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Hydrocarbon accounting & production Allocation
Course Description

Oil and Gas production in the form of accurate measurement and back-allocating volumes to the wells, efficient production deferment tracking and enhanced integrated production planning process poses a challenge to proper management of an oilfield asset.

In the oilfield, it is a routine practice to carry out these activities (consciously or otherwise) without recognizing and adhering to best practice. Case study indicates that inaccurate measurements of crude oil & gas production represents about 10% revenue lose to an asset with attendant legal consequences or confidence impact in some instance. Other identified challenges associated with poor management of crude oil production include:

• End to End Hydrocarbon management

• Weak deferment administration process

• Inefficient metering system

• Measurement Uncertainty cost

• Poor allocation and reconciliation processes

This naturally cascade into unreliable business planning cycles and field reserve estimation. This Best Practice in Surface Production Operations Management training will go steps further to highlight current best industry practice with field experience including challenges and how to mitigate identified challenges. This training seminar will further show how an integrated production operations approach is applied in addressing these challenges including custody transfer and other terminal nodes.

This training seminar will feature:

• Overview of Surface Production Operations

• Metering Systems

• Hydrocarbon Production Info. Management (HPIM)

• Production Deferment Administration

• Production Accounting, Allocation & Reconciliation

• Integrated Production / Injection Plan

The goal of this training seminar will focus on the following objectives:

• Understand the challenges associated with production operations management

• Highlight best practice in metering, deferment administration and planning

• Generate strategy to meet the business-driver in an asset using case studies.

• Provide appropriate improvement process

• Understand the fundamentals of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering (HAM).

• Identify the challenges of oil accounting, metering & allocation.

• Determine the key tools and techniques of HAM.

• Analyze production data and carryout data validation correctly

• Analyze sources of uncertainty in production allocation and loss accounting.

• Discuss Deferment management Types & Coding control.

At the end of this training seminar, you will learn to:

• Manage an operating asset with best-in-class practice initiative

• Understand the best management approach peculiar to your asset

• Recognize what to watch for in production operations practice

• Develop asset-specific integrated production plan

• Develop asset specific metering and deferment framework

This training seminar is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Production Operators

• Field Production Personnel / Supervisors / Superintendents

• Production Engineers

• Asset Managers and Senior Managers

• Asset Support Engineers

• Reservoir Engineers

• Planning Engineers

• Production Accountants / Engineers

This training Surface Production Operations Management training will be in a workshop format with strong emphasis on industry best practice alongside an interactive approach from all participants.

DAY 1 : Overview of Surface Production Operations & Accounting Fundamentals

• Ice break (Photos engagement , video simple math & start case study)

• Introduction to Surface Production Operations

• Difference between Measurement, allocation, accounting & Hydrocarbons management

• Hydrocarbons management value chain.

• Tools Supporting Operations Management

• Oil Accounting & Oil Economics – Decision making tools

• Overview of Well, Reservoir & Facility Management process

• Measurement Systems & imbalance reconciliation

• Operations Integration

• HCA Standard Business Workflow

• Well Testing fundamentals

• Worked Example – Wells Accounting

DAY 2 Metering System, Mismeasurement & data Validation

• Principles of flow measurements.

• Metering Classes & accuracy

• Calibration frequencies for metering.

• Metering System configuration.

1. Oil Metering.

2. Gas Metering.

• Uncertainty & Data Validation.

• Metering Assembly best practices & case study.

• Uncertainty & uncertainty cost.

• Uncertainty Worked example.

• Different Types of Meters:

1. MPFM

2. Ultrasonic, orifice & turbine flow meters

3. Pros & cons & applications of different types of flow meters.

DAY 3 : Production Deferment Administration

• General Principles of Deferment Administration

• Principles of Production Allocation & Reconciliation

• Domain Experts & Required Technology

• Populating and Verification / Validating Process of Data

• Recording Deferment in HCA application

• Allocation & Reconciliation

• Deferment Coding

• Roles & Responsibilities

• HCA Applications

• Deferment Integrated Frame Work

DAY 4 Production Allocation & Reconciliation

• Oil & Gas allocation

• Tiers of Hydrocarbon allocation

• Production Allocation & Loss Calculation

• Allocation Factor – Definition, Trending & calculations.

• Wells Production Allocated Volumes

• Case Study: Does RF=1 Guarantee good quality data?

• PMAS (Production Measure & allocation System) Overview.

• API MPMS Basis of Allocation.

• Measured Liquid Volume Correction

• Measured gas Volume Correction

• Main Allocation Calculation Case Study

DAY 5 Integrated Production / Injection Planning

• Hydrocarbon Accounting Data Processing

• General Principles of Activity Planning

• Overview of Water-Injection System

• Business Objective for Integrated Production Planning

• Common Tools Required

• Challenges in Integrated Production Plan

• Integrated Production Plan Workflow

• Strategy in Generating Robust Plan linked to the Business

• Performance Review

• Case Study

• General Course Review

• Assessment of Participants

• Feedback & Closing Remarks

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
PE260-01
2026-05-31
Dubai
USD 5450
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PE260-02
2026-08-03
Istanbul
USD 5950
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PE260-03
2026-11-22
Amman
USD 5450
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