting for stress, and clay closure

n

Core data: Upscaling, rock typing, and special core analysis with capillary pressure data

n

Saturation-height models in core and log domains

n

Pressure data

n

Managing and resolving contacts across multiple initiation regions

n

Image data-processing, manipulating, displaying, picking and classifying dips

COURSE CONTENT

¢

:

n

Geostatistics overview

n

Facies modeling methods with classical geostatistics

n

Pixel-based facies modeling methods

n

Object-based facies modeling methods

n

Conditioning and combining modeling methods

n

Neural net learning systems

n


AUDIENCE

n

Multipoint statistics (MPS) theory

n


Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geomechanics, and reservoir engineers

n

Region properties

n

Conditioning and scaling MPS models

n

Making and using seismic geobodies

n

Multipoint facies simulation

n

Optional: Conditioned petrophysical modeling

Fault plane maps

¢

Fault transmissibility multiplier computations

¢

Geologic tuning of transmissibility multipliers

¢

Uncertainty incorporation of fault geometries and properties in workflow

¢

PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or similar Petrel experience, and general knowledge of structural geology, reservoir engineering, and geophysics

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE Development and exploration log analysts and petrophysicists, geologists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course

Geoscientists with demonstrated experience in property modeling in Petrel software PREREQUISITES Petrel* Fundamentals course and Petrel Property Modeling course, practical Petrel experience, and knowledge of petroleum geology


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GEOLOGY Techlog Borehole Image Interpretation Advanced — 3 days

:

In this course, you learn advanced interpretation and processing capabilities for the management of wellbore image data and the performance of interpretation workflows for data analysis. You gain a full range of skills to manipulate, process, and use all kinds of borehole image data within the Techlog suite. COURSE CONTENT n

Loading, processing, and manipulating image data and core photos

n

Picking dips and facies

n

Interpreting dips and facies

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists and petrophysicists involved in wellbore image data processing and interpretation PREREQUISITES Techlog* Fundamentals course


Techlog Core Data

:

Advanced — 4 days

This course focuses on the management of all types of core data within the Techlog* suite. Learn the interpretation workflows for analysis of these data, including facies detection and propagation, and explore the use of special core data in saturation-height modeling. COURSE CONTENT n


n


n

n

Saturation-height models in core and log domains Neural network techniques for facies determination

Advanced — 4 days

Development and exploration geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers PREREQUISITES

:

In this course, you learn about advanced interpretation and processing capabilities of Techlog* software that can be used to manage core data, special data, and the performance of interpretation workflows for analysis of these data. Understand how to make use of special core data in saturationheight modeling and pressure data obtained by wireline or LWD technology. Learn new tools for managing and resolving fluid contacts within complex compartmentalized reservoirs and advanced interpretation and data handling of core and pressure data to resolve complex fluid contacts. COURSE CONTENT n


n


n


n

Pressure data

n


AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE


:


Development and exploration geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers with prior formation evaluation experience using Techlog software

Advanced — 5 days

:

In this course, you learn advanced interpretation and processing capabilities with a focus on the management of wellbore image data and the performance of interpretation workflows for analysis of these data. Topics include facies typing using neural network methods, multiwell plotting, cross section building, and mapping in the Techlog* application. Learn to use Techlog geologic tools to achieve efficient data integration. COURSE CONTENT n


n


n


n

Neural network techniques for facies prediction

n

Zone editing for field maps, kriging, and multiwell cross sections

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course

PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course

Strengthen Your Interpretation Skills From play to prospect, NExT delivers the technical and software worklfows that enhance your geological interpretation skills. NExT Exploration courses provide the skill you need to understand the impact of petroleum systems on your evaluation of a play or prospect. ■■


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Economics of Petroleum Exploration

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Global Tectonics and Geological Prospecting Tools for Exploration

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Introduction to the Geologic Interpretation of Seismic Profiles

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Petrel Play to Prospect Risk

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Petroleum Systems and Exploration/Development Geochemistry

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Petromod Petroleum Resource Assessments

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Seamless integration of your intellectual property

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Ocean Software Development Kit 2011.1 Foundation — 5 days

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In this course, through a series of modules and labs, you learn to extend the features of Petrel E&P platform and build software using the Ocean software development framework through a set of application programming interfaces (APIs). Ocean software development kit (SDK) enables users to add functionality, new workflows, new user interfaces, custom objects, etc. to the Petrel software. Ocean framework and the MSDN environment: The Ocean API is written in the C# language, the language of choice for .NET development, which combines popular features from the Java® language and the efficiency of the .NET runtime language interpreter.

Skill — 3 days Attributes

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Shapes

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Pillar grid

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Simulation results

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Ocean overview, architecture, and roadmap Ocean Core and Services Module

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Process and workstep

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Petrel unit system

User interface Infrastructure

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Menus

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Windows

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Trees Settings

Data access and data model Data browsing

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Seismic data and interpretation

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Well and geology

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Scene creation and interaction

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Debugging a 3D scene

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Actions

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Sensors

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Performance tuning

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Custom visualization

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Extensions

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Visualization Custom renderers

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Interaction

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Deployment

AUDIENCE Software developers and geoscientists wanting a general understanding of Ocean software development framework for Petrel platform PREREQUISITES Knowledge of Petrel workflow tools, the Microsoft Windows® and Visual Studio® environments, good understanding of OOP/ OOD concepts, programming experience with .NET and C#

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Domain object customization

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This course, taught by an expert in Open Inventor® from VSG, is structured for programmers developing plug-ins for Petrel software. It introduces you to advanced techniques for rendering custom domain objects using the Ocean software development kit. Demonstrations of VSG tools help you develop 3D scene graphs.

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Open Inventor .NET: 3D Visualization for Ocean SDK

AUDIENCE Programmers familiar with the Ocean software development kit who are writing plug-ins for Petrel software PREREQUISITES Ocean Software Development Kit Fundamentals course (mandatory)

Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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geophysics NExT’s Geophysics curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Geophysics course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Geophysics curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Geophysical Acquisition and Processing Advanced

Structural and Stratigraphic Interpretation

Quantitative Seismic Methods

Advanced Seismic Interpretation

Geophysics Software

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Petrel Play to Prospect Identification

Seismic Geomechanics Seismic Attribute and Image Interpretation with Petrel Software

Techlog Advanced Analysis

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GeoFrame Synthetics GeoFrame GeoViz Advanced Seismic Interpretation and Visualization Techniques GeoFrame CPS-3 Advanced Mapping and Volumetrics

Skill

Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing


Seismic Petrophysics

Petrel Workflow Editor and Uncertainty Analysis

Seismic Processing for Interpreters and Others

Deepwater Seismic Interpretation

AVO and Seismic Inversion

Petrel Velocity Modeling

Borehole Seismic

Seismic Interpretation : Mapping with Petrel Software

Seismic Attributes and AVO Analysis Seismic Analysis of Carbonate Reservoirs

Seismic Stratigraphy Practical Depth Conversion for Seismic Interpreters

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GeoFrame IESX Gathers Seismic Workflow

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GeoFrame GeoViz Seismic : Interpretation and Visualization Techniques Fundamentals GeoFrame InDepth

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Seismic Structural Interpretation

Foundation

Studio for Petrel Basic Data Management

Non-Seismic Methods

Fundamentals of Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation

GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Interpretation GeoFrame Seismic Attribute ToolKit Workflow GeoFrame IESX Seismic Interpretation GeoFrame CPS-3 Mapping Fundamentals GeoFrame Fundamentals

Awareness

Introduction to Geophysics

Petrel Geophysics

Petrel Fundamentals

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geophysics Introduction to Geophysics

Fundamentals of Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation

Non-seismic Methods




This course introduces you to the fundamentals and principles of value-added geophysical and seismic applications in exploration, field appraisal, and reservoir management. You gain a practical understanding of seismic acquisition, processing, imaging, interpretation, and extraction of geologic and petrophysical information. You learn the practical issues and pitfalls that affect the use of seismic data in E&P workflows through data examples, exercises, and workshops. Examples demonstrate the practical aspects of seismic interpretation involving seismic structural mapping, stratigraphic analysis, and amplitude methods.

This course encompasses the fundamentals of seismic data acquisition processing, and interpretation. Learn the principles that form the basis for valueadded seismic applications in exploration, field appraisal, and reservoir management. Gain a practical understanding of seismic data acquisition, processing, imaging, interpretation and extraction of geological and petrophysical information. Through data examples, exercises, and workshops, learn the key concepts, practical issues, and pitfalls that affect the application of seismic data and information in E&P workflows. Examples for practical aspects of seismic interpretation cover mapping, stratigraphic analysis, and amplitude methods.

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Data processing flows

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Prestack analysis and signal corrections

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Sorting, gain, phase, deconvolution, velocity filtering, multiple attenuation

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Velocity, velocity analysis, and statics

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Field statics and weathering corrections

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Short period versus long period

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Refraction- and reflection-based statics

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Time migration, prestack migration, and depth migration

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Role of geophysics in E&P

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Overview of nonseismic geophysical techniques

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Wave propagation

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Reflection principles and resolution

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Signal analysis, geometry, and positioning

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Acquisition and processing principles

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3D survey design

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Acquisition implementation and operations

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Seismic processing principles and workflows

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Velocity analysis, static corrections, and migration and imaging

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Seismic interpretation, including trap definition, structural mapping, and seismic stratigraphic interpretation

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Inversion and attributes

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Role of seismic data in reservoir life cycle: Seismic acquisition methods

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Seismic reflection principles

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Acoustic impedance, seismic resolution, factors affecting wave propagation

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Signal-processing tools

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Effects of acquisition on interpretation, spatial sampling, and aliasing

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Noise types: How to attenuate noise in the field

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3D survey parameters and design

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Acquisition systems and operations

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Special issues and techniques

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Fundamentals of gravity and magnetic methods

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Prestack depth workflow

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Gravity

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Velocity model building and iteration

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Gravity resolution (land, sea, and air)

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Processing pitfalls and QA

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4D gravity

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Interpretation methods: Structural mapping, stratigraphic and amplitude- attribute, seismic inversion, and wavelet processing

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Gravity gradiometer versus gravity

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Magnetics

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Magnetics resolution

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Gravity and magnetic signatures

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Gravity and magnetic modeling

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Fundamentals of electrical and electromagnetic (EM) methods

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Electrical fields in the subsurface: DC and AC resistivity

Seismic wave propagation Principles, ray and wave fronts, Snell’s law, reflection, refraction and critical angle, amplitude behavior

Nonseismic data can enhance and expand your seismic interpretation. This course introduces you to the nonseismic tools that indicate hydrocarbons and explains their integration into your existing reservoir characterization. Learn which nonseismic data to acquire, and when, to best augment your seismic data. Complete hands-on exercises and explore recent case studies that highlight the use of nonseismic data to refine the understanding of subsurface discoveries.

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AVO principles

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Rock physics

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Attributes: Frequency and phase

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Coherency

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Multicomponent methods

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EM: Is it diffusion or propagation?

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Time-lapse (4D) techniques

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Subsurface integration for reservoir characterization

Active-source EM: Marine controlledsource EM (CSEM)

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Shallow water, volcanic sills, and hydrates

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CSEM screening criteria

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Active-source EM: Land magnetotellurics (MT)

AUDIENCE Entry-level geophysicists, geologists, and engineers looking for an overview of seismic techniques PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic reservoir geology

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Passive-source EM: MT

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Integrated interpretation of seismic and nonseismic data

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Sequential and joint inversions

Amplitude versus offset

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Inversion with gradient constraints

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Multicomponent (4C)

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MT feasibility study in Gulf of Mexico

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Time-lapse (4D) seismic data

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Borehole seismic data

Case studies: Girasol, Troll, Borneo, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, and Gulf of Mexico

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Role of geophysics in integrated reservoir studies

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of geophysics PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Geoscientists involved in planning acquisition of multiple geophysical data types and interpreters responsible for combining nonseismic and seismic data PREREQUISITES Awareness of exploration and appraisal phases; knowledge of seismic acquisition, processing, and interpretation


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geophysics Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing

AVO and Seismic Inversion

Borehole Seismic



Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

In this course, you gain a practical understanding of seismic data acquisition and processing. Course material encompasses acquisition, processing, imaging, and extraction of geologic and petrophysical information. Data examples, exercises, and workshops illustrate the fundamentals, practical issues, and pitfalls as they affect the interpretation and integration of seismic data and information into E&P workflows. Understand the principles involved in imaging geologic structures and properties with seismic data, and the parameters that can seriously affect seismic data quality, costs, and interpretation accuracy. Learn to determine whether seismic data has been recorded and processed correctly for your interpretation objectives and how to apply QA steps.

AVO and inversion techniques play a significant role in creating petrophysical models of the subsurface. These geosubsurface models are compatible with dynamic reservoir models built with reservoir engineering measurements and computations.

An introduction to the theory and fundamentals of borehole seismic (BHS), this course covers principles of acquisition and processing, and the applications of borehole seismic data. Discussions include the latest advances in technologies and practices for the acquisition, processing, and use of borehole seismic data.

The objective of this practical, completely workshop-based course is a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of geologic interpretation of seismic profiles.

COURSE CONTENT

Learn the correct use of seismic attributes, well data analysis, and AVO and seismic inversion in building subsurface models suitable for improved field development planning and design. Understand the basic concepts in quantitative seismic analysis and AVO-based interpretation, calibration of well to seismic data, and inversion techniques. Consolidate your understanding of technologies through recent field study examples and practical workshop exercises.

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Introduction to acquisition and processing

Introduction to seismic reservoir characterization

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Software overview

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Seismic wave propagation

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Seismic reflection principles

Techniques of quantitative interpretation

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Signal analysis

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Seismic migration Seismic acquisition principles

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Survey design

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Acquisition geometry and the 3D bin

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Acquisition implementation

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Data processing factors

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Velocity and velocity analysis

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Statics

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AVO QC and preconditioning

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Well-to-seismic calibration

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Wavelet estimation

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Inversion methods

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Prestack and poststack, acoustic and elastic inversion

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Analyzing well logs for AVO and inversion response

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AVO inversion: Creating angle stacks

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AVO volumes

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Attribute analysis

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Rock physics and fluid replacement modeling

Migration and processing

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3D imaging

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Hydrocarbon indicators

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Processing strategies and pitfalls

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Errors and pitfalls

Specialized technologies and their issues: AVO, attributes, inversion, multicomponent

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Recent inversion methods and R&D

AUDIENCE Entry- or junior-level geophysicists or experienced seismic data interpreters wanting exposure to basic acquisition and processing techniques PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic reservoir geology

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AVO theory and modeling

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Geophysical principles: Seismic method and response, reflection and refraction, velocity-seismogram, borehole versus surface seismic, borehole seismic types Sources and Tools: Impulsive (air guns); on-impulsive (vibros); borehole seismic tools, classifications, and characteristics; Combinable Seismic Imager (CSI); Versatile Seismic Imager (VSI) Check-shot, Sonic Calibration and Well Tie: Velocities, sonic tool, Sonic Scanner, drift, sonic calibration and synthetic seismogram Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) Processing: multiples; processing sequence; stacking, normalization, and filtering; upgoing and downgoing energy; deconvolution; corridor stack Anisotropy and amplitude versus offset (AVO): Phase Matching, Q-Factor, anisotropy, Thomsen parameters, AVO calibration, walkaway and walkaround VSP VSP Imaging: Offset VSP coverage, data processing, Normal Moveout (NMO) mapping, Common Depth Point (CDP) mapping, Generalized Radon Transform (GRT) migration, walkaway coverage, deviated wells, 2D and 3D Reservoir, production, and drilling applications: Salt proximity, aplanatic method, Deeplook CS, time-lapse BHS, single well, seismic while drilling (SWD), look-ahead VSP, borehole microseismic

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AUDIENCE

Geologists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, processing geophysicists, and seismic data interpreters involved with exploration and development of oil and gas reservoirs

Geologists, reservoir engineers, and geophysicists wanting a better understanding of borehole seismic data for reservoir analysis

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Basic knowledge of geology and geophysics

Basic knowledge of applied geophysical principles and seismic data interpretation

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Interpretation of reflection seismic profiles Evolution, geologic seismic interpretation, geophysical datasets

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Interpretation fundamentals: Stratigraphy, structure, restoration, models

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Mesoscal geologic models Extensional margins, compressional, combinations (Borneo dataset)

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Normal faulting Basement (Nevada, Newark, African Rift)

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Transform faults (Rio Grande Rift, southeastern Australia)

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Half grabens (Shetland, Dongpu)

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Half graben inversions (North Sea, Indonesia)

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Baltimore Canyon, Tarfaya, Gulf of Mexico, Angola, Brazil, Iran, and Aquitaine

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Classic models (Melville Island, Sichuan)

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Foredeep basins: Stratigraphy (Alaska, Alberta) and structural (Po Plain)

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Folded belts: With and without basement (Wind Riverand Casper)

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Triangle zones (Morocco, Andes, Dagestan)

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Gravitational (Angola, Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria)

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Orogenic float: Western North America, northern South America

AUDIENCE Interpretation geophysicists and geologists PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of geophysical principles

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geophysics Deepwater Seismic Interpretation

Practical Depth Conversion for Seismic Interpreters

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

The focus of this course is interpretation of seismic data and the delicate construction of seismic maps in the deepwater realm, with emphasis on proximal, intermediate, and distal marine reservoirs. Learn how acquisition and processing of 2D and 3D data relate to the practical use of the extensive and growing deepwater databases. Study seismic velocities, depth conversion, comparisons of 2D and 3D data, and the principles of 4D and 4C seismology. Improve your understanding of how 3D dataset time slices and amplitude and phase attributes can be applied for better reservoir characterizations. Complete hands-on mapping problems and exercises that explore geophysical exploration and development mapping in deepwater areas.

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Deepwater reservoir stratigraphy, turbidites Bright spots, dim spots, flat spots, and seismic attribute analyses

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Deepwater mapping techniques

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Time and depth map contouring in deepwater

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Seismic velocities: Average, interval, NMO, rms, and Dix equation

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Depth conversion techniques and precision: PSTM and PSDM

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Deepwater reservoir interpretation techniques

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Comparative interpretation of poststack and prestack time migration

Wave equation migration

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Reverse time migration

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Multicomponent and anisotropic considerations

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Tomographic velocity analysis: Layer based, grid based, and hybrid

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QC for iterative depth migration

COURSE CONTENT

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Depth-imaging grids

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Initial velocity model

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Iterations and velocity resolution

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Focusing and structural response

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Gathers, vertical sections, and depth slices

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Sources and representation of velocities

Corendering velocities and depth images

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Attributes and inversion

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Risks of deepwater prospects

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Velocity gradients

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Defining velocity as a function of depth and time

Iterative calibration of depth migration with well control

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Isotropic and anisotropic parameter estimation and definition

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Optional interactive software work sessions

Seismic interpretation concepts

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Project economics

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Seismic acquisition and processing workflows

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Deepwater compressional tectonics mapping interpretation

Deepwater petroleum geology provinces and world distribution of deepwater basins

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Prestack depth migration interpretation

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This course delivers a practical understanding of depth conversion. Learn the typical velocity types and their meanings. Understand the methods of velocity representation, and use them for depth conversion, from simple functions to more complex layer-based methods. Study the theory and estimation of velocities using various forms of tomography and the QC that ensures geologically reasonable results. Understand the techniques for depth calibration of isotropic depth images with well control, as well as the methods and impacts of including anisotropic solutions to yield better well ties and more resolved images.

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Vertical time-to-depth conversion Single-layer and multilayer models

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Fault contouring

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Velocities and depth conversion in deepwater

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Error analysis

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Advanced depth conversion

AUDIENCE Seismic data interpreters, geophysicists, and geologists wanting a better understanding of velocity modeling, depth conversion, and depth migration

Exploration and production in deepwater

AUDIENCE

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Forming velocity models

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Deepwater seismic reflection section parameters for 2D and 3D

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Quantitative well calibration

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Deepwater regimes

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Dip and strike sections in the deepwater realm

Geologists, geophysicists, and engineers wanting a better understanding seismic interpretation in deepwater environments

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Time and depth migration: Comparisons

PREREQUISITES

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Depth migration: Theory and practice

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Kirchhoff migration

Basic knowledge of geophysics and seismic data interpretation

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Seismic stratigraphic mapping in deep and ultra deepwater

PREREQUISITES Intermediate understanding and experience with seismic interpretation techniques


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geophysics Seismic Analysis of Carbonate Reservoirs

Seismic Attribute and Image Interpretation with Petrel Software

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Carbonate reservoirs are important E&P targets worldwide, and this course introduces you to the fundamental seismic techniques and methodologies used in their analysis. Increase your understanding of seismic data interpretation and inversion methods and the application of seismic and geometric attributes. Learn to apply quantitative seismic methods for fluid and fracture analyses.

In this course, you are introduced to a novel approach to 3D seismic interpretation. It treats 3D seismic data and sampled digital images like a photograph to be interpreted directly as geology through the image attributes, seismic or visual. Learn what can be achieved with attributes and image analysis techniques in seismic interpretation. Gain speed, objectivity, interpretation quality, accuracy, and the ability to tackle interpretation tasks that previously were not feasible. Understand the geologic meaning and significance of the main seismic attributes, which are the appropriate attributes to use in certain situations, and how to make an intelligent estimate of attribute parameters.

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Fundamentals of carbonate seismology

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Properties of carbonate rocks

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Coring and core measurements

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Seismic interpretation

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Carbonate seismic facies

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Application of complex attributes

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Application of complex seismic attributes

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General classification of instantaneous attributes

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Application of geometric attributes: Dip and azimuth, artificial illumination, and similarity Acoustic impedance (AI) and AVO seismic inversions

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Convolutional seismic trace model

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Types of inversion methods and characteristics: Recursive, modelbased, and sparse-spike

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Understand the meaning of sampled images

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Review detectability, resolution, and color depth

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Difference between data and information

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Strengths and weaknesses of interpreters and workstations

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Review of basic seismic attributes

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Future possibilities

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Comparison of distribution of skills and responsibilities - the highway accident scene

Depth conversion techniques

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Rift-basin mapping interpretation

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Comparative interpretation of poststack and prestack time migrations

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Map contouring, block faulting

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Well location and depth mapping precision

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Compressional tectonics mapping interpretation

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Models for rift and salt structures in sedimentary basins

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Fault contouring Prospect analyses

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Salt and shale tectonics

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Overpressure prediction

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Poststack, prestack time migration (PSTM), prestack depth migration (PSDM)

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Petroleum geology in worldwide provinces and basins

Seismic attributes: Amplitude, frequency, and phase

4D and multicomponent seismic data

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Wavelets, reflection coefficients, and convolution

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Seismic velocities: Average, interval, NMO, rms, and Dix equation

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Interpretation of stratigraphy through attributes

Seismic and geology attributes

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Wave equations, Poisson’s ratio

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Time-lapse (4D) seismic data

Mapping techniques: Hand and computer data contouring

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Fundamentals of seismic stratigraphy

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AVO processing

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AVO pitfalls and AVO for fluid and fracture analyses

Basic knowledge of geology and geophysics

Seismic wave propagation, reflection, refraction

Geologic structural attributes

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PREREQUISITES

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Lithology and porefill

Geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers interested in the application of seismic methods for carbonate reservoir analysis

Seismic fundamentals

Fundamentals of structural interpretation

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AUDIENCE

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COURSE CONTENT

3D image structure

Basics of AVO analysis

Multicomponent data for fracture characterization and reservoir monitoring

Using methodologies for distinct geological and tectonic settings, this course teaches the fundamental skills you need for seismic interpretation. You study all aspects of seismology interpretation and compare hand-drawn and digital maps to ensure that quality meets requirements for subsequent digital interpretation. You learn the principles of reflection seismology, including data acquisition, processing, and interpretation. Lectures with hands-on seismic mapping exercises are repeated using Petrel software, demonstrating the subtleties of subjective hand-contouring of data versus gridalgorithm contouring.

Noise attributes and noise suppression

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Practical guide for selection of inversion method

4D seismic data for reservoir monitoring

Skill — 5 days

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Seismic Interpretation Mapping with Petrel Software

AUDIENCE Geophysicists, geologists, and engineers wanting to learn the basics of seismic interpretation using Petrel software PREREQUISITES Knowledge of applied petroleum geology, exposure to seismic methods, and a working knowledge of Petrel software

AUDIENCE Nonmathematical interpreters of 3D seismic data of all experience levels, from exploration, evaluation, or development backgrounds PREREQUISITES Understanding of traditional 3D seismic interpretation based on horizon and fault picking, and static geological model building Return to Matrix Click Here

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geophysics Seismic Petrophysics

Seismic Processing for Interpreters and Others

Seismic Stratigraphy

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Seismic petrophysics involves the study and application of well log data, and rock physics theory and data to the interpretation of seismic data and observations. In this course, you gain an understanding of rock physics data and theory, integrate these data with data from well logs in a petrophysical evaluation, and then use the results to model and interpret seismic data.

Designed for individuals who work with seismic data, this introductory course illustrates the ramifications of processing decisions on subsequent interpretations, demonstrates data potential, and warns of the possible pitfalls for the unwary interpreter.

Moving progressively, you begin with simple, commonly used models and continually expand them to include increasingly complicated and realistic interpretations. At each step, you investigate the relationships between theory and laboratory, well log, and seismic data. Course material includes spreadsheets that incorporate many of the studied models (predicting fluid properties, rock properties, and seismic response including AVO and elastic impedance). Exercises on rock types drawn from around the world are based on these spreadsheets and require simple calculations. COURSE CONTENT n

Fundamentals of seismic petrophysics

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Seismic attributes and their relationships to rock properties

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Complex rocks: Unconsolidated and consolidated clastics, carbonates with vugs and fractures, shales, and heavy oil formations Fluids and fluid substitution: Methods and input parameters

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Fluid relationships to rock types

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Principles of AVO

Material is presented in a sequence that is the reverse of that for processing. Because each processing step has its own input requirements, an understanding of those requirements facilitates your understanding of each preceding step. This reverse order—which puts interpretation-heavy migration presentations at the start—motivates you to think in a new fashion. COURSE CONTENT n

Simple imaging using zero-offset data, normal-moveout (NMO) equation, and Dix interval velocities

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Imaging conditions and before-stack, wave-equation migration algorithms

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Velocity analysis for depth migration, including tomography with saltrelated velocity analysis

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Multiple attenuation and role of wide-azimuth acquisition geometry in multiple attenuation

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Statics: Land and marine

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Amplitude corrections

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1D and 2D filtering, including f-k filtering

This course teaches practical seismic stratigraphic interpretation skills. With an emphasis on interpretation principles at basin and field scales, exercises are based on actual data from many different areas of the world. Learn to link the seismic expression of stratigraphy with basin type and evolution and demonstrate its application to prospective evaluation of sedimentary basins. Increase your understanding of how and when to apply seismic stratigraphy to field- and basin-scale reservoir analysis.

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Wavelets and deconvolution

COURSE CONTENT

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Vertical seismic profile as a phase tool

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Introduction to seismic stratigraphy

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Fresnel zone

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Improving spatial resolution

Stratigraphic sequence fundamentals and applications

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Noise

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Dip-moveout correction, offset continuation and MOVES

Recognition of stratigraphic sequences on seismic data: Onlap, downlap, and truncation seismic facies

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Surface-related multiple elimination (SRME)

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Zero-offset migration

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Artifacts introduced by migrating incomplete data, including 2D data

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Statics solutions

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Role of velocity in migration

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FX deconvolution

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Kirchhoff and reverse-time, zerooffset migration algorithms

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Zero-offset reflection coefficients and reflection coefficients’ amplitude dependence with offset

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Fourier transform (amplitude and phase), convolution, and correlation NMO correction and stack to convert data to zero offset

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Estimation of stacking velocities

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NMO and stack failures

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Kirchhoff before-stack migration

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Geometry of sedimentary bodies

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Effects of seismic processing on seismic facies expression and importance of display parameters

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Lithology, velocity, and seismic facies

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Eustacy and relative sea-level changes through time

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Sea-level and sedimentation patterns and the chronostratigraphic chart

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Review of basin formation processes and their impacts on sedimentation patterns

PREREQUISITES

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Turbidite sedimentation patterns

Knowledge of geophysical principles

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Mapping of seismic facies and prospective assessment

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Carbonate depositional environments

AUDIENCE Processing geophysicists, seismic data interpreters, and data acquisition specialists

AUDIENCE Geoscientists and engineers with some experience in at least one of the following fields: petrophysics, seismic interpretation, seismic processing, reservoir characterization, or reservoir engineering

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of geophysics and geology, and an awareness of seismic interpretation

General knowledge of both petrophysics and geophysics

Geologists and geophysicists involved in seismic data interpretation PREREQUISITES


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geophysics Seismic Structural Interpretation

Advanced Seismic Interpretation

Skill — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

With a focus on building fundamental skills in seismic interpretation, this course employs practical examples demonstrating distinct aspects of various geological and tectonic provinces relative to their hydrocarbon prospectivity. In practical workshops, learn the main interpretation techniques used for seismic sections and skills for seismic data mapping. Special emphasis is given to comparisons of hand-contouring map interpretation with workstation interpretation mapping for 2D and 3D datasets.

Technologies and enhancements for seismic applications are evolving rapidly. This advanced-level course focuses on the recent developments in visualization, integration, and interpretation techniques for seismic data. Gain a solid understanding of the seismic data interpreter’s role in studies that involve poststack seismic attributes, AVO, seismic sequence stratigraphy, seismic geomorphology, 4D seismic data, and multidiscipline integration. Recent and relevant case histories, data examples, and exercises, conducted both on paper and with Petrel software, guide your understanding of complete data integration into the seismic model.

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Principles of seismology and proper handling of seismic velocities Technologies and methodologies for seismic data interpretation in specific tectonic and geologic settings

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Geometric attributes, trace similarity, and stratigraphic volume attributes

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Multiattributes analysis: Calibration, applications, pitfalls, and limitations

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Attribute classification: Factor analysis(FA), principal component analysis (PCA), statistical, neural network, unsupervised, and supervised classification

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Attribute analysis on carbonate reservoir case history

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Spectral decomposition

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Basics of rock physics and seismic inversion

Seismic attributes have radically changed the way the industry explores for and exploits hydrocarbon reserves. Attributes are defined as all the measured, computed, or implied properties obtained from seismic data. With the proper tools, learn how information that was once “hidden” can now be extracted from seismic data to enhance the prediction, characterization, and monitoring of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Hands-on exercises include application of seismic attributes to hydrocarbon fields presenting a variety of rock types, structural styles, and tectonic settings.

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AVO theory and prestack attributes

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Depth conversion methods and uncertainty

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Visual perception, understanding, and impact on interpretation

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Multicomponent seismic data interpretation

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Fundamentals of signal theory, wavelet, resolution, and scaling

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Time-lapse (4D) seismic data and reservoir monitoring

Comparisons of hand- and computercontoured maps, map QC

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Geological concepts, sedimentary models, and structural styles

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Gas hydrates interpretation

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Hands-on mapping exercises for geophysical exploration and development

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Characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs

Seismic interpretation mapping: Hand-drawn interpretations, computer workstation mapping

Seismic attributes applicable to reservoir characterization, 2D and 3D seismic data

AUDIENCE All industry professionals, particularly geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists, reservoir management professionals, and drilling engineers PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic reservoir geology

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Introduction to Petrel seismic interpretation module Interpretation: Overall procedure and 2D and 3D techniques

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Sequence stratigraphy and seismic facies analysis

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Seismic geomorphology, stratal slicing, and volume flattening

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Case history on automated fault interpretation

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Poststack attributes, reflective attributes, and transmissive attributes

Seismic Attributes and AVO Analysis

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Fundamentals of rock physics and seismic interpretation

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Seismic attributes for reservoir characterization

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Fundamentals and pitfalls of seismic interpretation

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Rock physics

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Complex trace attributes

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AVO analysis and modeling for reservoir characterization

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Inversion methods

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Problems and examples

AUDIENCE Exploration and production managers, geoscientists, reservoir engineers, and other professionals involved in seismic interpretation or its end result PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of seismic interpretation

AUDIENCE Intermediate-level geoscientists wanting a strong background in seismic attributes, AVO, LMR, extended elastic impedance (EEI), and simultaneous inversion techniques for reservoir geometry delineation, description of reservoir physical properties, and reservoir monitoring PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of seismic principles


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geophysics GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Interpretation

Seismic Geomechanics

Petrel Fundamentals

Advanced — 1 day


In this advanced course, gain an introduction to the workflows available to build and run calibrated reservoir geomechanical models that maximize use of 3D and 4D seismic data. Rock physics, relating the state of stress in the earth with the propagation velocity of seismic waves, forms the link between seismic observations and the geomechanical model. Discussions of this link include both experimental data and the theoretical viewpoint. Learn how a combination of 3D geomechanical models, coupled with flow models calibrated with 3D and 4D seismic data, can increase your understanding of the reservoir depletion processes and the stress state in the reservoir and surrounding rocks.

This course is the foundation for all other Petrel courses, teaching new users how to get started with this versatile software program. Instruction covers the interface, visualization tools, and the basic usage of this application. You are guided from project setup to plotting of the modeling results. Topics include data import, visualization of wells and seismic data, creation of surfaces and simple grids, geometrical models, maps, and intersections.

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Overview of workflows available to build, run, and calibrate reservoir geomechanical models that maximize use of 3D and 4D seismic data Workflow applications to field development and reservoir management

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Limitations of available workflows

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Advanced workflows and techniques for design of reservoir management strategies

AUDIENCE Multidisciplinary asset team members; geologists, geophysicists, asset managers, and reservoir, drilling, production, and completion engineers PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences

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AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, geoscientists, petroleum engineers, and technical IT personnel with no prior experience in Petrel software PREREQUISITES General knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics or reservoir engineering, as well as elemental software skills


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Charisma seismic interpretation software is fully integrated with GeoFrame Geophysics and Geology modules such as Synthetics, InDepth*, SeisClass*, ASAP* automatic seismic area picker, GeoViz*, and Basemap Plus* applications. In this course, learn to use Charisma seismic interpretation software in both time and depth domains and to save interpretation data directly to the GeoFrame database. Increase your understanding of the fundamentals of 2D, 3D, and 4D seismic interpretation using Charisma software. COURSE CONTENT n

Display and interpretation of seismic data using various techniques, including multiframe and seismic attribute displays

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Generation of random lines

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Definition of horizons and faults

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Drawing and editing of faults, horizons, fault contacts, and fault boundaries

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Manual and automatic fault assignment

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Manual and automatic horizon interpretation using various tracking techniques

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Editing, contouring, and interpolating horizon maps

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Grid operations

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Extraction and use of seismic map attributes

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Interpretation of horizons and faults in 3D

AUDIENCE

GeoFrame CPS-3 Mapping Fundamentals Foundation — 3 days

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This course provides the fundamentals you need to produce accurate reserves maps using GeoFrame CPS-3 mapping software. Fully integrated with GeoFrame Geology and Geophysics modules, CPS-3 software provides accurate surface mapping operations for all mapping requirements. COURSE CONTENT n


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geophysics GeoFrame Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

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From this course you gain the fundamentals needed to efficiently manage GeoFrame projects and project data. Learn to use the GeoFrame integrated reservoir characterization system to describe the subsurface precisely throughout your E&P workflow. The course focus is on the functionality common to all GeoFrame applications. COURSE CONTENT n

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GeoFrame data model concept and how data relate to each other Functionality: Create, edit, back up, restore, and delete projects Assignment of access rights to secure specific data types

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Loading of project well data in several formats

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Tasks: Browse, list, find, edit, and display various data types

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Set match and merge rules

AUDIENCE New users of GeoFrame software, including database administrators and application support staff, and development and exploration geologists and geophysicists PREREQUISITES None

GeoFrame IESX Seismic Interpretation Foundation — 3 days

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Build on your knowledge of GeoFrame fundamentals and the use of IESX seismic interpretation software for 2D, 3D, and 4D interpretation of horizons and faults on seismic data. Learn how IESX software can be fully integrated with other GeoFrame Geophysics modules such as Synthetics, InDepth, SeisClass, ASAP, and GeoViz and with Basemap Plus applications. COURSE CONTENT n

Selecting and displaying seismic lines

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Interpreting and editing horizons, fault cuts, fault contacts, fault traces, and fault boundaries

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GeoFrame Seismic Attribute ToolKit Workflow Foundation — 1 day

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This course presents the GeoFrame Seismic Attribute ToolKit workflow, an integrated solution for seismic attribute extraction and analysis. Increase your knowledge of the attributes that reveal subtle variations in lithology and fluid content, which may indicate potential traps for oil and gas. Understand how to combine geologic knowledge obtained from wells with seismic attributes to help identify drilling targets that involve less risk. COURSE CONTENT n

Typical workflow for generating seismic attributes

Operations and interpretation tools

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Key ToolKit features

Displaying well paths, logs, and synthetics on seismic sections

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Analysis of seismic attributes with the SeisClass Explore module

Gridding and contouring directly on the base map

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Use GeoViz volume preview capability for rapid parameter testing and QC in 3D

Applying operations to surfaces with Basemap software 3D volume picking using ASAP software GeoViz Explore* software

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geophysicists

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Algorithms for spectral decomposition

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Displaying VR S attributes and tracing reconstruction in seismic window

Petrel Geophysics Foundation — 3 days

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This course enables geophysicists and geologists to effectively use Petrel software to interpret 3D and 2D seismic data. You learn about the benefits of interpreting in 2D and 3D interactively and how real-time rendering of seismic data can be used for superior QC of fault planes, surfaces, and 3D models. Topics include synthetic seismograms, horizon and fault interpretation, automatic fault extraction (ant tracking), surface generation from interpreted data, attribute volumes and attribute maps, depth conversion, volume rendering, geobody interpretation, and genetic inversion. Instruction also covers the various visualization and cropping techniques available to optimize your workflow. COURSE CONTENT n

Importing 2D and 3D seismic data

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Cropping and realization of seismic volume

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Survey and mistie managers

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Generating synthetic seismograms Interactive interpretation of seismic in 2D and 3D windows

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Interpretation during attribute extraction

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Computation of multiple seismic attributes in a single run

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Horizon tracking (seeded and guided autotracking in 3D and 2D)

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Making surfaces from the seismic interpretation

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Attribute volumes and attribute maps

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Automated fault extraction

GeoFrame Fundamentals course and a working knowledge of IESX or Charisma software

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Structural framework: Modeling while interpreting

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Volume rendering

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE

GeoFrame Fundamentals course

Development and exploration geophysicists

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Petrel geobody interpretation

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Genetic inversion

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Domain conversion

AUDIENCE Geophysicists, geologists, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or similar Petrel experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics


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geophysics Studio for Petrel — Basic Data Management Foundation — 3 days

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Learn industry best practices and procedures for managing data created from-and going into-the Petrel software environment. Because the Petrel application is only one of many that produces and consumes data, you learn how to best integrate Petrel software into your data environment, allowing you to access, publish, store, and enrich your company’s knowledge base.

GeoFrame GeoViz Seismic Interpretation and Visualization Techniques Fundamentals Skill — 2 days

Learn how GeoViz 3D seismic interpretation and visualization software brings you power and flexibility for maximum impact on your workflows. COURSE CONTENT n

Simultaneous display of 2D and 3D seismic data

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3D volumes

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Display and interpretation of horizons, fault segments, fault contacts, fault boundaries, and markers

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Petrel data management

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Petrel interface

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Displays of boreholes, markers, log curves, cross sections, and zones

Customizing the Petrel environment and managing coordinate systems

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Creation of fault surfaces and tessellated surfaces

Setting up Studio Knowledge data environments

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Data management workflows

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Collaboration workflows

AUDIENCE Data managers, data administrators, and geoscientists with project and data management responsibility and prior experience with Petrel software

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Skill — 4 Hours

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Skill — 2 days

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Increase your understanding of GeoFrame IESX software capabilities for displaying and annotating seismic gathers and identifying their locations on base maps. In this course you also learn to display AVO graphs on gathers.

Gain experience in use of GeoFrame InDepth Velocity Analysis and Depth Conversion software and learn to create domain conversion models and transforms horizons, faults, grids, and seismic data from one domain to another.

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Display and annotation of gathers using multiwindow displays

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3D multilayer, multifunction velocity models

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Posting of interpretation on gathers and their associated stacked displays

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Seismic interpretations and velocity data

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Display and annotation of AVO graphs on gathers displays

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Conversion of seismic interpretations and seismic data between time, depth, and velocity domains

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Quality checks and edits of velocity data

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Building 3D velocity model from borehole checkshot data

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Loading stacking velocity data into a project

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Building 3D velocity model from stacking velocities

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Domain conversion of fault cuts, horizons, grids, and seismic volumes

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Use of crossplot for data analysis

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Exporting a velocity model to SEG Y format

AUDIENCE

Creation of well sections, fault sections, and drilling targets

Development and exploration geophysicists using prestack seismic data for interpretation

Panning in three directions through the 3D volume

PREREQUISITES

Overlay of geological and geophysical color attributes on surfaces

GeoFrame InDepth


Simultaneous interaction of IESX or Charisma windows, Basemap, and DataManager* applications

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Lighting, material, and color properties of displayed surfaces

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Multiprobe capability

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Variable opacity volume manipulation

AUDIENCE

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Multiattribute analysis techniques to highlight specific geologic features


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Use of interpretation-controlled volume cuts to focus on key areas

PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course and general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics

GeoFrame IESX Gathers Seismic Workflow

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Fault interpretation workflows

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Interpretation of horizons and the new ASAP functionality

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Voxel picking

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Detecting volumes and performing isolated detailed analysis

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Modifying interpretation settings and user options

PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course and working knowledge of IESX or Charisma software

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geophysicists PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course, GeoFrame IESX Seismic Interpretation course, or GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Interpretation course


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geophysics Petrel Velocity Modeling Skill — 3 days

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This course encompasses velocity modeling, velocity handling, and domain conversion functionality in Petrel software. Increase your understanding of how to prepare well data used for velocity estimation and modeling, including QC and editing of checkshot data used in sonic calibration and QC of time surfaces used for defining velocity intervals. Discussions include velocity modeling approaches, including well velocity estimation, the nature and modeling of seismic velocities, surface-based and 3D seismic velocity modeling, and user-defined velocity functions. After you complete the velocity modeling phase, you learn domain conversion of various objects and how to model structural uncertainty. COURSE CONTENT n

QC and editing of well data: Checkshots, sonic logs, well tops

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Checkshot calibration of sonic logs

n

Velocity functions and velocity modeling approaches

n

Velocity modeling using well data, checkshots, and sonic logs

n

Velocity modeling using well tops

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QC and editing of velocity modeling results

n

Depth-error analysis and correction

n

Surface-based seismic velocity modeling

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3D grid-based seismic velocity modeling

n

Anisotropy in seismic velocities

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Geostatistical methods in modeling well velocities against seismic velocities

n

Quantifying residual depth error and creating depth-correction model to address residuals

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Creating user-defined velocity functions

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Domain conversion

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Modeling structural uncertainty

AUDIENCE Geophysicists, geologists, and petrotechnical personnel PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geophysics course or similar experience in Petrel software, and general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics


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The goal of this course is twofold, to provide insight into the Workflow Editor and the uncertainty and optimization process. Learn how to create your own workflows for batch processing and operations, in addition to setting up, editing, and repeating processes with new data for a complete reservoir modeling workflow. Become familiar with sensitivities and uncertainties of a base case volumetric reservoir model. Discussions include structural uncertainties related to surfaces and velocities, as well as stochastic parameters related to fluid contacts, facies, and petrophysical uncertainties. COURSE CONTENT

GeoFrame GeoViz Advanced Seismic Interpretation and Visualization Techniques Advanced — 1 day

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The focus of this advanced course is effective use of GeoViz seismic interpretation and visualization tools within advanced workflows. COURSE CONTENT n

GeoViz functionality

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Working with multiprobe capability

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Manipulation of lighting, material, and color properties of displayed surfaces

n

Variable opacity volume manipulation

GeoFrame CPS-3 Advanced Mapping and Volumetrics Advanced — 3 days

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Enhance your understanding of the CPS-3* mapping and surface modeling software tool kit — a set of mapping and modeling functions that enable you to create many combinations of useful workflows. COURSE CONTENT n

Functionality of CPS-3 application

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Gridding operations

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Algorithms

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Mapping and modeling techniques

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Creating and interactively developing fault surfaces

n

Integration of CPS-3 software with GeoFrame applications

n

Multiattribute analysis techniques to highlight specific geologic features

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Organization of internal data into coordinate systems

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Interpretation-controlled volume cuts to focus on key areas

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Transforming CPS-3 data from one coordinate system to another Import and export of data

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Fault interpretation workflows

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Interpretation of horizons and the new ASAP functionality

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Use of rotated grids

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Single and dual-surface, arithmetic operations, and logical operations

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Updating 3D models with new input data Uncertainty and optimization process Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis setup

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Voxel picking

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Detecting volumes and performing isolated detailed analysis

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Modification of interpretation settings and user options

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AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Geoscientists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel

GeoFrame Fundamentals course, GeoFrame IESX Seismic Interpretation course, or GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Interpretation course

PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course or similar Petrel experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology

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Simple macros

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Edit and generalization of simple macros

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Results and difference of gridding algorithms

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Mechanics and internal operation of convergent gridding algorithm

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Mathematics and mechanics of integral algorithms

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Computation and display of grid errors for data point values

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Incorporation of GIF and TIF images

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Table lookup feature

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Fault surfaces, fault traces, and blank and fill polygons

n

Zone averages and interaction of CPS-3 software with ResSum* software for properties and thickness calculations

n

IESX* seismic interpretation software, GeoFrame Basemap* software, and their interaction with CPS-3 software

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InDepth velocity analysis and depth conversion software and its interaction with CPS-3 software

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists PREREQUISITES Familiarity with CPS-3 basic operations and menus Return to Matrix Click Here

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geophysics GeoFrame SeisClass Seismic Facies Analysis Advanced — 1 day

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Build your attribute analysis skills with this course on SeisClass multiattribute classification software. Learn how to take the guesswork out of seismic attribute analysis, reducing cycle time, increasing efficiency, and lowering risks. Discussion includes the technology supporting SeisClass software, which uses the reservoir’s seismic attributes to generate class and probability maps. COURSE CONTENT n

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Classification of interpreted horizon data based on measurable seismic response Sources of input data for the SeisClass application

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Crossplot tools for analysis of attribute clusters and data selection for the classification process

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Use of unsupervised classification schemes to assess natural clustering in the data

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Facies classification using seismic attribute grids as input

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Seismic classification maps

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Use of supervised classification schemes to correlate observed reservoir parameters derived from well data to classification maps

Petrel Play to Prospect Identification

GeoFrame Synthetics Advanced — 2 days

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The GeoFrame Synthetics module bridges the gap between geology and geophysics by creating accurate time-to-depth relationships for wells. Instruction guides you through all the necessary steps to generate accurate synthetic seismograms. COURSE CONTENT n

Editing log data graphically

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Editing checkshot data and calibrating sonic logs

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Generating synthetic seismogram displays incorporating logs, seismic interpretation, and tops data

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Extraction of wavelets from 2D and 3D seismic data and from generated tubular seismic volumes along deviated well paths

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Reflection coefficient modeling

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Display of logs and synthetic traces on seismic sections

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geophysicists PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course and working knowledge of IESX or Charisma software

Advanced — 3 days

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In this course you are guided through three phases of an exploration workflow: In the initiating exploration phase, you learn to combine existing interpretation with public data to differentiate between potential prospective and nonprospective areas in a play model. In the lead identification phase, you use new and infill interpretation for surface gridding, with geologic maps and regional models as backdrop information. You understand how to create a simple velocity model for depth conversion, closure, and spill point identification as well as with migration paths. After new seismic and well data are acquired, you discover leads to prospect identification through use of seismic well tie, improved structural definition and interpretation, reservoir interval and 3D grid generation, refinement of the velocity modeling for depth conversion, volume calculation, and use of the Petroleum Systems Quick Look plug-in for fast, map-based charge analysis and flow-path simulation. COURSE CONTENT n

Well tie to seismic data

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2D and 3D seismic interpretation

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QC of seismic interpretation

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Surface gridding

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Velocity modeling and depth conversion

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Spill point identification

GeoFrame Fundamentals course and working knowledge of IESX or Charisma software

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Simple 2D-based volume calculations

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Creating HydrocarbonC generation maps

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Modeling while interpreting

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geophysicists

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Analyzing migration pathways

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Volume calculations

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Quantify Hydrocarbon accumulations

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Ranking of leads and prospects


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In this course, you focus on using the Techlog* software’s interpretation and processing capabilities for the management of wellbore image data, pressure data, core data, and special core data. Learn interpretation workflows for analysis of these data as well as specialized tasks such as facies and rock type detection and propagation. Enhance your understanding of multiwell and multiuser aspects, and advanced processing and analysis within the Techlog application. COURSE CONTENT n


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AUDIENCE Geophysicists, geologists, geochemists, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES Petrel 2011 Geophysics course, Petrel modeling skills, or equivalent Petrel experience


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Competency Management: Driving Performance An E&P organization’s development activity, growth plans, and ultimately its performance, depend on a talented, technical workforce. To be successful, business leaders must synchronize technical talent — the combination of skills, job capability, and knowledge — with business strategy. Competency management is the best way to ensure that synchronization. Through assessment, training, and testing, competency management matches each asset teams’ skills to the company’s needs and goals.

Strategy

Develop technical teams for targeted growth

An effective competency management project starts with a sound strategy that factors your organizational needs, business direction, competency goals, and job profiles to build detailed job and assignment descriptions for your technical staff.

NExT delivers competency management For more than 10 years, NExT has helped E&P organizations and professionals worldwide assess their talent, design training programs, and develop world-class technical capabilities. NExT has delivered competency management projects for small teams and for hundreds of people spanning multiple asset teams. NExT’s comprehensive E&P expertise includes ■■

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Improved performance through strategic tailoring Using a proven, five-step process, NExT provides competency management customized to each company’s strategic business needs. NExT delivers projects designed to accelerate specific team skills spanning several weeks to immersive programs that follow asset teams through multiple assignments, building technical competence each step of their development.

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Assessment

Measure Impact

To find out more, visit NExTtraining.net/CM or e-mail [email protected]

A comprehensive organization health check through a combination of self-assessment, testing, and individual interviews by technical experts provides an actionable snapshot of strengths, technical gaps, and areas for improvement.

By targeting identified technical gaps, NExT designs and delivers a training program that includes instructor-led courses, hands-on projects, field courses, mentoring, software workshops, and on-the-job assignments, to quickly develop each team.

Training

Road Map

Using strategy inputs, NExT creates a comprehensive training road map outlining goals and job profiles. A customized competency model is developed per relevant discipline, technical or otherwise, with a defined proficiency for each level — from Awareness to Expert.

To verify the impact of the training, an assessment is repeated and compared to the initial assessment. Further development recommendations are provided to ensure that each team’s technical skills help drive company performance.

NExT provided a competency assessment for about 300 Sibneft engineers and geoscientists. Using the professional assessments conducted by NExT, we were able to identify technical strengths and weaknesses in our staff. By concentrating on the specific competency gaps determined from the assessments, we were able to design a very focused and cost-effective training program to eliminate skill deficiencies. There is still a long way to go, but NExT helped point us in the right direction. Iskander R. Diyashev, PhD Chief Engineer Sibneft

petrophysics NExT’s Petrophysics curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Petrophysics course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Petrophysics curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Advanced

Petrophysical Property Mapping

Open Hole Log Interpretation

Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Petrophysics Software

Applied Reservoir Petrophysics and Characterization

Advanced Formation Evaluation

Well Integrity


Advanced Formation Evaluation—Carbonates

Reservoir Monitoring Solutions Workshop

Advanced Formation Evaluation—Sandstones

Production Logging Solutions Workshop


Applied Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Techlog Borehole Image Interpretation

: Petrel Multipoint and Conditional Facies Modeling

Techlog Core Data Techlog Advanced Analysis

Skill

Advanced Core and Log integration Applied Core Analysis

Foundation

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Openhole and Cased Hole Data Acquisition and Interpretation Dipmeter and Borehole Image Logging

Petrel Advanced Wells


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Techlog Formation Evaluation

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Techlog Formation Evaluation with Quanti.Elan

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Integrated Reservoir Analysis

Basic Reservoir Monitoring


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Statistics and Petrophysics

Basic Production Logging

Petrel Mapping and Geological Workflows

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Cased Hole Logging and Formation Evaluation


Basic Core Analysis

Awareness

Intermediate Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Advanced Integrated Reservoir Analysis

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Well Placement Fundamentals Basic Logging Methods and Formation Evaluation

Techlog Fundamentals

Basic Petrophysics and Petrophysical Properties

Techlog Python

Introduction to Petrophysics

Introduction to Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Petrel Fundamentals

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petrophysics Introduction to Petrophysics

Introduction to Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Basic Core Analysis




In this course, you are introduced to petrophysical principles and techniques through hands-on physical experiments that illustrate the importance of basic reservoir properties: porosity, permeability, resistivity of oil and water, and capillary pressure. Topics include petrophysical rock types in conventional and unconventional reservoirs, wireline logging, LWD, pore geometry, core, and coring processes. You discover how conventional reservoir properties differ from unconventional reservoirs.

Structured to provide the fundamentals of production logging and fluid mechanics, this course covers a variety of problems encountered in developing a producing asset, both from a well and a field perspective. You learn the fundamentals of diagnosing these problems using production logging tools and techniques, as well as how to minimize future occurrences using proactive reservoir monitoring techniques.

Core analysis is integral to estimating fluid flow, ultimate recovery, and displacement efficiencies. This course teaches the basics of core analysis methods as the foundation of complete reservoir characterization. Learn how comprehensive core data acquisition is designed using a multidisciplinary approach considering managerial, drilling, geologic, and engineering requirements. Understand how core analysis is affected by the coring method, the coring fluid systems, core handling at the wellsite, and the core preservation techniques. This course devotes significant time to workshops, cases studies, and real-world examples. With practical hands-on exercises, you gain a better understanding of how rocks, pores, and fluids interact within the reservoir.

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Porosity: Bulk volume, grain volume, and pore volume

Note: A 3-day abbreviated version of this course is available by request. Contact your regional NExT office for more information. COURSE CONTENT

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Permeability

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Pore geometry fundamentals and impacts in sandstone, limestone, and dolomite

Tool conveyance using tractors and coiled tubing

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Depth control in cased hole wells using gamma ray and casing collar locator

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Wireline logging and LWD Core and coring operations

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Reservoir principles and mechanics

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Unconventional reservoirs

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of petrophysics PREREQUISITES None

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Basic Logging Methods and Formation Evaluation W NE

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Completions in vertical, deviated, horizontal, and multilateral wells

Porosity, permeability, residual fluids, and lithology at a microscale

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Inflow performance and productivity index

Depositional, lithologic, and textural information

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Reservoir connate water saturation

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Review of directional permeability studies

Measurements of fluid velocities using spinners and fluid injections Diagnosing production problems using production logs

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Understanding of areal changes in porosity, permeability, and lithology required to characterize the reservoir for reserves estimates and for reservoir modeling

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Basic production logging tools

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Calibrating the spinner tool

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Single-phase flow interpretation and productivity index

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Logging techniques for reservoir monitoring

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Pore geometry and mineralogy information

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Pore geometry and petrophysical rock types using high-pressure mercury porosimetry

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Core-based NMR overview

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PNL in capture mode: Determining water, oil, and gas saturations in cased wells Leak detection using applied temperature logging Workshop: Single-phase flow and estimating water saturation

AUDIENCE Entry-level professionals of all disciplines and nontechnical support staff responsible for interpreting production logs or using production log interpretations PREREQUISITES None

Calibrating and improving log interpretations

AUDIENCE

Foundation — 5 days In this introduction to openhole data acquisition, interpretation concepts, and practices, you learn the primary logging tools used, the physics of how the measurements are made, and best practices to determine porosity and water saturation. Topics include new high-technology tools and their application to conventional and unconventional environments, including NMR, LWD, wireline formation testing, and borehole imaging. You learn to interpret actual log data in exercises designed to strengthen your understanding and interpretation skills. COURSE CONTENT n

Reservoir rock, sedimentary basins, rock properties, carbonates, clastics, shales, and diagenesis

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Logging overview

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SP and gamma ray

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Porosity tools: Density, neutron, and acoustic

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Basics of resistivity, deep-reading tools, true resistivity, shallow-reading tools, and flushed-zone resistivity

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Computation of shale volume

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Quicklook methods

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Computation of water saturation in the presence of shale

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Carbonates and their challenges

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NMR

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Borehole imaging

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, engineers, and log analysts wanting to increase their understanding of basic log analysis PREREQUISITES 2-year technical degree

Petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers wanting a better understanding of the use of core analysis in reservoir description PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of reservoir characterization and petrophysics and a working knowledge of Microsoft ® Excel software


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petrophysics Basic Petrophysics and Petrophysical Properties


Basic Reservoir Monitoring

Cased Hole Logging and Formation Evaluation





This course covers fundamental petrophysical relations, tool principles, modern interpretation methods, and core measurements. Emphasis is on the importance of interaction among seismology, geology, well log analysis, reservoir engineering, and other disciplines.

Production logging tools have specific uses as well as limitations. Learn the various applications for these tools, the interpretation assumptions that are integral to their designs, and how log quality is affected by the acquisition process. Hands-on demonstrations teach the fundamentals of production log interpretation, and an in-class workshop focuses on the interpretation of singleand two-phase flow. Discussion includes use of these logs for measurement of three-phase flow.

In this course, you study the basics of field surveillance and reservoir monitoring with tools such as pulsed neutron and carbon/ oxygen logging. You learn how these are applied to diagnose reservoir wide behaviors of water breakthrough, gas cap migration, and behind-pipe commingling. In an in-class workshop you learn to evaluate water and gas saturations and determine resistivity behind the casing.

Learn to use cased hole logs for formation and production evaluation including the underlying science of cased hole logs, the types of logging tools available, and optimal situations for their use. Instruction covers how to ensure the quality of logs for analysis and detect production problems.

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Concept of reserves and hydrocarbon initially in place Fundamental tools, measurements, and corrections: Gamma ray, density, and resistivity tools; net sand and shale volumes; porosity; shaly reservoir models Core measurements: Porosity, cementation factor, saturation exponent, water saturation, fractured reservoirs, pressure-dependent properties, quicklook evaluations Spontaneous potential (SP), neutron, and sonic, tools; mixed lithologies; permeability and its evaluation from logs Effective versus total porosity, clay distribution from logs, water saturations from various techniques; core analysis program, sampling tools, cutoff criteria Capillary pressure curves and wettability, new logging tools, uncertainty analysis, integration with other disciplines (seismology, reservoir engineering)

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Reservoir drive mechanisms and associated production problems

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Reservoir fluid properties: Gas/oil ratio, bubble point pressure, and three-phase diagram

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Inflow performance and productivity index for oil wells and gas wells

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Outflow performance: Matching inflow with outflow to optimize well productivity

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Depth control in cased wells using gamma ray and casing collar locator data

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Tool conveyance using tractors and coiled tubing Depth control in cased hole wells using gamma ray and casing collar locator

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Completions in vertical, deviated, horizontal, and multilateral wells

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Pressure control system for rigless operation

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Justification for production logs

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PNL physics

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PNL capture cross section mode and carbon/oxygen mode

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Justification of production log acquisition

Acquisition of formation resistivity in cased hole

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Flow regimes in vertical and deviated wells and slippage velocities

Slimhole induction logging in plastic (nonconductive) casings

Standard production logging tools

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Techniques for measuring oil, water, and gas rates including spinners, oxygen activation, phase-velocity logging, and gas bubble velocity

Workshop: Using capture mode for evaluating water and gas saturation

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Workshop: Interpreting behind-casing resistivity logs

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AUDIENCE Engineers with no or limited petrophysical background, including petroleum engineers, seismologists, reservoir engineers, drilling engineers, and geologists

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Completions for vertical, deviated, horizontal, and multilateral wells Pressure control system for rigless operation Reservoir fluids properties including GOR, bubble point pressure, threephase diagrams

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Measurement of three-phase holdups

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Spinner calibrations to obtain fluid velocities and hence production rates

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Interpretation of logs for single-, two-, and three-phase production

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Reservoir and flow in wells

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Saturation monitoring with pulsed neutron capture and C/O logging

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Learn single-phase flow in wells, using basic flow meter logs

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Cased hole logging to analyze multiphase flow

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Production logging techniques in horizontal wells

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Reservoir problem analysis

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Basic survey planning to maximize useful information

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Perforation techniques, including the choice of methods

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, or engineers who interpret cased hole logs or use cased hole log interpretation PREREQUISITES A 2 year technical degree and an understanding of well operations

AUDIENCE Geoscientists or engineers responsible for field wide surveillance or reservoir monitoring programs PREREQUISITES Engineering or geosciences degree

Geoscientists or engineers responsible for interpreting production logs PREREQUISITES Engineering or geosciences degree recommended as this course deals with production logging physics. Return to Matrix Click Here

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petrophysics Integrated Reservoir Analysis

Statistics and Petrophysics



This course teaches you skills for integrated analysis of rock, pore, and fluids data and how to solve problems associated with identifying and exploiting reserves. Increase your understanding of pore scale interaction, including rock texture characteristics and petrophysical rock typing techniques. Learn to use pore geometry tools such as core analysis of porosity and permeability, capillary pressure, wettability, and relative permeability. Understand how to integrate these measurements with well log information to predict petrophysical rock types and flow units. Gain experience with NExT QuickScan and quicklook techniques through in-class exercises.

Structured to provide a strong foundation in the use of statistics for petrophysical interpretation, this course provides the basis for building static 3D models. You are introduced to the use of statistical distributions, various averaging methods, smoothing, curve fitting, and regression methods. You learn to understand when a dataset is statistically significant and how statistics affect typical numerical transforms, such as total porosity, effective porosity, absolute permeability, lithology, and water saturation.

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Geological framework of reservoirs

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Environments of deposition: Carbonates and clastics

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Scale of the pore system: Core versus logs

Petrophysical rock types: Impact of water saturation Capillary pressure measurements: Pore throat radius and water saturation above free water Flow units: Flow capacity versus storage capacity Definition of high-flow zones and barriers

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and petrophysicists wanting improved interpretation workflows

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Lab-measured porosity and permeability Winland R35 method for petrophysical rock type, with emphasis on pore throat radius

Well Placement Fundamentals

Fundamentals of statistics as applied to petrophysics Significance of residual analysis and multilinear regression to improve quality of fit (R2) Improving fit by adding grain size, shale volume, gamma ray, lithology, and additional porosity devices Nonparametric approaches to evaluate nonstandard porositypermeability relationships

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Mechanisms controlling water saturation distributions

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Empirical methods to calculate Winland pore throat radius, petrophysical rock type, and log-computed water saturation

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers wanting a better understanding of statistics used in petrophysical interpretation


Intermediate understanding of geology and petrophysics

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Introducing the fundamentals of geologic well placement, sometimes called geosteering, this course encompasses both the processes and techniques required for placement of high-angle and horizontal wells using geologic and petrophysical data acquired while drilling. Reviews include technologies and tools for directional drilling, LWD, and MWD. Learn from examples using different methods to geosteer horizontal wells and their applications. COURSE CONTENT n


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Skill — 6 days In this course, you learn the impact of lab-based core data on formation evaluation and understand the wellbore data that are required for an integrated model of the reservoir at the wellbore scale. Instruction covers the key objectives of core-log calibration, including porosity, lithology, saturation, and petrophysical rock types, and makes use of core-to-log calibration workshops. In a workshop setting, increase your understanding of how the integration of lithology, pore geometry, porosity, permeability, and water saturation can improve a static reservoir model. COURSE CONTENT n

Core-log integration workflow

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Core and log integration and depth shifting

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Fundamentals of log analysis using NExT 4-Line interpretation method

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Texture of matrix and pore system in context of geologic framework and lithology calibration

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Porosity: Total, effective, and clay parameters (wet, dry)

MWD

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Acquisition of positioning and drilling-related data

Quicklook hydrocarbon identification methods and Rw, Ro, and Rwa

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Log Sw using Archie-based techniques: Variable m method

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Use of capillary pressure data to calibrate water saturation

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Petrophysical rock types

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Permeability prediction


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Review of reservoir geology Essential elements for well placement

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Tools and techniques for formation evaluation

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LWD Tools and techniques

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Formation evaluation and other measurements and applications

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Influence of measurements on high-angle wells

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Application of well placement methods

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Basic understanding of reservoir characterization and petrophysics

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Model-compare-update: Modeled log response and interpretation Real-time dip analysis

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Advanced Core and Log Integration


AUDIENCE Members of multidisciplinary asset teams, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers, and geoscientists involved in decisions on implementing a geologic placement process for horizontal and high-angle wells

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, engineers, log analysts, and other subsurface professionals responsible for exploitation or early field development projects PREREQUISITES A working knowledge of Microsoft ® Excel software and a basic understanding of statistics

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of drilling and formation evaluation Return to Matrix Click Here Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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petrophysics Advanced Integrated Reservoir Analysis

Applied Core Analysis

Dipmeter and Borehole Image Logging

Skill — 10 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 3 days

Increase your understanding of petrophysical properties as applied to the interpretation of reservoirs from a core analysis perspective. This comprehensive course provides detailed instruction on basic petrophysics, measurement methods, and the controls over porosity, permeability, fluids, wettability, and relative permeability data analysis. You investigate and understand the source of petrophysical data errors through hands-on correlation of a sample log; a core dataset is analyzed and the saturation-height model is created.

Gain a practical understanding of the basics of dip and image measurement techniques in the borehole environment with an introduction to structural and stratigraphic dip analysis . The course focus is borehole imaging, data acquisition, tool design, and data transfer from the drill bit to the workstation. Learn how borehole imaging can help determine fracture orientation, identify fluvial channels, assess pore-type partitioning, distinguish matrix and fracture, improve geosteering, and determine in situ stresses. Discussions include advanced technologies for exploiting shale gas and coalbed methane resources.

The use of a subsurface integration model can resolve reservoir problems that range from petrophysical rock typing to log analysis. In this course you learn how to perform an integrated analysis of rock, pore, and fluids data and how to solve problems associated with identifying and exploiting reserves. You apply tools for analysis of the underlying uncertainty and assumptions used in many reservoir analysis techniques. You learn to identify lithologic zones and fluid types from log data, follow simple procedures for rapid and accurate interpretation, and apply correlations to core and petrophysical rock type zonation to upscale log data for reservoir simulation applications. Materials cover advanced interpretation for better understanding of dataset limitations and measurement requirements for effective reservoir development; reservoir drive mechanisms, recovery factor, and simulation models. You gain experience with NExT QuickScan and quicklook techniques through in-class exercises.

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Two-phase flow, relative permeability, and wettability

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Quicklook analysis techniques for determining pore size, rock types, and flow units

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Exploitation workshop to identify potential in a mature field

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Quicklook interpretation techniques with practical logging-physics concepts, including resistivity, SP, gamma ray theory, and calculation of Rw

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Saturation calculations using Rwa and overlay techniques (basic Archie and sensitivity analysis of inputs)

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measurements, and tornado chart corrections n

Porosity measurements (sonic, neutron, and density), determining lithology, and crossplot methods

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Capillary pressure and electrical rock properties using bulk volume water techniques and Pickett plots with core measurements

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Integrated approach: Overview and case histories Petrophysical rock types and flow units: Review of gas condensate carbonate reservoir study with routine core analysis and corehandling issues Hands-on calculation of grain density, bulk volume, grain volume, pore volume, and porosity Principles of saturation distribution and capillary pressure from laboratory data

Tool corrections for resistivity and Rxo

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Reservoir geology

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Upscaling

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Preliminary characterization using core analysis, coring methods, and fluids data

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Lithology from a facies, sedimentary structure, and core description

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Quicklook carbonate and shaly sand analysis using neutron-density porosity crossplots Advanced log analysis, including NMR theory, basic dipmeter and borehole image logs, VSP, and MDT theory and applications

AUDIENCE Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and petrophysicists wanting improved interpretation workflows

PREREQUISITES Intermediate understanding of geology and petrophysics

Fractured systems Characterization of pore geometry using diagenesis interpretation from thin-section petrography, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction analyses

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Tool review: From dipmeter to high-resolution FMI* fullbore formation microimager, includes tools for oil-based muds

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Acoustic imaging tools and LWD tools

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Image log QC

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Geomechanics during the oil field life cycle

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Fracture interpretation

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Fluvial facies interpretation

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Borehole image and dipmeter data integrated with outcrop and core data

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Clays and their impact on water saturation

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Total versus effective porosity

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Petrophysical rock types and difference between fluid contacts and free water level

Deepwater and turbidite depositional settings

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Carbonate reservoir porosity and permeability

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Integration of borehole image logs and production logs

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Rock electrical properties and their use in water saturation equations

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Relative permeability and wettability

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers responsible for reservoir characterization who rely on core interpretation and other integrated petrophysical data for decisions and analyses PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE Geologists using image logs for geologic sedimentary and structural analysis, and geologists and engineers wanting to increase interpretation skills for fractures PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of image tools and applications, and of sedimentology and structural geology

Basic understanding of geological concepts and reservoir characterization


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petrophysics Intermediate Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Openhole and Cased Hole Data Acquisition and Interpretation

Advanced Formation Evaluation

Advanced Formation Evaluation—Carbonates

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

This course provides in-depth instruction on cased hole logging tool physics, interpretation, and QC techniques for wellbore-specific production logging and reservoir monitoring scenarios. You learn how and when to use these tools for your logging objectives and quicklook techniques for identifying log QC problems. Using hands-on examples, you learn to interpret behind-casing resistivity data and measure three-phase flow using production logs.

This course covers openhole, cased hole, and production logging tools and their applications. Learn openhole logging tool principles, interpretation of log data using quick look techniques, and how to interpret data from complex shale bearing formations. Instruction includes cased hole logging applied to reservoir monitoring problems, how to evaluate production problems and two- and three-phase flow rates using production logging tools in vertical, deviated, or horizontal wells. Use real log data in exercises to learn these techniques including log quality control workflows.

In this course you learn advanced formation evaluation techniques using wireline, LWD, and MWD data, including quicklook methods and deterministic and probabilistic evaluations. Topics include current technologies and services such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), image, and dipmeter logs, as well as production surveillance and other special-interest devices. You gain an understanding of the impact of QA on data and interpretations. Measurement physics are presented in the context of practical applications, with a focus on simple procedures for rapid and accurate log interpretation. Instruction is reinforced with hands-on exercises and field examples.

The course expands on the concepts and techniques covered in more basic courses to include advanced reservoir analysis. Learn about the latest interpretation tools and methods and practice their use on computer workstations. Material focuses on solving problems in openhole formation evaluation, such as complex carbonates (porosity identification and analysis and saturation) and thin beds (identification, porosity, and saturation).

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Outflow performance: Matching inflow with outflow to optimize productivity

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Flow regimes in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells

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Techniques for measuring individual fluid velocities of oil, water, and gas using spinners, oxygen activation, phase velocity logging, and gas bubble velocity

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Three-phase holdups from electrical and optical sensors

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Spinner calibration: Obtaining fluid velocities and hence production rates

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Production logging in horizontal wells

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PNL physics

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PNL capture cross section mode and carbon/oxygen logging mode

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Cased hole formation resistivity data

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Slimhole induction logging in plastic (nonconductive) casings

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Workshop: Capture mode for evaluating water and gas saturation

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Workshop: Interpreting resistivity logs acquired behind casing

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Workshop: Three-phase flow

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists and engineers responsible for wellbore diagnostics or reservoir monitoring who want a detailed understanding of cased hole logging tools PREREQUISITES

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Basics of logging

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Reservoir rock and fluid properties

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Openhole logging interpretation techniques

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Openhole logging tools: principles and types

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Cased hole evaluations

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Well integrity: Cement bond log-variable density log (CBL-VDL), ultrasonic, slim cement mapping tool, Isolation Scanner

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Casing corrosion principles: Ultrasonic, multi-finger Calipers, electromagnetic (ETT) Reservoir monitoring: Inelastic capture, C/O ratios, pulsed neutron capture tools, cased hole formation resistivity

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Production logging principles and tools: Optical and electric Sensors, flow meters, FloScan Imager

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Estimating fluid holdup, two- and three-phase flow estimation

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, or engineers PREREQUISITES A 2 year technical degree and an understanding of well operations

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Estimates of intrinsic reservoir properties: Porosity, permeability, residual fluids, and lithology Petrophysical analysis using pressure, fluid properties, and depositional information for improved saturation predictions

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Determination of clay and shale volumes

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Shaly sand analysis

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Dip and image logs for reservoir studies

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Probabilistic formation evaluation methods

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Practical application of mechanical rock properties Reservoir compartmentalization and use of formation pressure and fluid data in reservoir characterization

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Classical formation evaluation concepts

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Reservoir evaluation and integration of data and measurements

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Identification of minerals and their effects on log analysis and the reservoir

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Thin beds: Geology and reservoir engineering aspects

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Logging techniques for thin beds

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Carbonates and their challenges

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Carbonate composition and auxiliary minerals

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Types of carbonate porosity

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Fractures and fracture analysis using workstation-based programs

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Vugs and their analysis

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Porosity evaluation in low-porosity formations

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Evaluation of saturations and prediction of permeability

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Application of techniques for reservoir evaluation

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers responsible for advanced reservoir analysis

Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, and experienced log analysts

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES

A good understanding of logs, core analysis, reservoir analysis, and well operations

Basic Logging Methods and Formation Evaluation course and a good understanding of logs, core analysis, reservoir analysis, and well operations

Basic Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring course or more than 1 year of experience with applied cased hole logging


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petrophysics Advanced Formation Evaluation — Sandstones

Applied Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Applied Reservoir Petrophysics and Characterization

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 7 days

In this course, you learn advanced shaly sand petrophysical concepts and techniques for advanced reservoir analysis. The latest interpretation tools and methods are used to solve problems in openhole formation evaluation, such as complex sandstones (porosity identification and analysis and saturation) and thin beds (identification, porosity, and saturation). Instruction includes classroom exercises and computer-based lessons, and a well-evaluation workshop.

Encompassing advanced techniques for production logging and reservoir monitoring, this course teaches the design of a data-acquisition program for evaluation of wellbore or reservoir behavior based on field development objectives. Hands-on examples demonstrate in-depth log interpretation techniques for resistivity measurements acquired behind casing, three-phase flow in horizontal wells, and fluid saturations. Learn quicklook techniques for log quality control as well as how to plan and integrate multisource data for a more complete evaluation.

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Three-phase production logging in horizontal wells

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Physics of pulsed neutron logging: Principle of the minitron for neutron generation

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Pulsed neutron logging in capture mode

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Pulsed neutron logging in carbon/ oxygen ratio (C/O) mode: Development of database charts to obtain water saturation and water holdup Slimhole induction logging in plastic (nonconductive) casings

COURSE CONTENT

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Acquisition of pressure data and formation fluid samples behind casing

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Workshop on use of capture and C/O modes for evaluating water and gas saturations

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Integrated reservoir evaluation using logs, cores, and reservoir engineering techniques Shaly sands and associated analysis challenges: Shales and clays, porosity analysis, and minerals in shaly sandstones

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Inflow performance and productivity index for oil wells and gas wells Outflow performance: Matching inflow with outflow to optimize well productivity

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Saturation analysis in shaly sandstones

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Identification of minerals and their effects on log analysis and the reservoir

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Slippage velocities in vertical and deviated wells

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Various techniques of measuring of oil, water, and gas velocities: Spinners, oxygen activation, phase velocity logging, and gas bubble velocity

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Thin beds: Geology and reservoir engineering aspects

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Dipmeter and borehole image log analysis in sandstone reservoirs

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Evaluation of saturations

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NMR applications: Permeability and producibility

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers responsible for advanced reservoir analysis PREREQUISITES Good understanding of logs, core analysis, and reservoir analysis

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Measurement of three-phase holdups using electrical and optical sensors

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Spinner calibrations in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells to obtain fluid velocities and hence production rates

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Workshop on interpreting resistivity logging measurements acquired behind casing Workshop on production logging in horizontal wells with three-phase flow

Through dynamic modeling, you gain an advanced understanding of applied reservoir petrophysics and characterization using integration of data at the pore scale. You learn how to exploit interpretation techniques to spot exploration opportunities, such as bypassed pay and new resources in existing fields. You learn how to improve dynamic simulation modeling through integration of petrophysical data. You study advanced permeability and capillary saturation models, and construct a wellbore numerical simulation based on facies, petrophysical rock types, and NExT QuickScan-based flow units. COURSE CONTENT n

Petrophysical rock types

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Water saturation (Sw) and impact of capillary pressure and rock electrical properties

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Comparison of log-based Sw relationships

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Permeability prediction and capillary saturation workflows with example model construction

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Height function and Thomeer approaches

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Drainage and imbibition relative permeability curves and their relationship to wettability

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Wellbore simulation using petrophysical rock types, facies, and flow units

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Recovery factor simulation based on petrophysical data

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Application of field-study flow units

AUDIENCE Professionals with geoscience background PREREQUISITES More than 2 years of experience interpreting reservoir monitoring logs (attendees are encouraged to bring difficult log examples for in-class discussion and interpretation)

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers responsible for advanced reservoir characterization and modeling PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of reservoir characterization and petrophysics


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petrophysics Production Logging Solutions Workshop

Reservoir Monitoring Solutions Workshop

Well Integrity


Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days


This immersive workshop teaches you how to interpret difficult product logging scenarios and to diagnose production behaviors not included in classical interpretation techniques. Through a hands-on, interactive workshop, using your data and problems, you learn how to adjust your interpretation techniques for mechanical or fluid-specific phenomena. Participants are encouraged to bring difficult log examples for in-class discussion and interpretation.

This immersive workshop teaches you how to interpret difficult reservoir monitoring scenarios and to diagnose reservoir behaviors not included in classical interpretations. Focused on reservoir monitoring logging techniques, this course gives you specific strategies for their use and interpretation. Through a hands-on interactive workshop, using your data and problems, you learn how to adjust interpretation techniques for reservoir and field wide phenomena, especially in waterflood operations. Participants are encouraged to bring difficult log examples for in-class discussion and interpretation.

This course teaches the monitoring and diagnosis of wellbore integrity using cased hole logging tools. Learn to detect and identify interzone crossflow caused by uneven depletion, and leaks inside and behind the casing. Topics include evaluating cement bond quality, establishing corrosion monitoring, and verifying perforation efficiency.

This course provides the fundamentals you need to produce accurate reserves maps using GeoFrame CPS-3 mapping software. Fully integrated with GeoFrame Geology and Geophysics modules, CPS-3 software provides accurate surface mapping operations for all mapping requirements.

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High-tech production logging tools for horizontal wells Flow regimes in horizontal wells and effects on production log interpretations

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Spinner calibrations, and production log interpretations in horizontal wells

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Reservoir fluids

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Reservoir drive mechanisms

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Inflow and outflow performance

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Justification for production logging

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Leak detection inside and behind casing and tubing Techniques for estimating three-phase fluid velocities Three-phase fluid holdups in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells Slippage velocities in vertical and deviated wells

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Reservoir fluids

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Inflow and outflow performance

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Justification for reservoir monitoring logs

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PREREQUISITES More than 2 years of experience interpreting production logs

PNL tools (Schlumberger and Halliburton tools) PNL capture cross-section measurements and carbon/oxygen data Log-inject-log technique to estimate residual oil saturation Acquisition of formation resistivity behind steel and nonconductive casing

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Pressure measurements and sampling behind casing

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Field mapping of waterflood to identify unswept zones

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists and production engineers with experience in cased hole logging and log interpretation

Nuclear physics of reservoir monitoring and pulsed neutron logging (PNL)

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists and production engineers with experience in reservoir monitoring logging and log interpretation

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Spinner calibration, single-phase interpretation, and productivity index

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Leak-detection techniques and applications

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Temperature database applications

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Crossflow between zones caused by uneven depletion

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Crossflow prediction without well shut-in

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Temperature profiling: Optical sensors

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Cementing: Primary and remedial


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Cement bond monitoring


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Corrosion mechanisms and monitoring

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Corrosion mitigation: Cathodic protection and expandable tubulars


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Perforating: Conveyance, performance, and efficiency


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Workshop on leak detection

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Workshop on interzone crossflow

AUDIENCE Petrophysicists and production engineers responsible for field wide reservoir monitoring or production logging programs PREREQUISITES


Intermediate Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring course, or more than 2 years of experience interpreting cased hole logs

PREREQUISITES More than 2 years of experience interpreting reservoir monitoring logs


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petrophysics Petrel Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

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Petrel Mapping and Geologic Workflows Foundation — 2 days


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Creating and editing surfaces

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Isochore modeling

Petrel software offers various options for well correlation. This course gives a general overview of correlation and introduces you to well data import procedures with different formats and the use of the Reference Project tool. It focuses on setting well section templates, and the value of sharing templates between projects, wells, and well section windows. Interpret and edit stratigraphic and fault well tops (markers) along well paths based on log readings. Learn advanced discrete and continuous log interpreting and editing options based on existing logs. Apply the different techniques in a typical working order, from simple exploration wells to production phase.

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Data import

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Surface operations

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Extracting information from an existing 3D model

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Plot setup and print options

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AUDIENCE

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Plotting

Development and exploration geoscientists, petroleum engineers, and technical personnel

This course is the foundation for all other Petrel courses, teaching new users how to get started with this versatile software program. Instruction covers the interface, visualization tools, and the basic usage of this application. You are guided from project setup to plotting of the modeling results. Topics include data import, visualization of wells and seismic data, creation of surfaces and simple grids, geometrical models, maps, and intersections. COURSE CONTENT

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, geoscientists, petroleum engineers, and technical IT personnel with no prior experience in Petrel software PREREQUISITES General knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics or reservoir engineering, as well as elemental software skills

In this course, you focus on standard 2D workflows related to geological mapping. You study the different gridding algorithms and when to use them. You learn about creation of isochore maps from well tops, isochore processing, and surface operations. You gain exposure to the 2D volume calculation workflow, in addition to extraction and plotting of maps from a 3D model.


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Display and color management

PREREQUISITES Petrel Geology course or similar experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology

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Project organization, including Studio Favorites, Studio Find, and Studio Annotate features

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Import procedures for wells and logs, including the Reference Project tool

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Working and setting with well section and templates


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The Techlog interactive suite brings all your petrophysical and geological data together. Learn the fundamentals of this application and its base modules Techplot, Techdata, and Quanti. Understand the use of the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data in the system, including core and images. Topics include deterministic calculations and the principles behind the application workflow interface for single- and multiwell use. COURSE CONTENT n


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Seismic and 3D model backdrop

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Continuous and discrete log interpretation (manual, calculator, and neural nets), and log edits

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Well top interpretation and edits

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Time-depth relationship

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Creating point well data attributes

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Plotting and presenting results in different windows

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Workflows for exploration, appraisal, development, and production phases

Development and exploration log analysts and petrophysicists, geologists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel with no prior experience using Techlog software

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geoscientists and petroleum engineers PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or equivalent Petrel experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology


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petrophysics Techlog Python Foundation — 2 days


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This course is designed to introduce users to programming basic and advanced scripts in the Techlog software. Learn how to create, edit, open, and run scripts in a Techlog workflow. Topics include Python_ syntax and programming skills, Python and Techlog modules (libraries), and advanced scripting including reading and writing and creating Techlog modules. COURSE CONTENT n

Introduction to Python Scripting History and concept

¢

Python programming inside Techlog software

¢

n

Introduction to the Python editor Opening and running scripts

¢

Programming basics

¢

Python syntax and coding rules

¢

n

Application workflow interface for Python platform Running your own equations in a multiwell and multizone environment

¢

n

Skill — 2 days

This course builds on the Petrel* Reservoir Engineering course, covering deviated well building in greater detail. Standard well modeling with ECLIPSE and FrontSim treats the entire well bore as a single entity and therefore cannot take into account pressure changes along the well bore due to friction, valves, or pumps. Such devices are often used with horizontal wells to control the inflow profile along the well trace. To model these effects, the multi segmented well model must be used. This course will introduce you to the capabilities of this well model and how to use Petrel to configure it. You also learn how to add completions such as valves and pumps and how to make development strategies using the equipment. Sector models can be useful to study parts of a reservoir. This course shows you how to define sectors, how to select boundary conditions, and how to run sector models.

Data QC and harmonization, file import (Techlog database)

n

Introduction to advanced basics such as multidimensional lists and dictionaries

Introduction to oriented object programming

Reading and writing files

¢

n

Text, CSV, and Excel files

¢

Importing and loading data from Excel files

¢

Reporting

¢

n

Creating modules and custom libraries

The first half of the course focuses on basic geostatistical concepts such as variograms, kriging and Gaussian simulation, and testing of both methods to find their benefits and limitations. Premodeling processes such as well data preparation, data analysis, and log upscaling are also covered.

Pressure drop along horizontal wells

COURSE CONTENT

n

Designing horizontal wells and wells with laterals

n

Configuring multisegmented wells

n

Completion design for multisegmented wells

Advanced scripting

¢

Structured for users with fundamental Petrel modeling skills, this course covers basic geostatistics, data preparation, data analysis, facies, and petrophysical modeling. Learn different ways to create property models and how to condition models to existing models and secondary data. Understand the concepts, algorithms, and software functionalities in property modeling.

n

n

Custom plots (Techlog plot)

Mathematical and scientific tools (NumPy and SciPy packages)

:

Standard well model versus the multisegmented well model

COURSE CONTENT

¢ ¢

Skill — 3 days

The second half of the course focuses on facies and petrophysical modeling using stochastic methods. Data analysis and the use of existing models and secondary data are demonstrated as key issues in the modeling sequence to guide the result.

Python modules

¢

:


n

n

Development strategies with group control Sector models

n

Geostatistics fundamentals

n

Data preparation, including well log calculations and upscaling for discrete and continuous data

n

Facies modeling

n

Data analysis

n

Sequential indicator simulation

n

Object-based facies modeling

AUDIENCE

n

Truncated Gaussian simulation

Reservoir engineers

n


PREREQUISITES

n

Data analysis

Petrel Reservoir Engineering course

n

Sequential Gaussian simulation

n

Gaussian random function simulation

n

Modeling using secondary data

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Software developers or geoscientists with basic programming skills interested in a general understanding of Python scripting in the Techlog software

Exploration, development, and production geologists; petrophysicists; and reservoir engineers wanting to understand more about property modeling

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES


Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course or similar experience in Petrel software, and general knowledge of petroleum geology


:

Explore the use of Techlog base modules: Techplot, Techdata, Quanti, and Quanti.min. In this class, you achieve a good foundation in the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data in the system, including core and images. Increase your knowledge of deterministic calculations and the principles behind the application workflow interface for single- and multiwell use. Study multiple log and component inversion techniques, thin-bed analysis, and integration of different types of data to enhance the interpretation process. Understand how to perform day-to-day tasks within the Techlog suite and learn advanced techniques for improving the analysis results. COURSE CONTENT n


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petrophysics Techlog Formation Evaluation with Quanti.Elan Skill — 2 days


:

This course introduces experienced log interpreters to building log interpretation models and generating solutions with the Quanti.Elan solver of Techlog. COURSE CONTENT n

Load and quality control data (from DLIS or LAS files)

n

Pre-computation estimation of critical parameters for interpretations including mineral, rock and fluid endpoints

Advanced — 2 days

:

You perform quick and detailed lithology estimations with the GeoFrame Litho ToolKit complete collection of lithofacies tools and analysis techniques. Learn the various techniques that can be used to generate lithofacies. COURSE CONTENT n

Deterministic methods using multiwell, multicurve GeoFrame LithoQuickLook* software

n

Estimation of missing log curves using neural network techniques

n

Creation of multiwell facies logs using any log data as input

Initialization and construction of formation evaluation models

n

Application of cutoffs on multiple curves

n

Zoning and classification groups

n

n

Combining formation evaluation models

n

Post processing

n

Multidimensional histograms

Customization with Python™

n

Clustering methods

: n

n

n

Log response equations with emphasis on neutron porosity and resistivity-based saturation equations

Artificial neural networks (supervised and unsupervised neural network) for generating facies logs

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Development and exploration geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers

Development and exploration geologists

PREREQUISITES


Techlog Fundamentals course and formation evaluation experience using Techlog software.

Petrel Multipoint and Conditional Facies Modeling Advanced — 2 days

:

This course focuses on facies modeling, the main method for guiding petrophysical models. Material includes demonstrations of pixel- and object-based models and studies of complex hierarchical models that combine multiple methods. Emphasis is on advanced property modeling tools such as the multipoint geostatistics process. Discussions include the theory behind this process, covering how to create good training images, incorporate soft probability data, vary direction, and scale in the final simulation model. In addition, you learn about the geobody modeling tool for extracting seismic bodies and using them directly as hard data in the modeling process.


:

In this course, you focus on using the Techlog* software interpretation and processing capabilities for the management of wellbore image data, pressure data, core data, and special core data. Learn interpretation workflows for analysis of these data as well as specialized tasks such as facies and rock type detection and propagation. Enhance your understanding of multiwell and multiuser aspects, and advanced processing and analysis within the Techlog application. COURSE CONTENT n


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n


n

Pressure data

n


n


COURSE CONTENT n

Geostatistics overview

n

Facies modeling methods with classical geostatistics

n

Pixel-based facies modeling methods

n

Object-based facies modeling methods

n

Conditioning and combining modeling methods

n

Neural net learning systems

n


n

Multipoint statistics (MPS) theory

n


n

Region properties

n

Conditioning and scaling MPS models

n

Making and using seismic geobodies

n

Multipoint facies simulation

n

Optional: Conditioned petrophysical modeling

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE


Geoscientists with demonstrated experience in property modeling in Petrel software PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course and Petrel Property Modeling course, practical Petrel experience, and knowledge of petroleum geology


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petrophysics Techlog Borehole Image Interpretation Advanced — 3 days

:

In this course, you learn advanced interpretation and processing capabilities for the management of wellbore image data and the performance of interpretation workflows for data analysis. You gain a full range of skills to manipulate, process, and use all kinds of borehole image data within the Techlog suite. COURSE CONTENT n


n


n


AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists and petrophysicists involved in wellbore image data processing and interpretation PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course

Techlog Core Data Advanced — 4 days


:

This course focuses on the management of all types of core data within the Techlog suite. Learn the interpretation workflows for analysis of these data, including facies detection and propagation, and explore the use of special core data in saturation-height modeling. COURSE CONTENT n


n


n

n

Saturation-height models in core and log domains Neural network techniques for facies determination

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course

Advanced — 5 days

:

In this course, you learn advanced interpretation and processing capabilities with a focus on the management of wellbore image data and the performance of interpretation workflows for analysis of these data. Topics include facies typing using neural network methods, multiwell plotting, cross section building, and mapping in the Techlog application. Learn to use Techlog geologic tools to achieve efficient data integration.

:

COURSE CONTENT n


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n

Neural network techniques for facies prediction

n

Zone editing for field maps, kriging, and multiwell cross sections

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course


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Drilling technology NExT’s Drilling Technology curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Drilling Technology course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Drilling Technology curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Advanced

Well Planning and Design

Drilling Technology

Management & Well Operations

Pore Pressure Prediction Methods

Dynamic Pressure Drilling

Deepwater Drilling Operations and Well Control

Drilling Software

Drilling Optimization

Skill

Well Design and Construction Engineering

Horizontal, Extended-Reach, and Multilateral Drilling

Casing Design

Directional Drilling and Surveying

Drillstring Design

Drilling Risk Management

Advanced Remedial Cementing

Drilling Project Management

Intermediate Petroleum Geomechanics

Stuck Pipe and Hole Cleaning Stuck Pipe and Fishing Operations Well Control

Drilling Fluids

Foundation

Drilling Simulator

Petrel Drilling

Basic Cementing

Well Placement Fundamentals

Cementing Operations

Offshore Drilling Operations

Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics

:

Rig Awareness and Familiarization Field Course

Drilling Engineering

Awareness

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Introduction to Drilling


Drilling technology Introduction to Drilling

Drilling Engineering

Rig Awareness and Familiarization Field Course


Foundation — 5 Days


If you work closely with drilling engineering, operations, or management, this course increases your understanding of the concepts, terminology, and processes used in drilling a well. It provides a complete overview of the workflow involved in the drilling of oil and gas wells, from office to wellsite. You also learn the roles and responsibilities involved in a drilling operation.

In this course, you gain an introduction to the terminology, concepts, processes, and equipment used to drill oil and gas wells. You learn rig component identification, simple rig-sizing calculations, drilling fluid properties, drillbit selection concepts, directional drilling plan definition, and drilling technologies. You cover the planning process followed by drilling engineers, including initiating a well plan and designing a well. Additionally, you learn the basics of cost estimation processes, fundamentals of well control, drilling tool selection, and the important standards used in the drilling industry.

COURSE CONTENT n

Well construction and the role of drilling in the E&P life cycle

n

Well design, including planning and engineering, and the data and analysis techniques needed to design a quality well

n

n

n

n

n

n

Terminology and concepts used in the business of drilling, such as well timing, costs, risks, and AFE generation Explanation of drilling equipment: Drilling rigs, bits, casing, and rig floor equipment Directional drilling and deviation control equipment and its operation, including unique characteristics of directional drilling Wellsite operations: Drilling, logging, casing, cementing, and completions

COURSE CONTENT n

Well construction: Exploration, appraisal, and development drilling

n

Drilling rig components and crew roles and responsibilities

n

Business of drilling, including well costing and AFEs

n

Operational procedures

n

Risk management, hazards, and loss-prevention methods

n

Drilling fundamentals: Rock types, fracture gradients, formation pressures, wellbore instability, leak testing, kicks, and kick tolerance

n

Well design considerations: From leasing, contracts, and site preparation to data requirements

n

Characteristics of quality well design: Directional drilling, well paths, wellbore surveys, drilling fluid selection, drillstrings, BHA, bits, casing selection and design, cementing, and wellheads

n

Programming and drilling operations: Operational sequence for drilling a well, including a time-depth curve; daily drilling reports; and real-time operations

n

Troubleshooting and prevention of common problems (kicks, well kill procedures, BOP functions), and various well control situations

This unique course gives you in-depth exposure to drilling rig equipment and its use with classroom instructions on drilling, cementing, and directional drilling concepts and technology. Learning is reinforced by daily trips to an actual drilling rig where you see firsthand the rig and drilling equipment used in well construction. Hands-on and classroom lessons are supported by interactive video training that explains the installation and use of downhole equipment and assemblies. COURSE CONTENT n

Life cycle of petroleum reservoir and reservoir development phases

n

Drilling operations, including drilling rig types and their uses, and drilling equipment used on the rig floor and downhole

n

Well completion options, equipment, perforations, and data-collection tools used for well evaluation

n

n

Well suspension and abandonment procedures

Drilling deviated, horizontal, and multilateral wells

n

Hands-on visit to a rig to inspect drilling equipment with participation in some rig operations

n

Hands-on visit to a cementing and pumping unit to discuss completion, cementing, acidizing, and stimulation topics

n

Well life cycle with focus on openhole and cased hole well data

n

Hands-on visit to a logging center for an overview of data acquisition for evaluation of well performance

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of drilling PREREQUISITES None

Drilling kicks and well control, including well control equipment Real-time data collection, monitoring, and interpretation techniques used during drilling operations

AUDIENCE Entry-level professionals of all disciplines and nontechnical support staff PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE Entry-level professionals of all disciplines and nontechnical support staff PREREQUISITES None

None


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Drilling technology Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics

Offshore Drilling Operations

Cementing Operations

Basic Cementing





Learn the fundamentals of rock mechanics, the origin of stresses in the subsurface, and how in situ stresses can be understood from wellbore data. This course, using classroom instruction, exercises, and workshops, teaches you how to apply in situ stress data to critical problems in exploration and development.

An introduction to offshore drilling operations, this course covers the primary drilling equipment, procedures, and design constraints and considerations unique to the offshore environment. Learn how drilling operations differ for fixed installations and mobile offshore drilling units.

In this course, you are introduced to cementing, including primary cementing and squeeze and plug cementing. You learn the characteristics of a quality cementing job and the impact of cement chemistry. You increase your understanding of the different phases of cement slurry and the additives that are used to affect the properties of each. You discuss rheological models used during cement job design and the requirements for effective mud removal. You perform classroom exercises and are introduced to cementing design and evaluation software.

This course presents the basic concepts of primary cementing and illustrates the adverse effects a poor-quality primary cement job has on well performance. Discussions include remediation using squeeze cementing, the physical and chemical properties of cement slurries, and cement evaluation techniques. In a class project, participants design a cement job and perform a cement evaluation.

COURSE CONTENT n

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Impact of geomechanics on oilfield development: Drilling, completions, and life of a field Principal stresses: Pore pressure, effective stresses, stress and strain, elasticity, yield, and failure Procedures and limitations of lab tests: Unconfined compression, triaxial compression, thick-walled cylinder tests State of stress in the earth Pore pressure and fracture gradient Wellbore instability: Rock mechanics versus operations, state of stress around the wellbore, failure criteria, influence of trajectory, and unconventional failures

COURSE CONTENT n

Types of rigs: Land to offshore

n

Primary components of offshore rigs: Hoisting, pumping, and rotating

n

Downhole drilling tools

n

Geology for drillers

n

Overburden, pore pressure, and fracture gradient

n

Well planning - TvD exercise

n

Drilling fluids

n

Cementing

n

Well design workflow

n

Review of steel properties

n

Casing design

n

Well control

n

Drillstring design Directional drilling

n

Mechanical earth model construction

n

n

Operational aspects of wellbore stability control

n

Surveying

n

Completions

n

Drillstem test (DST) from mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU)

n

Downhole tools

n

Sand production and prediction

n

Reservoir geomechanics

AUDIENCE Technical professionals or managers concerned with wellbore stability, fracture stimulation, reservoir drainage patterns, naturally fractured reservoirs, overpressures, and fault seal analysis PREREQUISITES None

COURSE CONTENT n

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n

n

n

n

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers PREREQUISITES

Primary cementing concepts: Overview, calculations, and procedural steps Cement chemistry: Fundamentals of cement types and the impact of additives Cement laboratory equipment for examination of slurry performance, including thickening time, rheology, stability, and other characteristics Importance and procedural implications of mud removal Gas migration: consequences, paths, root causes, and slurries for its control Cementing temperature: Requirements, heat transfer, deepwater scenarios, static temperature determination, and misuse of MWD and LWD temperature data

n

Applications, techniques, and tools for squeeze and plug cementing

n

Cementing design and evaluation software

n

Special-purpose cements

None

Note: This course is taught in Russian only. COURSE CONTENT n

Primary cementing overview

n

Cement chemistry

n

Cementing materials and additives

n

Implication of well integrity on well performance

n

Squeeze cementing

n

Performance characteristics of cement slurries

n

In-lab demonstration of mixed cement slurry properties

n

New cementing technologies

n

Cement evaluation using cement bond, ultrasonic imaging, and variable density logs

n

Plug cementing

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, completion engineers, and production engineers PREREQUISITES Fluency in Russian language and a basic understanding of drilling and completion operations

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, trainee drillers, rig engineers, and service company personnel PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of the oil and gas industry with an awareness of cementing operations; participants are required to bring a hand-held calculator to complete in-class exercises


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Drilling technology Well Placement Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

W : NE

Introducing the fundamentals of geologic well placement, sometimes called geosteering, this course encompasses both the processes and techniques required for placement of high-angle and horizontal wells using geologic and petrophysical data acquired while drilling. Reviews include technologies and tools for directional drilling, LWD, and MWD. Learn from examples using different methods to geosteer horizontal wells and their applications. COURSE CONTENT n


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¢

n

Review of reservoir geology Essential elements for well placement

¢


Drilling Simulator

Advanced Remedial Cementing

Casing Design


Skill — 3 days

Skill — 5 days

In this course, learn drilling operations using the interactive Drilling Systems Drilling Management Trainer, which simulates the environment of a team drilling a well. Through hands-on simulations, learn the role and responsibilities of each member of the drilling team, including the drilling supervisor, driller, mud engineer, and the directional driller.

This course teaches the remedial cementing techniques for diagnosing the sources of unwanted water production and mitigating the problem. Learn about the applicable technologies and where they may be applied to reduce water production.

The focus of this course is casing design from an engineering and operational perspective. You are provided with design rules for a wide range of straightforward and hostile environments. You also examine the nomenclature of casing design, manufacturing processes, materials, and properties. You review design policies and procedures; the theory of burst, collapse, and axial loadings; the theory and limitations of API specifications and connections; and special cases such as HPHT and sour environments.

COURSE CONTENT n

Directional drilling

n

Drilling fluids

n

Cement

n

Conductor driving

n

Casing tallies, centralizers, spaceout

n

Geology

n

Pressure testing

n

Well control

n

Fishing

¢

n


¢

Trainee drilling supervisors and drilling engineers

MWD

PREREQUISITES

Acquisition of positioning and drilling-related data

¢

Tools and techniques for formation evaluation

¢

n

LWD Tools and techniques

¢

COURSE CONTENT n

Integrated approach to watercut problems in mature and new fields

n

Key watercut problems and an integrated approach to mitigation

n

Watercut problem classification and selection of optimal remediation

n

Logging diagnostics

n

Cement bond log evaluation techniques

n

Remedial cementing and advanced cementing technologies

n

Application of well placement methods Model-compare-update: Modeled log response and interpretation

¢

Real-time dip analysis

¢

n


Material properties

n

API ratings and formulas

n

Biaxial effects

n

Steel testing

n

Design concepts

n

Triaxial loading Casing design rules

Specifications of cement slurry system laboratory analyses

n

Factors affecting tubular strength

n

Description of API laboratory equipment

n

Sulfide stress cracking

n

Buckling

n

Connections

n

Design process

n

Casing setting depth determination

n

Service life models Load cases

n

API laboratory analysis procedures

n

Specification of remedial slurry analyses

Basic understanding of drilling operations n

Remedial cementing system design and equipment

n

Cementing pumping units

n

n

Cement slurry blending and mixing systems

n

Thermal and bending load determination

n

Remedial cementing manifold

n

n

Cementing simulation

Load design for burst, collapse, and axial loads

Formation evaluation and other measurements and applications Influence of measurements on high-angle wells

n

n

¢

¢

COURSE CONTENT

n

AUDIENCE


¢

n

Liner operations

n

Note: This course is taught in Russian only.

AUDIENCE Production engineers, drilling engineers, completion engineers, and oilfield technical staff

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Members of multidisciplinary asset teams, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers, and geoscientists involved in decisions on implementing a geologic placement process for horizontal and high-angle wells

Fluency in Russian language and basic knowledge of drilling and completion operations

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, trainee drillers, rig engineers, and service company personnel with basic drilling engineering knowledge PREREQUISITES Understanding of wellbore geometry and the basics of mechanical concepts, and basic math skills; participants are required to bring a scientific calculator to complete the in-course exercises

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of drilling and formation evaluation Return to Matrix Click Here Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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Drilling technology Directional Drilling and Surveying

Drillstring Design

Drilling Fluids

Drilling Project Management

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 4 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Learn the fundamentals, design considerations, and operational aspects of directional and horizontal drilling. Increase your understanding of the operations carried out by directional drillers and how directional and horizontal wells are designed and drilled.

Gain a comprehensive overview of how to design a drillstring as well as how to avoid operational problems and wear on equipment. BHA design concepts and optimization and drilling hydraulics are investigated, with emphasis on practical and safe operating procedures. Industry standards are used as training aids to supplement the presentation material and promote a thorough understanding of drillstring component operating limits and practices.

This course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of drilling fluids and instruction on the engineering of a mud system, including both waterand oil-based mud systems.

Increase your understanding of the project management principles that apply to drilling operations, with a focus on the roles and responsibilities involved, including operations, personnel, administration, finance, and legal functions. You examine the critical project and risk management concerns of running drilling projects in an efficient, safe, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective manner. You apply principles of project management in practice and integrate those principles into a drilling project’s assets or project team to optimize value and reduce identified risks.

COURSE CONTENT n

Directional drilling fundamentals: Applications and limitations

n

Terminology, well objectives, and target

n

Well path planning: Calculations and data acquisition

n

MWD

n

Downhole equipment: Drilling tools and deflection methods

n

Drilling motors, bits, and BHAs

n n

n

Wellsite operations Reservoir concerns for directional well design Drilling and surface considerations

n

Torque and drag modeling

n

Horizontal wells: Types and planning

n

n

Logging, coring, and completion techniques Wellbore-stability issues and hole cleaning

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, trainee drillers, rig engineers, and service company personnel with basic drilling engineering PREREQUISITES 1 to 3 years of field experience with drilling operations and basic math skills

COURSE CONTENT n

Properties of steel

n

Axial force and buckling in submerged tubulars

n

Drillpipe connections

n

Drillstring design for tension and torque

COURSE CONTENT n

Introduction to drilling fluids: Properties, purpose, and problems

n

Regulatory compliance and environmental considerations

n

Formation damage

n

Inhibition

n

Lubricity

n

Economic restrictions

n

Fluid density

n

Rheological properties

n

Solids control

Drillstring care and inspection

n

n

Drillstring damage and dynamics

n

n

Wellbore stability

n

Waste management Loss control measure and troubleshooting

Contract models

n

Project planning and design

n

Planning software

n

Project finance and administration

n

Supply chain management

PREREQUISITES

n

Reporting systems

Working knowledge of drilling practices and concepts

n

Communications and knowledge management

n

Project closeout

n

Rotary, rotary steerable system (RSS), and motor BHA design

Drilling engineers wanting a better understanding of drilling fluids and their use

Work experience in drillstring design or drilling operations

Cost versus value

n

Drilling programming

Bit hydraulics

PREREQUISITES

n

Tendering and contracting strategy

n

Drilling engineering staff and drilling service company personnel

Overview of drilling project management

n

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

n

n

Mud rheology

n

COURSE CONTENT

n

Management systems

n

HSEQ management systems

n

Introduction to risk management

n

Risk management process

n

Levels of risk management

n

Operational risk assessments and analysis

AUDIENCE Drilling program managers, project managers, and others with direct involvement in the planning of drilling operations PREREQUISITES Introduction to Drilling Engineering course or equivalent work experience in drilling engineering or management


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Drilling technology Drilling Risk Management

Horizontal, ExtendedReach, and Multilateral Drilling


Stuck Pipe and Fishing Operations

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

This course teaches the theory and application of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Control (HARC) process and the practice of hazard risk identification. You learn how to identify, report, and mitigate risks or hazards using HARC principles.

This course opens with a brief review of the principles of elastic and isotropic behaviors of rock, fundamentals of geomechanics, earth stresses, and mechanical earth models, and then moves to more advanced topics. Learn the impact of reversible and nonreversible geomechanical behavior on drilling, stimulation, sand production, and injection operations. Investigate anisotropy, its nature and effect on geomechanics, and its significance and influence on well construction and field development. Understand the mechanics of salt, its short-term and long-term behavior, and the impacts on drilling subsalt and presalt.

You receive a practical treatment of the causes of stuck pipe and twist-offs and of the techniques employed to avoid such problems. You also learn the investigation techniques, operations, selection of fishing tools, and decision-making methods. Discussions include techniques to prevent problems leading to fishing operations and operational techniques to recover the fish or to sidetrack the well.

n

Drilling optimization principles

An integrated approach to the design and drilling of horizontal, extended-reach (ER), and multilateral wells includes geologic, reservoir, drilling, completions, and production considerations. Learn the applications and limitations of ER drilling technology and the essential deliverables from each asset team member needed to implement successful ER wells.

n

HARC overview

COURSE CONTENT

n

Offset well analysis

n

Risk mitigation and prevention

COURSE CONTENT

n

Operations forecasting and risk mapping

n

Change management

n

Exemptions

n

Directional drilling fundamentals: Applications and limitations

n

Directional well planning: Positioning and coordinate systems

n

Survey calculation methods

n

Anticollision and trajectory management

n

Reporting and recording systems

n

Surveying tools

n

Real-time monitoring solutions

n

MWD

n

Downhole equipment: Drilling tools and deflection methods

AUDIENCE Experienced drilling supervisors and drilling engineers

n

Drilling motors and bit overview

n

Bottomhole assembly (BHA) design and considerations

n

Geologic considerations in ER wells

n

Well profile, wellpath, and trajectory design

n

Management of equivalent circulating density (ECD) in ER wells

PREREQUISITES Experience with drilling operations and planning

n

Earth modeling and wellbore-stability matters related to ER wells

n

Torque and drag management

n

Multilateral well introduction, well planning, and drilling operations

n

TAML junction definitions and their applicability to multilateral design

n

Completion matters for ER and multilateral wells

n

Life-of-well issues for high-angle and multilateral wells

n

Casing design for ER and multilateral wells

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

Importance of reversible and nonreversible behaviors of rocks for well construction and field development Significance of anisotropic behavior of rocks when considering mechanical properties and stresses Challenges in drilling salt and consequent field development, mitigation, and management measures

AUDIENCE Geologists; geophysicists; geomechanics, drilling, production, completion, and reservoir engineers; exploration supervisors and managers involved with geomechanics challenges of field development PREREQUISITES Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics course or a strong understanding of geomechanics fundamentals

COURSE CONTENT n

Wellbore designs, types, and loading of submerged tubulars

n

Steel mechanics and drillstring design, including API RP 7G

n

Understanding and preventing drillstring failures

n

Stuck pipe mechanisms and consequences

n

Predicting and preventing stuck pipe and lost circulation

n

Fishing operations: Causes, prevention, tools, and operations

n

Directional drilling and sidetracking in cased and open holes

AUDIENCE Engineering, operations, and managerial team members interested in the practical aspects of drillstring recovery and the business implications of fishing operations PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of drilling operations and basic math skills

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, drilling supervisors, trainee directional drillers, rig engineers, asset exploitation teams, and service company personnel PREREQUISITES Experience in basic drilling engineering and wellsite operations, and exposure to directional drilling operations; participants are required to bring a simple scientific calculator for in-class exercises Return to Matrix Click Here Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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Drilling technology Stuck Pipe and Hole Cleaning

Well Control

Well Design and Construction Engineering

Deepwater Drilling Operations and Well Control

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

In this course on the mechanisms and causes of stuck pipe, particular attention is given to understanding the impact of hole cleaning. You also learn how factors such as casing seat selection, drillstring design, drilling fluids selection, and well design can affect the likelihood of stuck pipe.

This course teaches the physical principles and concepts related to maintaining and regaining control of formation pressures while drilling a well.

Delivering an overview of the well construction process and an introduction to subsea drilling operations, the goal of this course is to provide insight for the planning and execution of a drilling operation. Emphasis is on the conceptual design and detailed engineering design calculations involved in planning a well.

This course teaches the operational aspects of deepwater well construction including deepwater exploration and development drilling challenges, selecting the necessary “fit for purpose” tools, equipment, people, and processes. Methods to address and mitigate deepwater drilling hazards, risks, drilling problems, project delivery issues will be discussed using lessons learned from several worldwide projects. This course will also cover deepwater well control management techniques using the IADC guidelines.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT n

Formation pressures and their causes

n

Fracture pressure fundamentals Kick tolerance, causes, and warnings

n

Causes of stuck pipe

n

n

Casing setting depth

n

Shut-in procedures

n

Forces acting on submerged objects

n

n

Drillstring design

Industry standards and recommended practices

Wellbore stability and causes of instability

n

n

Kill sheet basics and usage

n

Wait-and-weight method and other well control methods

n

Lost circulation and its causes

n

Stuck pipe mechanisms and consequences

n

Control of shallow gas kicks

n

BOP and diverter equipment installation, operation, maintenance, and testing

n

Economics of hole recovery efforts

n

Drilling fluid types

n

Drilling fluids selection

n

Rheology of drilling fluids

n

Drilling fluids management

AUDIENCE

n

Cuttings behavior and transport methods

Persons who design, plan, and manage well drilling operations including wellsite supervisors, drilling engineers, and drilling superintendents

n n

n

Special well profile problems Mechanical techniques for hole cleaning Hole cleaning monitoring and management techniques

AUDIENCE Field supervisors and engineers involved in drilling operations PREREQUISITES

n

Well control equipment limits, auxiliary units, and closing units

n

Subsea equipment overview

This course is part of the distance learning Heriot-Watt MSc Petroleum Engineering program but is not limited to individuals who are registered for the degree course. Note: To find out more about the Heriot-Watt MSc Petroleum Engineering program, go to NExTtraining.net/Masters.

Minimum of 1 year drilling-related experience and basic math and science skills; participants are required to bring a hand-held calculator for in-class exercises

n

Deepwater well design and construction

COURSE CONTENT n

Overview of drilling operations

n

Project management and logistics

n

Drilling economics

n

Rigs and selection criteria

Rig components

n

Equipment systems

n

Drillstring design

n

Floating vessel drilling

n

Drilling bit design and selection

n

Station-keeping

Formation pressures and well control

n

Wellheads and casing

n

Pore, fracture, and abnormal pressures

n

Blowout preventers

n

Risers

n

Principles of primary and secondary well control

n

Motion compensation

n

Riserless drilling

n

Drilling fluids

n

Cementing operations

n

Drilling problems and hazards

n

Well control management, equipment, and techniques

n

Emergency response planning and contingency management

n

n

PREREQUISITES

COURSE CONTENT

n

Well killing procedures

n

Blowout preventer (BOP) equipment stack arrangements

n

Design, selection, and use of drilling fluids

n

Casing and casing string design, configurations, and running operations

n

Cementing function, design, and properties

n

Directional drilling design and equipment

Basic understanding of drilling operations

AUDIENCE Trainee drilling engineers, petroleum engineers, and specialist service company engineers PREREQUISITES Drilling operations experience

AUDIENCE Drilling personnel including managers, superintendents, engineers, supervisors, and drilling PREREQUISITES Working knowledge of mobile offshore drilling units and drilling operations experience with a knowledge of drilling activities


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Drilling technology Drilling Optimization

Dynamic Pressure Drilling


Petrel Drilling

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 3 days


Structured to guide you through the workflow to achieve optimal outcomes, or no-surprises drilling, for each phase of a single drillwell or a drilling program, this course covers specification, design, drilling, and completion. Increase your understanding of the identification, application, and implementation of drilling optimization techniques that highlight the data, calculations, and processes necessary to validate drilling successes, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The course draws upon aspects of risk management and statistical analysis as a framework for measurement and mitigation.

This course teaches the principles of dynamic pressure drilling, including how and where to apply these drilling methods. Learn how to select the optimal equipment, controls, and drilling fluids needed for effective drilling in underbalanced and managed pressure drilling scenarios.

A predrill estimate of formation pore pressure is a key requirement for successful exploration and drilling. This course teaches you the basics of formation pore pressure, including techniques for predicting formation pressure, analyzing pore pressure data, detecting and collecting pressure data, and understanding normal-, over-, and underpressured environments. Practical analysis exercises reinforce the presentations.

Petrel software gives drilling engineers and operations geologists the tools to improve operational efficiency and to collaborate with the entire asset team. It provides support before, during, and after drilling operations through offset well analysis, risk management, well design, performance optimization, and daily collaboration. This course provides a different perspective for visualizing drilling operations.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

n

n

n

Variable versus fixed risks and controllable versus uncontrollable constraints in design and implementation Mitigation strategies for risks and constraints, including mechanical configuration, logistics, surface and subsurface environments, and trajectory; regulatory policies Statistical analyses related to well construction, including probability, mean distribution, and standard deviation

COURSE CONTENT n

Dynamic pressure drilling overview, applications, and techniques

n

Geologic issues

n

Drilling fluid selection, underbalanced and two-phase flow considerations

n

Equipment selection and use

n

Rotating control devices (RCDs)

n

RCD seal elements

n

n

n

Drilling equipment for managed and underbalanced pressure conditions Designing for managed and underbalanced pressure conditions Dynamic drilling methods for offshore, including tripping methods

n

Candidate selection

n

Economics of dynamic pressure drilling

n

Management and HSE considerations

KPIs as a means to report project progress and results

AUDIENCE

Ensure data collection, management, and quality via data KPIs

Drilling professionals embarking on a dynamic pressure drilling assessment

Single drillwell and program benchmarking

PREREQUISITES

n

Mechanical earth model (MEM) for planning and operations

n

Optimal drilling plan designs that optimize KPIs for each drilling phase

n

Real-time management of well construction performance

n

Formation pore pressure fundamentals

n

Petrel interface, file structures, and visualization tools

Impact of pore pressure prediction on exploration and drilling success

n

Importing well data

n

Managing surveys and plans

Pressure distribution concepts and application

n

Creating geologic and driller’s targets

n

Designing wells

n

Creating well sections for offset well analysis

n

Creating and managing risks for use in well planning or preparation and mitigation

n

Editing log data

n

Streaming real-time log data

n

Creating projections to estimate trajectory ahead of current survey station

n

Creating reports

n

Create alarms for notification during drilling

n

Pore pressure estimation techniques

n

n

:

n

Fluid migration model background and development

n

Hands-on pore pressure data analysis

AUDIENCE Geoscientists and engineers wanting an essential understanding of the impact of pore pressure on drilling, wellbore stability, and reservoir management PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of drilling, geology, geophysics, and risks associated with drilling operations

Fundamental understanding of basic drilling technology

AUDIENCE

:

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, drilling specialists, geologists, and petrophysicists working closely with drilling operations PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or equivalent Petrel experience, and general knowledge of drilling operations

Drilling engineers PREREQUISITES Minimum 2 to 4 years of drilling engineering; experience in risk management or project management suggested


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reservoir engineering NExT’s Reservoir Engineering curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Reservoir Engineering course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Reservoir Engineering curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Advanced

Reservoir Characterization

Reservoir Analysis

Reservoir Management

Reservoir Reservoir Simulation Software Engineering Software

Full Life Cycle Fluid Evaluation- Downhole to Laboratory

Analysis of Production Performance Curves

Resources and Reserves Evaluation

Characterization, Evaluation, and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

New Advances in Well Test Interpretation

Advanced Natural Gas Engineering

Petrel Proxy : Modeling and Optimization

Advanced Well Test Analysis

History Matching and Conditioning Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data

OFM Advanced Topics

ECLIPSE Thermal : Reservoir Simulation


:

:

Assuring Flow from Pore to Process

: Analysis and Development of Tight Gas Reservoirs Skill

Oil and Gas Reserves and Evaluation II

Waterflood Management

ECLIPSE Simulation of Naturally : Fractured Reservoirs

Techlog : Formation Evaluation

Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes: Miscible, Polymer, and Thermal

ECLIPSE Advanced Topics

:

OFM : Waterflood Analysis

ECLIPSE : Compositional Simulation

Applied Geostatistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists PVT Properties of Reservoir Fluids

:

Petrel Uncertainty : for Reservoir Engineers

Horizontal Wells: Applications, Drilling, Completion, Productivity, and Surveillance

Applied Reservoir Simulation


Petrel Workflow Editor : and Uncertainty Analysis

Conducting an Integrated Reservoir Study

Applied Reservoir Engineering

Foundation

Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods: Theory and Applications Well Test Design and Analysis Oil and Gas Reserves and Evaluation I

Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering Reservoir Optimization using Applied Oilfield Manager (OFM)

Basic Reservoir Engineering Analytical Techniques

:

Well Productivity and Enhancement Integrated Reservoir Management Introduction to Field Development Planning

Reservoir Engineering

ECLIPSE Applied Reservoir : Simulation Fundamentals

Petrel Upscaling and Fault Analysis

:

ECLIPSE : FrontSim Fundamentals

Techlog Fundamentals

:

ECLIPSE Equation of State and Pressure-: Temperature-Volume

PIPESIM Fundamentals

:

ECLIPSE Blackoil : Reservoir Simulation

OFM Mapping : Applications Fundamentals

:

OFM Forecast : Analysis Fundamentals

Introduction to INTERSECT

OFM Fundamentals Petrel Reservoir Engineering

: :

Avocet Integrated Asset : Modeler Fundamentals

Awareness

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Introduction to Reservoir Engineering

Petrel Fundamentals

:


reservoir engineering Introduction to Reservoir Engineering

Basic Reservoir Engineering Analytical Techniques

Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods: Theory and Applications

Reservoir Engineering





This course on reservoir engineering introduces you to the classic and current techniques used to obtain reservoir fluid properties from laboratory data and correlations. You learn the fundamental concepts of fluid flow, including laminar and non-Darcy flow in multiphase situations. Basic theory and practice of well test analysis are presented as a means for preparing input data for reservoir simulation modeling. Exercises and examples demonstrate applications to actual situations.

Classical methods of reservoir engineering are the basis of this course on analytical techniques. Learn the fundamentals of fluid flow, including non-Darcy, immiscible fluid, and multiphase flow. Increase your ability to identify and apply the appropriate form of the material balance equation for various cases, including aquifers, and to use the generalized Havlena-Odeh material balance equation. Discussions include the advantages and limitations of different methods of production forecasting.

In this comprehensive overview of EOR methods, you learn the various secondary and tertiary recovery techniques that are typically applied following primary depletion of an oil reservoir. You increase your knowledge of the formation and fluid properties criteria considered in selecting the most appropriate EOR or improved oil recovery (IOR) method. Instruction includes the fundamental calculations you need to justify the selection of an EOR or IOR method and to evaluate its performance.

Course material focuses on the classical methods of reservoir engineering. Learn the fundamental principles of multiphase fluid flow and study fluid and rock characteristics. Case histories demonstrate engineering concepts and actual situations.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

n

Introduction to reservoir engineering

n

Reservoir types and lithologies

n

n

n

Reservoir fluid properties: PVT data, specific gravity, bubble point pressure, gas/oil ratio, viscosity, and formulation volume factor Reservoir rock properties: Porosity, permeability, formation capacity, and net pay thickness Fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media

n

Darcy’s law

n

Reservoir classification and drive mechanisms

n

Oil and gas inflow and outflow performance

n

Pressure buildup analysis

n

Oil displacement and enhanced recovery

n

Basic concept of reservoir simulation modules

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of reservoir engineering PREREQUISITES None

n

n

Fundamental concepts and calculations: Reservoir pressure, pressure gradients, capillary pressure, and fluid contacts Fundamental rock properties

n

n

Environmental and economic aspects of EOR methods Comparative performance of different EOR methods

n

Screening criteria and technical constraints

n

Review of core analysis methods

n

Effects of stress on properties

n

Displacement fundamentals

n

Rock and fluid interactions

n

Factors affecting oil recovery

n

Relative permeability effects and measurements

n

Miscible flooding fundamentals and applications

n

n

n

Conventional (Arps), advanced (Fetkovich), and modern decline curve analyses Material balance concepts and general material balance equation Characterization and quantification of active energy components

n

Phase behavior and fluid properties

n

EOR processes

n

Hydrocarbon miscible displacement

n

First-contact miscible, condensinggas, and vaporizing-gas processes

n

Principles and theory of high-pressure gas, enriched gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) slug, and air and nitrogen injection

n

Natural water influx

n

Fluid displacement and fractional flow equation

n

Principles and theory of CO2 flooding

n

Fundamentals of waterflooding

n

n

Recovery calculations, effects of heterogeneity, mobility ratio, and displacement efficiency

Recommended pilot design, considerations, and workflow

n

Thermal methods

n

Screening criteria and calculations

AUDIENCE Junior-level reservoir engineers, simulation engineers, and petroleum engineers interested in classical methods and wanting to broaden their understanding of reservoir engineering PREREQUISITES

COURSE CONTENT n

Fundamentals of reservoir engineering

n

Reservoir environment and formation properties

n

Reservoir pressure, determination of pressure gradients, and identification of contacts

n

Measurement of relative permeability

n

Properties of reservoir fluids

n

Reservoir fluid flow and Darcy’s law

n

Principles of well testing in reservoir characterization

n


n

Water influx

n

Decline curve analysis

n

Determination of hydrocarbon reserves: Volumetric method

n

Material balance applications

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers, geologists, and geophysicists PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of petroleum engineering and geology

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers and production engineers wanting a better understanding of EOR principles and applied techniques PREREQUISITES General knowledge of EOR and IOR

Minimum 2-year degree in engineering


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reservoir engineering Integrated Reservoir Management

Introduction to Field Development Planning

Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering

Oil and Gas Reserves and Evaluation I





Learn the basic reservoir management techniques used by asset management teams.

This course introduces the fundamental approaches for constructing a field development plan (FDP). Learn the concepts of project management and the processes followed throughout the different life cycle stages of a reservoir or field. This course details the workflow for developing a FDP and then updating it to adjust for changing reservoir conditions. Gain an understanding of the importance of reservoir monitoring and how it can be used to anticipate reservoir dynamics. Develop and apply a FDP roadmap—a risk register that identifies and mitigates evolving FDP risks—and a stakeholder map that identifies the personnel essential for successful implementation of a FDP.

This course covers various aspects of gas reservoir engineering, including well test analysis. Increase your understanding of natural gas properties, and learn how to determine gas reserves using material balance calculations and perform gas deliverability and nodal analyses.

Course emphasis is on deterministic methods of reserves estimation and evaluation. Gain a working knowledge of classifications and definitions for reserves and resources and guidelines for their application from various authorities, including Society of Petroleum engineers (SPE), World Petroleum Council (WPC), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Understand estimation methods and learn to perform cash flow analysis, both before and after tax, as a basis for establishing value and reporting to regulatory authorities. Discussions include international contracts and reserves recognition and booking.

COURSE CONTENT

AUDIENCE

COURSE CONTENT n

Reservoir management process

n

Data acquisition

n

Analysis and modeling

n

Reservoir model

n

Production operations

n

Reservoir management economics

n

Desktop simulation

n

Case studies: New fields, mature fields, waterfloods, and EOR projects

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, operating personnel, and other asset team members PREREQUISITES Experience in oilfield and gas field operations

n

Reservoir life cycle

n

Dynamic FDPs

n

Development scenarios and options

n

Synchronized subsurface and surface decision making

n

Data requirements and integration

n

Reservoir monitoring interfaces and requirements

n

FDP components and tasks

n

Opportunity framing workflow and roadmap

n

Building a risk register and stakeholder map

n

Hands-on exercises building a FDP

n

Final presentation of the constructed FDP

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, and managers interested in understanding and applying FDP concepts PREREQUISITES Engineering or geoscience degree

COURSE CONTENT n

Fundamentals of gas reservoir engineering

n

Properties of natural gas

n

Determination of gas reserves

n

Gas deliverability

n

Nodal analysis

n

Gas well testing

Reservoir engineers, production engineers, laboratory researchers, and gas field operators

COURSE CONTENT n

Definitions and classification of petroleum resources and reserves

n

Industry and regulatory authority classifications and definitions

n

SEC definitions

n

Worldwide definitions and classifications

n

Reserves estimation methods, including material balance, decline curve techniques, production data analysis, and simulation

n

Reserves evaluation: Time value of money, cash flow analysis, before and after tax cash flow analysis

n

Financial yardsticks, reserves reporting requirements for publicly traded companies, reserves and international contracts

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of petroleum engineering

AUDIENCE Petroleum engineers, geologists, reserves analysts, and anyone responsible for estimation of reserves PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of geology and reservoir engineering


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reservoir engineering Reservoir Optimization using Applied Oilfield Manager (OFM)

Well Productivity and Enhancement

Well Test Design and Analysis

Applied Geostatistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists




Skill — 5 days

In this hands-on workshop, you apply engineering principles in a real-world scenario and perform reservoir development exercises through multiple phases. Develop your capacity to make unique reservoir engineering decisions involving field development, and improve your skills in day-to-day use of OilField Manager* well and reservoir analysis software.

In this course, you learn to perform rapid and technically sound assessments of well performance, identify problems, and suggest corrective actions. Increase your understanding of the different methods of well surveillance, various causes of productivity impairment, and remedial actions to enhance productivity.

Gain a solid understanding of the theories underlying well test analysis and interpretation and of how to design a well test to achieve specific objectives. You learn the different types of tests and techniques, both analytical and graphical, for data representation and analysis. You interpret complex data, such as those from well tests in naturally fractured reservoirs, hydraulically fractured wells, horizontal wells, and gas and gascondensate reservoirs.

Your goal in this course is to produce a consistent reservoir description through integration of core, well log, and seismic data and application of geostatistical techniques. Learn the reservoir modeling workflow, from construction of the 3D static reservoir model through upscaling for dynamic reservoir simulation. Increase your awareness of geostatistics and the situations that can benefit from application of geostatistical techniques. Instruction includes guidance through assembly and analysis of the required data for geostatistical techniques and the resulting numerical models.

COURSE CONTENT n

Reservoir familiarization and evaluation

n

Production phase and workover candidate recognition

n

n

n

Well volumetric drainage radius, horizontal well analysis, and workover follow-up Workover candidate recognition and waterflooding pilot analysis

COURSE CONTENT n

Concept of nodal analysis: Well inflow and outflow performance, and well productivity

n

Various causes of productivity impairment: Formation damage, perforating, sand production, corrosion, paraffins, asphaltenes, scale, and hydrates

n

n

Candidate selection and well intervention for productivity enhancement

n

Matrix stimulation and hydraulic fracturing treatments

n

Productivity enhancement tools: Through-tubing techniques; workover rigs; monitoring, management, prevention, and control of sand production, corrosion, and paraffins and asphaltenes; scale and hydrate control and removal

Waterflood evaluation and surveillance

AUDIENCE Petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, production enhancement engineers, geologists, operations and business development managers interested in analyzing oil and gas performance data PREREQUISITES Knowledge of oil and gas production, Microsoft ® Excel spreadsheets, and basic algebra

Well surveillance, production logging, and electrical and slickline surveys

n

Productivity enhancement through artificial lift

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

PREREQUISITES Understanding of well operations

Fundamental concepts of well test analysis: Radial flow, damage and stimulation, drawdown, buildup testing; semilog analysis for estimation of average reservoir pressure Dimensionless variables, derivative analysis and diagnostic plot, typecurve matching, wellbore storage, radial flow, late-time boundary, and depletion effects

n

Well test interpretation in naturally fractured reservoirs, fractured wells, and horizontal wells

n

Variable rate analysis methods and multiwell testing

n

Well test analysis in gas reservoirs, modifications for gas and multiphase flow, and phase redistribution

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers, production engineers, and others involved in well performance evaluation and modeling

Basic concepts of reservoir performance: Steady-state flow, semisteady-state flow, and transient well performance

n

Drillstem testing, design, and analysis; and interference tests and reservoir limits tests

n

Well test design: Test types and step-by-step procedures

COURSE CONTENT n

Basic probability theory and univariate and bivariate statistics

n

Geologic content of data and spatial continuity of rock properties using variogram analysis

n

Estimation methods, including various types of kriging

n

Simulation methods, including sequential Gaussian simulation and indicator simulation

n

Advanced geostatistical techniques, including object modeling and simulated annealing

n

Techniques for upscaling and data integration (3D seismic and production data)

AUDIENCE Practicing reservoir engineers, production engineers, and geoscientists working as a part of an integrated reservoir management team PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic mathematics

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers, production engineers, and field personnel involved with the design and interpretation of well tests PREREQUISITES Degree in engineering and prior experience with well testing


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reservoir engineering Applied Reservoir Engineering

Applied Reservoir Simulation

Conducting an Integrated Reservoir Study

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

The focus of this course is practical reservoir engineering methods. Study real-world techniques for understanding reservoir behavior, sizing, analyzing fluids in place, optimizing recovery, and forecasting well and reservoir production.

Development of reservoir simulation programs is the focus of this comprehensive course. You learn about model selection, data preparation, and grid design, as well as techniques for model calibration. Discussion includes advanced concepts such as “pseudo” relative permeability and capillary pressure. Increase your understanding of the role of simulation in reservoir management. Study the limitations and structural aspects of the models as well as upscaling and simulation techniques. Tutorials include use of ECLIPSE reservoir simulation software but prior experience with this simulator is not required.

In this course, you conduct an integrated reservoir study for the purpose of optimizing a reservoir depletion plan or instituting EOR operations. Understand the data that is required and the workflow that should be followed to ensure a successful evaluation. Learn techniques to characterize hydrocarbon reservoirs, build a static reservoir model, and import the static model into a reservoir simulator. Discussion includes procedures for integrated reservoir evaluation and how to improve production rates, ultimate recovery, and field economics by identifying potential for infill drilling, recognizing bypassed hydrocarbons, and improving EOR process efficiency.

COURSE CONTENT n

Petroleum geology

n

Formation evaluation

n

Volumetric reserves estimates

n

Rock properties

n

Geostatistics

n

Fluid properties

n

Well performance, deliverability, and testing

n

Pressure transient testing of oil and gas wells

COURSE CONTENT n n

Fundamentals of reservoir simulation

COURSE CONTENT

n

Conventional data analysis, pressure transient test, production data analysis, material balance analysis, and moving domain analysis

n

Upscaling: Interactive process involving geoscientists and engineers

n

Initializing the reservoir model

n

Integrated team approach for history matching

n

Performance forecasting, reservoir optimization analysis, and parametric studies

n

Economic modeling, and optimizing the reservoir development plan

n

Seismic data and well logs

AUDIENCE

Structural compartments

Geoscientists and petroleum engineers responsible for conducting comprehensive reservoir studies

Reservoir drive mechanisms and producing characteristics

n

Applications of reservoir simulation

n

n

Material balance calculations

n

Identification of models needed

n

Fractured reservoir in situ stress

n

History matching and uncertainty assessment

n

Uses and misuses of simulation

n

n

Effect of time and space discretization

n

Small-scale and field-scale models

Fluid contact determination: Well logs, capillary pressure, and seismic attributes

Minimum 2-year degree in engineering

Reservoir drive mechanisms and producing characteristics

Practical guidelines for use of reservoir simulators

n

PREREQUISITES

n

Reservoir characterization—building blocks of the static model

n

Engineers responsible for routine reservoir characterization and management

PVT, capillary pressure, and volumetric reserves estimates

n


AUDIENCE

n

Data used in a reservoir simulation study

n

Introduction to waterflooding and EOR

Role of geostatistics in reservoir modeling

Flow scale considerations for data management

Gas and water coning in vertical and horizontal wells

n

n

n

Types of models: Black oil compositional, thermal, miscible, dual porosity

n

Displacement of oil and gas

3D property modeling

Objectives of integrated reservoir studies

Productivity of horizontal wells

n

Data integration

n

n

n

n

n

n

Modeling faults and aquifers

n

Workshop: Problem solving using related software applications

n

Reservoir heterogeneity

n

Sedimentary facies analysis

n

Flow and nonflow units

PREREQUISITES Background in petroleum engineering or geosciences and experience in reservoir studies

AUDIENCE Engineers, geologists, geophysicists, managers, and other oilfield technical staff PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of petroleum engineering and geologic concepts


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reservoir engineering Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes: Miscible, Polymer, and Thermal

Horizontal Wells: Applications, Drilling, Completion, Productivity, and Surveillance

Oil and Gas Reserves and Evaluation II

PVT Properties of Reservoir Fluids

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

For a better understanding of miscible, polymer, and thermal EOR processes, this course presents the theoretical and practical aspects of each. Learn from case studies and field examples.

This course is structured to increase your understanding of all aspects of horizontal wells and their applications. Learn the evaluation of multidisciplinary applications and principles of horizontal wells as you study related reservoir engineering, drilling, and completion topics.

In this course, increase your understanding of probabilistic methods for reserves estimation and the risk and uncertainties in evaluation economics. Material includes an overview on reserves and resources with definitions and classifications. Gain exposure to important background material from statistics and probability techniques with applications to expected value, probability trees, and simulation. Instruction includes an introduction to economic evaluation of reserves evaluation and the probabilistic estimation procedures commonly used in various countries. Through spreadsheet exercises, gain a deeper understanding of important concepts and learn to handle complex scenarios.

This course presents the newest and most accurate methods for obtaining values of reservoir fluid properties from laboratory data and correlations. Gain a better understanding of the relationships between the five reservoir fluids. Learn to manage problems concerning reservoir fluid properties with increased confidence.

COURSE CONTENT n

Introduction to EOR methods

n

Screening criteria and technical constraints

n n

n

Displacement fundamentals Miscible flooding: Fundamentals and applications, and miscible simulator

n

Polymer flooding: Applications, rheology of polymer solutions, and polymer adsorption and retention

n

Micellar-polymer or microemulsion flooding: Determination of residual oil saturations (tracers), surfactants and cosurfactants, surfactant-brine-oil phase behavior, polymer flood simulation, and comparison with waterflooding

n

COURSE CONTENT

Thermal processes: Cyclic and continuous steam injection, surface facilities, thermal properties of fluids and solids, evaluation of heat losses, and performance predictions and correlations

n

Simulation models as reservoir management tools

n

EOR performance evaluation: Field cases and exercises

AUDIENCE

n

n

Horizontal well applications: Drilling and completion, drilling risk, geosteering, LWD Horizontal well productivity: Steady-state approximations, productivity index, flow regimes, anisotropy, formation damage, skin factor, slanted wells versus horizontal wells Applications of horizontal wells and models: Coning problems, gas reservoirs, fractured wells, fractured reservoirs

COURSE CONTENT n

Analysis of reservoir fluid properties

n

Identification of the five reservoir fluids

n

Compositional gradients in reservoirs

n

Properties of black oil from laboratory reports (featuring recent calculation procedures)

n

Field data required for use of reservoir fluid property correlations

COURSE CONTENT n

Reserves and resources: Classifications and definitions, probabilistic reserves techniques

n

Properties of black oil from correlations (featuring several recent correlations)

AUDIENCE

n

Statistics and probability

n

Reservoir engineers and production engineers responsible for recommendations and evaluations of horizontal wells

n

Expected value and probability trees

Properties of dry gas (featuring several recent correlations)

n

Monte Carlo simulation: Application to reserve estimation and evaluation

PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of reservoir engineering and pressure transient analysis

n

Properties of wet gas

n

Wet gas applications and computations

AUDIENCE

n

Properties of retrograde gas

Petroleum engineers, geologists, reserves analysts, and others responsible for estimation of reserves

n

Condensates from laboratory reports

n

Properties of retrograde gas condensate (recent correlations)

PREREQUISITES

n

Suggestions for obtaining water properties

Basic understanding of geology, reservoir engineering, and petroleum economics

Reservoir engineers, production engineers, and geoscientists interested in EOR or involved in EOR projects from a planning or operational perspective PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of reservoir engineering

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers, production engineers, and others involved in reservoir fluid sampling, testing, and modeling PREREQUISITES Degree in engineering or science and experience in the petroleum industry


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reservoir engineering Waterflood Management

Advanced Natural Gas Engineering

Advanced Well Test Analysis

Analysis and Development of Tight Gas Reservoirs

Skill — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

For efficient asset management, gain a better understanding of waterflooding and the distribution of immiscible fluids in a reservoir, the process of immiscible fluid displacement in a reservoir, waterflood patterns, and the effect of pattern selection and orientation on flood performance. Learn to predict waterflood performance using classical prediction methods.

This course explores the unique issues and challenges related to exploitation of natural gas, from upstream to downstream. Learn about natural gas exploration, processing, transmission, and storage and the new generation of gas-to-liquid (GTL) technologies.

In this advanced course, learn how to analyze various types of pressure tests, including flow tests, buildup tests, and interference tests using Tiab’s direct synthesis (TDS) technique—an alternative to type-curve matching and regression analysis. Understand the complexities of interpreting pressure tests in hydraulically fractured wells, naturally fractured reservoirs, and horizontal wells. Bring your actual field data to class for interpretation using the TDS and other techniques.

This overview of tight gas reservoirs covers their evaluation, completion, stimulation, and development. Material encompasses geologic characteristics, formation evaluation, estimation of reserves and well performance, hydraulic fracture treatment design and execution, and field development considerations.

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Natural gas basics

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Unique issues in natural gas exploration, drilling, and well completion

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General waterflooding

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Effects of drive mechanisms on waterflooding

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Rock properties and waterflooding

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Natural gas processing

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Drainage process

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Capillary pressure

Natural gas transportation: Pipeline and compressed natural gas

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Displacement processes and linear fractional flow theory

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Natural gas production from vertical and horizontal wells

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GTL technologies

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Underground natural gas storage

Buckley-Leverett frontal advance model, Welge prediction method

n

Natural gas supply, alternative energy sources and the environment

Analysis of waterflood pattern mobility ratio

n

The great energy dilemma and geopolitics

n

Pattern configurations

n

Waterflood performance efficiencies and predictions

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Prediction methods: Stiles, CraigGeffen-Morse, and Dykstra-Parsons

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Simulation of waterflooding and practical guidelines for reservoir simulators

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Simulation of waterflooding using small- and large-scale models for calibration

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Waterflood field examples and project presentations

AUDIENCE Engineers responsible for evaluation of the economics, production potential, and waterflood design for reservoirs under waterflood or candidates for waterflood PREREQUISITES General knowledge of fluid and rock properties and fluid flow in porous media

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Energy interchangeability versus inflexibility Alternatives to natural gas-fired electricity: Coal, nuclear, wind, and solar Environmental impact of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources

AUDIENCE

COURSE CONTENT

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Introduction to tight gas reservoirs

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Formation evaluation

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Statistical correlations

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Theory and applications of the pressure derivative

Well testing

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TDS technique for analysis of drawdown and buildup tests

Estimation of reserves and prediction of performance

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Well completions

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Workovers

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Hydraulic fracture treatment design

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Hydraulic fracture treatment execution

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Development strategies and economics

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Field development considerations

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Critical parameters

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Infill potential

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Identification of flow regimes using the pressure derivative

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Characteristic pressure behavior for wells near one or multiple open and closed boundaries

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Effects of various wellbore and nearwellbore phenomena on test data

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TDS technique for estimation of average drainage area pressure

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Pressure tests in wells with vertical or inclined hydraulic fractures

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Well tests in naturally fractured reservoirs

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Conventional and advanced interpretation techniques for pressure tests in multilayered reservoirs

Geologists, engineers, managers, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES

COURSE CONTENT

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Application of TDS technique to multiphase-flow tests and multirateflow tests

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TDS technique for analysis of horizontal well tests

Engineering knowledge

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers and production engineers responsible for optimizing recovery from tight gas reservoirs PREREQUISITES Understanding of petroleum engineering and a strong background in production or operations

AUDIENCE Engineers and geoscientists wanting a better understanding of well testing principles and advanced interpretation techniques for pressure transient tests PREREQUISITES Reservoir Engineering course


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reservoir engineering Analysis of Production Performance Curves


Advanced — 4 days

Advanced — 5 days

In this workshop on classic and current decline curve analysis methods, you learn both theory and applications to single- and dual-fluid production systems. Explore methods to amend a non-converging production curve, forcing it to the economic limit, and learn how to reinitialize decline curves. Study methods for material balance time and real-time relationships, analysis of performance histories, generation of relative permeability ratios from field data, and the derivative approach to determine whether water breakthrough is from coning or behind pipe.

From this course on flow assurance, gain an advanced understanding of fluid flow through a series of interconnected systems from the reservoir to surface facilities, and the prevention and mitigation of common flow impediments. Learn best practices from worldwide field examples, as well as how to design fit-for-purpose flow assurance solutions.

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Arps curves: Nominal and continuous exponential declines

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Performance curves: Exponential, hyperbolic, and harmonic declines

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Fetkovich, Arps, and transient type curves

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Interpretation of field curves for reservoir characterization

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Pseudo-steady-state flow equation

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Blasingame-Lee solution

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Production performance plots

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, and industry professionals interested in analyzing oil and gas performance data PREREQUISITES


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Key flow assurance issues

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Technologies for capture and characterization of fluid samples

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Methodologies for measurement, modeling, and management of inorganic and organic solids

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Fluid flow and heat-transfer characteristics and their importance in design of subsea architecture, model selection, and liquids management Processes of fluid flow integration, heat transfer, and solids]

AUDIENCE Engineers and technical staff responsible for well surveillance, production optimization, or completion design PREREQUISITES Working knowledge of well production behaviors, basic reservoir engineering principles, and surface facilities; exposure to well completion design, nodal analysis, and stimulation processes

Advanced — 5 days Update your knowledge on techniques for an integrated study of naturally fractured reservoirs, including characterization, experimentation, and integration of information to determine the best process options. Examine examples from ongoing CO2 pilots to reinforce your understanding of naturally fractured reservoirs. Learn to use core laboratory measurements of imbibition, capillary pressure, and wettability at reservoir conditions; history-matched laboratory measurements for upscaling to reservoir geometry, and wettability data for prediction of waterflood performance. Analyze reservoir performance during water injection from laboratory experiments of forced and free-fall gravity drainage with CO2, and use commercial simulators to match reservoir performance using precisely measured lab and field data. COURSE CONTENT

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Fracture identification (natural or coring-induced) and characterization

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Well test analysis and analysis of inflow performance in horizontal wells

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Imbibition, capillary pressure, interfacial tension, and wettability determination

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Scaling laboratory results to predict waterflood response

n

Numerical simulation of waterflooding

n

Phase behavior and minimum miscibility pressure determination

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Gas injection experiments in fractured systems

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Evaluation, scaling, and design of gas injection results

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Case histories: Midale CO2 pilot and Wellman Unit CO2 flood

AUDIENCE

Characterization of naturally fractured Reservoir engineers, geoscientists, reservoirs operating personnel, and other asset team members involved in reservoir n Geologic and petrophysical analysis of management reservoir cores n

Screening reservoir data for waterflood PREREQUISITES and gas injection-well candidates Experience in oilfield and gas field n Core-log integration and reservoir operations and knowledge of naturally fractured reservoirs characterization n

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Development of specific algorithms for log evaluation (identification of pay zones and water saturation in the pay)

Some knowledge of oil and gas production, Microsoft ® Excel spreadsheets, and basic algebra


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reservoir engineering Full Life Cycle Fluid Evaluation-Downhole to Laboratory

New Advances in Well Test Interpretation

History Matching and Conditioning Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Structured for an understanding of well test analysis fundamentals, this course also introduces recent advances in well test interpretation. Study methodologies for systematic interpretation, and learn through hands-on exercises and practical problem-solving sessions.

Production data are incorporated into high-resolution reservoir models through conventional and fast flow simulation techniques such as streamline models. In this course, learn different historymatching workflows and their merits, including assisted and automatic history matching. Explore the many forms of production data—pressure transient test, tracer test, multiphase production history, and interpreted 4D seismic information. Field examples illustrate the advantages and limitations of these techniques.

Advanced-level instruction focuses on technologies for characterization of reservoir fluids in situ and methods for capture of a representative sample. Learn the importance of proper sample handling and the procedures that define fluid properties (vapor-liquid equilibrium phase envelopes, gravimetric fluid properties, and hydrocarbon solids) and rheological transport characteristics. Hands-on demonstrations include developing mathematical models using equations of state (EOS) for fluid PVT analysis, and hydrocarbon solids phase boundaries for applications in reservoir simulations, production modeling, and surface processing.

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Openhole sampling technologies, including MDT* Modular Formation Dynamics Tester

n

Visit to a technology or operations center for physical demonstration of downhole sampling and analysis tools (location dependent)

n

Cased hole sampling during well or production testing and laboratory fluid characterization technologies

n

Workflows to develop thermodynamic and transport characteristic models

n

Fundamentals of lab characterization of hydrocarbon solids (asphaltene, wax, hydrate)

n

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Physics of reservoir fluids, including origin of fluid gradients, and reservoir compartmentalization Downhole fluid-analysis technology: Monitoring mud-filtrate contamination, live fluid analysis, component analysis, and in situ analysis

n

Sample quality control and reservoir characterization workflow examples

n

New developments in EOS for in situ crude oil

n

Methods for determining reservoir connectivity

n

Fundamentals of well test analysis and interpretation

n

Well testing in complex systems

n

Well testing in different depositional and tectonic environments

n

Well testing in reservoirs formed by deposition in fluvial environments

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History matching: Broad perspectives and current status

AUDIENCE

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History-matching workflows

Reservoir engineers, production engineers, and field personnel involved with well test design and interpretation

n

Production data integration: Background and theory

n

Flow simulation through geologic models: Streamline approach

n

Streamline-based production data integration

n

Assisted history matching and inverse modeling with finite-difference models

PREREQUISITES

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History matching: Field applications

Strong understanding of fluid properties principles and modeling

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Experimental design: Background and applications

n

Recent developments in history matching: Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

n

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

Visit to fluids and flow assurance analysis center for physical demonstration of equipment and measurement methods (location dependent)

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Members of multidisciplinary teams, including petrophysicists and engineers, who need an advanced understanding of fluid properties from sample acquisition to modeling

Knowledge of transient well testing nomenclature

AUDIENCE Practicing geoscientists and engineers, especially those involved in reservoir simulation PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic mathematics, general knowledge of petroleum geology, reservoir engineering, and petrophysics, plus elemental software skills


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reservoir engineering Resources and Reserves Evaluation

Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler Fundamentals

Advanced — 5 days


This course presents advanced techniques for reserves estimation and addresses the difference in classification of resources and reserves. Learn definitions of reserves and resources and guidelines for their application from various regulatory and industry authorities, including Society of Petroleum engineers (SPE), World Petroleum Council (WPC), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Discover the latest and most accurate methods for estimating reserves, both deterministic and probabilistic, and gain a thorough understanding of various reserves levels and their equivalence in both systems, including proved, proved plus probable, and proved plus probable plus possible.

The course focuses on use Avocet* Integrated Asset Modeler production software to integrate the reservoir with the surface models. Instruction includes software installation.

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Basic definitions and classifications

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Overview of key reservoir network coupling fundamentals

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Coupling reservoirs to networks

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Running time-based simulations

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Connecting models

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Adding a Microsoft® Excel model to a flow diagram

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Evaluating economics with Merak* Peep models Transferring compositions

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to integrate reservoirs with surface models using Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler

ECLIPSE Applied Reservoir Simulation Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

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In this overview of the history and theory of reservoir simulation, you study the critical appraisal of input data, computational requirements, dual porosity, group controls, condensate behavior, history-matching, and production forecasting. Other topics can be included by prior arrangement. Hands-on exercises using small-scale simulation models improve your understanding of reservoir mechanics and appraisal of input data. You are encouraged to present reservoir models for analysis and discussion. COURSE CONTENT

Petrel Fundamentals Awareness — 2 days

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This course is the foundation for all other Petrel* courses, teaching new users how to get started with this versatile software program. Instruction covers the interface, visualization tools, and the basic usage of this application. You are guided from project setup to plotting of the modeling results. Topics include data import, visualization of wells and seismic data, creation of surfaces and simple grids, geometrical models, maps, and intersections. COURSE CONTENT n


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Simulation equations

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Data analysis

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Data import

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Fine-grid and small-scale models

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Coarse-grid and full-field models

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Simulation study plan and design

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Compositional reservoir aspects

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Fractured reservoir concepts

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Plotting

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Statistics and probabilities

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Simulation

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Probability and uncertainty

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

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Expected value, and expected value and decision trees

n

Utility theory

Work experience in a production, reservoir, or process engineering position or in an asset business development environment with knowledge of either ECLIPSE* or PIPESIM* software

Reservoir engineers, geoscientists, and other technically trained individuals interested in learning the fundamentals of ECLIPSE* reservoir simulation PREREQUISITES

Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, geoscientists, petroleum engineers, and technical IT personnel with no prior experience in Petrel software

Reservoir engineering background

PREREQUISITES

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Unconventional resources

n

Definition and classification of reserves

n

Time value of money

n

Before-tax and after-tax cash flows

n

Decline curves

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Volumetrics

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Material balance

n

Economic yardsticks

n

Choosing investments

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International contracts

n

Field examples

General knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics or reservoir engineering, as well as elemental software skills

AUDIENCE Petroleum engineers, geologists, reserves analysts, and others involved in estimation of reserves PREREQUISITES Degree in engineering or geoscience, and knowledge of reservoir engineering and petroleum geology


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reservoir engineering ECLIPSE Blackoil Reservoir Simulation Foundation — 5 days

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The focus of this course is learning ECLIPSE* Blackoil reservoir simulation software, rather than simulation methodology. This fully implicit, three-phase, 3D, general-purpose black-oil simulator includes several advanced features of ECLIPSE software. COURSE CONTENT n

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Block-centered and corner-point grid geometries

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Rock and fluid properties

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Allocation of initial pressure and saturation distribution

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Overview of how a simulator initializes and executes

Aquifer definition Control wells under history-matching and production regimes

n

ECLIPSE Blackoil file structure

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Input rules

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Specifying and editing input and output data Building and executing a simulation model Analysis of results through postprocessing

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers, geoscientists, and other technically trained individuals interested in learning the ECLIPSE Blackoil simulator PREREQUISITES ECLIPSE Applied Reservoir Simulation Fundamentals course and background in reservoir engineering

ECLIPSE Equation of State and Pressure-TemperatureVolume Foundation — 5 days

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ECLIPSE FrontSim Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

Introduction to INTERSECT

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ECLIPSE* PVTi software is an EOS program for generating and analyzing PVT data based on measurements of petroleum mixtures. Use it to analyze laboratory-derived PVT information and generate input data for ECLIPSE simulators. Increase your understanding of the wide range of EOS models and facilities available to group or pseudoize fluid components automatically.

ECLIPSE* FrontSim streamline black-oil simulator is a three-phase, 3D simulator that models multiphase fluid flow along streamlines. Learn how to visualize the dominant flow paths and depict fluid flow behavior within complex geology, then transfer this knowledge into ECLIPSE applications. This course emphasizes the use of the software rather than the methodology of simulation studies.

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Properties of pure substances and mixtures


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Structured as an introduction to constructing INTERSECT* reservoir models, this course covers basic INTERSECT features and those that are relative to working with Petrel* or ECLIPSE* reservoir simulators. Learn how to use Petrel pre- and postprocessors as the primary front end for the INTERSECT simulator. COURSE CONTENT n

Overview of reservoir simulation using the INTERSECT simulator

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Data creation through Petrel Reservoir Engineering application

n

ECLIPSE FrontSim fundamentals

n

Front-tracking and tracer simulation

n

Compressibility and changing streamlines

n

Data editing using the ECLIPSE INTERSECT Migrator

Finite-difference and saturation solvers

n

Field management

n

Improving simulator performance

n

Important behavioral differences in ECLIPSE and INTERSECT software

n

Petroleum fluid phase behavior

n

PVT reports

n

Quality-check of laboratory measurements

n

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EOS models

n

Gravity and segregation

n

Pseudocomponent splitting and grouping

n

Pressures grids and velocity fields

n

Fluids, rocks, and model initialization

n

Simulate experiments with ECLIPSE PVTi

AUDIENCE

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End-point scaling

Tuning EOS parameters using regression techniques

n

3-phase black-oil models

Reservoir engineers working on simulation studies

n

Aquifers, wells, and history-matching

PREREQUISITES

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Forecasts and waterflood optimization

Background in reservoir engineering

n

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PVT tables as input to ECLIPSE simulators

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Principles of miscible flooding

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers interested in generating and analyzing PVT data PREREQUISITES Reservoir engineering background and familiarity with reservoir simulation

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers, geoscientists, and technically trained individuals interested in learning reservoir simulation using the ECLIPSE FrontSim streamline simulator PREREQUISITES Reservoir engineering background and ECLIPSE Applied Reservoir Simulation Fundamentals course


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reservoir engineering OFM Forecast Analysis Fundamentals Foundation — 1 day

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In this course, learn to analyze historical production trends and future potential using a variety of techniques with OFM* well and reservoir analysis software. Learn to relate and compare well potential using five different approaches: empirical and analytical decline, comparative analysis, numerical forecasting, and theoretical capacity. COURSE CONTENT

OFM Mapping Applications Fundamentals

OFM Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

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Designed for people who are responsible for setting up and maintaining an OFM* project, this course teaches the basic features of OFM well and reservoir analysis software and some of its more advanced features.

Foundation — 1 day

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From this foundation class, gain the necessary skills to effectively use the OFM mapping functions. COURSE CONTENT n

Creating bubble maps, grid maps, contour maps, and surface maps of time or static data

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Opening and running an existing database

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Creating and manipulating MapperXY plots and scatter plots

n

Creating a new project from spreadsheets and text-load files

n

Creating and manipulating grid and bubble map overlays

n

Performing rate-versus-time analysis

n

Setting up and changing variables used in decline curve analysis (DCA )

n

Setting up and configuring links and local tables

AUDIENCE

n

Using DCA to forecast production for individual or groups of wells

n

Customizing project base maps

n

Generating reports and plots of forecasted results

n

Filtering and grouping data

Anyone needing to learn OFM software mapping functions

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Generating calculated fields and calculated variables

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Using Fetkovich type curves to study pseudosteady-state reservoir behavior Forecasting gas wells production and reserves using P/Z analysis Using analytical transient type curves to study reservoir behavior

AUDIENCE Anyone responsible for forecasting and forecast analysis on historical production using OFM software PREREQUISITES

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Creating single- and multiple-well plots

n

Creating and formatting well and field summary reports

n

Exporting reports and table data to other applications

PREREQUISITES OFM Fundamentals course

AUDIENCE Anyone responsible for setting up and maintaining a project using OFM software PREREQUISITES None

OFM Fundamentals

Petrel Reservoir Engineering Foundation — 3 days

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This course enables you to prepare and run a Petrel* model for reservoir simulation in ECLIPSE*, ECLIPSE FrontSim, and INTERSECT* software. Become familiar with the viewing options for results, line vectors, and 3D grid properties. Learn the gridding functions relevant to reservoir engineers, such as those for local grid refinement and aquifers. Create fluid models and saturation function tables. Understand the initialization of the model and the QC of volumes. Instruction for well engineering focuses on design of vertical wells and associated completion items, plus control wells during simulation using the Make development strategy. COURSE CONTENT n

Setup of simulation case

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Viewing of results

n

Simulation gridding

n

Fluid model (PVT)

n

Saturation functions

n

Design of wells, completions, and flow controls

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AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, managers, reservoir engineers, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or equivalent Petrel experience, and general knowledge of reservoir engineering or petroleum geology and geophysics


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reservoir engineering Petrel Upscaling and Fault Analysis Foundation — 2 days

PIPESIM Fundamentals

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Learn to assign properties to faults and then visualize them to better assess potential fault seals and points of high crossfault flow. Discussions include how to scale up a geologic model to coarser models suitable for simulation. Examples demonstrate how dynamic properties of the coarse models can be validated against the behavior of the fine model and how different fault seal properties affect the flow in the reservoir. You use streamline simulation to enable this comparison, and you learn how to set up and run such simulations from Petrel* software. COURSE CONTENT n

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Visualization of grid properties on faults Fault seal properties


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PIPESIM* production system analysis software provides steady-state, multiphase flow simulation for oil and gas production systems. In this course, learn to use its individual modules for well modeling, nodal analysis, field planning, artificial lift optimization, and pipeline and process facilities modeling. Gain a general understanding of how to design and optimize a Total Production Systems model from the reservoir to the final processing delivery point. COURSE CONTENT


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The Techlog* interactive suite brings all your petrophysical and geological data together. Learn the fundamentals of this application and its base modules Techplot, Techdata, and Quanti. Understand the use of the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data in the system, including core and images. Topics include deterministic calculations and the principles behind the application workflow interface for single- and multiwell use.

ECLIPSE Advanced Topics Skill — 5 days

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The ECLIPSE* software suite provides solutions for the entire spectrum of reservoir simulation, offering numerical simulation techniques for all types of reservoirs and all degrees of complexity. If you are an experienced simulation engineer ready to advance your knowledge of ECLIPSE software, this course is structured for you. Because of the wide range of topics available, please specify the subjects of particular interest when registering. COURSE CONTENT n

Initialization and end-point scaling

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Modeling horizontal wells

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Modeling downhole inflow control devices using multisegmented wells


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Well and group controls


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Gas lift optimization

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Amalgamation of surface facilities using reservoir coupling

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Analysis of well performance

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Design of models for pipeline and process facilities

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Nodal analysis

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Development of black-oil and compositional fluid models

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Upscaling a geological grid to a simulation grid

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Streamline simulation in screening and upscaling workflows

Selection of multiphase flow correlations

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Surface network models

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Network modeling

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Flux boundary and pressure boundary conditions

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Convergence issues

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Actions and user-defined parameters

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Gas supply contract modeling (optional)

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Refinement and coarsening of local grids (optional)

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Allocation data to study connectivity

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

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Use of fault throw modifiers to assess how a change in throw affects cross-fault flow

Anyone wanting to learn steady-state, multiphase flow simulation for oil and gas production systems to analyze well performance, model pipelines and facilities, and perform nodal analysis using PIPESIM software

Development and exploration log analysts and petrophysicists, geologists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel with no prior experience using Techlog software

AUDIENCE Development and exploration geologists, reservoir engineers, and technical personnel PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course or equivalent Petrel experience, and general knowledge of reservoir engineering or petroleum geology

PREREQUISITES None

PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers wanting to learn advanced simulation techniques PREREQUISITES ECLIPSE Blackoil Reservoir Simulation course or experience as a simulation engineer, and ECLIPSE Applied Reservoir Simulation Fundamentals course


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reservoir engineering ECLIPSE Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Skill — 5 days

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This workshop course covers oil recovery mechanisms and numerical simulation issues in fractured reservoirs. Approximately half the course is devoted to problem solving in a workshop format using related software applications COURSE CONTENT n

Fundamentals of fractured reservoirs

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Geological aspects of fractured reservoirs

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Single-fracture and fracture-network development

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Simulation of fractured reservoirs

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Assumptions and comparisons

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Input variables

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Relative permeabilities and capillary pressure for fractures

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Well testing in fractured reservoirs

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Comparison of single- and dualporosity well tests

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Oil recovery mechanisms in fractured reservoirs

ECLIPSE Compositional Simulation Skill — 5 days

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Advanced topics in dual-porosity simulation

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Calculation of gravity imbibition and drainage

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Dual-porosity — dual-permeability systems

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Viscous displacement option

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Integrated capillary pressure

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Matrix relative permeability modifications

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In this course on ECLIPSE* Compositional software, learn how to study complex hydrocarbon behavior problems and compositional changes that occur in geologically complex reservoirs when the hydrocarbon is condensate or when crude oil is volatile. COURSE CONTENT n

Black-oil and compositional models: Definitions, equations, assumptions, approximations, and unknowns

Use of pressure and PVT data

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Loading of reservoir property data

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Use of ECLIPSE PVTi and ECLIPSE Compositional to model slim-tube displacements

n

Review of overall waterflood performance

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Analysis of waterflood by pattern

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Calculation of voidage replacement ratios, comparison by pattern

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Creation of grid maps by well and pattern

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Creation of waterflood control diagnostic and Hall plots

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Estimate pattern configurations and pattern outlines

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Conductive faults

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Grid generation in fractured reservoirs

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Simulation of fractured reservoirs with a compositional simulator

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Full-field compositional models

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Diffusion in compositional simulation

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First contact miscibility

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Simulation of triple-porosity systems

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Condensing gas drive and vaporizing gas drive

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Thermodynamics

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Solution scheme

Oil expansion

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Sudation

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Gravity forces and capillary forces

PREREQUISITES

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Diffusion and convection

Experience with ECLIPSE single-porosity simulations

COURSE CONTENT

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Structure and keywords

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In this course, learn to employ the OFM* Streamline module to automatically or graphically define waterflood patterns using production and reservoir data. Learn to combine this information with pressure data and PVT algorithms to determine reservoir volumes and voidage. Gain experience in setting up patterns and performing analyses on a waterflood project.

Miscible, immiscible, and WAG displacement of an oil and gas injection into condensates

Discretized matrix model

Reservoir engineers interested in learning numerical simulation of fractured reservoirs using ECLIPSE* simulators

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Configuration of static and dynamic patterns

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AUDIENCE

Skill — 1 day

n

PVT practices and phase behaviors

Diffusion in black-oil simulation

n

Alternate gravity drainage model

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OFM Waterflood Analysis

n

Flash calculation

n

EOSs

n

Viscosity correlations

n

Characterization and component lumping

n

Surface tension effects

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Near-critical oil and gas relative permeability

n

Standard laboratory experiments

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Diffusion processes in compositional simulation

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Numerical dispersion and grid orientation nine-point scheme

n

Perform gas-water and CO2 water solubility modeling

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Tracer tracking of compositional components

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AUDIENCE Anyone wanting experience in setting up patterns and performing analyses on a waterflood project in OFM software PREREQUISITES OFM proficiency or OFM Fundamentals course

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers wanting to learn compositional simulation using the ECLIPSE Compositional simulator PREREQUISITES Knowledge of Pressure-VolumeTemperature or EOS modeling; reservoir engineering background or familiarity with ECLIPSE Blackoil simulator Return to Matrix Click Here Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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reservoir engineering Petrel Uncertainty for Reservoir Engineers Skill — 2 days

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This course builds on the Petrel* Reservoir Engineering course and focuses on how to use Petrel software for sensitivity and uncertainty studies. You learn how to run the simulations and use Petrel tools for viewing results, including histograms, tornado plots, spreadsheets, and line vectors.

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You are introduced to uncertainty concepts and how they are interpreted in Petrel software, and to running a sensitivity study. The course guides you through setting input distributions, sampling input from those distributions, and running the resulting simulation cases. In the simplest context, Petrel sets up a workflow that allows you to run a sensitivity or uncertainty study in a few clicks. The course shows you ways to add functionality to the basic workflows to meet your specific needs for defining input or reporting results.


The goal of this course is twofold, to provide insight into the Workflow Editor and the uncertainty and optimization process. Learn how to create your own workflows for batch processing and operations, in addition to setting up, editing, and repeating processes with new data for a complete reservoir modeling workflow. Become familiar with sensitivities and uncertainties of a base case volumetric reservoir model. Discussions include structural uncertainties related to surfaces and velocities, as well as stochastic parameters related to fluid contacts, facies, and petrophysical uncertainties. COURSE CONTENT n


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Updating 3D models with new input data

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Statistics fundamentals Running and visualizing results from a sensitivity or uncertainty study Customizing premade Petrel workflows

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Uncertainty and optimization process Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis setup

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AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Reservoir engineers

Geoscientists, petroleum engineers, managers, and technical personnel

PREREQUISITES Petrel Reservoir Engineering course

PREREQUISITES Petrel* Fundamentals course and Petrel Geology course or similar Petrel experience, and general knowledge of petroleum geology

Petrel Advanced Wells Skill — 2 days

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This course builds on the Petrel* Reservoir Engineering course, covering deviated well building in greater detail. Standard well modeling with ECLIPSE and FrontSim treats the entire well bore as a single entity and therefore cannot take into account pressure changes along the well bore due to friction, valves, or pumps. Such devices are often used with horizontal wells to control the inflow profile along the well trace. To model these effects, the multi segmented well model must be used. This course will introduce you to the capabilities of this well model and how to use Petrel to configure it. You also learn how to add completions such as valves and pumps and how to make development strategies using the equipment. Sector models can be useful to study parts of a reservoir. This course shows you how to define sectors, how to select boundary conditions, and how to run sector models. COURSE CONTENT n

Standard well model versus the multisegmented well model


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Explore the use of Techlog* base modules: Techplot, Techdata, Quanti, and Quanti.min. In this class, you achieve a good foundation in the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data in the system, including core and images. Increase your knowledge of deterministic calculations and the principles behind the application workflow interface for single- and multiwell use. Study multiple log and component inversion techniques, thin-bed analysis, and integration of different types of data to enhance the interpretation process. Understand how to perform day-to-day tasks within the Techlog suite and learn advanced techniques for improving the analysis results. COURSE CONTENT n


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Pressure drop along horizontal wells

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Designing horizontal wells and wells with laterals


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Configuring multisegmented wells

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Completion design for multisegmented wells

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Development strategies with group control

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Sector models

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers with prior experience in Petrel software


PREREQUISITES Petrel Reservoir Engineering course


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reservoir engineering ECLIPSE Thermal Reservoir Simulation Advanced — 5 days

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Thermal recovery methods are typically used in heavy oil reservoirs where the oil viscosity is high at reservoir temperatures but reduces as the temperature increases. Learn how to use ECLIPSE* Thermal software to extend the ECLIPSE Blackoil simulator to study problems such as steam injection, hot fluid or gas injection, wellbore heaters, and simple combustion. COURSE CONTENT n

PVT practices and phase behavior concepts of heavy oils

OFM Advanced Topics Advanced — 1 day

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This course focuses on topics outside the range of features common to day-to-day use of OFM* software but that are valuable to the end user. Learn significantly more effective ways to work with an OFM project including examining common workflows using OFM software. COURSE CONTENT n

Study of workspaces

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Links to external applications

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Reviews of forecast results Advanced table types, including foreign key and lookup

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Worldwide thermal recovery processes and screening criteria

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Key features of thermal reservoir simulation

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Introduction to PVT functionality

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Creation of user functions

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Making the base map a dynamic tool

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Techniques for creating continuous pressure data streams

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Creation and analysis of waterflood patterns

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Equations in ECLIPSE Thermal software

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SAGD recovery and the multisegmented well model

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Simulation of foamy oil

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Structure requirements and keywords for ECLIPSE Thermal software

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AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers interested in learning simulation of thermal processes using ECLIPSE Thermal simulator PREREQUISITES Experience with the ECLIPSE Blackoil simulator

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Generation of waterflood-specific analyses (e.g., voidage replacement ratio) Injection-well – specific analysis (Hall plot)

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to learn more advanced and effective ways to work with an OFM project using common workflows PREREQUISITES OFM proficiency or OFM Fundamentals

Petrel Proxy Modeling and Optimization Advanced — 2 days

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This course provides instruction on using proxy models with Petrel*. Due to the CPU intensive nature of simulation modeling, proxy models are used to reduce the time and iterations necessary to determine the key relationships between input parameters and results. In Petrel, several tools are available for making proxy models mimic simulation models at a lower evaluation costs. These models can be useful in sensitivity studies, development scenario assessment, and design optimization including completion attribute design COURSE CONTENT n

The Uncertainty and Optimization process

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Proxy models

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Analysis of input data

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Proxy model creation in Petrel

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Proxy models for sensitivity and uncertainty workflows

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Optimization task set up and execution

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Optimization using a proxy

Techlog Fluid Contact Analysis Advanced — 4 days

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In this course, you learn about advanced interpretation and processing capabilities of Techlog* software that can be used to manage core data, special data, and the performance of interpretation workflows for analysis of these data. Understand how to make use of special core data in saturation-height modeling and pressure data obtained by wireline or LWD technology. Learn new tools for managing and resolving fluid contacts within complex compartmentalized reservoirs and advanced interpretation and data handling of core and pressure data to resolve complex fluid contacts. COURSE CONTENT n


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Pressure data

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AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Reservoir engineers, geologists, and geophysicists

Development and exploration geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers with prior formation evaluation experience using Techlog software

PREREQUISITES Petrel Uncertainty for Reservoir Engineers course or equivalent Petrel experience and good reservoir engineering knowledge

PREREQUISITES Techlog Fundamentals course


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Production NExT’s Production curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Production course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Production curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Artificial Lift Advanced

Well Performance, Completions & Workovers

Stimulation

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Assuring Flow from Pore to Process Electrical Submersible Pumps (Advanced)

Production Software

OFM Advanced Topics

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Applied Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring Full Life Cycle Fluid Evaluation - Downhole to Laboratory Advanced Production Data Analysis and Nodal Analysis

Skill

Foundation

Design, Diagnosis, and Optimization of Gas Lift Systems

Hydraulic Fracturing

Sand Control

OFM Waterflood Analysis

Electrical Submersible Pumps Applications Engineering

Acid Stimulation Techniques

Well Intervention

PIPESIM Artificial Lift Design and Optimization

Electrical Submersible Pumps (Basic)

Formation Damage and Mitigation

Production Technology

High-GOR-Well Liquid Loading

Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Design and Quality Control

Workovers and Completions Completion and Production Engineering Basic Production Logging


Artificial Lift Technology

Awareness

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General Production Engineering

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: Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler Fundamentals PIPESIM Fundamentals

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: OFM Mapping Applications Fundamentals OFM Forecast Analysis Fundamentals OFM Fundamentals

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Introduction to Production Engineering


Production Introduction to Production Engineering

Artificial Lift Technology


Completion and Production Engineering





This course gives the basics on production engineering that you need to improve your asset team interactions. Learn about the role of production engineering in building capacity and maximizing production performance using tools including well testing, nodal analysis, and artificial lift. This engineering overview covers the equipment and techniques that production engineers employ both downhole and on the surface

With this introductory course, increase your knowledge of artificial lift methods and the factors that affect optimal designs and operations, including fluid properties and multiphase flow regimes. An overview of lift techniques, technologies, and equipment also covers alternate deployment scenarios and multisensor applications for surveillance and optimization. Learn strategies and best practices for field production optimization and when and how nodal systems analysis can be applied to lift performance optimization.

Production logging tools have specific uses as well as limitations. Learn the various applications for these tools, the interpretation assumptions that are integral to their designs, and how log quality is affected by the acquisition process. Hands-on demonstrations teach the fundamentals of production log interpretation, and an in-class workshop focuses on the interpretation of singleand two-phase flow. Discussion includes use of these logs for measurement of three-phase flow.

This course covers the role of the well, how its production performance can impact the larger integrated production system, and considerations for completion design. Learn the selection criteria for the main completion components including the field operational and ongoing production management concerns. Hands-on exercises demonstrate the factors that affect well flow behavior and productivity.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

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Overview of production engineering

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Reservoir fundamentals and nodal analysis

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Fluid flow fundamentals

Well testing

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Black-oil PVT

Lower and upper completions, perforations, and sand control

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Inflow performance

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Nodal analysis

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Completion fluids

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Comparison of artificial lift methods

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Multilaterals

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Progressive cavity pump systems

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Well completion equipment

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Beam pump systems

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Production logging

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ESP systems

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Artificial lift

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Gas lift systems

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Stimulation

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Artificial lift selection

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Surface facilities

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AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of production engineering PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Anyone involved with well surveillance, maximizing recovery, or identifying production problems in artificially lifted wells

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Outflow performance: Matching inflow with outflow to optimize well productivity

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Depth control in cased wells using gamma ray and casing collar locator data

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Completions for vertical, deviated, horizontal, and multilateral wells

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Pressure control system for rigless operation

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Reservoir fluid properties including GOR, bubble point pressure, threephase diagrams

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Justification of production log acquisition

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Flow regimes in vertical and deviated wells and slippage velocities

PREREQUISITES None

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Standard production logging tools

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Techniques for measuring oil, water, and gas rates including spinners, oxygen activation, phase-velocity logging, and gas bubble velocity

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Measurement of three-phase holdups

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Spinner calibrations to obtain fluid velocities and hence production rates

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Interpretation of logs for single-, two-, and three-phase production

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Integrated production systems: Completion methods, engineering, exploitation, and reservoir classification based on the fluid types

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Flow behavior: Flow in porous media, well deliverability, completion effects, flow in pipes, choke performance, and systems analysis

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Design considerations: Tubing, tubing loads and movement, tubular connections, and casing

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Equipment selection: Completion equipment, casing and casing suspension, wellheads, tubing and connections, packers, and wellsite operations

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Subsea completions: Current systems, applications, design requirements, controls, flowline connections, remotely operated vehicles

AUDIENCE Geoscientists, engineers, and managers seeking a greater understanding of well completions and production performance PREREQUISITES Minimum of 2 years of E&P experience in subsurface engineering, operations, or management

AUDIENCE Geoscientists or engineers responsible for interpreting production logs PREREQUISITES Engineering or geosciences degree recommended as this course deals with production logging physics


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Production General Production Engineering

High-GOR-Well Liquid Loading

Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Design and Quality Control






This course introduces you to production technology, reservoir concepts, formation damage mechanisms, and nodal analysis. You learn about completions, their types, optimal selection based on producing scenarios, and perforation types and selection. You review lower completions properties and their selection, including screen and screenless scenarios. You also learn about upper completions and associated accessories and acidizing, fracturing, slickline, coiled tubing, and surface facilities.

The course provides you with a basic understanding of gas well liquid unloading, including the use of standard artificial lift technology to assist in unloading and in alternative foaming agent methods. You use practical examples to enhance your understanding of the gas well liquid unloading processes.

This course introduces the fundamental approaches for constructing a field development plan (FDP). Learn the concepts of project management and the processes followed throughout the different life cycle stages of a reservoir or field. This course details the workflow for developing a FDP and then updating it to adjust for changing reservoir conditions. Gain an understanding of the importance of reservoir monitoring and how it can be used to anticipate reservoir dynamics. Develop and apply an FDP roadmap – a risk register that identifies and mitigates evolving FDP risks – and a stakeholder map that identifies the personnel essential for successful implementation of a FDP.

COURSE CONTENT

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Hydrocarbon physical properties: two-phase flow basics

This course presents the basic principles of hydraulic fracture treatment design and optimization, including application of fracture models. Focus is on the use of a pseudo-3D fracture simulator to design the optimal treatment pumping schedule for both low- and high-permeability wells. Learn how to select the appropriate fluid and proppant for specific reservoir conditions and field operations, and how to establish quality control for treatment operations.

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Well inflow performance

COURSE CONTENT

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Nodal analysis

COURSE CONTENT

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Critical parameters in hydraulic fracturing design

Sucker rod pumps

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Fracture modeling

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Progressive cavity pumps

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Fracture optimization

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Electric submersible pumps

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Fracture fluids and proppant

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Reservoir life cycle Dynamic FDPs

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Fluid and rock properties

n

Artificial lift selection

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Reservoir driving mechanisms

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n

Nodal analysis

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Completion design

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Perforating

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Sand control

n

Hydraulic fracturing

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Wireline operations

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Scale cleanout with coiled tubing

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Surface facilities engineering considerations

AUDIENCE Anyone seeking to obtain an overview of the practical aspects of field development planning PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of petroleum operations

COURSE CONTENT

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Gas lift

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Mini-frac analysis

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Gas well liquid unloading application—intermittent gas lift, plunger lift, velocity strings, and injection of surfactants (foaming agents)

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Fracture execution

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Fracture evaluation

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Supervising fracturing operations


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AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Anyone involved in gas production treatment, handling, or marketing who wants to understand high GOR wells

Engineers and field personnel responsible for the design and execution of hydraulic fracture treatments

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES

Basic understanding of well completions and operations

Basic understanding of production, intervention operations, and reservoir engineering



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Production Workovers and Completions

Acid Stimulation Techniques

Design, Diagnosis, and Optimization of Gas Lift Systems

Electrical Submersible Pumps Basic


Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Learn the role of engineers and field operators in planning and executing workover operations. This course provides in-depth information on the impact of workovers and completion design in maximizing field production and increasing recoverable reserves. It also emphasizes the importance of a team concept as a determining factor in operations success. Gain a greater understanding of how to apply advanced technologies to designing and executing workover jobs, and how to select the best operations method to perform the task in the safest, most efficient manner.

This course covers the cause and identification of formation damage during drilling, cementing, perforating, producing, and workover operations. Learn about the impact of formation damage on well performance and how to gauge the effectiveness of acid stimulation treatments, technically and economically.

All facets of gas lift design and optimization are presented, including basic principles, equipment selection, gas lift types, and monitoring. Learn how to design and analyze continuous or intermittent gas lift systems for fast, safety-oriented solutions to increase or optimize oil production.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

Structured around the fundamentals of ESP design, sizing, installation, operation, and troubleshooting, this course presents how to size an ESP for a target well, optimize voltage, change frequency correctly, explain data from downhole gauges, and understand VSD types based on output signal, harmonic distortion, and its mitigation. This course also compares use of ESPs with other types of artificial lift. Practical exercises include tandem motor connection, compression pump shimming, full ESP installation, and startup with the variable speed drive (VSD) in speed mode and in automatic pressure feedback mode using the Schlumberger Siberian Training Center flow loop. A visit to the REDA plant, in Tyumen, Siberia, enhances your understanding of the pump construction and use of ESP technology.

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Workover and completion methodology: Risk management, well problems, and well control Completion considerations: Cement bond logs, perforations, and fracture gradient Sand control management, cement squeeze jobs, and acid treatments

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Formation damage mechanisms and their identification

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Gas lift concepts, advantages, and disadvantages

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Skin

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Acids and additives used in matrix stimulation

Gas lift surface and downhole equipment

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Acid reactions in carbonates and sandstones

Valve mechanics: Principles of operation, classification of gas lift valves

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Valve opening and closing forces, shop calibration

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Design of a continuous gas lift installation

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Acid treatment design

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Acid displacement

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Laboratory tests

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Acidizing gravel packs

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Acid fracturing design

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Quality assurance

Rigless workovers, coiled tubing operations, and fishing

AUDIENCE

Completion management, operations in open and cased holes, and artificial lift systems

Technical staff responsible for assessing under-performing wells or designing acid treatments

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Engineers, operations personnel, and managers working with or directing multidisciplinary teams responsible for well workovers or interventions

Basic understanding of petroleum engineering

PREREQUISITES Minimum of 5 years of experience in oil and gas engineering or operations in the upstream industry

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Nodal analysis, curve determination of minimum gradient, gas static pressure gradient Mandrel spacing and selection of operating and discharge valves Overview of intermittent gas lift methods

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Design of an intermittent gas lift installation

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Conventional and unconventional methods: Principle applications and advantages

Note: This course is taught in Russian only. COURSE CONTENT n

Artificial lift overview

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ESP design considerations and limitations

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ESP equipment, components, and construction

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Pump stage design

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Shimming procedures (hand-on simulator exercises)

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ESP motors and cables

n

Tandem motor assemblies (hands-on simulation or training-well exercises)

n

Applications of ESP sensors and monitoring technology

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Operational simulation of sensor outputs (hands-on exercises)

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VSD simulator (hands-on exercises) or ESP assembly in a training well

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Inflow-outflow relationships

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ESP sizing (ESP design exercise)

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Optimization and diagnosis of ESP performance

AUDIENCE Technical staff with basic knowledge of gas lift who are involved in the design, optimization, and monitoring of gas lift installations PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of well modeling and nodal analysis, basic computer skills to complete in-class exercises

AUDIENCE Technical staff involved in production optimization using ESP technology PREREQUISITES Fluency in Russian language and basic understanding of production engineering, production field experience, or experience with ESPs


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Production Electrical Submersible Pumps Applications Engineering

Formation Damage and Mitigation

Hydraulic Fracturing

Production Technology

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 3 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Designed for technical staff who want both theoretical and practical knowledge about the advantages and limitations of ESPs, this course includes design, optimization, and diagnosis of wells producing with ESPs. Gain a solid understanding of ESP technology and its applications, as well as of the pump components and their functions. Specific instruction is given on the affinity laws for centrifugal pumps, downhole gas separators, and gas handlers. Reviews include both standard and nonstandard applications of ESP technology.

In this course, you are introduced to formation damage mechanisms, damage assessment, and mitigation methods. You learn about design and implementation of matrix treatments and hydraulic fracturing, including techniques for damage mitigation in carbonates.

Designed to increase your understanding of hydraulic fracturing, course material covers factors that contribute to successful fracturing operations, including rock properties and treatment design and parameters. Learn how to plan and execute the job, and then evaluate the results.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

In this course, gain insight into the role of the production engineer, well productivity fundamentals, and basic operational issues. Course material introduces production technologies as an aid to the field development process and explains important concepts in reservoir and well productivity optimization.

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Main types of damage mechanisms

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Candidate selection

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Damage identification and location

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Principles of rock mechanics

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Types of well intervention

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Candidate selection for matrix treatments

Fracture mapping; microfracturing testing; minifracturing testing

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Designing hydraulic fractures

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Matrix treatments in sandstones

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Fracturing fluids

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Hydraulic fracturing concepts

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Proppant

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Proppant

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Fluids for hydraulic fracturing

Fracturing high-permeability formations

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Carbonate acidizing

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Acid fracturing

Planning and executing fracturing operations

COURSE CONTENT n

Review of artificial lift systems

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Standard and nonstandard ESP applications

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Reservoir dynamics: Inflow performance relationship and total dynamic head Description of downhole equipment

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Pump selection and dimensioning

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Physical limits

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Nodal analysis

n

Surface equipment

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Alternatives to standard means of deployment

AUDIENCE Technical staff involved in production optimization using ESP technology PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE Engineers or field personnel seeking to understand formation damage and solutions PREREQUISITES Minimum 2-year technical degree or equivalent field operations experience

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Evaluating hydraulic fracturing

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New developments in hydraulic fracturing

AUDIENCE Engineers and field personnel responsible for the design and execution of hydraulic fracture treatments PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of production, intervention operations, and reservoir engineering

COURSE CONTENT n

Introduction to production technology, reservoir production concepts, reservoir drive mechanisms, and composite production systems

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Inflow performance relationship, tubing performance relationship, and flow through chokes

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Wellbore completion concepts, multiple zone completion, and completion equipment

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Wireline services, perforating, and completion practices

n

Well intervention, well problems, and well abandonment

n

Advanced well systems

AUDIENCE Production engineers, petroleum engineers and service company engineers, seeking a better understanding of applied production technology. PREREQUISITES Experience with well operations and well engineering.

Basic understanding of production engineering, production field experience, or experience with ESPs


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Production Sand Control

Well Intervention

Advanced Production Data Analysis and Nodal Analysis

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

To increase your understanding of sand control, this course encompasses sand control concepts and design as well as methodologies for selection of optimal techniques. Learn best practices for sand control in horizontal drains and water injectors, sand management, quality control procedures for job execution, and postjob evaluation.

This course focuses on the equipment needed for well interventions or workovers, with and without a rig, and the resources necessary for equipment selection. Learn the characteristics of a competent workover program and the performance metrics used to quantify workover success.

COURSE CONTENT

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Workover and wellbore equipment

In this course, learn how to predict theoretical well production rates using well measurements and how to identify constraints that impact performance in the reservoir, completion, and wellbore system. Learn how to analyze production data to find permeability, skin factor, and drainage area and to forecast future performance based on historical production trends and known reservoir properties.

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Workover program requirements

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

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Basic rock mechanics

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Sand prediction

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Tubulars, metallurgy, and selection

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Methods for sand control

Inflow performance in oil wells

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Subsurface safety valves

n

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Sand management

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Completion accessories

Transient inflow performance relationship curves

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Gravel pack design

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Tubing-handling equipment

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Pressure drop across the completion

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Screenless methods

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Wellheads and christmas trees

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Systems analysis graph

n

High-rate water-pack

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Surface separation equipment

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Production data analysis

n

Frac pack

n

Transient flow

Sand control job execution and evaluation

Completion types and equipment selection

n

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Material balance for various reservoirs

n

Artificial lift types and selection

n

Procedures for a successful workover

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Transient versus steady-state flow

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Barrier, well handover, and well control standards

n

Estimates of skin factor and permeability from transient flow

PREREQUISITES

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Rig operations and management

n

Engineering degree or equivalent experience with sand control operations

n

Workover operations and problems

Estimates of drainage area from pseudo–steady-state flow

n

Slickline, wireline, coiled tubing, and fishing operations

n

Completion, perforation, and cementing

n

Stimulation and sand control

n

High-pressure testing

PREREQUISITES

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Reporting requirements for performance improvement

n

Sidetracking, directional drilling, and associated problems

Solid understanding of steady-state and pseudo–steady-state forms of Darcy’s law; basic understanding of well test analysis, including ability to identify the early and middle time regions on a log-log plot; Horner graph analysis (for permeability and skin factor)

AUDIENCE Engineers responsible for sand control design and execution

AUDIENCE Drilling engineers, workover engineers, and drilling and workover supervisors needing a better understanding of workovers, the techniques employed, and the assessment of workover success

Assuring Flow from Pore to Process Advanced — 5 days

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From this course on flow assurance, gain an advanced understanding of fluid flow through a series of interconnected systems from the reservoir to surface facilities, and the prevention and mitigation of common flow impediments. Learn best practices from worldwide field examples, as well as how to design fit-for-purpose flow assurance solutions. COURSE CONTENT n


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Fluid flow and heat-transfer characteristics and their importance in design of subsea architecture, model selection, and liquids management

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Processes of fluid flow integration, heat transfer, and solids

AUDIENCE Engineers and technical staff responsible for well surveillance, production optimization, or completion design

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Reservoir and production engineers involved in improving field performance through identification and remediation of underperforming wells

Working knowledge of well production behaviors, basic reservoir engineering principles, and surface facilities; exposure to well completion design, nodal analysis, and stimulation processes

PREREQUISITES Minimum of 1 year rig experience recommended


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Production Applied Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring

Electric Submersible Pumps Advanced

Full Life Cycle Fluid Evaluation – Downhole to Laboratory

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

In-depth instruction focuses on the benefits and limitations of ESPs in challenging production environments. Learn design of ESP systems for special applications, including production of viscous oil, production of oil with high gas content or solids, and production from dual completions. Hands-on exercises include generation of pump curves (head versus flow rate) for several pump speeds.

Advanced-level instruction focuses on technologies for characterization of reservoir fluids in situ and methods for capture of a representative sample. Learn the importance of proper sample handling and the procedures that define fluid properties (vapor-liquid equilibrium phase envelopes, gravimetric fluid properties, and hydrocarbon solids) and rheological transport characteristics. Hands-on demonstrations include developing mathematical models using equations of state (EOS) for fluid PVT analysis, and hydrocarbon solids phase boundaries for applications in reservoir simulations, production modeling, and surface processing.

Encompassing advanced techniques for production logging and reservoir monitoring, this course teaches the design of a data-acquisition program for evaluation of wellbore or reservoir behavior based on field development objectives. Hands-on examples demonstrate in-depth log interpretation techniques for resistivity measurements acquired behind casing, three-phase flow in horizontal wells, and fluid saturations. Learn quicklook techniques for log quality control as well as how to plan and integrate multisource data for a more complete evaluation. COURSE CONTENT n

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Inflow performance and productivity index for oil wells and gas wells Outflow performance: Matching inflow with outflow to optimize well productivity

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Slippage velocities in vertical and deviated wells

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Various techniques of measuring of oil, water, and gas velocities: Spinners, oxygen activation, phase velocity logging, and gas bubble velocity

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Measurement of three-phase holdups using electrical and optical sensors Spinner calibrations in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells to obtain fluid velocities and hence production rates

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Three-phase production logging in horizontal wells

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Physics of pulsed neutron logging: Principle of the minitron for neutron generation

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Pulsed neutron logging in capture mode

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Pulsed neutron logging in carbon/oxygen ratio (C/O) mode: Development of database charts to obtain water saturation and water holdup

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Slimhole induction logging in plastic (nonconductive) casings Acquisition of pressure data and formation fluid samples behind casing

COURSE CONTENT n

Study of reservoir performance

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Generation of centrifugal pump curves

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Standard and nonstandard applications

Workshop on use of capture and C/O modes for evaluating water and gas saturations

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Affinity laws and nodal analysis

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Workshop on interpreting resistivity logging measurements acquired behind casing

ESP design for highly deviated wells and wells with high gas content

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Review of viscous fluids and emulsion applications

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ESP troubleshooting

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Techniques for production through annular space and fluids recirculation

Workshop on production logging in horizontal wells with three-phase flow

AUDIENCE Professionals with geoscience background

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Production professionals involved in production optimization with ESP technology

More than 2 years of experience interpreting reservoir monitoring logs is recommended (attendees are encouraged to bring difficult log examples for in-class discussion and interpretation)

COURSE CONTENT n

Physics of reservoir fluids, including origin of fluid gradients, and reservoir compartmentalization

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Downhole fluid-analysis technology: Monitoring mud-filtrate contamination, live fluid analysis, component analysis, and in situ analysis

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Sample quality control and reservoir characterization workflow examples

n

New developments in EOS for in situ crude oil

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Methods for determining reservoir connectivity

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Openhole sampling technologies, including MDT* Modular Formation Dynamics Tester

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Visit to a technology or operations center for physical demonstration of downhole sampling and analysis tools (location dependent)

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Cased hole sampling during well or production testing and laboratory fluid characterization technologies

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Workflows to develop thermodynamic and transport characteristic models

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Fundamentals of lab characterization of hydrocarbon solids (asphaltene, wax, hydrate)

n

Visit to fluids and flow assurance analysis center for physical demonstration of equipment and measurement methods (location dependent)

PREREQUISITES ESP Applications Engineering course or field ESP experience

AUDIENCE Members of multidisciplinary teams, including petrophysicists and engineers, who need an advanced understanding of fluid properties from sample acquisition to modeling PREREQUISITES Strong understanding of fluid properties principles and modeling Return to Matrix Click Here

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Production Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

:

The course focuses on use Avocet* Integrated Asset Modeler production software to integrate the reservoir with the surface models. Instruction includes software installation. COURSE CONTENT n


n


n


n

Connecting models

n


n

n

Evaluating economics with Merak* Peep models Transferring compositions

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to integrate reservoirs with surface models using Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler PREREQUISITES Work experience in a production, reservoir, or process engineering position or in an asset business development environment with knowledge of either ECLIPSE* or PIPESIM* software

OFM Forecast Analysis Fundamentals

OFM Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

:

Designed for people who are responsible for setting up and maintaining an OFM* project, this course teaches the basic features of OFM well and reservoir analysis software and some of its more advanced features. COURSE CONTENT n

n

Opening and running an existing database Creating a new project from spreadsheets and text-load files


:

In this course, learn to analyze historical production trends and future potential using a variety of techniques with OFM* well and reservoir analysis software. Learn to relate and compare well potential using five different approaches: empirical and analytical decline, comparative analysis, numerical forecasting, and theoretical capacity.

OFM Mapping Applications Fundamentals Foundation — 1 day

:

From this foundation class, gain the necessary skills to effectively use the OFM* mapping functions. COURSE CONTENT n

Creating bubble maps, grid maps, contour maps, and surface maps of time or static data

n

Creating and manipulating MapperXY plots and scatter plots

n

Creating and manipulating grid and bubble map overlay

COURSE CONTENT n

Performing rate-versus-time analysis

Setting up and configuring links and local tables

n

Setting up and changing variables used in decline curve analysis (DCA )

AUDIENCE

n

Customizing project base maps

n

n

Filtering and grouping data

Using DCA to forecast production for individual or groups of wells

Anyone needing to learn OFM software mapping functions

n

n

Generating calculated fields and calculated variables

Generating reports and plots of forecasted results

PREREQUISITES

n

Using Fetkovich type curves to study pseudo–steady-state reservoir behavior

n

Forecasting gas wells production and reserves using P/Z analysis

n

Using analytical transient type curves to study reservoir behavior

n

n

Creating single- and multiple-well plots

n

Creating and formatting well and field summary reports

n

Exporting reports and table data to other applications

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Anyone responsible for setting up and maintaining a project using OFM software

Anyone responsible for forecasting and forecast analysis on historical production using OFM software

PREREQUISITES: None

OFM Fundamentals course

:

PREREQUISITES OFM Fundamentals course


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Production PIPESIM Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

:

PIPESIM* production system analysis software provides steady-state, multiphase flow simulation for oil and gas production systems. In this course, learn to use its individual modules for well modeling, nodal analysis, field planning, artificial lift optimization, and pipeline and process facilities modeling. Gain a general understanding of how to design and optimize a Total Production Systems model from the reservoir to the final processing delivery point. COURSE CONTENT n

Analysis of well performance

n

Design of models for pipeline and process facilities

n

Nodal analysis

n

Development of black-oil and compositional fluid models

n

n

:

Selection of multiphase flow correlations Surface network models

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to learn steady-state, multiphase flow simulation for oil and gas production systems to analyze well performance, model pipelines and facilities, and perform nodal analysis using PIPESIM software PREREQUISITES None

OFM Waterflood Analysis Skill — 1 day

:

In this course, learn to employ the OFM* Streamline module to automatically or graphically define waterflood patterns using production and reservoir data. Learn to combine this information with pressure data and PVT algorithms to determine reservoir volumes and voidage. Gain experience in setting up patterns and performing analyses on a waterflood project. COURSE CONTENT n

Configuration of static and dynamic patterns

PIPESIM Artificial Lift Design and Optimization Skill — 2 days

:

Using PIPESIM* software, learn to evaluate artificial lift options for the conceptual design of a deepwater field development. Learn how to optimize gas lift allocation for a field on the basis of current operating conditions and constraints. COURSE CONTENT n

Conceptual design for deepwater development

OFM Advanced Topics Advanced — 1 day

:

This course focuses on topics outside the range of features common to day-to-day use of OFM* software but that are valuable to the end user. Learn significantly more effective ways to work with an OFM project including examining common workflows using OFM software. COURSE CONTENT n

Study of workspaces

n

Subsea tieback design

n

Links to external applications

n

Inflow performance evaluation

n

Reviews of forecast results

n

Analysis of gas lift design

n

Advanced table types, including foreign key and lookup

n

Use of pressure and PVT data

n

ESP design

n

Loading of reservoir property data

n

Multiphase booster performance

n

Introduction to PVT functionality

n

Field performance forecast

n

Creation of user functions

n

Optimization of gas lift allocation

n

Making the base map a dynamic tool

n

Techniques for creating continuous pressure data streams

n

Creation and analysis of waterflood patterns

n

Generation of waterfloodspecific analyses (e.g., voidage replacement ratio)

n

Injection-well–specific analysis (Hall plot)

n

Review of overall waterflood performance

n

Analysis of waterflood by pattern

n

Calculation of voidage replacement ratios, comparison by pattern

n

Creation of grid maps by well and pattern

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to evaluate artificial lift options, optimize gas lift allocation, and perform ESP design using PIPESIM software

n

Creation of waterflood control diagnostic and Hall plots

PREREQUISITES

n

Estimate pattern configurations and pattern outlines

PIPESIM Fundamentals course or a working knowledge of PIPESIM software

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Anyone wanting experience in setting up patterns and performing analyses on a waterflood project in OFM software

Anyone wanting to learn more advanced and effective ways to work with an OFM project using common workflows

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES

OFM proficiency or OFM Fundamentals course

OFM proficiency or OFM Fundamentals course


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Enhanced Oil Recovery Training Essential Knowledge to Maximize Recovery Applied to the right reservoirs, enhanced oil recovery techniques dramatically increase recovery factors. NExT offers training on essential knowledge, tools, and skills to identify the reservoirs which can most benefit from EOR techniques including: ■■


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Eclipse Thermal Reservoir Simulation

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Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods: Theory and Applications

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Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes: Miscible, Polymer and Thermal


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Surface Facilities NExT’s Surface Facilities curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Surface Facilities course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Surface Facilities curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Maintenance and Reliability

Facilities Process Design

Advanced

Surface Facilities Operations

Surface Facilities Software


Avocet Workflow Manager—Level 2

:

Avocet Workflow Builder : Data Mining and Application Avocet Data Manager : Advanced Reporting and Graphing

Skill

Pipeline Design, Operation, and Maintenance

Avocet Workflow Workshop

:

Oilfield Corrosion Management

Avocet Workflow Manager—Level 1

:

Avocet Data Manager for Specialists

:

Plant Turnaround Management

Integrated Approach to Optimizing the Economy of the Asset Life Cycle

Condition-Based Maintenance for Static and Rotating Equipment

Heavy Oil Gathering and Transport System

Maintenance Management and Control Indicators

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Applied to Production Operations

Automation, Instrumentation, Measurements, and Process Control Subsurface-Surface Production Optimization

Foundation

Maintenance Cost Control

Integrated Production System, Gathering Network, and Flow of Fluids Introduction to Flow Assurance

PIPESIM for Surface Facilities: : Design, Modeling, and Optimization Avocet Workflow Builder

:

Reliability Methodologies Applied to Maintenance

Gas Compression and Transportation

Avocet Surveillance Installation

:

Risk and Reliability Engineering

Gas Processing and Conditioning

Avocet Volumes Manager for Administrators

:

Avocet Volumes Manager for End Users

:

Maintenance Integrated Planning

Subsea Production Systems and Technologies

Metering, Measurements, and Production Tests

Selection, Operation, and Maintenance of Pumps, Compressors, and Prime Movers

Crude Oil Pumps and Gas Compression Systems

Monitoring and Reporting Systems in Production Testing

Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability

Low-Voltage, High-Voltage, Grounding, and Testing Equipment

Gas Conditioning and Handling


Surface Facility Production Operations

Emergency Systems and Electrical Components and Equipment

Multiphase Flow

Utilities: Design and Operation

Hydrocarbon Properties and Behaviors

HAZOP and SIL Application

Integration of Safety into Systems and Processes

Avocet Integrated : Asset Modeler Fundamentals Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals

:

Crude Oil and Water Treatment HSE in Exploration and Production

Awareness

Introduction to HAZOP and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Introduction to Surface Facilities Offshore Facilities

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Surface Facilities Introduction to HAZOP and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)

Introduction to Surface Facilities

Offshore Facilities

Gas Compression and Transportation





The role of hazards analysis is an important one in the process industry. In this course, increase your understanding of process hazards analysis (PHA) terminology and learn to differentiate occupational safety from process safety. Instruction includes PHA methodology, the role of human error, and the differences between occupational ergonomics and human factors.

Structured to provide the fundamentals on surface facilities, this course covers the production process from the wellhead to custody transfer. Topics include production surface facilities systems, including gathering, separation, production treatment, metering systems, and process equipment. Learn about applied flow assurance and how produced fluids are converted to saleable products.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

This course provides an overview of the topside and subsea facilities used in offshore oil and gas fields. Learn how offshore production facilities are designed and operated and how recent technologies are applied. Understand how the production facilities change with water depth and the producing constraints that drive those changes. Discussion includes the evolution of subsea facilities with the increasing number of deepwater developments.

This course presents an intensive review of natural gas compression and transport systems. Learn how to use process simulation to evaluate the health of these systems and the data types needed for simulation. Complete exercises based on actual operational problems using simulation software and increase your understanding of the system design, selection, and maintenance. Learn how to identify the procedural limitations of calculations used for design and operations specifications and how to work more efficiently using simulation software.

W NE

n

Fundamentals of PHA

n

Field development overview

n

”What if” and checklist techniques

n

Well flow control and safety system

n

HAZOP techniques

n

Gathering system

n

Human error

n

Fluid separation system

n

Approaches to mitigate error-likely situations

n

Oil treatment

n

Water treatment

n

Gas treatment

n

Flow assurance overview

n

Examples of error-likely situations

n

Workshop: HAZOP simulation

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of HAZOP and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) PREREQUISITES None

n

Custody transfer and measurements

n

Process equipment

AUDIENCE Engineers and geoscientists involved in field development or production of oil and gas PREREQUISITES

COURSE CONTENT n

Classification of offshore facilities according to depth

n

Shallow-water production facilities

n

Deepwater facilities

n

Characteristics of gases

n

Fixed platforms

n

Laws affecting gas behavior

n

Floating production systems

n

Gas handling in compression plants

n

Subsea systems: Technological development and trends

n

Factors affecting the compression system: Gas conditioning

n

Structural considerations in offshore facilities

n

Gas compression systems: Principles, compressor types, and operating curves

n

Environmental, geographical, and soil considerations

n

Compressor selection, control, and operations

n

Layouts of offshore facilities

n

n

Evolution of the Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing and Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms (API RP 2A)

Other equipment: Drivers, gas turbines, combustion chambers and other drivers

n

Compression system simulation: Objectives for design, selection, and operation; equations of state and their applications

n

Estimation of thermodynamic properties

n

Flow diagram for preparation of compression stages

AUDIENCE

n

Simulation of pipelines and compressors

Engineers responsible for or involved with offshore production operations or surveillance looking for an introduction to offshore facilities

n

Behavior of hydrocarbon, water, and dehydrated gas

n

Natural gas transport

n

Criteria for handling of natural gas

n

Minimum of 2-year technical degree or equivalent experience n

Offshore facilities construction engineering

n

Subsea production system

n

Digital oilfield production monitoring, control, and optimization technologies

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of production systems

COURSE CONTENT Natural gas systems

AUDIENCE Personnel involved in gas field development, facilities design, operation, and maintenance PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of gas processing and conditioning


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Surface Facilities Gas Processing and Conditioning

Crude Oil and Water Treatment

Crude Oil Pumps and Gas Compression Systems

Emergency Systems and Electrical Components and Equipment





This course covers the major technical aspects of gas processing and conditioning. Obtain an overview of the fundamentals and tools used to determine the main properties of natural gas as they relate to gas separation, dehydration, sweetening, measurement, and transportation. The focus is on plant and equipment design and operations and includes in-class exercises for the identification of key variables for optimal designs and operations.

This course covers oil and water-treating equipment, design, and operations encompassing the theories, technologies, and examples. Learn the primary challenges faced in crude oil handling, including emulsion formation (both theoretical and actual examples), stabilization, and the mechanism and technology used to destabilize and separate water from oil. Understand the use of desalting technologies and processes to bring produced fluids to required oil specifications. Gain exposure to the technologies, processes, and operational conditions employed to treat produced water to required specifications.

Learn the fundamentals of oil and gas properties and their applications for the engineering and operations of pumps, pump stations, compressors, and compression stations.

COURSE CONTENT n

Natural gas properties and behavior

n

Water-hydrocarbon behavior and the effect of contaminants (H2S, CO2)

n

n

n

n

Hydrates: The problem, deposition site, impact, composition and structure, conditions of formation; hydrate detection, control, and remediation Gas separation: Principle, types, multistage process, condensate stabilization, and two- and threephase separators

n

Gas measurements

n

Gas transportation system

n

New developments and emerging technologies

n

Commercial issues

n

Technological challenges for natural gas production

AUDIENCE Engineers, gas plant managers, and supervisors responsible for gas processing operations or design PREREQUISITES General knowledge of oil and gas production systems

Fundamentals of oil and gas behaviors

n

Chemistry of oil and gas

COURSE CONTENT

n

Pumping systems at production facilities

COURSE CONTENT n

n

Types and applications of pumping systems

n

Pumping stations and booster stations

n

Pump selection, application, and performance evaluation

n

n

n

Pump installation, operation, and maintenance design considerations Gas compression systems at production facilities Gas compression systems and equipment

n

Emergency power systems

n

Emergency power requirements

n

Design of emergency power systems

n

Principles and designs of main and emergency systems

n

Emergency power system components

n

Power generation and distribution

n

Emergency generators: Rotating equipment

n

Diesel engines

n

Turbines

n

Alternators

n

Emulsion theory

n

Thermodynamics of compression

n

Cogeneration principles

n

Crude oil dehydration equipment: Type, design, and operation criteria; dehydration performance, and technology selection

n

Types and applications of compressors

n

Steam turbines

n

Selection criteria for dynamic and positive displacement compressors

n

Uninterrupted power supplies (UPS)

Compressor thermodynamics and operating characteristics

n

n

Principles of UPS maintenance

Gas sweetening: Processes, designs, and operating aspects Gas dehydration: Processes, dehydration, theoretical discussion and principles, application to actual cases, key operating parameters, most common operational problems and possible solutions

Oil treatment fundamentals: Crude oil specifications, dehydration, desalting, water solubility, viscosity, theoretical and actual case applications, Stoke’s law, variables affecting crude oil dehydration, and demulsifier requirements and selection

W NE

Encompassing lectures and practical exercises, this course covers emergency power systems and associated components and equipment. Learn to design and diagram a main or emergency power system. Understand emergency sources of power, power supplies, and detailed emergency and capacity requirements.

COURSE CONTENT n

W NE

n

n

Crude oil desalting: Principles, equipment, technology, design considerations, and selecting systems based on cost and longevity Water treatment: Specifications, properties of produced water, environmental regulations, design of treatment process and equipment, enhanced gravity, chemical treatment, technology analysis and selection

AUDIENCE Surface facilities operation and design engineers, production chemists, flow assurance engineers, and production engineers wanting a better understanding of the treatment fundamentals for oil and water

n

Compressor installation, operation, and maintenance design considerations

n

Gas transportation systems (codes and considerations)

n

Safety, environmental, and regulatory considerations; standards related to gas handling and transportation

AUDIENCE Electrical engineers PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic electrical engineering

AUDIENCE Process engineers, mechanical engineers, instrumentation and control engineers, and surface facilities project engineers PREREQUISITES None

PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of oil and gas production systems and crude oil properties


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Surface Facilities Gas Conditioning and Handling

HAZOP and SIL Application

Hydrocarbon Properties and Behaviors




This introduction to the principles and tools used to assess production fluid separation and equipment design also addresses the optimal conditions for efficient operations. Topics include gas sweetening, dehydration, compression, and transportation. Through class exercises, identify key parameters for an optimal operation and improvements that increase the effectiveness of personnel, reduce operational costs, and optimize the gas conditioning and handling.

This course provides a working approach to Hazard Operability (HAZOP) practices and procedures for those responsible for ensuring the safety of process operations from design through daily operations. In this course, learn how to apply the techniques of HAZOP analysis including the tips, tricks, and secrets that analysts use to implement and maintain efficient operation procedures. Material also covers the tools needed for hazard identification including root cause identification and the application of redundant system layers for protection, prevention, and mitigation. Learn how to conduct hazard analysis to qualify and quantify risk and the probability of associated failures.

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

n

Natural gas: Value chain, characteristics, quality, and specifications Production fluids separation: Two and three phases, horizontal and vertical, design criteria, operational condition and criteria

W NE

W NE

In this course, improve your understanding of the application of phase behavior principles and phase diagrams to a production system. Learn technology fundamentals and property correlations and how to apply phase behavior and applied thermodynamics to production problems.

Oil-water emulsions: Viscosity calculations

Chemistry of petroleum fluids

n

Vapor-liquid equilibrium

n

Phase behavior of pure-component and multicomponent systems

n

Ideal solution principle

n

Classification and identification of fluid types

Material balances in gas-liquid separation

n

n

Behavior of petroleum reservoir fluids in the two-phase region

Determination of dew point and bubble point

n

K values for vapor-liquid equilibrium calculations

n

n

n

Hazard analysis and probability determination

Properties of crude oil and formation water

n

Properties of natural gases

Gas dehydration: Processes, advantages and disadvantages, selection criteria, design and operation criteria, typical operating problems, and troubleshooting

n

Risk analysis and failure considerations

n

n

Safety integrity level (SIL) assessment

Natural gas classification: Sweet gas, sour gas, and acid gas

n

Behavior of ideal gases, equations of state, and ideal gas mixtures

n

Water content in natural gas

n

C3+ content in natural gas and GPM calculations

Process equipment: Compressor design and operation criteria; and heat exchanger types, design and operation criteria, and selection

Gas viscosity calculations

n

n

Hazard identification and mitigation strategies

n

n

Simulation of transport properties of petroleum fluids

Gas sweetening: Processes, advantages and disadvantages, design and operation criteria, typical operating problems, and troubleshooting

Gas transportation

Oil viscosities: Definitions and correlations

n

HAZOP methods and applications

n

n

Petroleum reservoir fluids and fundamentals of phase behavior

n

Liquid removal

Transport properties for petroleum, gas, and water

n

n

n

Natural gas heating values

n

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

AUDIENCE Engineers, safety and environmental personnel, plant operators, area managers, and maintenance personnel

n

AUDIENCE Process engineers, mechanical engineers, instrumentation and control engineers, and surface facilities project engineers PREREQUISITES None

PREREQUISITES Surface Facility Production Operations course

AUDIENCE Surface facilities design and operations engineers, and gas processing engineers responsible for gas handling operations, design, or optimization PREREQUISITES General knowledge of gas production and gas conditioning


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Surface Facilities HSE in Exploration and Production

Integrated Production System, Gathering Network, and Flow of Fluids


Introduction to Flow Assurance



Foundation — 10 Days


This course presents comprehensive methods and tools used for development of risk management processes. Learn how to improve the safety of operating conditions at production facilities, minimize the risk in emergency situations, and establish proactive mitigation strategies.

This course focuses on optimal design methods by considering the complete hydrocarbon production process from initial asset production to abandonment. Learn to evaluate fluid properties and phase behaviors from in situ reservoir conditions to that in the gathering network. Increase your understanding of the essential data used by the surface facility engineer to design or operate equipment and facilities. Learn how to integrate the tools, the properties, and fluid flows with simulation software to model an integrated subsurface-surface gathering network.

This course introduces the fundamental approaches for constructing a field development plan (FDP). Learn the concepts of project management and the processes followed throughout the different life cycle stages of a reservoir or field. This course details the workflow for developing a FDP and then updating it to adjust for changing reservoir conditions. Gain an understanding of the importance of reservoir monitoring and how it can be used to anticipate reservoir dynamics. Develop and apply a FDP roadmap, a risk register that identifies and mitigates evolving FDP risks, and a stakeholder map that identifies the personnel essential for successful implementation of a FDP.

This course introduces you to the main types and causes of flow impediments along with the methods and technologies commonly applied for their prevention, control, and remediation. Increase your understanding of the main problems associated with flow assurance, including asphaltenes, paraffins, emulsion, scales, sand, slugging, corrosion, and hydrates. Learn which technologies and techniques to use for specific problem environments and the advantages and disadvantages of each. You identify the types and causes of flow impediment and the methods or technologies that should be applied for the prevention, control, and remediation of these flow impediments.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT n

Risk management: Basic definitions, occupational health plan, risk recognition, unsafe act, and risk-generating source

n

Risk evaluation objectives

n

Determination of risk magnitude

n

Relate exposure results with clinical investigation

n

n n

n

Risk-control methods and their effectiveness Sampling strategy, plan, and methods Sample analysis: Direct-measurement tools and continuous sample analysis Risk control

n

Administration of risks at work

n

Accidents: Causes, results, and occupational and disease management

n

n

Hazard identification: HAZOP analysis, qualitative methods for risk analysis, human error analysis, accident scenarios, natural threats, and preparation for emergencies Case identification, and evaluation and control of an emergency

COURSE CONTENT n

Subsurface-surface integrated system

n

Hydrocarbon production process

n

Hydrocarbon properties

n

Basics of fluid properties

Dynamic FDPs

n


n


Thermodynamics

n

Wellhead and wellhead equipment

n

Flowlines and gathering network

n


n

Fluid flow principles

n

n

Single-phase flow


n

Pressure drop for gas or liquid

n


n

Multiphase flow principles and definitions

n


n

Flow pattern correlations for horizontal pipe

n


n

Use of PIPESIM* or similar software to simulate gathering network

n


n


AUDIENCE

Engineers and HSE specialists interested in establishing systematic HSE procedures

Surface facility design and operation engineers, production managers, and field production operations

Basic knowledge of exploration, development, and production operations


n

n

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

n

PREREQUISITES None

n

Flow assurance principles and fundamentals

n

Inorganic scale: Deposition principles, prediction, modeling, management program design, and scale prevention

n

Hydrates: Deposition principle, impact, hydrate detection, control, and remediation

n

Paraffins (wax): Deposition principle, properties, factors affecting deposition, operational problems, control, and remediation

n

Asphaltenes: Key properties, deposition mechanism, modeling, effect of variables, operational problems, prevention, and remediation

n

Emulsions: Crude oil natural surfactants, characteristics, and treatments

n

Corrosion: Factors influencing oilfield corrosion and their control


W NE

AUDIENCE Engineers responsible for assessing, diagnosing, or troubleshooting flow assurance problems in an operational or design capacity PREREQUISITES General knowledge of production systems and surface operations


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Surface Facilities Low-Voltage, High-Voltage, Grounding, and Testing Equipment

Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability

Maintenance Cost Control




The fundamentals of low- and highvoltage power systems and associated equipment and components are the focus of this course. Increase your knowledge of electrical safety, equipment operational and safety features, workplace regulations and licenses, and optimal arrangement of substations and switchrooms. Understand how electrical equipment for surface facilities is inspected and tested.

This course introduces classic and current techniques for maintenance and reliability decision making. Learn to apply a reliability probabilistic approach, conduct cost-benefit analysis, and implement predictive maintenance activities. Course focus is on the information typically available in most operations and how it can be used to conduct failure analysis. Understand how to apply maintenance and reliability concepts to generate a well-planned predictive maintenance program. Increase your knowledge of information and reliability methods that can be used to create a prognosis of equipment components, equipment, plants, and assets for any subsurfacesurface production system or subsystem.

COURSE CONTENT n n

n n

n

n

Low- and high-voltage switchgear Electrical safety: Grounding, earthing, bonding, faults Earthing system Regulations on electricity: Concept of duty holder Electrical systems, work activities, and protective equipment Strengths and capabilities of electrical equipment

COURSE CONTENT n

Maintenance: Philosophy and type

n

Task categories

n

Failure finding

n

Reliability, availability, durability, and maintainability

n

Reliability engineering

n

Types of failure

n

Reliability: Block analysis; series, parallel, and combination systems

n

Example operational reliability model

n

Criticality and root-cause analysis

n

Principles of failure mode and effects analysis

In this course, learn to establish strategic plans for maintenance cost control and create cost classification structures based on your asset or company strategy. Understand how to identify cost control weak spots in your asset or operation and generate the information you need to support cost-based decisions. COURSE CONTENT n

Maintenance cost causes

n

Maintenance cost classification

n

Risk-based inspection principles

n

n

Reliability-centered maintenance principles

Reliability tools for maintenance cost control

n

Maintenance value chain

n

Reliability methodology selection

n

n

Risk-cost benefit model definitions

Maintenance cost control: Budget and estimations

n

Reliability strategy

n

Feasibility studies

n

Planning tasks and their costs

n

Activity-based costs

n

Real-world case studies

AUDIENCE Maintenance managers, operations personnel, and engineers interested in assessing maintenance reliability or establishing procedures for reliability assurance

n

Electrical equipment in adverse or hazardous environments

n

Creation of a preventive maintenance plan

n

Insulation and barriers

n

Work request and work order

n

Protection from overload and short

n

Maintenance forms and reports

PREREQUISITES

n

Circuit currents

n

Maintenance system design

n

Disconnection and isolation of circuits

n

Value-improving practice

Basic knowledge of production surface facilities

n

Precautions for safe isolation — working live

n

High-voltage switchgear, operations, features

n

Power transformer operation

n

Power cable and earthing system

n

High-voltage operations and safety and licensing requirements

n

Arrangements of systems, substations, switchrooms

n

Testing and metering equipment

AUDIENCE Maintenance personnel responsible for cost control procedures, monitoring, or decisions PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering

AUDIENCE Electrical and design engineers and facilities design and construction managers PREREQUISITES None


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Surface Facilities Maintenance Integrated Planning

Metering, Measurements, and Production Tests



This course teaches an integrated approach to the maintenance planning process. You learn how to apply techniques and tools to develop a strategy for your maintenance organization and use cost-risk-benefit analyses to maximize value creation and quantify uncertainty.

Procedures for production volumetric well testing and hydrocarbon sampling and metering are the focus of this course. You study the measurement and calculation principles behind each well test variable, including the equipment used, its function, associated instruments, calculations, and measurement criteria.

COURSE CONTENT n

World-class maintenance

n

Maintenance value chain and responsibilities

n

Maintenance engineering

n

Maintenance planning and programming execution

n

Risk in maintenance planning

n

Planning the control in maintenance

n

Strategic direction of maintenance tasks

n

Risk definition

n

Uncertainty quantification and propagation

n

Generic strategy

n

Definition of maintenance planning (portfolio matrices)

COURSE CONTENT n

Flow metering principles

n

Flow metering equipment: Orifice plates, turbine meters, ultrasonic meters, and Coriolis meters

n

Fluid Levels: Principles, instruments, and sensors

n

n

n

AUDIENCE Engineers, planners, and managers responsible for maintenance program planning or implementation PREREQUISITES Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability course or equivalent experience

W NE

n

Water content measurements: Electrical parameter-based, density-based, and factors affecting measurements Multiphase measurements: Separation meters (gas and liquid), gamma absorption, vibration tube, and neutron interrogation Well production tests: General description of well test process; pressure data; physical condition of wellhead, well instrumentation, and controls; failure reports, and equipment adjustments Measurements at flow station: Physical condition of flow station, process to pass the well for test, process to restore the well for production after test, and fluid measurements at the flow station

AUDIENCE Engineers and production managers seeking a better understanding of the role of well tests and metering in production calculations, allocations, and reporting PREREQUISITES General knowledge of production facilities and operations

Monitoring and Reporting Systems in Production Testing

Multiphase Flow



In this course, you learn procedures for production testing of wells, including sampling of hydrocarbon fluids. You identify the main variables used to measure and monitor volumes in the production system. You gain an understanding of the assumptions and calculations used to derive volumes, pressures, and temperature that most people take for granted when using production values. You apply the procedures to test and sample a well and interpret the results of the collected data.

In this course, you learn the theory of multiphase flow and how to calculate the pressure drops in single-phase, twophase (gas and liquid), and multiphase flow systems. Learn to conduct flow pattern prediction, evaluate the effects of slugging and transient flow, and gain exposure to fluid flow modeling software.

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Well production tests: Reasons to test, technical and operational processes

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Well testing process

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Data obtained and calculations made

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Determination of unsafe conditions

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Flow metering applications: Singlephase metering and measurement standards (API, AGA, and GPA)

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Water content measurements

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Multiphase measurements: Conventional separation, gamma absorption, vibrating tube, neutron interrogation, weighing, and multiphase flow rate calculations

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Activities in flow station: Station type, physical condition of station and of equipment

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Measurement activities to acquire samples: Procedure prior to, during, and after sampling

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Single-phase fluid

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Pressure drop equations and correlations for single phase flow

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Multiphase flow

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Software for modeling fluid flow

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Operational considerations of multiphase flow

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Multiphase flow metering

AUDIENCE Production engineers and facilities engineers PREREQUISITES A basic understanding of surface facilities production systems and fluid hydrodynamics

AUDIENCE Production and surface facility engineers wanting a better understanding of how to acquire and handle well test information that is crucial to production calculations, allocations, or reporting PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of production operations


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Surface Facilities Subsea Production Systems and Technologies

Reliability Methodologies Applied to Maintenance

Risk and Reliability Engineering

Integration of Safety into Systems and Processes





An introduction to subsea production facilities, this course takes you from conceptual design to operation. Learn about the latest facility designs and implementations, their advantages and disadvantages, and the rapidly changing trends of future technologies.

An introduction to reliability methods and techniques to improve production operations and maintenance. This course emphasizes analysis of the production operation as a complete system. Learn to apply systematic analysis techniques to assess modes and root cause of failures; determine the cost versus benefits of, possible solutions, and solution specific risks. Understand how to integrate reliability assessment results into operational maintenance monitoring.

Reliability and risk analyses can be applied to surface facilities production systems to qualify and quantify risks at all levels: one piece of equipment, one process, or a complete system. Learn to apply these analyses to forecast failures and calculate the associated economic impact. The course focuses on practical application of theoretical techniques through real-world in-class exercises.

This introductory course on integration of safety considerations into work processes and procedures targets the reduction of events or incidents that can adversely impact personnel, facilities, or the environment. Learn to identify the precursors to accidents through systematic assessments, established procedures, and integration of lessons learned. Gain exposure to best practices and regulatory requirements for safety, the environment, and work processes.

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Subsea Production Systems (SPS) concepts, definitions, and commonly used architectures General design requirements and drivers SPS equipment, selection, and operation

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Reliability methodologies

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Risk analysis

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Uncertainty determination and management

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Criticality analysis

Flow lines

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Failure mode and effects analysis

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Deterministic and probabilistic models

Flow assurance

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Risk-based inspections

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Integrated reliability analysis

Maintenance and repair

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Reliability-centered maintenance

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Root-cause analysis

Statistics for risk and reliability analyses

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Use of tools (RARE™ and Crystal Ball™) for goodness-of-fit tests and Monte Carlo simulation

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Reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis for repairable equipment

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Methods for availability and calculation of expected number of failure events for repairable equipment

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Forecasting failures and availability of an ESP installation

Subsea well intervention

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Digital oil field

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Risk-cost-benefit analysis

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Production monitoring, control and optimization technology

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Risk analysis: Deterministic to probabilistic

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Data acquisition and data management

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Risk matrices

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Integrated systems

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Integrated reliability system

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Discussion and integrated system examples

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Reliability based on conditions

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Reliability-based history data

AUDIENCE

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Risk propagation

Engineers involved with subsea facilities design or operations who want to learn about evolving subsea facility technologies

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Strategy for an integrated reliability system

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COURSE CONTENT

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Exercises on actual cases

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AUDIENCE

General knowledge of oil and gas production systems and offshore production systems

Engineers and planners responsible for the design or monitoring of maintenance systems

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PREREQUISITES General knowledge of risk, maintenance, and reliability engineering

Principles of economic analysis: Projected cash flow, discount rate, net present value (deterministic model and probabilistic model) Risk analysis: Dimensioning risk for undesirable events, qualitative and semi-quantitative methods for risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis (QRA) and ESP installation example

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Safety fundamentals: Accidents, incidents, acts, unsafe conditions, risk, hazards, fire and flammability limits, explosions, and emergency plans

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Organic Law of Prevention, Work Conditions and Environment (LOPCYMAT)

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Industrial health: Fundamentals, ergonomics, personal protective equipment, and health based on human behavior

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Environmental: Fundamentals, laws and regulations, applications, handling and disposal of solids and liquids

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Safety in work practices: Fundamentals, standards, requirements, and applications

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Risk analysis in the workplace

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Permits for hot and cold work

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Blocking and de-energizing of equipment (lines and containers)

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Confined spaces

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Excavations

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Equipment setup

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Work at elevated areas

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Safety procedures for the plant pre-startup and startup

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Determining risk mitigation actions

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Investigation of accidents

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Risk and profitability matrix

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Risks related to H2S and other toxic gases

AUDIENCE Engineers responsible for assessing, quantifying, or predicting failures in production operations equipment or facilities

AUDIENCE

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PREREQUISITES

General knowledge of maintenance and reliability concepts

Basic knowledge of production operations and HSE principles

Personnel involved in operation or maintenance of production and plant systems


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Surface Facilities Selection, Operation, and Maintenance of Pumps, Compressors, and Prime Movers

Surface Facility Production Operations

Utilities: Design and Operation

Automation, Instrumentation, Measurements, and Process Control




Skill — 5 days

This comprehensive course encompasses a large number of different types of utility systems: water, steam, air, nitrogen, fuel, electric power, flare and vent, drain, water treatment, storage, and loading. For each type of utility, instruction covers the relevant support systems, layout, design, reliability, key specifications, and applications.

Gain the theoretical and practical knowledge to use automation, instrumentation, control, and metering technologies to increase efficiency and safety of operations and productivity of the production process.

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Structured to provide the basics of equipment selection, operation, and maintenance, this course also covers the basic theory of fluid mechanics including cavitation, surge, networking of pumps and compressors, and maintenance strategy.

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Pump classifications

Field development processes are closely associated with surface facilities engineering processes; gathering systems; and fluid treatment, transportation, measurement, and storage. This course focuses on the physical characteristics of natural gas and oil and their effects on separation, treatment, and measurement. Exercises include the design and operation of surface production equipment and processes.

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Dynamic pump calculations

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Cavitation and performance curves

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Asset development and life cycle

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Dynamic pump construction

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Properties of production fluids

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Pump operations and troubleshooting

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Effects of fluid properties on production system

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Classification, operation, and troubleshooting of positive displacement pumps Fundamentals and classification of compressors

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Principles of operation

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Manifold and gathering systems and flowlines

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Operation and troubleshooting of centrifugal compressors Operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of reciprocal compressors

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Seal systems

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Prime mover equipment

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Gas turbines

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Electrical motors and diesel engines

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Types of maintenance and maintenance tools

AUDIENCE

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Oil, gas, and petrochemical maintenance staff PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of surface facilities equipment and operations

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Service water and cooling water

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Fresh water, potable water, and demineralized water

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Air systems and nitrogen systems

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Automation pyramid

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Process control: Centralized control, optimization, integration

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Telecommunication Quantification of value creation

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Improvement on deferred production

Fuel systems

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Inline production optimization

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Typical solutions of subsurface-surface automation system and potential benefits

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Fluids measurements and custody transfers Automated well tests

Specifications: Mechanical drawings and datasheets

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Electric power systems

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Emergency power systems

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Flare and vent systems

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Drain systems

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Water treatment systems

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Support systems and components

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Artificial lift automated control

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Designs, equipment, and technologies

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Operation, maintenance, and safety

Bottomhole sensors and intelligent wells

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Monitoring and diagnosis applications

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Inline optimizers

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Diagnosis and optimization of integrated system

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Technological solutions and automation platforms

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Standards and recommended practices

Oil treatment: Fundamentals, dehydration, desalting, emulsion, equipment, and operations

AUDIENCE

Water treatment: Properties of produced water, equipment, technologies, treatment processes and chemicals

Process engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, instrumentation and control engineers, and surface facilities project engineers

AUDIENCE

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Identification of opportunities to add value using subsurface-surface automation technologies

Pigging: Design, operations, and purposes

Corrosion considerations: Internal (CO2, H2S, oxygen, material selection, mitigation) and external (material selection and mitigation)

Subsurface-surface automation concept

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Design drawings: Sample process and instrumentation, utility flow, and process layout

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Gas conditioning: Dehydration and sweetening

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Fluid flow: Single phase and multiphase (correlations, flow pattern, and pressure drops)

Separators: Two and three phases, horizontal or vertical, and separation stages

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PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of production facilities and operations

AUDIENCE

Engineers and managers wanting to understand production operations facilities from an engineering perspective

Production engineers, facilities engineers, or operations engineers looking for practical exposure to automation and control concepts and techniques

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of production systems and hydrocarbon properties

Basic knowledge of the production system, process instrumentation, and control metering principles


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Surface Facilities Condition-Based Maintenance for Static and Rotating Equipment

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Applied to Production Operations


Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is used to assess the potential for occurrence of equipment failures and problematic events in a process and to qualify their effects. Emphasis is on the practical aspects of the techniques for optimization of production operations. Learn the theoretical and practical aspects of FMEA, criticality analysis, root-cause analysis, risk-based inspection, and decision-making analysis for production operation activities.

This introductory course on heavy and extra-heavy oil focuses on the considerations for storage, transport, and treatment and encompasses the technology analysis for transportation. Learn how to assess the flow of heavy oil in a gathering system and techniques for mitigating flow problems inherent to heavy oil operations. Using modeling software, develop gathering scenarios and model transportation issues.

The course gives you a methodology to establish, revise, and optimize the systems controlling static and rotating equipment using condition-based maintenance (predictive maintenance), algorithms, and processes. Emphasis is on the use of proactive monitoring combined with technical and financial constraints to ensure the operational reliability required by the production system. Through exercises derived from real-world projects, you practice these techniques.

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Techniques for condition-monitoring maintenance in rotation equipment

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Monitoring techniques

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Application of condition monitoring in actual case

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Dynamic monitoring on rotating equipment

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Integration of inspection techniques

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Condition monitoring in static equipment

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Cost-risk-benefit procedure for condition-based maintenance plan

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Maintenance as a process

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Maintenance practices, paradigms, and value chain

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Maintenance spend: How much and when Benefits of condition-based maintenance Handling of information to modify maintenance plan and improve decisions Flow diagram for optimal maintenance frequency

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Economic justification of conditionbased maintenance plan

AUDIENCE Maintenance and reliability engineers, and surface production engineers responsible for maintaining rotating or static equipment PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering

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FMEA: Types of analysis, functional approach, applications

Heavy oil production system, nodal analysis, flow of fluids, and surface processing

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Application of FMEA to subsurfacesurface system

Isothermal flow in pipeline, incompressible single-phase flow

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Temperature profiles in pipelines

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Root-cause analysis

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Risk-based inspection

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Reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis

Crude oil diluents and hydraulic analysis to determine optimal volumes

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Impacts of diluents on density, viscosity, pressure requirement

AUDIENCE

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Surface facilities engineers, production engineers and managers, and maintenance and reliability engineers

Effect of terrain topography on heavy oil transport, including water as conveyance medium

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Gas-liquid flow in a gathering system, correlations

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Structure of gathering network and basic equations

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Criticality analysis

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PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of reliability engineering and oil and gas production systems

AUDIENCE Engineers and production managers interested in heavy oil gathering and transportation PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of hydrocarbon properties, fluid flow, and production surface facilities design and operations


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Surface Facilities Integrated Approach to Optimizing the Economy of the Asset Life Cycle

Maintenance Management and Control Indicators

Oilfield Corrosion Management

Pipeline Design, Operation, and Maintenance

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Techniques that can optimize the economic value of an asset throughout its life cycle are the focus of this course. Theoretical and practical topics are included, as well as risk analysis, reliability engineering, life cycle economic analysis (probabilistic and deterministic), and decision-making analysis for production operation activities.

Learn to identify, select, and apply maintenance indicators, or key performance indicators (KPIs), that ensure effective maintenance management, maximize equipment performance, and clearly communicate the current status to all decision makers. Understand the common indicators, what they can tell you, and the value they bring. Discussion includes the importance of composite KPIs and how to select the right mix of indicators.

In this course, receive an introduction to the mechanisms and causes of corrosion in oil and gas production systems and the appropriate methods for monitoring and control. Learn to identify the corrosion mechanism and estimate and predict the corrosion rates. Understand how to select materials based on the corrosion environment, evaluate and select corrosion inhibitors, and elaborate on a corrosion management plan for pipelines.

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This course is structured for a comprehensive understanding of the essentials of pipeline design, operations, maintenance, and management. Learn to design a gathering network, calculate pressure drop, determine fluid pattern, and optimize the network arrangement. Use a gathering network simulator (PIPESIM software or equivalent) to demonstrate the best operating and design conditions for a system. Add to your knowledge of the practical considerations for pipeline networks, including design, regulatory requirements and classifications, material selection, and corrosion considerations. Increase your awareness of pipeline monitoring, fit-for-purpose evaluations, risk analysis, and predictive and preventative maintenance.

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Risk analysis

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Stepwise approach to implement integrated risk reliability practices

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Integrated approach to asset optimization throughout the life cycle: Concept, applications and benefits, implementation, and toolkit

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Statistics for risk and reliability analyses: Monte Carlo simulation

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Maintenance: Definition, evolution, and classification of standardized indicators (types and application)

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Data selection and analysis for KPIs

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Efficiency indicators: Mean time between failure, mean time to repair, availability, and reliability

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Performance indicators: Absenteeism, overtime, contracted manpower, training, and training plan

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Impact of corrosion in production systems

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Corrosion principles and classification

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CO2 and H2S corrosion

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Corrosion-inhibition mechanisms

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Corrosion prediction: Application to actual cases

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Corrosion-inhibitor guidelines and selection Corrosion monitoring

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Uncertainty management

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Sources of data for reliability analysis

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Costs indicators

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Principles of subsurface risk analysis

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Safety indicators

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Guidelines for material selection

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Principles of production process reliability analysis, and analysis of actual case

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Economic indicators: NPV and ROI

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Maintenance indicators: How to make it run

Pipeline external corrosion: External protection and NACE recommended practices

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Risk-based inspections

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Actual study cases

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Economic analysis Risk-based analysis of an asset’s economic life cycle

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Analysis of actual cases

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Deviation analysis

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Engineers or operations managers interested in applying the principles of economic analysis to asset or operations optimization

Engineers, managers, or planners responsible for maintenance or production processes

PREREQUISITES

Knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering

Basic knowledge of reliability engineering, risk assessment, and economic analysis

PREREQUISITES

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Fluid flow: Single phase and multiphase

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Use of software for simulation of gathering network

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Pipeline surveys

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Pipeline codes, legislation, and classifications

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Pipeline designs

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Material characteristics and selection

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Pipeline construction and commissioning

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Pipeline external protection

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Pigging

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Pipeline integrity management and maintenance

AUDIENCE Engineers wanting a better understanding of corrosion and its management in oil and gas production systems PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of corrosion and production systems

AUDIENCE Engineers and managers who design, operate, or monitor pipelines PREREQUISITES Knowledge of fluid flow, metal degradation, and physical properties of steel


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Surface Facilities Plant Turnaround Management

Subsurface-Surface Production Optimization


Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days


Course material is designed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to optimize programmed plant shutdowns or turnarounds. Learn to apply principles and methods based on effective, efficient, and safe shutdown of actual plants. Instruction focuses on planning, programming, maintenance activities, and controls to obtain the lowest cost while meeting or exceeding quality and safety standards.

From this overview of the production system from reservoir to separator, learn to optimize the process using an integrated approach, including nodal analysis and identification of major pressure losses. In hands-on in-class exercises, use specialized software to identify constraints and propose recommendations for production optimization.

From this course on flow assurance, gain an advanced understanding of fluid flow through a series of interconnected systems from the reservoir to surface facilities, and the prevention and mitigation of common flow impediments. Learn best practices from worldwide field examples, as well as how to design fit-for-purpose flow assurance solutions.

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COURSE CONTENT

Learn to collect operations information used internally (for operations management, production and reservoir engineering, field planning, revenue accounting) and externally (for joint venture partners, royalty owners, service companies, purchasers, transporters, and various governmental bodies). Understand how the Avocet* Data Manager application collects and conditions the data for availability to various users in the appropriate format, reducing time spent entering data.

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Programmed plant shutdown management (maintenance turnaround management)

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Types of plant shutdowns

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Top down review of the macrofunctions in plant shutdown planning

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Barriers to and key factors for the success of a plant shutdown

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Methods to manage a programmed plant shutdown

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First stage: Integrated strategy (actual cases)

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Second stage: Development of scope of work (actual cases)

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Third stage: Execution of plant shutdown (actual cases)

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Fourth stage: Plant shutdown closeout (actual cases)

AUDIENCE Engineers, planners, supervisors, and managers responsible for plant turnaround planning or implementation who need a systematic methodology for plant turnaround management PREREQUISITES Strong knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering

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Overview of production system from reservoir to surface: Production system and process, well completions, lift methods, gathering systems, and separation systems Nodal analysis: Main pressure-drop components, inflow performance relationship, completion, tubing system graph, and gas well production behavior Subsurface-surface production operation: Integrated vision, procedures, best practices, identification of restrictions and corrective actions, production optimization using automation technology, and performance management Integrated production systems, software and tools focusing on performance modeling, technology trends, and integrated information management for control, monitoring, and automation

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Fluid flow and heat-transfer characteristics and their importance in design of subsea architecture, model selection, and liquids management Processes of fluid flow integration, heat transfer, and solids

AUDIENCE Engineers and technical staff responsible for well surveillance, production optimization, or completion design PREREQUISITES Working knowledge of well production behaviors, basic reservoir engineering principles, and surface facilities; exposure to well completion design, nodal analysis, and stimulation processes

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Software features for optimizing productivity

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Operations and installation

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Configuration and facility setup mode

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Data entry

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Import and export functions for loading and unloading data to other applications

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Reports and graphs for tracking and viewing facility performance

AUDIENCE Anyone responsible for collection and conditioning of data for users of Avocet Data Manager software

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Engineers responsible for production optimization and tasked with evaluating a subsurface network and surface system as one integrated system PREREQUISITES Knowledge of the production system from subsurface to surface


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Surface Facilities Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler Fundamentals Foundation — 1 day

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The course focuses on use Avocet* Integrated Asset Modeler production software to integrate the reservoir with the surface models. Instruction includes software installation. COURSE CONTENT n


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Avocet Volumes Manager for Administrators

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In this course, you acquire the skill set required for BabelFish™ administrators to install, administer, and maintain the BabelFish Portal server. COURSE CONTENT n

Installation checklist

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Web server specifications

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Database configuration

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Configuration system data source name

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Connecting models

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Client side components and configuration

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Evaluating economics with Merak* Peep models

Troubleshooting and installation testing

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Administration console test

Transferring compositions

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Toolbar test

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AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to integrate reservoirs with surface models using Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler PREREQUISITES

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Avocet Surveillance Installation

Work experience in a production, reservoir, or process engineering position or in an asset business development environment with knowledge of either ECLIPSE* or PIPESIM* software

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Page and table creation test

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Fast and diagnostic trend tests

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Trend menu test

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Statistics from pages trend

AUDIENCE BabelFish administrators PREREQUISITES None


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Avocet Volumes Manager for End Users Foundation — 4 days

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Learn how to use the flexibility of Avocet* Volumes Manager to build custom solutions for managing production information. Understand how to deploy and configure the software for all types of operational settings—conventional land; offshore; deep offshore; floating production, storage, and offloading vessels; coalbed methane; steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD); and heavy oil. Increase your understanding of features for data entry, visualization and computation of production, allocation of fluids, and operational and regulatory reporting.

Learn how to use the flexibility of Avocet* Volumes Manager for entering, managing, and reporting production information. Understand how to validate and allocate production data in all types of operational settings—conventional land; offshore; deep offshore; floating production, storage, and offloading vessels; coalbed methane; steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD); and heavy oil. Increase your understanding of features for data entry, visualization and computation of production, allocation of fluids, and operational and regulatory reporting.

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Setup of facility, completions, wells, equipment, and other processes

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Browsing and navigating through the application

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Generation of organizational and other hierarchies using links

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Data entry using the application on a disconnected device

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Allocation networks

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Data loaders

Checking for data errors and validating data

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Calculations and allocation processes

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Loading data from external sources

Setup of disconnected data collection

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Visualizing networks

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Definition of security

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Calculation and allocation processes

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Reports through Microsoft® SQL Server® reporting services

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Reporting

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Note: This course can be customized to include training on the Avocet Volumes Manager System Development Kit, which covers advanced implementation and configuration topics, such as modifying the transaction system, adding new screens, setting up unit conversions, localizing the software, and setting up reporting views.

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to use a fully configured Avocet Volumes Manager system for data entry, visualization and computation of production, allocation of fluids, and operational and regulatory reporting PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to configure or administer an Avocet Volumes Manager system for end users PREREQUISITES Avocet Volumes Manager for End Users course


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Surface Facilities Avocet Workflow Builder Foundation — 3 days

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The focus of this course is the real-time field management platform that merges data mining technology with conventional reservoir engineering methods. Through hands-on exercises, learn how data mining allows efficient discovery of valuable, nonobvious information from your E&P data warehouse. Review artificial intelligence methods such as neural networks, and self-organizing maps as advanced surveillance tools. Note: Avocet* Workflow Builder includes the functionality previously available in the DECIDE!* Desktop software. COURSE CONTENT

PIPESIM for Surface Facilities: Design, Modeling, and Optimization Skill — 3 days

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This course teaches the usage of PIPESIM, steady-state multiphase simulator, for designing, modeling and optimizing of surface facilities. Practical and comprehensive problems will be discussed and analyzed throughout the course. COURSE CONTENT n

Single branch pipeline modeling for single- and multi-phase flow

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Flow assurance analysis during a subsea tie-back design including erosion, corrosion, hydrates and wax

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Initial slug catcher sizing Transmission network

Avocet Data Manager for Specialists Skill — 2 days

Avocet Workflow Manager — Level 1

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Building on the concepts taught in the Avocet* Data Manager Fundamentals course, you gain the knowledge to be first-line support for internal clients as well as a key player in the setup and configuration of new facilities. COURSE CONTENT n

Tips and tricks to save data entry time

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Setting up and connecting new facilities with equipment (tanks, meters, pumps)

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Modifying and customizing reports

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Setup of basic security

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First-line support for users

Skill — 3 days

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Increase your understanding of how the Avocet* Workflow Manager integrates various data sources (including real-time surveillance data) to the engineer’s desktop, providing a platform for automating engineering processes from calculations to workflows. Learn how to set up the Avocet Workflow Manager to act as a real-time enabler by providing cleansed, aggregated, and preprocessed production data for use by other applications such as Avocet Data Manager and OFM* software. Note: Avocet Workflow Manager includes the functionality previously available in the DECIDE!* Data Hub software.

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Workflow fundamentals

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Data storage

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Looped gathering networks

AUDIENCE

Preparation of data for working in Avocet Workflow Builder software

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Impact of adding compression Full network modeling and optimization

Workflow fundamentals and terminology

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Anyone wanting to become first-line support for internal clients using Avocet Data Manager

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Installation and deployment

PREREQUISITES

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Licensing options

Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals course

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SQL Server™ configuration

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Data model and advanced data acquisition settings

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Recommended backup and restore practices

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Data acquisition strategies

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Raw data cleansing and aggregation

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Loading data from data sources Setup of a hierarchy

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Data visualization options

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Overview of data mining modules

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Self-organizing maps (SOMs)

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Water injection network model Advanced PIPESIM modeling tools Economic evaluation of a gathering system design

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SOM theory and application

AUDIENCE

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Neural network development

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Theory and application of backpropagation neural networks

Flow assurance engineers, field operations staff, facilities engineers, and production engineers

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Material balance with interference (MBI) Automatic history match of MBI

PREREQUISITES General petroleum engineering knowledge and good software skills

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to understand real-time data storage and data mining using artificial intelligence and SOMs

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AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to integrate various data sources to the engineer’s desktop to establish a platform for automation of engineering processes PREREQUISITES None

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Surface Facilities Avocet Workflow Workshop Skill — 4 days

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In this course, you gain insight into the client server concept, learn best practices in using data mining techniques, and study petroleum engineering methods through hands-on examples. You learn how the Avocet* Workflow client server system processes production and reservoir surveillance tasks automatically. Note: Please contact your local NExT contact to schedule this course as each class is tailored to your Avocet Workflow software implementation. This workshop is customized for client requirements and may require advanced notice for preparation time. COURSE CONTENT n

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Loading of data into Avocet Workflow software from different data sources

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Data visualization options

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Self-organizing maps (SOMs), theory and application

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Development of a neural network

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Theory and application of backpropagation neural networks (BPNNs)

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Overview of petroleum engineering modules

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Hands-on exercises, examples, and workflows

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Data mining modules

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Automation of tasks

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Rules for data cleansing and event detection

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Alarm and notification conditions

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Linking a database to receive data

Avocet Data Manager Advanced Reporting and Graphing Advanced — 1 day

Avocet Workflow Builder Data Mining and Application

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Advanced — 3 hours

Avocet Workflow Manager — Level 2

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Building on the skills taught in the Avocet* Data Manager for Specialists training, this course teaches you to become an in-house expert in creating and modifying Avocet Data Manager reports and graphs.

In a series of three 1-hour webcasts, you learn detailed information about data mining theory and applications.

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COURSE CONTENT

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Building reports

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Building a report with multiple tables including battery, oil wells, and injection wells

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Creating user-defined calculations

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Creating graphs

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Using Avocet Spreadsheet add-in module software to define Microsoft® Excel reports and build custom input

Note: Avocet* Workflow Builder includes the functionality previously available in the DECIDE!* Desktop software

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Theory and application of backpropagation neural networks (BPNNs)

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Theory and application of selforganizing maps

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Theory and application of Bayesian belief networks

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AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to create and modify Avocet Data Manager reports and graphs PREREQUISITES Avocet Data Manager for Specialists course

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Theory and application of genetic algorithms in context of material balance with interference Specialized visualization tools (multidimensional crossplot) to analyze cluster results Special topics in petroleum engineering: Permeability and pore prediction in uncored wells, hydraulic fracturing job optimization, and well rate estimation using BPNNs

AUDIENCE Busy professionals who want detailed information on Avocet Workflow Builder data mining theory and applications PREREQUISITES Avocet Workflow Builder course

Advanced — 2 days

:

This advanced course teaches workflow developers how to design and deploy automated workflows for data collection, cleansing, and automated calculation. Learn how to quickly diagnose workflow problems and best practices and pitfalls for combining tasks. Instruction on user management and how to secure data from unwanted access while granting access to validated users. COURSE CONTENT n

Workflow fundamentals and terminology

n

Recommended backup and restore practices

n

Managing and scheduling workflows

n

Constructing or editing a workflow

n

Using tasks in workflows

n

Troubleshooting strategies

n

Administering users and access privileges

n

Viewing and manually editing data

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to learn advanced workflow configurations in the Avocet Workflow Builder PREREQUISITES Avocet Workflow Builder and Avocet Workflow Manager—Level 1 courses

AUDIENCE Experienced Avocet Workflow users and administrators who want to automatically process production and reservoir surveillance tasks PREREQUISITES Avocet Workflow Builder and Avocet Workflow Manager—Level 1 courses


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New Business Skills Courses For oil & gas leaders, the combination of business skills and technical expertise provides a strong career foundation. With six new business skills courses from NExT, you now have more options to build your career including: ■■ First-Time Leadership and Supervision ■■ International Business Communication Skills ■■ International Oil and Gas Exploitation Contracts ■■ International Oil and Gas Management Skills ■■ Negotiation Skills for the Oil and Gas Industry ■■ Oil and Gas Asset Management with immersive

business simulation



Management and economics NExT’s Management and Economics curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Management and Economics course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Management and Economics curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Finance Advanced

Petroleum Economics and Risk

Business Skills

Risk Assessment and Management in the Petroleum Business

Project Management Strategic Project Management

Economics Software

: Merak Enterprise Planning

Risk Analysis and Management

Skill

Auditing in the E&P Industry

Portfolio Management

Exploration and Production Accounting – Level 3 Exploration and Production Accounting – Level 2

:

:

Applied Project Management – Oil and Gas

Petroleum Decision and Risk Analysis

Negotiation Skills for the Oil and Gas Industry

Supply Chain Strategy

Merak Capital : Planning Fundamentals

Risk, Uncertainty, Decisions

International Business Communication Skills

Tendering and Technical Bidding

Merak Peep : Fiscal Model Library Fundamentals

International Oil and Gas Management Skills

Contracts, Procurements, and Partnering

Merak Peep Advanced


Merak VOLTS : Reserves Management Fundamentals

Project Management

Merak Decision : Tool Kit Fundamentals

Economics of : Unconventional Gas

Foundation

Merak Decision Tool Kit and Merak Peep Monte Carlo

International Oil and Gas Exploitation Contracts

Exploration and Production Accounting – Level 1

Oil and Gas Reserves: The New SEC Reporting Rules

Mastering Finance for Nonfinancial Oil and Gas Personnel

Petroleum Economics

:

: Oil and Gas Asset Management First-Time Leadership and Supervision

:

: Merak Peep Decline Fundamentals Merak Peep Fundamentals

Awareness

:

Petroleum Exploration and Production Introduction to Petroleum Economics

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Management and economics Introduction to Petroleum Economics

Petroleum Exploration and Production

Exploration and Production Accounting — Level 1

First-Time Leadership and Supervision





This blended-learning class is an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of petroleum economics, including revenue, expenditures, fiscal systems, risk analysis, and investment analysis. The blendedlearning experience includes questions and answers from e-learning material, exercises, class discussions, team presentations, and an interactive challenge.

This introductory-level course delivers a comprehensive overview of international accounting and finance practices in the E&P industry. It is particularly suitable for finance personnel who are new to the industry or those who want a broader understanding of oil and gas financial policy, joint ventures, and cost-control topic areas. Topics include industry accounting policies and practices; an introduction to managing project, development, and operating costs; the accounting and financial management implications of exploring for and producing oil and gas; and the background and accounting treatment of financial issues that are unique to the E&P industry.

n

Cash flow basics

n

Calculating revenue

n

Estimating expenditures

n

Fiscal systems

In this course, follow the different phases of an oil field’s life cycle: exploration, appraisal, well construction, field development, and production. Gain an overview of reservoir and field E&P through exercises, class discussions, team presentations, and interactive challenges. Review relevant principles and considerations from a domain perspective of geology; geophysics; petrophysics; reservoir, drilling, completions, and production engineering; and production operations. Understand the financial implications of these various phases and the role of professionals in each, as well as the functions of stakeholders.

n

Risk analysis

COURSE CONTENT

n

Investment analysis

COURSE CONTENT

n

Petroleum economics challenge (interactive exercise)

n n

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of petroleum economics PREREQUISITES None

n

n

E&P life cycle Functions of companies and personnel, and their roles and responsibilities Technologies, processes, and workflows for successful exploitation Political, environmental, and financial aspects of the oil and gas industry

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of petroleum exploration and production PREREQUISITES None

W NE

COURSE CONTENT n

How accounting policies influence financial performance reporting

n

Successful efforts and full cost accounting

n

Decommissioning costs

n

Joint venture accounting

n

Cost control and analysis

n

Drilling cost control and forecasting

n

Managing project and development costs

AUDIENCE Finance staff new to the industry wanting a broader understanding of the oil and gas finance function, staff being developed for broader accounting and financial management responsibilities, audit and information systems staff involved with financial controls and systems, and treasury and tax specialists

W NE

As international companies move toward a flatter, team-based structure, supervisors and team leaders are combining a leadership role with full-time operational responsibilities. This course develops core leadership and supervisory skills in people who are new to these demanding roles. COURSE CONTENT n

Preparing for smooth transitions into leadership

n

Assessing your leadership capabilities, challenges, and potential growth areas

n

Managing yourself and your time to achieve goals

n

SMART goals and action plans

n

Communication techniques

n

Team spirit and motivational skills

n

Developing delegation skills and plans

n

Coaching plans and techniques to improve performance

n

Problem-solving and decision-making techniques

n

Managing conflict and stress constructively

AUDIENCE New leaders and supervisors or those preparing for management PREREQUISITES None

PREREQUISITES None


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Management and economics Introduction to Field Development Planning

Mastering Finance for Nonfinancial Oil and Gas Personnel



This course introduces the fundamental approaches for constructing a field development plan (FDP). Learn the concepts of project management and the processes followed throughout the different life cycle stages of a reservoir or field. This course details the workflow for developing a FDP and then updating it to adjust for changing reservoir conditions. Gain an understanding of the importance of reservoir monitoring and how it can be used to anticipate reservoir dynamics. Develop and apply an FDP roadmap, a risk register that identifies and mitigates evolving FDP risks, and a stakeholder map that identifies the personnel essential for successful implementation of a FDP.

Designed for personnel who do not have a financial background, this course presents the basic principles, theory, and practice of financial reporting and analysis as they apply to the oil and gas industry. You learn how to interpret, understand, and act on financial information as well as how to develop effective decision-making skills. Increase your understanding of financial management elements that are specific to the oil and gas industry and key E&P accounting topics, including depreciation, reserves, decommissioning, and asset impairment tests.

COURSE CONTENT n


n

Dynamic FDPs

n n

n

Development scenarios and options Synchronized subsurface and surface decision making Data requirements and integration

n


n


n


n


n


n


W NE

COURSE CONTENT

Oil and Gas Asset Management Foundation — 5 days

W NE

Gain an understanding of the entire oil company decision-making process from initial new country entry strategy to field abandonment. This course addresses the technical and business challenges as well as the interactions with fiscal and government bodies. Topics include the value of information (VOI) in various aspects from exploration to production as well as the typical business and economics frameworks for oil companies. COURSE CONTENT n

Worldwide oil and gas supply and demand, reserves, and production

n

Exploration phase of the E&P life cycle

n

Appraisal and field development planning activities

n

Sources and uses of financial information

n

Understanding financial information

n

Cash flow and profit

n

Economics and financial planning

n

Measuring financial performance

n

n

Accounting practices and policies

Industry challenges and tough problems by region and geography

n

Budget preparation and control

n

n

Effects of taxation

Review of independent and national oil companies

n

Prospect risking and calculation of expected monetary value

Anyone wanting a better understanding of finance and budgeting

n

Reservoir drive mechanisms, recovery factors, and production profiles

PREREQUISITES

n

Drilling problems and solutions

None

n

Well planning process

n

Rig types and selection, site preparation, drilling systems and equipment, drilling techniques, and casing and cementing

AUDIENCE

n

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, and managers interested in understanding and applying FDP concepts PREREQUISITES Degree in engineering or geoscience

:

Oil and Gas Reserves: The New SEC Reporting Rules

Examination of production operations in field development planning, maintenance engineering in field development planning, infill drilling and workover activities, enhanced oil recovery, and production debottlenecking

n

Economic and planning scenarios reflecting investment criteria, risk analysis, decision trees, and VOI

n

Review of oilfield development project

Foundation — 2 days This course provides substantial details on and interpretation of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) rules for reporting oil and gas reserves. Discussions include classification of resources; the SPE/WPC/AAPG/SPEE Petroleum Resources Management System, which provided the basis for many of the new SEC reserves definitions; the effects of the new rules on nontraditional resource disclosures; and recommendations for adapting to the new rules. Instruction includes lectures and discussions, and more than half the class time involves solutions to classroom problems and discussion exercises. The focus is on broad concepts rather than on details of reserves estimation procedures. The course workbook includes relevant publications of the SEC, the SPE, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). COURSE CONTENT n

Overview of 2009-2010 rules

n

Classification of resources

n

Petroleum Resources Management System

n

SEC definitions and disclosure requirements

n

Reserves in nontraditional reservoirs

n

Compliance with the new SEC rules

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, accountants, bankers, attorneys, and others involved in reserves estimation, auditing, or reporting PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of oil and gas reserves

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting an increased understanding of the management of E&P assets PREREQUISITES None Return to Matrix Click Here

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Management and economics Petroleum Economics Foundation — 4 days

:

The course teaches the fundamentals of petroleum economics as applied to selection of oil and gas projects, including a review of the time value of money concepts. COURSE CONTENT n

Introduction to petroleum economics

n

Forecasting production volumes

n

Entering and using product prices

n

Calculating royalty and interest

n

Operating expenses and capital investments

n

Depreciation and taxes

n

Inflation, escalation, and discounting

n

Cash flow

n

Economic indicators

n

Net present value

n

Worldwide fiscal systems

n

Incremental analysis

n

Project selection

Project Management

Applied Project Management — Oil and Gas


Skill — 5 days

In this course, gain in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the key skills and knowledge you need for effective project management as described in the Association for Project Management’s “APM Body of Knowledge” and the Project Management Institute’s “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.” Instruction is through a combination of lectures, practical exercises, and interactive sessions. You draw upon your own experiences and real-world examples to enhance the learning experience. The topics, disciplines, and enabling skills are progressively built upon and linked to the development of case studies in a team environment. This course, taught by a PMI Registered Education Provider, prepares you for the Project Management Institute’s PMP® certification examination.

The focus of this course is delivery of project management techniques for estimating, planning, managing, and controlling an oil and gas project. It extends to identification, assessment, and control of qualitative risks, as well as quantitative risk analysis using the basics of probability. Delivered in a workshop style, the course combines lectures on how to develop relevant estimates, plans, and risk analysis with the course case study project. The workshop format can be adapted to develop estimates, plans, and risk analyses as deliverables for client-specific projects. All terms and techniques used are compatible with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.”

COURSE CONTENT n n

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting a fundamental knowledge of petroleum PREREQUISITES

n

W NE

COURSE CONTENT n

Terms, processes, and stage gate reviews in capital value process

Project financial appraisal

n

Scope management (including work definition)

n

Time management (planning and scheduling)

Decision-support reports and documents

n

Defining and estimating activities through the project life cycle

PMI processes for management of oil and gas projects

n

Cost management (monitoring and control)

n

Scope management and work breakdown structures

n

Risk management

n

n

Procurement and contracts

Use Microsoft® Project in project planning and control

n

n

Alliances and partners

Setting up basic project cost and progress recording

n

Quality

n

Standard software for risk management

n

Qualitative and quantitative risk assessments

n

Risk mitigation strategies, preliminary contingency levels, and critical variables

n

Monte Carlo methods and expected monetary outcome

n

Risk-based forecasts

None

n

HR management

n

Project success and failure

AUDIENCE Project engineers, supervisors, and project leaders seeking to increase their knowledge of project management PREREQUISITES None

n

Risk and earned value

n

Stakeholder analysis and management skills

n

Project and baseline reviews

Auditing in the E&P Industry Skill — 5 days

W NE

An intensive training program designed to improve auditing skills, this course enhances your understanding of audit principles and practices that are unique to the E&P business. You learn how to apply a structured methodology for conducting internal, production-sharing, and joint venture audits, implement a multidiscipline team approach to audits, and adopt a model of audit best practices. COURSE CONTENT n

Audit definitions and types of audits

n

Audit principles, techniques, planning, risk, and interviews

n

Audit process

n

Auditing techniques, such as flowcharting

n

Audit testing, sampling, and reporting

n

Internal auditing controls

n

Operational and contract audits

n

Joint venture auditing and adopting best practices

n

Audit meetings and closeouts

n

Auditing issues and accounting procedures for production-sharing contracts

AUDIENCE Anyone working in the upstream oil and gas industry wanting to learn about or update auditing techniques, as well as professional accountants with a background in statutory audit who want to learn about internal and joint venture audits PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Oil and gas industry project management professionals PREREQUISITES Project Management course or PMI PMP Certificate or 7 years of experience in project management Return to Matrix Click Here Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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Management and economics Contracts, Procurements, and Partnering

Economics of Unconventional Gas

Skill — 3 days

Skill — 4 days

In this course, you receive a comprehensive overview of the key phases and elements that make up contract procurement and partnering; the focus is on project-based environments. Gain a thorough foundation in the basics of contracts, types of contracts and their applications, and their relative strengths and weaknesses. Learn how to use e-procurement tools, the savings that can be realized from them, and where they fit into the overall procurement strategy.

:

Exploration and Production Accounting — Level 2 W NE

Skill — 5 days

W NE

Increase your knowledge and understanding of international E&P finance and accounting to an intermediate level. An in-depth examination of international practices and current developments, this course covers a broad range of relevant topics. You are encouraged to challenge existing methods as a basis for reviewing procedures and introducing improvements in your workplace.

n

Alliancing and partnering

Particularly suitable for personnel involved with shale gas and coalbed methane, this course presents a probabilistic approach that can be immediately implemented for economic evaluation of unconventional gas resources. Case studies highlight the technology and workflows that can help reduce the uncertainty in your evaluations. Course material includes an overview of worldwide unconventional activity, discussion of technical and development uncertainties, and the use of a decision analysis process including sensitivities, decision trees, and value of information.

n

Contracts

COURSE CONTENT

n

Contract structure

n

Worldwide unconventional gas activity

n

Tender process

n

n

Standard forms of contracts

Impact of unconventional gas projects on company portfolio

n

Effective contract negotiation

n

Uncertainty and risk analysis

n

Supply chain management

n

n

n

Contract administration

Technical and development uncertainties and risks

Accounting for E&P company taxes

n

n

Dispute resolution

n

Strategies and technologies to minimize uncertainty and risk

State frameworks for control and exploitation of petroleum reserves

n

AUDIENCE

n

Anyone involved in contracts or partnering

Value of information during pilot and appraisal phases

Production-sharing contracts and their accounting practices

n

n

Decision analysis process

Joint venture cash management, billing, and cost allocations

PREREQUISITES

n

Building economic cases

None

n

Building decision models

n

Considerations and options for modeling

AUDIENCE

n

Multiple decision analyses (exercise)

n

Break-even price, hurdle rate, and other metrics

E&P accounting professionals wanting to gain advanced skills

COURSE CONTENT

n

Case studies and practice problems

AUDIENCE Geoscientists, engineers, commercial team members, or managers wanting to model and analyze the business impact of unconventional resources PREREQUISITES Experience with petroleum economics and analyzing project feasibility using petroleum economics software

COURSE CONTENT n

Regulation of oil and gas company accounting

n

Impairment or ceiling tests

n

Accounting disclosures

n

International accounting standards

n

Accounting for financing arrangements

n

Accounting for sales revenue

n

Materials and inventory accounting

n

Cost control

n

Departmental and corporate budgets

PREREQUISITES Exploration and Production Accounting – Level 1

Exploration and Production Accounting — Level 3 W NE

Skill — 5 days

This highly interactive 5-day workshop is for those who want to take their E&P accounting skills to an advanced level. Learning centers on highly realistic E&P company scenarios and a computer-based simulation to plan, record, and report company progress through international E&P activities. Teams participate in the financial management of these activities, including operator and nonoperator accounting, recording of transactions, updating of financial statements, and analysis of company performance. COURSE CONTENT n

Review budgets, enter billings into an accounting system, and prepare financial statements for new exploration joint venture

n

Account for development costs; sales revenues; depletion, depreciation, and amortization (DD&A); a decommissioning provision; and production under terms of tax-based fiscal arrangement

n

Prepare cash calls and billings, and maintain operator accounting records for your company as an operator of a new venture

n

Prepare financial statements reflecting the change in accounting policy from full cost to the successful efforts method

n

Account for a company’s participation in a new venture under a productionsharing contract

n

Perform a test and account for the result of falling oil price on reserves

n

Adjust the company portfolio of assets for a farmout

n

Prepare a briefing for your CEO’s meeting with investment analysts on company performance and financial status

AUDIENCE Professionals wanting advanced skills in E&P accounting PREREQUISITES Exploration and Production Accounting – Level 1 and Level 2 courses, and experience working with spreadsheet techniques; participants must furnish their own computers preinstalled with Microsoft® Excel software


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Management and economics International Business Communication Skills Skill — 5 days

W NE

This course will help you achieve business goals by improving your international business communication and influencing skills. Learn to identify the cross-cultural communication skills required by international managers, to assess these skills and opportunities for development, and to apply key principles for more successful communication, both verbal and written. Increase your effectiveness in leading and participating in international business meetings, writing proposals and reports that influence clients and colleagues toward a desired point of view, and deliver successful business presentations to an international audience.

International Oil and Gas Management Skills Skill — 5 days

Designed to improve international management skills, this course enables you to identify the competencies required for international managers and assess your own competence in personal effectiveness and relationship management. Learn to improve your skills in critical areas such as motivation, cross-cultural communication, team management, delegation, coaching, conflict management, and change management. COURSE CONTENT n

International management

n

Using scenarios: SWOT analysis (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats) and SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely) goals and action planning

COURSE CONTENT n

Understanding communication

n

Effective verbal communication

W NE

n

Communication and influencing

n

Effective writing skills

n

Situational team leadership

n

International presentation skills

n

Top 10 tips for team leaders

n

Practice in performing presentations (exercise)

n

Performance reviews

n

Managing people through change

n

International manager career development

AUDIENCE Managers and other professionals working in an international or multicultural environment who want to improve skills in business communication PREREQUISITES None

n

International Oil and Gas Exploitation Contracts Skill — 5 days

This course draws widely on industry case studies and realistic examples to deliver a broad-based, practical introduction to managing contracts for oil and gas exploration, development, and production. Instruction makes extensive use of petroleum industry case studies, examples, and exercises, with participants working individually and in teams to tackle a variety of industry-specific challenges. COURSE CONTENT n

Structures and benefits of different types of international contracts

n

Key elements of oil and gas exploitation contracts

n

Structuring contracts to meet specific needs

n

n

n

n

Planning for future self-development

AUDIENCE Managers and professionals working in an international or multicultural environment PREREQUISITES First-Time Leadership and Supervision course

W NE

n

Needs and expectations of national and international oil and gas companies Nonfinancial elements and their impact on economics and profitability Identifying and managing risks and opportunities in the contract terms Differentiating oil and gas exploitation and marketing issues in gas contracts Modeling changing parameters in a typical production sharing contract (PSC)

AUDIENCE Oil and gas company personnel at all levels and in all disciplines, including business development, contract negotiations, business analysis, strategic planning, joint venture representation, and petroleum project investment

Negotiation Skills for the Oil and Gas Industry Skill — 5 days

Designed to improve the outcomes of your negotiations, this course teaches a structured approach to negotiating that is combined with practice sessions to improve your negotiating confidence. Through exposure to the Breakthrough Negotiation Strategy, you learn how to achieve results in difficult and complex cases. Understand how to plan and prepare for negotiations, recognize the vital steps in a negotiated settlement, and learn to exhaust one step before proceeding to the next. Participants negotiate in teams, practice resolving impasses and handling difficult negotiations, and learn to respect cultural differences in international negotiations. COURSE CONTENT n

Negotiation as a process: Key steps

n

Preparing tactics, and knowing your subject and counterpart

n

Preparation checklist

n

Importance of initiation

n

Presentation after initiation and before bargaining

n

Communication and human behavior in negotiations

n

Seven steps to effective communication

n

Verbal and nonverbal communication and how to listen

n

Dealing with different personalities, handling international negotiations, and impact of cultural differences

n

Overview of bargaining and presentation

n

Getting concessions and closing the deal

n

Case studies

n

Critical success factors and habits of successful negotiators

PREREQUISITES None

W NE

AUDIENCE Persons with little or no previous negotiating experience who want to improve their ability and confidence; professionals working in the oil and gas industry, including those involved in commercial and interpersonal negotiations PREREQUISITES None Return to Matrix Click Here Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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Management and economics Petroleum Decision and Risk Analysis

Portfolio Management

Skill — 3 days

Skill — 4 days

Learn multiple approaches to modeling decisions for oil and gas projects. This course highlights a proven process and technology for decision analysis used by companies worldwide. An overview includes fundamentals and examples of decision analysis, discussion of uncertainties and risk, and various ways to incorporate them in oil and gas project evaluations. Discussions cover the use of sensitivities, decision trees, and value of information in both deterministic and probabilistic approaches to evaluating oil and gas projects.

Course participants learn about portfolio theory and its incorporation into the process of upstream oil and gas corporate planning. Material highlights proven processes and technologies for portfolio optimization used by companies worldwide. Topics include important concepts and processes for portfolio analysis, including an easy-to-follow process for analysis to meet business unit or corporate goals, and workflows to model the business and decide which wells to drill, projects to undertake, or properties to acquire.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

:

W NE

Risk, Uncertainty, Decisions

Supply Chain Strategy

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Understand why projects can fail due to adverse events with geologic, technical, commercial, or contractual origins. In this course, increase your understanding of how risk and uncertainty impact the decisions on which projects you choose and how you develop them, and how these decisions affect their economic performance. Improving the quality of decisions is the main goal of this course, not just understanding risk and uncertainty for their own sake. Probabilistic concepts and tools are used to describe projects with risk and uncertainty to give a better understanding of the principles and tools underlying these concepts.

Learn to develop a procurement and supply chain management strategy that can make valuable quantifiable contributions to your company’s performance. This practical course shows you how to adopt a best practices model and outlines the latest thinking in upstream petroleum industry procurement. Topics include development and implementation of an effective procurement strategy, planning that reduces the overall cost of purchasing, and management to deliver maximum value at minimum cost.

n

Decision and risk analysis, including decision criteria

n

Portfolio theory, analysis, and optimization

n

Decisions: How to address them and more importantly how NOT to address them

n

Portfolio management workflows and implementations in E&P

n

Probability overview and simple exploration economics

n

Corporate metrics, corporate strategies, and impact of risk and uncertainty in portfolio management

n

Dependencies

n

Decision analysis

n

Decision trees, Bayes formula, and the value of information

n

Describing uncertainty

n

Components of accuracy

n

Monte Carlo analysis and its application

n

n n

n

Essentials of uncertainty, risk, probability, and statistics, including choosing distribution types and eliminating bias

n

Decision analysis process Modeling upstream oil and gas decisions Analyzing decisions and making recommendations

Workflows related to business analysis, strategy development, and portfolio optimization

n

Portfolio analysis versus optimization

n

Process for portfolio analysis

n

Business rules and project dependencies

n

Key uncertainties

n

n

Simple decision models with deterministic analysis

Modeling and testing of different strategies

n

Analysis and comparisons of different portfolios

n

Using charts and grids to answer critical business questions

n

Group problem (exercise)

n

Complex decision models with probabilistic analysis

n

Case studies

n

Group problem

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Geoscientists, engineers, commercial team members, or anyone wanting to incorporate uncertainty and risk into models of oil and gas decisions

Current or potential business unit or corporate planners wanting to understand and model the financial performance of an organization

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES

Petroleum Economics course and experience in project

Introduction to Petroleum Economics course and experience in project economics

COURSE CONTENT n

Contract as legal instrument, investment tool, and management and control tool

n

What can go wrong in contracting

n

Roles of contract policies and procedures

n

Best practice procurement process

n

Illustrations and benefits of supply chain management (SCM)

n

Scopes of work and the 10 golden rules

COURSE CONTENT

n

Correlations and regressions

n

Geostatistics: Stationary assumptions, variograms, kriging, cokriging, filtering, and multiple realizations

n

Alternative tendering strategies

n

Contract strategies and how to develop them

n

Contract risk assessment and its importance

n

Types of contracts and preparation of contractor selection criteria

n

Tender preparation, issue, and evaluation

n

Preparing the contract and managing the contractor using a performance review process

AUDIENCE E&P professionals involved in data analysis and interpretation, including geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers active in exploration, appraisal, field development, reserves estimation, or economics; decision makers interested in learning more about decision analysis PREREQUISITES Exposure to basic statistics and a working knowledge of Microsoft® Excel worksheets

W NE

AUDIENCE Personnel at all levels and in all disciplines who have responsibility for, and involvement in, the entire procurement process; line operational managers and specialists (the end users), as well as contract managers and contract specialists PREREQUISITES None


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Management and economics Tendering and Technical Bidding

Risk Analysis and Management

Risk Assessment and Management in the Petroleum Business

Strategic Project Management

Skill — 4 days

Advanced — 4 days

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 5 days

This course covers the key aspects of technical bidding and tendering in the context of project management. Emphasis is placed on business performance, the tender process, contracts, and quantitative methods, including those for procurement.

Structured to meet the needs of individuals in nearly any area of the petroleum business, this example-filled, practical-application course delivers fundamental risk and uncertainty-related concepts and techniques with a special emphasis on exploration. Topics covered include representation and integration of uncertainty and chance of failure; stochastic processes, such as Monte Carlo analysis; calculation of risk-weighted values; dependence; sensitivity analysis; and other related methodologies.

All aspects of project management are presented for both greenfield and brownfield environments. Theory is combined with the practice of key skills in a program designed to develop and improve your performance in a project management team. You review capital, operations, and maintenance projects. Participants can earn up to 37 PDUs for Project Management Institute certification.

n

Analyzing specifications

Uncertainty is inherent in all projects and operations, particularly in technical, financial, schedule, legal, and quality arenas. This course presents the techniques used in the identification, assessment, and control of uncertainties in a project-based enterprise. Learn about risk analysis and management as a field of expertise focused on the systematic and comprehensive analysis of uncertainty.

n

Developing clarifications

COURSE CONTENT

n

Estimating, planning, and risk assessment

n

Collaborative working

COURSE CONTENT

n

Risk analysis process and stages of risk life cycle

n

Assessment of exposure, impact, and probability

n

Preparing bid plan

n

Bid compilation

n

Risk identification process

n

Pricing

n

Mitigation strategies

n

Adjusting and confirming bid plan

n

n

Presentation of final proposal

Using Microsoft® Excel® and @Risk™ for project risk analysis

n

Case study analysis: Resetting probability parameters

n

Postbid review

AUDIENCE Engineering and project managers; construction managers; project, construction, and discipline engineers; contracts, procurement, and cost engineers; business development executives; tender managers; and accounting supervisors

COURSE CONTENT

n

Project execution

n

Strategy issues Project scope, value, and time management

n

How to express risk and the meaning of mitigation

n

n

Risk assessment and risk management

n

Project integration and context

n

Considerations for uncertainty and chance of failure

n

Procurement management (including contracts)

n

Major players in risk assessment and management efforts and how they view and express risk

n

Risk management

n

Value improvement practices and constructability

n

Project quality, communications, and human resources management

AUDIENCE

n

Importance of risk integration

Anyone wanting to increase skills in project risk management

n

”Soft” risks

n

Forms of uncertainty expression

AUDIENCE

n

Distributions, Monte Carlo analysis, and cumulative frequency plots

n

Concepts of expected value for success (EVS) and expected value for portfolio (EVP)

Experienced project managers or professionals responsible for managing projects and wanting to learn advanced techniques

PREREQUISITES None

PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of the business process

COURSE CONTENT

n

Volumes versus value

n

Integration of soft risks for best estimate of perceived value

PREREQUISITES Project management experience and the Project Management course

AUDIENCE Geoscientists and engineers wanting to learn application of risk techniques in the petroleum business PREREQUISITES None


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Management and economics Merak Decision Tool Kit Fundamentals Foundation — 1 day

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Merak* Decision Tool Kit software gives you a consistent method for risk analysis so that you can compare opportunities and quantify your risk and uncertainty. A better understanding of risk exposure at the asset and corporate level enables you to avoid underestimating risk and overestimating the value of investments. COURSE CONTENT n

Using tornado charts and the Merak Peep application to build a decision tree

n

Modeling simple decisions

n

Complex decision trees

n

Dependent probabilities

n

Information value

Merak Peep Decline Fundamentals Foundation — 1 day

PREREQUISITES Merak Peep Fundamentals course and an understanding of basic risk analysis concepts such as sensitivity analysis and expected value

:

:

Increase your production forecasting expertise with this course on intuitive production decline analysis workflows. Learn how the use of the Merak* Decline module can save you time, reduce duplication of effort, and tie seamlessly into your economic analysis. Understand how this tool facilitates basic decline analysis and forecasts of production and remaining reserves. COURSE CONTENT n

Maintaining current in-house and vendor data to understand production levels


Merak VOLTS Reserves Management Fundamentals

:

Designed to deliver Merak* Peep module fundamentals, course material focuses on the functionality of this petroleum economic evaluation program. Learn to navigate efficiently through the case document, edit existing data, and analyze economic runs. COURSE CONTENT n

Preferences for customized views and calculation parameters

n

Workflows to create, edit, and copy economic case documents

n

Essential economic inputs: Production, price, ownership, provincial royalties, state taxes, international tax regimes, operating costs, and capital


:

Merak* VOLTS volume tracking and reporting software provides both management flexibility and data security. In this class, learn to use Merak VOLTS to manage your worldwide reserves and resources information and facilitate analysis of corporate value. Discussion includes an overview of technical volumes, which are based on analytical estimation methods and technical reservoir parameters. COURSE CONTENT n

Calculating value of reserves and resources

n

Updating production data and forecasts

n

Monitoring reservoirs to QC production predictions

n

Fine-tuning estimates of remaining reserves

n

Keeping updated historical data ready for reporting and retrieval

n

Reports for regulatory requirements

n

Creating plots and reports based on different analysis options

Filters and user parameters to sort large volumes of data

n

Terminology

Scenario Manager for rapid sensitivity analysis

n

n

Creating reservoirs

n

Entering technical volumes and lease information

n

Linking a well for historical production using Merak Decline or Merak VOLTS tools

n

Change records and their approvals

n

Batch processes (creating reservoirs, reporting, balancing)

n

Search and filter reservoirs

n

Reporting of reserves and resources

n

Scenarios

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to learn effective use of the Merak Decision Tool Kit software

Merak Peep Fundamentals

n

n

Setting up preferences to customize forecasting workflow

n

Importing and exporting production history

n

Creating groups and summary wells to better manage well data

n

n

Consolidations to value workovers and aggregate projects Batch processes to edit or report multiple cases at once and calculate price sensitivity

n

Forecasting production rates and volumes

n

Linking wells to economic cases for rapid assessment of production value

Anyone wanting to improve skills and understanding of project economics involving Merak Peep software

n

Basic decline analysis, rate-time curves, and cumulative curves

PREREQUISITES

n

Graphs and reports

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to develop or improve skills and understanding of decline curve analysis using the Merak Peep Decline module

AUDIENCE

Petroleum Economics course or experience with petroleum economics

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to develop or improve skills and understanding of Merak VOLTS software PREREQUISITES None

PREREQUISITES Understanding of basic decline analysis techniques and theory


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Management and economics Merak Capital Planning Fundamentals Skill — 3 days

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Learn how to use portfolio management as the link between strategy and opportunity. The analysis performed in Merak* Capital Planning strategic portfolio management software enables you to understand your options and explore alternatives using consistent tools and processes. Review the basics of E&P corporate planning and the role of risk and uncertainty in portfolio management, and understand the role a solution like Merak Capital Planning software plays within a corporate portfolio management workflow. COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

Creating comprehensive business strategies with optimal portfolio solutions Using charting and analysis tools to examine portfolio solutions Viewing deterministic or stochastic project or portfolio data

n

Setting up business rules and goals

n

Generating portfolio solutions for various objectives

n

n

Generating project economics through Merak Peep and Merak Results Broker Loading Microsoft Excel results data through the Merak Results Broker

Merak Decision Tool Kit and Merak Peep Monte Carlo Skill — 1 day

:

Merak Peep Advanced Skill — 1 day

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In this course, you work in Merak* Peep and Merak Decision Tool Kit software to explore the principles of Monte Carlo analyses and how to apply them to your project evaluations.

With this course, reach a new level of expertise as a Merak* Peep software user. You learn to quickly find and edit several Merak Peep cases, modify existing reports, and create new reports.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

n

Deterministic analysis versus Monte Carlo analysis

n

Random walks and their input parameters

n

Correlations

n

Use of report settings

n

Visual Monte Carlo trees

n

Choice and chance nodes

AUDIENCE Merak Peep software users responsible for preparing or modifying Merak Peep models using the Merak Fiscal Model Library application PREREQUISITES Merak Decision Tool Kit Fundamentals course, Merak Peep Fundamentals course, and an understanding of basic Monte Carlo theory

n

Standard reports

n

Batch rollup reporting

n

Filters, groups, and hierarchies to sort and organize data

n

Advanced batch functionality to perform mass edits

n

Running scripts to perform multiple edits simultaneously

n

Performing result sets searches and rollup reporting to calculate specific or aggregate results

n

Consolidations for complex royalty and other calculations

n

Scheduler tool for linking cases sequentially

Merak Peep Fiscal Model Library Fundamentals Skill — 4 days

:

You learn to use Merak* Fiscal Model Library (FML) software to its full advantage by understanding the reporting and comparative capabilities within and between the different fiscal regimes, whether exploring a new area or analyzing projects close to home. COURSE CONTENT n

Understand how Merak Peep software and Merak FML work together

n

Explore data entry and navigation in Merak Peep Basic FML-reporting and graphics

n

Review Merak FML workinginterest positions, consolidations, and incremental values

n

Understand the Modeler’s and Negotiator’s Merak FML

n

Learn about fiscal scenarios and the explorationist’s Merak FML

n

Understand auditing and managing of models

AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

Anyone wanting to improve Merak Peep skills beyond the fundamental level or to evaluate multiple projects using Merak Peep software

Any person who uses the Merak Peep Fiscal Model Library for a project evaluation

PREREQUISITES

PREREQUISITES Merak Peep Fundamentals course

Merak Peep Fundamentals course

AUDIENCE Anyone responsible for portfolio analysis or management using Merak Capital Planning software, including persons wanting to understand the role of portfolio management in E&P

:

PREREQUISITES Merak Peep Fundamentals course


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Management and economics Merak Enterprise Planning Advanced — 5 days

:

The Merak* Enterprise Planning platform provides a comprehensive environment for a living business plan. Use it to shift from static, lengthy annual planning to more dynamic, event-driven or evergreen planning. In this course, learn to generate the contextual planning information your organization requires and how this information is captured in an open and accessible format. Material includes setup of scheduled, standardized, and enterprise-scale calculations to support timely synchronization of multiple disparate data sources. COURSE CONTENT n

Workflow-synchronization through calculation, reporting, and visualization

n

Typical deployment and configuration scenarios

n

Data flows; data sources; mapping to variables, scenarios, and attributes; calculation settings; and automated scheduling

n

Data visualization on the desktop and published to the Web

n

Data cube customization-indicators, KPIs, perspectives, security roles

AUDIENCE

:

Anyone responsible for business planning using results from multiple software tools and processes, and administrators who support engineering and corporate planning workflows across an enterprise PREREQUISITES Merak Peep Software Advanced course and an intermediate understanding of multiple data sources, data cubes, and calculation servers


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NExT Unconventional Gas Program Accelerated training for unconventional gas teams Unconventional gas resources are rapidly becoming a competitive advantage for many companies. NExT helps companies become better positioned by offering the most

Curriculum includes: ■■

comprehensive training for exploration and development of unconventional gas. ■■

The NExT Unconventional Gas Program is designed to shorten the learning curve for the experienced professional through focused courses, core case studies, hands-on

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examples, and the most recent advances in industry understanding. The NExT Unconventional Gas Program focuses on the full asset life cycle: exploration, appraisal, development, and production. Course modules cover foundation to advanced

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levels through a variety of learning options such as field courses, laboratory work, instructor led classes, and hands-on software tools. ■■

For more information contact us at: [email protected]

Schedule a private course for your team. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Coalbed Methane, Shales, and Tight Sands Shale Gas Evaluation: Finding Production Sweet Spots PetroMod Petroleum Systems Modeling for Shale Plays Geomechanics Applications in Shale Gas Shale Gas and Oil Production: Exploiting Production Sweet Spots Economics of Unconventional Gas

The NExT Unconventional Gas Program can be tailored to match team or asset requirements.

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UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & GEOMECHANICS NExT’s Unconventional Resources & Geomechanics curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Unconventional Resources & Geomechanics course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Unconventional Resources & Geomechanics curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Coal Bed Methane and Tight Gas Advanced


Shale Gas

Heavy Oil

Geomechanics

Shale Gas and Oil Production: Exploiting Production Sweet Spots


Shale Gas Evaluation: Finding Production Sweet Spots


Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Coalbed Methane, Shales, and Tight Sands

Skill

Heavy Oil Transport and Gathering Systems

Economics of Unconventional Gas Geomechanics Applications in Coalbed Methane

Geomechanics Applications in Shale Gas PetroMod Petroleum Systems Modeling for Shale Plays


Geomechanics Applications in Heavy Oil

:

Reservoir Geomechanics


Foundation Awareness

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Heavy Oil Exploitation


Petroleum Exploration and Production


UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & GEOMECHANICS Petroleum Exploration and Production

Heavy Oil Exploitation


Economics of Unconventional Gas




Skill — 4 days

In this course, follow the different phases of an oil field’s life cycle: exploration, appraisal, well construction, field development, and production. Gain an overview of reservoir and field E&P through exercises, class discussions, team presentations, and interactive challenges. Review relevant principles and considerations from a domain perspective of geology; geophysics; petrophysics; reservoir, drilling, completions, and production engineering; and production operations. Understand the financial implications of these various phases and the role of professionals in each, as well as the functions of stakeholders.

Heavy Oil Exploitation is a foundation course covering full E&P life cycle with major focus on the challenges in exploitation. The course introduces applications of various key technologies and their appropriate interpretations along with systematic workflows and field examples. Participants will learn ways to reduce the lifting costs and make heavy-oil assets more economically viable.

In this course, you learn the fundamentals of rock mechanics, the origin of stresses in the subsurface, and how in situ stresses can be understood from wellbore data. Understand how to apply in situ stress data to critical problems in exploration and development. Fundamental concepts are coupled with exercises and workshops.

Particularly suitable for personnel involved with shale gas and coalbed methane, this course presents a probabilistic approach that can be immediately implemented for economic evaluation of unconventional gas resources. Case studies highlight the technology and workflows that can help reduce the uncertainty in your evaluations. Course material includes an overview of worldwide unconventional activity, discussion of technical and development uncertainties, and the use of a decision analysis process including sensitivities, decision trees, and value of information.

COURSE CONTENT n

E&P life cycle

n

Functions of companies and personnel, and their roles and responsibilities

n

n

COURSE CONTENT n

n

Technologies, processes, and workflows for successful exploitation

n

Political, environmental, and financial aspects of the oil and gas industry

n

AUDIENCE Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of petroleum exploration and production PREREQUISITES None

n

n

Heavy oils: Definition, geologic features, technologies and workflows for sampling and phase behavior characterization, production challenges Recovery methodologies: Nonthermal and thermal, toe to heel air injection with and without solid catalyst, and steam-solvent-based hybrid processes Nonthermal and thermal simulation processes

COURSE CONTENT n

Impact of geomechanics on oilfield development: Drilling, completions, and field production life

n

Principal stresses, pore pressure, effective stresses, stress and strain, elasticity, yield and failure envelopes

n

Laboratory testing: Procedures, limitations, unconfined compression, triaxial compression, thick-walledcylinder tests

n

n

Completions types and requirements for thermal recovery processes, sand control and management techniques Production techniques and lift methods Surface processing and upgrading schemes, transportation methodologies, storage practices

AUDIENCE Multidisciplinary asset team members; geologists, geophysicists, asset managers; and reservoir, drilling, production, completion, and facilities engineers PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences

n

State of stress in the earth, pore pressure and fracture gradient Wellbore instability: Rock mechanics versus operations, state of stress around the wellbore, failure criteria, influence of trajectory, and unconventional failures Mechanical earth model construction, operational aspects of wellbore stability control

COURSE CONTENT n

Worldwide unconventional gas activity

n

Impact of unconventional gas projects on company portfolio

n

Uncertainty and risk analysis

n

Technical and development uncertainties and risks

n

Strategies and technologies to minimize uncertainty and risk

n

Value of information during pilot and appraisal phases

n

Decision analysis process

n

Building economic cases Building decision models

n

Sand production and prediction

n

n

Reservoir geomechanics

n

Considerations and options for modeling

n

Multiple decision analyses (exercise)

n

Break-even price, hurdle rate, and other metrics

n

Case studies and practice problems

AUDIENCE Technical professionals and managers involved with wellbore stability, fracture stimulation, reservoir drainage patterns, naturally fractured reservoirs, overpressures, and fault seal analysis PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE Geoscientists, engineers, commercial team members, or managers wanting to model and analyze the business impact of unconventional resources PREREQUISITES Experience with petroleum economics theory and applied software use


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UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & GEOMECHANICS Introduction to the Geology of Coalbed Methane

Geomechanics Applications in Coalbed Methane

Geomechanics Applications in Heavy Oil


Skill — 2 days

Skill — 3 days

Explore the aspects of geomechanics for coalbed methane (CBM) recovery that can result in better field development and operational decisions. A unique feature of this course is the unified geomechanics approach that combines theoretical, laboratory (core testing), and field aspects for effective exploitation of these unconventional reservoirs. Course material covers the fundamentals of geomechanics as applied to coal, cleats, and natural fractures and their influence on drilling, wellbore stability, and stimulation. Learn the critical elements in designing coalbed completions and the geomechanical aspects for CBM enhanced recovery efforts and CO2 sequestration.

Structured to help engineers and geoscientists make informed decisions on development strategies and operations in heavy oil sands, course material presents the essential geomechanics aspects employed in thermal-based recovery operations.

This introductory course reviews the origins of coalbed methane (CBM); controls on its occurrence, composition, and production; assessment of resources and producibility in various geologic settings; influences on its permeability and production rates; hydrologic issues and water production; and methods of drilling, completing, and stimulating CBM wells. Examples from several basins clarify the controls on CBM occurrence and producibility and demonstrate the origins of CBM fairways, or sweet spots. Properties of contrasting systems (thermogenic versus biogenic and water-productive versus water-free systems) are described in terms of origins, gas resources, and CBM play characteristics.

n

Coalbed permeability: Cleats, mineralization, permeability anisotropy, in situ stresses, and their effects on fracture permeability and orientation

n

Matrix shrinkage and associated causes, swelling and its productivity impact

n

CO2 injection, matrix swelling, permeability reduction

n

Produced water composition, hydrologic maps as indicators of reservoir compartmentalization and permeability and pressure

n

Gas content measurement of coal: Methods, inferred gas content

n

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

n

n

Fundamentals of CBM reservoirs: History, importance, and how they differ from conventional reservoirs Factors that impact reservoirs: Depositional environment, self-sourcing, storage mechanism, reservoir extent, quality, and continuity Regional structural settings: Depth of the coal reservoirs, total coal thickness, coal occurrence, compartments, faulting, and sealing versus transmissivity Gas-prone kerogen: Sorption and diffusion, moisture content, thermogenic versus biogenic, mixed gas and migrated gas, maturation versus burial depth Gas composition, presence of nonhydrocarbon gases and corresponding heating value

Well considerations: Architecture and placement, completion methods, hydraulic fracture stimulation, open hole or cavity, horizontal and vertical wells, in-seam boreholes, cross-seam boreholes

n

Artificial lift: Requirements and methods

n

Water production, compositional analysis, and management

n

Production analysis: Decline curve, produced water and effects on well completion

AUDIENCE

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

Fundamentals of geomechanics: Stress and strain, mechanical properties, in situ stresses, principle of effective stress, computation of mechanical properties and strength parameters from logs and calibration with static properties

Learn how to build mechanical earth models (MEMs) and the advantages of coupling geomechanics models with reservoir models. Understand the geomechanical effects that can result from steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects and keep up to date with technologies and tools for monitoring the integrity of the reservoir and the caprock. COURSE CONTENT n

Basic principles of rock mechanics

n

In-depth discussion of earth stresses: In situ stresses, plate tectonics, stress profiles from logs, pore pressure, and principle of effective stress

n

Types of rock failures and their causes

n

MEMs: Data requirements for typical geomechanical analysis, process of building MEMs incorporating log and core data and field stress measurements, calibration of geomechanical model

n

Geomechanical effects in SAGD projects

Coal characteristics: Coal structure characterization, effect of coal cleats and natural fractures on mechanical properties, strength and stresses, evaluation of coal mechanical properties and strength from core data

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Wellbore stability in coal: Borehole stresses and near-wellbore mechanics

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Any E&P professional wanting to better understand the principles of the geology of coalbed methane

n

PREREQUISITES

n

Common completion techniques

None

n

Geomechanical impacts on CBM enhanced recovery projects and CO2 sequestration

Coal stimulation: Basics of fracture gradient and hydraulic fracturing

PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences

Temperature effect on rock properties,

Rock strength, porosity, and permeability ¢

Thermal stresses and strains Reservoir compaction and subsidence

n

Caprock integrity analysis to assess hydraulic and mechanical integrity

n

Workflow for coupled reservoirgeomechanics modeling: Common techniques, one-and two-way coupling, advantages and disadvantages of coupled modeling for wellbore stability

n

Reservoir monitoring: Surface and downhole tools and technologies to monitor reservoir and caprock deformation

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, and technologists involved in exploration, drilling, completions, and production in unconventional reservoirs; asset and technical managers

Risk scenarios

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, and technologists involved in exploration, drilling, completion, and production in unconventional reservoirs; asset and technical managers PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences Return to Matrix Click Here

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UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & GEOMECHANICS Geomechanics Applications in Shale Gas




Skill — 2 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

Skill — 5 days

This course presents the fundamentals of geomechanics as they apply to exploitation of shale gas reservoirs. Instruction combines theoretical, laboratory (core testing), and field aspects, resulting in a consolidated approach to understanding the optimal methodologies and technologies for efficient recovery of these resources. Field examples from unconventional reservoirs reinforce the understanding of these fundamentals and their applications.

This introductory course on heavy and extra-heavy oil focuses on the considerations for storage, transport, and treatment and encompasses the technology analysis for transportation. Learn how to assess the flow of heavy oil in a gathering system and techniques for mitigating flow problems inherent to heavy oil operations. Using modeling software, develop gathering scenarios and model transportation issues.

This course opens with a brief review of the principles of elastic and isotropic behaviors of rock, fundamentals of geomechanics, earth stresses, and mechanical earth models, and then moves to more advanced topics. Learn the impact of reversible and nonreversible geomechanical behavior on drilling, stimulation, sand production, and injection operations. Investigate anisotropy, its nature and effect on geomechanics, and its significance and influence on well construction and field development. Understand the mechanics of salt, its short-term and long-term behavior, and the impacts on drilling subsalt and presalt.

Applications-oriented, this course presents interpretation guidelines to evaluate prospective source rocks and define petroleum systems. Learn about some of the main applications of geochemistry to reduce the risk in E&P: total organic carbon (TOC), rockevaluation pyrolysis, vitrinite reflectance, thermal alteration index, kerogen elemental analysis, geochemical logs and maps, reconstructed generative potential calculations, and gas chromatography.

COURSE CONTENT n

n

n

n

n

Fundamentals of geomechanics in unconventional reservoirs, including stress, strain, and mechanical properties Shale heterogeneity evaluation, shale characterization methodologies, including petrography and X-ray diffraction, and shale anisotropy from microscopic to field scale Review of workflows using geomechanics principles to evaluate the variation in lateral anisotropy from well to well Design of data-acquisition programs for effective geomechanics analyses Workflows for estimation of anisotropic parameters using acoustic azimuthal anisotropy

n

Mechanical earth models and tight rock analyses

n

Key geomechanical elements affecting hydraulic fracture stimulation design, including heterogeneity and natural fractures

n

Completion strategies including horizontal completions, hydraulic fracturing, fracture fluid and proppant properties, and microseismic and hydraulic fracturing monitoring

COURSE CONTENT n

Heavy oil production system, nodal analysis, flow of fluids, and surface processing

n

Isothermal flow in pipeline, incompressible single-phase flow

n

Temperature profiles in pipelines

n

Crude oil diluents and hydraulic analysis to determine optimal volumes

n

Impacts of diluents on density, viscosity, pressure requirement

n

Effect of terrain topography on heavy oil transport, including water as conveyance medium

n

Gas-liquid flow in a gathering system, correlations

n

Structure of gathering network and basic equations

AUDIENCE Engineers and production managers interested in heavy oil gathering and transportation PREREQUISITES Basic knowledge of hydrocarbon properties, fluid flow, and production surface facilities design and operations

COURSE CONTENT n

Importance of reversible and nonreversible behaviors of rocks for well construction and field development

COURSE CONTENT n

Fundamentals of petroleum geochemistry

n

Basic geochemical measurements and interpretation pitfalls

n

Construction of the original petroleum generative potential of spent source rock

n

Significance of anisotropic behavior of rocks when considering mechanical properties and stresses

n

Identification and quantification of elements and processes that control petroleum systems

n

Challenges in drilling salt and consequent field development, mitigation, and management measures

n

Collection of oil and rock samples and evaluation of data quality

n

Use of biomarkers and isotopes to correlate oils and source rocks and assess thermal maturity and biodegradation

AUDIENCE Geologists; geophysicists; geomechanics, drilling, production, completion, and reservoir engineers; exploration supervisors and managers involved with geomechanics challenges of field development PREREQUISITES Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics course or a strong understanding of geomechanics fundamentals

AUDIENCE Exploration and development geologists, geochemical coordinators, managers, and geoscientists wanting more knowledge of petroleum systems, petroleum geochemistry, and basin modeling PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic petroleum geology and petroleum systems

AUDIENCE Engineers, geoscientists, and technologists involved in exploration, drilling, completions, and production in unconventional reservoirs PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences


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UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & GEOMECHANICS Reservoir Geomechanics Skill — 3 days

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With this presentation of petroleum geomechanics in the context of reservoir modeling, you learn the underlying principles behind subsurface stress and strain, how to account for rock mechanics and fracturing in your simulation models, and understand how a reservoir description can be affected by naturally occurring faults and fractures and operational intervention.

PetroMod Petroleum Systems Modeling for Shale Plays Skill — 5 days

:

Based on the use of PetroMod* software, this course presents the tools and workflows used in exploration for a shale gas system. Learn the use of PetroMod software in hands-on exercises. COURSE CONTENT n

Global review of shale gas exploration

n

Shale gas: Reservoir and charge, characterization, properties, and challenges

COURSE CONTENT n

Reservoir mechanics: Purpose and application

n

PetroMod mapping of facies, total organic content, and hydrogen index

n

Physics of coupling: Pore volume, flow properties, and fracture mechanics

n

Shale gas charge, trap and seal, Langmuir adsorption, principles

Mechanisms of modeling coupled problems, types and applications of numerical coupling, uncoupled modeling using reservoir simulation

n

Theoretical aspects of geomechanics (hands-on exercises)

n

Geomechanics for shale gas with full petroleum system assessment individual basin exercise

n

Field example of Latin America exploration

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n

n

n

n

Coupled modeling and gridding, compaction and subsidence Fault reactivation (seismicity),joint mechanics Geomechanics of fractured reservoirs, theory of joints (deformation, permeability) Hydraulic fracturing, injection fracturing, injection of produced water (PWRI), water fracturing, shear fracturing, coupled geomechanical modeling of fracturing processes

AUDIENCE Reservoir engineers wanting to apply geomechanical principles to reservoir evaluations or to model fracture and fault attributes PREREQUISITES Understanding of reservoir simulation principles and equations


Shale Gas and Oil Production: Exploiting Production Sweet Spots

Advanced — 5 days

Advanced — 4 days

Course topics encompass evaluation and development of tight gas reservoirs and the completion and stimulation of production wells. Learn the geologic characteristics of these reservoirs and the preferred techniques and technologies for formation evaluation, including log and core analysis, in situ stress tests, and well tests. Understand the considerations for field development, how to estimate reserves and predict well performance, and design and execute hydraulic fracture treatments.

According to some industry forecasters, the E&P gas boom is just beginning. In this course, the focus is on the engineering aspects of exploiting shale gas reservoirs. Understand the methods and workflows for characterizing and developing these unconventional resources, including reservoir evaluation, well architecture and placement, completions, hydraulic fracture treatments, and production. Gain a fundamental understanding of the asset exploitation life cycle. Instruction includes field examples and in-class exercises on the economic viability of these assets.

COURSE CONTENT n

n

Reservoir considerations, geologic characteristics, depositional environments, diagenesis, reservoir continuity and tectonics

n

Formation evaluation techniques including log and core analysis, statistical correlations, in situ stress tests, well tests leading to reserves estimation, predictions of gas in place and production performance

AUDIENCE Unconventional gas exploration geologists, basin and petroleum systems modelers, and geomechanics and geochemical experts

COURSE CONTENT n

Unconventional versus conventional reservoirs

n

In-depth discussion of shale gas and shale oil reservoirs: Evaluation methodologies and workflows; basic geologic, geophysical, petrophysical, and geomechanical considerations

n

Introduction to drilling operations and to methodologies and workflows for well architecture, construction, and placement

n

Best practices: Well completions, stimulation strategies, operations, and evaluations

n

Production and field redevelopment strategies to maintain economic production

n

Well completion strategies including tubular design, perforating considerations; workovers; hydraulic fracture treatments including candidate selection treatment type

n

Injection methods, selection of fluids and proppants, and pumping schedules

n

Fracture treatment execution, onsite monitoring, QC practices

n

Principles of fracture pressure analysis, flowback, and water management

Operating company multidisciplinary asset team members; engineers, geoscientists, financial decision-makers, and resource managers

n

Workflows for evaluation of fracture performance

PREREQUISITES

n

Critical parameters for field development and redevelopment considerations, strategies and economics including infill drilling

PREREQUISITES Introduction to PetroMod course (within last 2 years)

Tight gas reservoirs: Definition, resource distribution, history of development

AUDIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences

AUDIENCE Reservoir and production engineers responsible for optimizing recovery from tight gas reservoirs PREREQUISITES Petroleum engineers with a strong production or operations background


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UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES & GEOMECHANICS Shale Gas Evaluation: Finding Production Sweet Spots



Advanced — 4 days

Advanced — 3 days

Advanced — 1 day

Shale gas reservoirs have distinct characteristics that require specific evaluation techniques. In this course, learn the geologic, geophysical, and petrophysical attributes of these reservoirs, including the origin and accumulation of the natural gas. Gain exposure to the methods and workflows for identifying, characterizing, and developing shale gas reservoirs. Instruction includes field examples that deliver a foundation for understanding the exploration, appraisal, and location of production sweet spots for development. Exercises demonstrate how to assess economic viability of assets.

A predrill estimate of formation pore pressure is a key requirement for exploration and drilling. In this course, learn the fundamentals of formation pore pressure, including techniques for its prediction, analysis of the data, detection and collection of pressure data, and understanding normal-, over-, and underpressured environments. Practical analysis exercises reinforce your understanding of this crucial measurement.

In this advanced course, gain an introduction to the workflows available to build and run calibrated reservoir geomechanical models that maximize use of 3D and 4D seismic data. Rock physics, relating the state of stress in the earth with the propagation velocity of seismic waves, forms the link between seismic observations and the geomechanical model. Discussions of this link include both experimental data and the theoretical viewpoint. Learn how a combination of 3D geomechanical models, coupled with flow models calibrated with 3D and 4D seismic data, can increase your understanding of the reservoir depletion processes and the stress state in the reservoir and surrounding rocks.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT n

Formation pore pressure fundamentals

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Pore pressure estimation techniques

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Unconventional versus conventional reservoirs

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Impact of pore pressure prediction on exploration and drilling success

n

Geologic, geochemical, and geomechanical considerations in exploitation

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Pressure distribution: Concepts and application

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n

n

Role of geomechanics in basin modeling and petroleum systems analysis, risk assessment Development of mechanical earth models (MEMs) including thickness, depth, pressure, and gas storage capacity Formation evaluation methodologies: Mineralogy, porosity, permeability, free and total gas quantification, adsorbed gas

n

Correlation of wireline logs, borehole images, microseismic analysis, and wireline formation tests

n

In situ permeability and determination of permeability anisotropy

n

Calculations of gas in place

n

Key criteria governing wellbore placement, including drainage areas and borehole spacing

n

Penetration of production sweet spots and their economics

n

Statistical drilling and sweet spot drilling

n

Fluid migration model background and development

n

Hands-on pore pressure data analysis

Advanced — 5 days This course, with its emphasis on coalbed methane reservoirs and overview of shale gas and tight gas sand reservoirs, covers the critical aspects of these three unconventional resources. Understand the role that natural fractures play in fluid flow from these typically low-permeability formations. Learn the optimal drilling, completion, and stimulation practices for production from these reservoirs. COURSE CONTENT n

Unconventional gas: Origins in self-sourcing reservoirs, thermal maturation, and hydrocarbon generation

n

Thermogenic versus biogenic self-sourcing gas reservoirs, controls on gas occurrence and producibility

COURSE CONTENT n

Overview of workflows available to build, run, and calibrate reservoir geomechanical models that maximize use of 3D and 4D seismic data

n

Role of natural fractures in unconventional gas production, review of hydrology role in water production and management

n

Workflow applications to field development and reservoir management

n

n

Limitations of available workflows

Drilling, completion, and stimulation practices, with focus on mature US basins

Advanced workflows and techniques for design of reservoir management strategies

n

n

Examples of mature unconventional gas plays around the world

AUDIENCE Geoscientists or engineers wanting to learn the fundamentals of pore pressure and its effects on drilling, wellbore stability, and reservoir management

W NE

Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Coalbed Methane, Shales, and Tight Sands

PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE

Basic understanding of drilling, geology, and geophysics; basic understanding of risks associated with drilling operations

Multidisciplinary asset team members; geologists, geophysicists, asset managers, and reservoir, drilling, production, and completion engineers PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences

AUDIENCE Multidisciplinary asset team members; geologists; geophysicists; reservoir, drilling, production, completion, and facilities engineers; and managers PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in engineering or geosciences, or experience in exploitation of unconventional gas reservoirs

AUDIENCE Operating company multidisciplinary asset team members, engineers, geoscientists, financial decision-makers, and resource managers PREREQUISITES Bachelor’s degree in geosciences


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Information Management NExT’s Information Management curriculum provides courses for technical and non-technical students at all experience levels. The Information Management course matrix below organizes the curriculum by course focus and experience level. You can use this matrix to find the right course, build your training plans, and understand the NExT Information Management curriculum. Software intensive courses are marked with a : icon and field courses are marked with a icon. All NExT courses are available to be held at your location. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a private class.

Corporate Data Management & Integration Advanced Skill

ProSource Administration

:

ProSource Logs Fundamentals

:

ProSource Seismic Fundamentals

:

Project Data Management

Data Quality Management

Avocet Data : Manager Advanced Reporting and Graphing

InnerLogix DQM Advanced

:

InnerLogix DQM Intermediate

:

Studio for Petrel — Administrator

:

Unstructured Information Management

Physical Asset Management eSearch Administration

:

: MetaCarta Advanced Administration MetaCarta Administration

:

: Avocet Data Manager for Specialists

: ProSource Enterprise Fundamentals

Foundation

Finder Data Loading

:

ProSource Fundamentals

:

Techlog Fundamentals : for Data Managers

Finder Fundamentals

:

Studio for Petrel — : Basic Data Management

eSearch Fundamentals

:

MetaCarta Fundamentals

:

ProSource Petrel : and Results Fundamentals GeoFrame IESX : Seismic Data Loading and Data Management GeoFrame Charisma : Seismic Data Loading and Data Management GeoFrame Administration

Awareness

: InnerLogix DQM Solution Workshop

:

:

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Information Management InnerLogix DQM Solution Workshop Awareness — 1 day

eSearch Fundamentals

:

This course teaches the fundamentals of data quality management using InnerLogix DQM. Through a series of software demonstrations, learn how the software can automate and manually control data quality control processes to address data management challenges. COURSE CONTENT n

DQM methodology

n

InnerLogix tools and technology

n

InnerLogix DQM Solution Workshop

n

DQM implementation situations

n

References and DQM pilots

AUDIENCE Data management professionals, data loaders, data managers, database and IT administrators, and petrotechnical staff PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of the E&P industry and its information management challenges


:

Learn the fundamentals of eSearch that enable asset browsing and ordering with a common view of physical and digital data. Instruction introduces you to the interface, file structure, and visualization tools, and you are guided through the asset-oriented process, including check-in and check-out, search and filter operations, and inventory status. COURSE CONTENT

Finder Fundamentals Foundation — 5 days

GeoFrame Administration

:


:

The Finder data management system offers extensive data domains and applications to ensure the preservation and security of E&P corporate data. In this course, learn the fundamentals of the software that enable management of your data.

Administration fundamentals for GeoFrame* reservoir characterization software include installation, configuration, and maintenance. You also receive an introduction to the Oracle ® database management system and its relationship to the GeoFrame system.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

n

Login, project overview windows, and main menu options

n

GeoFrame fundamentals for installation and administration

n

Interfaces

n

Basic map menu options

n

Configuration of printers and plotters

n

Ordering

n

Customization of existing maps

n

Management of licenses

n

Central management of local assets

n

New maps

n

Addition of users and disks

n

Barcode scans

n

List Assistant

n

Archival and deletion of projects

n

Bulk edits

n

Selecting data from predefined filters

n

n

Browsing of documents and attachments

n

Browsing data using forms and reports

Basic Oracle administration, such as monitoring table spaces

n

Document searches

n

Starting and stopping the database

n

Integrating database access tools

n

Backup and recovery

n

Map directory and image overlays

n

n

Plots with predefined layouts

SQL statements related to GeoFrame projects

n

n

Cross sections

Relational database basics, design of models, and terminology

n

Browsing, inserting, and updating data

n

SQL language elements

n

Custody activity reports

AUDIENCE Data and information management professionals, data loaders, data managers, database and IT administrators, and petrotechnical staff PREREQUISITES

AUDIENCE

n

None

Data management professionals, data loaders, data managers, and database and IT administrators

SQL*Plus environmental and basic commands

n

Oracle server architecture

PREREQUISITES None

AUDIENCE GeoFrame database administrators and application support staff PREREQUISITES Proficiency in Linux® and UNIX® applications

:


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Information Management GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Data Loading and Data Management Foundation — 2 days

:

GeoFrame IESX Seismic Data Loading and Data Management Foundation — 2 days

:

MetaCarta Fundamentals Foundation — 1 day

:

In this course, learn the fundamentals of loading 2D and 3D seismic data into the Charisma* seismic interpretation module of the GeoFrame application.

In this course, you learn to load 2D and 3D seismic data for use in IESX software. You learn to manage and QC IESX data and to troubleshoot data problems.

In this introductory class, you become familiar with the MetaCarta user interface and learn to use the search tools and methodologies.

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

COURSE CONTENT

Creating new projects

n

Creation of new projects

n

n

Creating surveys within the project

n

Finding locations using the map interface

n

Loading navigation data from ASCII files and directly from SEG Y trace headers

Preview of 2D and 3D seismic headers and data

n

Loading 2D seismic data and station locations

Using keywords to focus locationspecific searches

n

Document collections

n

Natural language processing

n

n

Loading 2D and 3D seismic data from SEG Y tapes

n

Loading 3D seismic data and generating time slices and surface slices

n

Creating subprojects for sharing of seismic data

n

Loading cartographic data with Tobin format

n

Generating time slices and crosslines from a 3D volume

n

Managing data with IESX DataManager system

n

n

Backing up and restoring seismic and horizon data

AUDIENCE GeoFrame Charisma application users and support staff

AUDIENCE GeoFrame IESX application users and support staff

AUDIENCE Data management professionals, data managers, database and IT administrators, and petrotechnical staff

ProSource Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

ProSource access technology provides a single tool for browsing, editing, creating, and managing information from multiple distributed repositories. This course is recommended as the first step in learning the ProSource information management application and associated products. Instruction covers the fundamental workflows supported by the ProSource application. The ProSource interface and the workflows covered are common to the suite of ProSource products. The training guides you through the use of this software so that you can quickly and efficiently manage data and understand the architecture supporting the application. COURSE CONTENT n

ProSource architecture and integration strategy

n

Using the tree folder structure to access data using queries

n

Searching for specific data using constraints

n

Accessing spatial data and related information with the map

n

Accessing underlying data sources to view and edit data

n

Analyzing results with the data viewers

n

Performing and managing data transfers using the Data Transfer Manager

PREREQUISITES Anyone interested in search tools and new ways to find data

PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course

PREREQUISITES GeoFrame Fundamentals course

:

AUDIENCE Data management professionals with limited or no experience with ProSource software who require a basic understanding of the interface and workflows PREREQUISITES None

:


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Information Management ProSource Petrel and Results Fundamentals Foundation — 2 days

:

Improve the management of your data and information with this course on the ProSource Petrel workflow extension and the ProSource Results software. Learn to use the ProSource Petrel workflow extension to add functionality to the ProSource data management application, which supports project publishing and archiving as well as workflows for the ArcGIS ® spatial module for file exports. Understand how to use ProSource Results software to store data interpretation results in a vendor- and platformindependent system, immediately accessible by end users.

Studio for Petrel — Basic Data Management Foundation — 3 days

Learn industry best practices and procedures for managing data created from-and going into-the Petrel software environment. Because the Petrel application is only one of many that produces and consumes data, you learn how to best integrate Petrel software into your data environment, allowing you to access, publish, store, and enrich your company’s knowledge base. COURSE CONTENT

ProSource Petrel workflow extension and ProSource Results software

n

ProSource information management and spatial modules in Petrel software

n

ProSource Petrel ArcGIS module within Petrel software

n

Exporting and importing shape files and grid files

n

Publishing to ArcSDE files from Petrel software

n

Publishing, archiving, and restoring projects

n

ProSource Results software for permanent storage

n

Management of projects using the ProSource Results application

n

Navigating through the tree structure to access data

n

Searching for data using ProSource Results software and loading to an interpretation tool

n

Archiving unstructured data associated with a study


:

Structured to introduce you to the Techlog Techplot and Techdata modules, this course teaches the data model within the Techlog application and the foundation utilities for loading, unloading, manipulating, and displaying data, including core and images. Study the multiwell and multiuser aspects and gain a firm foundation for manipulating data projects of all sizes and complexity within the Techlog suite.

Avocet Data Manager for Specialists Skill — 2 days

:

Building on the concepts taught in the Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals course, you gain the knowledge to be first-line support for internal clients as well as a key player in the setup and configuration of new facilities. COURSE CONTENT n

Tips and tricks to save data entry time

n

Setting up and connecting new facilities with equipment (tanks, meters, pumps)

COURSE CONTENT

n

Petrel data management Petrel interface

n


n

n

Modifying and customizing reports

Customizing the Petrel environment and managing coordinate systems

n


n

n

Setup of basic security

n


n

First-line support for users

n

Setting up Studio Knowledge data environments

n


n

Data management workflows

n

Collaboration workflows

COURSE CONTENT n

:

Techlog Fundamentals for Data Managers

AUDIENCE Data management specialists, data managers, and technical personnel

AUDIENCE

PREREQUISITES

Data managers, data administrators, and geoscientists with project and data management responsibility and prior experience with Petrel software

None

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to become first-line support for internal clients using Avocet Data Manager PREREQUISITES Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals course

PREREQUISITES Petrel Fundamentals course and general knowledge of petroleum geology and geophysics

AUDIENCE Data management professionals, data managers, and petrotechnical staff who require a basic understanding of the ProSource interface, workflows, and integration with Petrel software

:

PREREQUISITES ProSource Fundamentals course or working knowledge of ProSource and Petrel software


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Information Management InnerLogix Data Quality Management Intermediate

Finder Data Loading Skill — 5 days

:

In this course on the Finder* data management system, learn to load and unload general types of E&P data into the Finder master datastore. COURSE CONTENT n

Standard data types

n

Workflows for loading data types: Wells, seismic, graphic objects, and leases

n

n

Finder HTML data dictionary and Entity Relationship (E-R) diagram pages Benefit of creating E-R diagrams before loading data

Skill — 4 days

:

This course encompasses the InnerLogix* suite of software tools (DataLogix, QCLogix, QCSync, QCAnalyst, QCRulesEditor, ILXAdmin, and QCSummary). You learn a methodical, systematic approach to the workflows for data quality assessment and improvement. Discussion includes an overview of the data quality management (DQM) methodology supported by the InnerLogix application. Understand how to use the DQM tool to improve data quality and enforce the data quality rules you have chosen. COURSE CONTENT n

DQM and the Six Sigma¬ technique

n

Three main methods for loading data: LCC, SpreadSheet Loader, and SQL loader

n

Use and value of quality data for trusted analyses and decisions in the industry

n

Loading wells: Location, directional surveys, logs, and markers

n

Use of DataLogix toolset to manually analyze, assess, and correct E&P data

n

Loading geographic and cultural features

n

n

Loading seismic location data, production data, and drilling data

Use of QCLogix and QCSync (QCPro toolset) to automate the assessment, correction, and synchronization of E&P data

n

Use of unloaders: 2D and 3D location data, LAS, shape

AUDIENCE Data management professionals, data loaders, data managers, and database and IT administrators

n

n

Use of ILXAdmin to perform administration tasks, create QCProjects, data links, and run jobs

n

Analysis of data quality results and defects using QCAnalyst

n

Web-based reports of quality scores using QCSummary

PREREQUISITES Finder Fundamentals course

Creation of rule sets for data quality assessment and correction using QCRulesEditor

MetaCarta Administration Skill — 2 days

:

Designed for administrators of the MetaCarta® geographic information search engine, this course teaches basic installation, configuration, and network connectivity. You also learn the concepts of crawling, scanning, and indexing of document repositories. COURSE CONTENT

ProSource Administration Skill — 3 days

:

If you are an application or database administrator, this course enhances your ability to install and administer the ProSource environment and the underlying data repositories. COURSE CONTENT n

Installing ProSource software and associated architecture

n

Installation of an appliance

n

n

Configuration of network connectivity, security, and active directory

Connecting the ProSource application to underlying data repositories

n

n

Users and ingestion into the index

Configuring data access, database views, questions, and capabilities

n

Suitable document repositories for scanning

n

Configuring fully customizable data access trees

n

Collections: Fundamentals and construction

n

n

Backups and hardware maintenance procedures

Using the IM Administration Console to support tasks: Defining users, entitlements, groups, and metadata configurations

n

Aggregation of several appliances

AUDIENCE

n

Custom gazetteer

Data and information management professionals, data managers, and database and IT administrators

AUDIENCE Data management professionals, data managers, and database and IT administrators PREREQUISITES MetaCarta Fundamentals course

PREREQUISITES ProSource Fundamentals course or working knowledge of ProSource software, and an understanding of UNIX systems administration, Apache™, Tomcat™, and SQL applications

AUDIENCE Data management professionals, data loaders, data managers, database and IT administrators, and petrotechnical staff PREREQUISITES Basic understanding of the E&P industry and its information management challenges

:


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Information Management ProSource Enterprise Fundamentals Skill — 3 days

ProSource Logs Fundamentals

:

This course teaches you the fundamentals of and workflows for ProSource Enterprise software, which leverages the Seabed* E&P datastore system to extend the functionalities of the ProSource data management application. You receive an overview of the functionalities and the procedures needed to execute specific workflows of data loading, validation, and QC; exporting data; and using utilities. An introduction to the Seabed data model explains its use in the ProSource Enterprise application. Learn how to use the ProSource application to manage data and understand the architecture supporting the application. Lessons and exercises are designed in a workflow fashion, focusing on practical user needs that let you apply your new skills immediately. COURSE CONTENT n

ProSource Enterprise architecture and integration strategy

n

Navigating through the ProSource Enterprise tree view to access data

n

Visually integrating different data types using different data viewers

n

Accessing and browsing the Seabed data model and other data sources

n

Loading data using a variety of loader functions

n

Browsing and validating data

n

Exporting data from the Seabed data model to different formats

n

Using the tools to manipulate and ensure data quality

AUDIENCE Data and information management professionals, data loaders, data managers, and database and IT administrators

Skill — 2 days

ProSource Seismic Fundamentals

:

In this course, you learn the fundamentals and workflows for ProSource Logs software, which leverages the Seabed E&P data store system to provide a data management solution for well logs. Learn how to scan, load, view, and export well log data files in various industry-standard formats. COURSE CONTENT n

ProSource Logs fundamentals

n

Starting the software and connecting to a database

n

Navigating through the tree view

n

Loading data using the Loader job functionalities

n

Browsing and updating data

n

Exporting data in various formats

n

Loading and associating documents to ProSource Logs entities

n

Searching for electronic documents

Skill — 3 days

PREREQUISITES ProSource Fundamentals or working knowledge of ProSource software

:

This course covers ProSource Seismic software fundamentals and workflows for complete data management in a multivendor environment. Learn to use this solution for collection and delivery of seismic data between projects. The ProSource user interface, an integral part of the application, utilizes the Seabed database for attribute storage and the ArcSDE technology for access. COURSE CONTENT n

n

Navigation structure, seismic data formats, fundamentals of numbering systems, and difference between 2D and 3D Refresh of geodetic concepts regarding ellipsoids, data, and projections associated with handling seismic data

Skill — 2 days

:

This course teaches how to install and configure servers to be used in a Studio Knowledge environment. It also covers creation of a Reference Project, User Projects, and a Repository in Studio Knowledge and how to transfer indexes between them. Instruction includes how to verify that the Studio Data environment is operational. COURSE CONTENT n

Studio Knowledge installation

n

Studio Knowledge configuration

n

Data population and transfer

n

Creation of Studio Find Indexes

n

Creation of the Studio Data environment

n

Studio Collaborate Validation

n

Scan, edit, and QC of seismic trace header data

n

Loading processed 2D navigation data and 2D and 3D seismic data

Data managers, data administrators, and geoscientists with project or data management responsibility.

n

Loading tape indexes and scanning of seismic data in a GeoFrame project

PREREQUISITES

n

Viewing and selecting loaded data

n

Exporting data from ProSource Desktop to a SEG Y file, IESX software, Charisma software, or SeisWorks project

AUDIENCE Data and information management professionals, data loaders, data managers, and database and IT administrators, particularly those working with well log data

Studio for Petrel – Administrator

AUDIENCE

General knowledge of G&G data. Petrel Fundamentals course and the Studio for Petrel – Basic Data Management course or equivalent Petrel and Studio experience.

AUDIENCE Data and information management professionals, data loaders, data managers, and database and IT administrators, particularly those working with seismic data PREREQUISITES ProSource Fundamentals course or a working knowledge of ProSource software

PREREQUISITES ProSource Fundamentals course or working knowledge of ProSource software

:


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Information Management Avocet Data Manager Advanced Reporting and Graphing Advanced — 1 day

:

eSearch Administration Advanced — 1 day

:

Advanced — 4 days

MetaCarta Advanced Administration

:

n

Creating user-defined calculations

n

Creating graphs

n

Advanced issues and workflow tactics

In this course, you are introduced to topics for advanced users of InnerLogix software. The focus is on adapters, assessment and correction rules, scheduling and monitoring of quality control jobs, and other system maintenance functions. You learn about data mapping, and data translation when implementing a typical DQM project. You also examine the friction points and impact matrix creation process, and create the respective assessment and correction rules set. An overview of InnerLogix system installation and migration emphasizes post-DQM project maintenance and ongoing activities.

n

Using Avocet Spreadsheet add-in module software to define Microsoft®Excel reports and build custom input

n

Port and machine changes

COURSE CONTENT

Building on the skills taught in the Avocet* Data Manager for Specialists training, this course teaches you to become an in-house expert in creating and modifying Avocet Data Manager reports and graphs. COURSE CONTENT n

Building reports

n

Building a report with multiple tables including battery, oil wells, and injection wells

AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to create and modify Avocet Data Manager reports and graphs PREREQUISITES Avocet Data Manager for Specialists course

Structured for application and database administrators, this course presents the fundamentals of eSearch administration and the advanced workflows to support its use for asset browsing and ordering with a common view of physical and digital data.

InnerLogix: DQM Advanced

COURSE CONTENT n

Data design concepts

n

Business rules and adherence

n

Data administration and custom configuration

AUDIENCE

n

Adapters

Data and information management professionals, data managers, database and IT administrators, and data warehouse administrators

n

Data mapping and data translation

n

Standard friction points and impact matrix

n

Predefined methods and methods from scripts for assessment and correction rules

Advanced — 2 days

:

This course is designed for administrators of the MetaCarta appliance who require connectors to structured databases or web sites and for developers who want to integrate MetaCarta software into other solutions. Learn how to configure alternate mapping packages, customize interfaces, and use Web crawlers and JDBC connectors. COURSE CONTENT n

Scanning and indexing a standard structured database of a known schema

n

Integrating a MetaCarta map into another Web site

n

Creating and using KML results from the MetaCarta application

n

Crawling and indexing complex or secure Web sites using Heritrix

AUDIENCE

n

Manual handling of exception wells and correction tools

IT system administrators, application support database administrators, user interface developers, web developers, and data managers

n

Installation, upgrades, and migration

PREREQUISITES

n

QC jobs scheduling, monitoring, reporting, and logging

MetaCarta Administration course and an understanding of Oracle and SQL databases

PREREQUISITES eSearch Fundamentals course

AUDIENCE Geologists, geoscientists, geotechnicians, database administrators, IT professionals, and other personnel involved in a DQM project PREREQUISITES InnerLogix Data Quality Management course or experience with InnerLogix technology, DQM methodology, and implementation processes

:


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able data sources to build a static reservoir model

develops the reservoir characterization skills of

based in petrophysics. Through learning-by-doing,

an asset team. Through world-class, hands-on

students identify by-passed potential in existing

instruction and mentoring, teams solve complex

fields and investment potential in new areas.

reservoir problems using the data from their

Purpose built for each team and their fields, the

organization’s fields.

Learning objectives:

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This multi-week program guides students through

an immersive learning environment. Based on

the evaluation workflows necessary to understand

40 years of proven experience, the program fast

their field. Students learn how to integrate avail-

tracks the development of each student.

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Conduct log analysis while learning the limits of borehole acquisition methods Evaluate the effects of depositional environments upon reservoir geometry and quality Determine the porosity, permeability, saturation, and stress-dependent parameters that affect reservoir performance; Integrate wellbore data to build a reservoir model Identify rock types and flow units Understand and apply subsurface integration practices Learn and use software tools for reservoir analysis and modeling – Petrel*

For more information on how NExT can help fast track your asset teams, visit us at NExTtraining.net.

Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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TECHNICAL COURSE INDEX 3D Reservoir Modeling Workshop 6

Development Geology 3

B

A Acid Stimulation Techniques 78 Advanced Core and Log Integration 42 Advanced Formation Evaluation 44 Advanced Formation Evaluation — Carbonates 44

Basic Cementing 53

Dipmeter and Borehole Image Logging 43

Basic Core Analysis 40

Directional Drilling and Surveying 55

Basic Logging Methods and Formation Evaluation 40

Drilling Engineering 52

Basic Petrophysics and Petrophysical Properties 41

Drilling Optimization 58

Drilling Fluids 55 Drilling Project Management 55

Basic Production Logging 41, 76

Advanced Formation Evaluation — Sandstones 45

Drilling Risk Management 56

Basic Reservoir Engineering Analytical Techniques ate Sequence Stratigraphy 7

Advanced Integrated Reservoir Analysis 43 Advanced Natural Gas Engineering 65 Advanced Production Data Analysis and Nodal Analysis 80

Drilling Simulator 54

Cased Hole Logging and Formation Evaluation 41

Drillstring Design 55

Casing Design 54

Dynamic Pressure Drilling 58

Cementing Operations 53

E

Characterization, Evaluation, and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 66

Advanced Remedial Cementing 54 Advanced Seismic Interpretation 31

Economics of Petroleum Exploration 9 Economics of Unconventional Gas 105, 114

Clastic Reservoir Characterization 8

Advanced Well Test Analysis 65

Electrical Submersible Pumps Applications Engineering 79

Clastic Sedimentology for Exploration and Development 7

Analysis and Development of Tight Gas Reservoirs 65, 117

Electrical Submersible Pumps Basic 78

Analysis of Production Performance Curves 66

Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentation 8

Electric Submersible Pumps Advanced 81

Applied Core Analysis 43

Completion and Production Engineering 76

Applied Geostatistics 6

Condition-Based Maintenance for Staticand Rotating Equipment 94

Emergency Systems and Electrical Componentsand Equipment 87

Applied Geostatistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists 62

Conducting an Integrated Reservoir Study 63 Crude Oil and Water Treatment 87

Applied Project Management — Oil and Gas 104

Applied Structural Geology in Hydrocarbons System Analysis 13

Exploration and Production Accounting — Level 3 105

Deepwater Sedimentary Systems 8

Assuring Flow from Pore to Process 66, 80, 96

Design, Diagnosis,and Optimization of Gas Lift Systems 78

AVO and Seismic Inversion 27


Deepwater Drilling Operations and Well Control 57 Deepwater Seismic Interpretation 28

Automation, Instrumentation, Measurements, and Process Control 93


D

Artificial Lift Technology 76 Auditing in the E&P Industry 104

Evaluation and Management of Fractured Reservoirs 13

Crude Oil Pumps and Gas Compression Systems 87

Applied Reservoir Engineering 63

Applied Reservoir Simulation 63

Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes: Miscible, Polymer, and Thermal 64

Contracts, Procurements, and Partnering 105

Applied Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring 45, 81

Applied Reservoir Petrophysics and Characterization 45

Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods: Theory and Applications 60

F Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Applied to Production Operations 94 First-Time Leadership and Supervision 102 Fluvial and Deltaic Architecture with Advanced Petrel Modeling Field Course 9 Fluvial and Deltaic Depositional Systems 9

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TECHNICAL COURSE INDEX Formation Damageand Mitigation 79

I

Maintenance Management and Control Indicators 95

Fractured Reservoir Characterization with Emphasis on Carbonates 10

Integrated Approach to Optimizing the Economy of the Asset Life Cycle 95

Full Life Cycle Fluid Evaluation – Downhole to Laboratory 67, 81

Integrated ProductionSystem, Gathering Network, and Flow of Fluids 89

Fundamentals of Exploration for Hydrocarbons 3

Integrated Reservoir Analysis 42

Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics 53, 114

Integrated Reservoir Management 61

Fundamentals of Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation 26

Monitoring and Reporting Systems in Production Testing 91

Integration of Safety into Systems and Processes 92

Multiphase Flow 91

Intermediate Petroleum Geomechanics 56, 116

G

Mastering Finance for Nonfinancial Oil and Gas Personnel 103 Metering, Measurements, and Production Tests 91

N Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering 61

Intermediate Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring 44

Gas Compression and Transportation 86 Gas Conditioning and Handling 88

Negotiation Skills for the Oil and Gas Industry 106

International Business Communication Skills 106

Gas Processing and Conditioning 87

New Advances in Well Test Interpretation 67

International Oil and Gas Exploitation Contracts 106

General Production Engineering 77

International Oil and Gas Management Skills 106

Geologic Assessment of Reservoir Seals and Pay 13

Introduction to Biostratigraphy 4

Geology of Clastic Reservoirs 4 Geomechanics Applications in Coalbed Methane 115 Geomechanics Applications in Heavy Oil 115 Geomechanics Applications in Shale Gas 116 Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling 13 Global Tectonics and Geological Prospecting Tools for Exploration 10

H HAZOP and SIL Application 88 Heavy Oil Exploitation 114

Offshore Drilling Operations 53


Offshore Facilities 86

61, 77, 89, 103

Oil and Gas Asset Management 103

Introduction to Flow Assurance 89

Oil and Gas Reserves and Evaluation I 61

Introduction to Geologic Interpretation of Seismic Profiles 11, 27

Oil and Gas Reserves and Evaluation II 64

Introduction to Geology 3

Oil and Gas Reserves: The New SEC Reporting Rules 103

Introduction to Geophysics 26

Oilfield Corrosion Management 95

Introduction to HAZOP and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) 86

Openhole and Cased Hole Data Acquisition and Interpretation 44

Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability 90

Operations and Wellsite Geology 4

Introduction to Petrophysics 40

Heavy Oil Transport and Gathering Systems 116

Introduction to Production Engineering 76

High-GOR-Well Liquid Loading 77

O

Introduction to Drilling 52

Introduction to Petroleum Economics 102

Heavy Oil Gathering and Transport System 94

Non-seismic Methods 26

P Petroleum Decision and Risk Analysis 107 Petroleum Economics 104

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy 10

Introduction to Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring 40

History Matching and Conditioning Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data 67

Introduction to Reservoir Engineering 60

Petroleum Geology 5

Introduction to Surface Facilities 86

Petroleum System Analysis 5

Introduction to the Geology of Coalbed Methane 4, 115

Petroleum Systems and Exploration and

Horizontal, Extended-Reach, and Multilateral Drilling 56 Horizontal Wells: Applications, Drilling, Completion, Productivity, and Surveillance 64 HSE in Explorationand Production 89 Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Design and Quality Control 77 Hydraulic Fracturing 79 Hydrocarbon Properties and Behaviors 88

Petroleum Exploration and Production 102, 114

L Low-Voltage, High-Voltage, Grounding, and Testing Equipment 90

M Maintenance Cost Control 90 Maintenance Integrated Planning 91


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TECHNICAL COURSE INDEX Development Geochemistry 11, 116

Seismic Interpretation Mapping with Petrel Software 29

PetroMod Petroleum Systems Modeling for Shale Plays 18, 117

Seismic Petrophysics 30

Pipeline Design, Operation, and Maintenance 95

Seismic Stratigraphy 30

Play to Prospect Methods and Workflow 11

Seismic Structural Interpretation 31

Pore Pressure Prediction Methods 58, 118

Selection, Operation, and Maintenance of Pumps, Compressors, and Prime Movers 93

Portfolio Management 107 Practical Depth Conversion for Seismic Interpreters 28

Shale Gas and Oil Production: Exploiting Production Sweet Spots 117

Production Technology 79 Project Management 104

Shale Gas Evaluation: Finding Production Sweet Spots 118

Prospect Appraisal and Petroleum Economics 11

South Pyrenean Foreland Basin — Spain 12

PVT Properties of Reservoir Fluids 64

Statistics and Petrophysics 42

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Strategic Project Management 108 Reliability Methodologies Applied to Maintenance 92

Structural Geology 5 Stuck Pipe and Fishing Operations 56

Reservoir Engineering 60

Stuck Pipe and Hole Cleaning 57

Reservoir Geology 12

Subsea Production Systems and Technologies 92

Reservoir Geomechanics 117

Subsurface Facies Analysis 12

Reservoir Monitoring Solutions Workshop 46

Subsurface Integration Field Courses — Guadalupe Mountains, USA 12

Reservoir Optimization using Applied Oilfield Manager (OFM) 62

Subsurface Mapping 5

Resources and Reserves Evaluation 68

Workovers and Completions 78

Field Courses Carbonates and Evaporites —Abu Dhabi 7 Fluvial and Deltaic Architecture with Advanced Petrel Modeling Field Course 9 South Pyrenean Foreland Basin — Spain 12 Subsurface Integration Field Courses — Guadalupe Mountains, USA 12

Avocet Assuring Flow from Pore to Process 66, 80, 96 Avocet Data Manager Advanced Reporting and Graphing 99, 124 Avocet Data Manager for Specialists 98, 122 Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals 97

T Tendering and Technical Bidding 108

U

Sand Control 80

Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: Coalbed Methane, Shales, and Tight Sands 118

Seismic Analysis of Carbonate Reservoirs 29

Utilities: Design and Operation 93

Seismic Attributes and AVO Analysis 31

Well Test Design and Analysis 62

Surface Facility Production Operations 88

Risk and Reliability Engineering 92

Seismic Attribute and Image Interpretation with Petrel Software 29

Well Productivity and Enhancement 62

Supply Chain Strategy 107

Risk Analysis and Management 108

S

Well Placement Fundamentals 6, 42, 54

Subsurface-Surface Production Optimization 96

Rig Awareness and Familiarization Field Course 52

Risk, Uncertainty, Decisions 107

Well Intervention 80

Sequence Stratigraphy Principles and Applications 14

Production Logging Solutions Workshop 46

Risk Assessment and Management in the Petroleum Business 108

Well Design and Construction Engineering 57 Well Integrity 46

Seismic Processing for Interpreters and Others 30

Plant Turnaround Management 96

Well Control 57

W Waterflood Management 65

Seismic Geomechanics 32, 118


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SOFTWARE COURSE INDEX Avocet Data Manager Advanced Reporting and Graphing 99, 125 Avocet Data Manager Fundamentals 96 Avocet Data Manager for Specialists 98, 122 Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler Fundamentals 68, 82, 97

FINDER

INTERSECT

Finder Data Loading 123

Introduction to INTERSECT 69

Finder Fundamentals 120

Merak GeoFrame

Economics of Unconventional Gas 105

Avocet Surveillance Installation 97

GeoFrame Administration 120

Merak Capital Planning Fundamentals 110

Avocet Volumes Manager for Administrators 97

GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Data Loading and Data Management 121

Merak Decision Tool Kit and Merak Peep Monte Carlo 110

GeoFrame Charisma Seismic Interpretation 32

Merak Decision Tool Kit Fundamentals 109

GeoFrame CPS-3 Advanced Mapping and Volumetrics 20, 35

Merak EnterprisePlanning 111


Merak Peep Decline Fundamentals 109

Avocet WorkflowManager — Level 2 99

GeoFrame Fundamentals 14, 33

Avocet Workflow Workshop 99

GeoFrame Geology Office 15

Merak Peep Fiscal Model Library Fundamentals 110

Avocet Volumes Manager for End Users 97 Avocet Workflow Builder 98 Avocet Workflow Builder Data Mining and Application 99 Avocet WorkflowManager — Level 1 98

ECLIPSE ECLIPSE Advanced Topics 71 ECLIPSE Applied Reservoir Simulation Fundamentals 68 ECLIPSE Blackoil Reservoir Simulation 69 ECLIPSE Compositional Simulation 72 ECLIPSE Equation of State and Pressure-Temperature-Volume 69 ECLIPSE FrontSim Fundamentals 69 ECLIPSE Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 72 ECLIPSE Thermal Reservoir Simulation 74

eSearch eSearch Administration 125 eSearch Fundamentals 120

14, 32, 46

GeoFrame GeoViz Advanced Seismic Interpretation and Visualization Techniques 35 GeoFrame GeoViz Seismic Interpretation and Visualization Techniques Fundamentals 34 GeoFrame IESX Gathers Seismic Workflow 34 GeoFrame IESX Seismic Data Loading and Data Management 121

Merak Peep Advanced 110

Merak Peep Fundamentals 109 Merak VOLTS Reserves Management Fundamentals 109 Portfolio Management 107

MetaCarta MetaCarta Administration 123

GeoFrame IESX Seismic Interpretation 33

MetaCarta Advanced Administration 125

GeoFrame InDepth 34

MetaCarta Fundamentals 121

GeoFrame Litho ToolKit Facies Classification 20, 49 GeoFrame SeisClass Seismic Facies Analysis 36

Ocean

GeoFrame Seismic Attribute ToolKit Workflow 33

Ocean Software Development Kit 2011.1 24

GeoFrame Synthetics 36

Open Inventor .NET: 3D Visualization for Ocean SDK 24

InnerLogix InnerLogix Data Quality Management Intermediate 123

OFM OFM Advanced Topics 74, 83

InnerLogix: DQM Advanced 125

OFM Forecast Analysis Fundamentals 70, 82

InnerLogix DQM Solution Workshop 120

OFM Fundamentals 70, 82 OFM Mapping Applications Fundamentals 70, 82 OFM Waterflood Analysis 72, 83

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SOFTWARE COURSE INDEX Petrel

PetroMod

Advanced Seismic Interpretation 31

Petroleum System Analysis 5

Applied Geostatistics 6

PetroMod Advanced Topics — 1D, 2D, and 3D 17

Fluvial and Deltaic Architecture with Advanced Petrel Modeling Field Course 9

PetroMod Introduction— 1D, 2D, and 3D 16

Petrel Advanced Wells 48, 73 Petrel Drilling 58 Petrel Fracture Modeling 16 Petrel Fundamentals 14, 32, 47, 68 Petrel Geology 15 Petrel Geophysics 33 Petrel Introduction to Structural & Fault Analysis Module (RDR) 21 Petrel Mapping and Geologic Workflows 15, 47 Petrel Multipoint and Conditional Facies Modeling 21, 49 Petrel Play to Prospect Identification 36 Petrel Play to Prospect Risk 17 Petrel Property Modeling 17, 48 Petrel Proxy Modeling and Optimization 74 Petrel Reservoir Engineering 70 Petrel Structural Modeling 18 Petrel Uncertainty for Reservoir Engineers 73 Petrel Upscaling and Fault Analysis 71 Petrel Velocity Modeling 35 Petrel Well Correlation 15, 47 Petrel Workflow Editor and Uncertainty Analysis 18, 35, 73 Seismic Attribute and Image Interpretation with Petrel Software 29

PetroMod Petroleum Resource Assessments with Special Reference to Petroleum Systems Modeling 18 PetroMod Petroleum Systems Modeling for Shale Plays 18, 117 PetroMod Pressure Calibration in Petroleum Systems Modeling 19 PetroMod Quantification of Uncertainty Analyses in Petroleum Systems Modeling 19 PetroMod Structural Analysis for Petroleum Systems Modeling 19

PIPESIM PIPESIM Artificial Lift Design and Optimization 83

Studio Studio for Petrel — Basic Data Management 34, 122 Studio for Petrel — Administrator 124

Techlog Techlog Advanced Analysis 21, 36, 49 Techlog Borehole Image Interpretation 22, 50 Techlog Core Data 22, 50 Techlog Fluid Contact Analysis 22, 74 Techlog for Geologists 22, 50 Techlog Formation Evaluation 19, 48, 73 Techlog Formation Evaluation with Quanti.Elan 20, 49 Techlog Fundamentals 16, 47, 71 Techlog Fundamentals for Data Managers 122 Techlog Python 16, 48

PIPESIM for Surface Facilities: Design, Modeling, and Optimization 98 PIPESIM Fundamentals 71, 83

ProSource ProSource Administration 123 ProSource Enterprise Fundamentals 124 ProSource Fundamentals 121 ProSource Logs Fundamentals 124 ProSource Petrel and Results Fundamentals 122 ProSource Seismic Fundamentals 124

Seismic Interpretation Mapping with Petrel Software 29

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