Upon the successful completion of Subsurface Production Operations and Artificial Lift Technologies course, participants will be able to:

• Apply and gain in-depth knowledge on subsurface production operations
• Discuss the inflow and outflow performances
• Make analysis & evaluation of formation damage and its effect on production performance
• Improve the technical background about formation damage in terms of causes, prevention and finding remedies & solutions.
• Describe perforation methods, formation damage, matrix acidizing and hydraulic fracturing
• Apply and gain proper techniques on artificial lift systems and optimization technology
• Discuss gas lift systems, ESP systems, sucker rod pumping, jet pumps, hydraulic pumps and progressive cavity pumps.
• Discuss criteria for artificial lift system selection and artificial lift screening methods
• Select the appropriate artificial lift system
• Compare systems to determine what system is most economically feasible.
• Specify components and auxiliary equipment needed for each system
• Classify best practices available to extend the life of equipment and installed lift systems
• Design system features that allow for gassy production, production with solids, viscous production, and for other harsh environments

• Petroleum and production engineers
• Completion, reservoir and drilling engineers concerned with well performance & production enhancement facilities
• Supervisors, field operators and technicians
• Other company staff involved in subsurface production operations
• Petroleum engineers who are new to the profession
• Managers and government officials and others involved with the production systems
• Technical and operations staff from other disciplines, who require a cross-training to or a basic understanding of the subsurface production operations

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions   

Module 1 - Reservoir performance: inflow and outflow relationships

·         KeyTopics:

• Reservoir performance: wellbore and reservoir performance overview
• Pressure loss in the wellbore
• Well productivity
• Concepts of the productivity index
• Inflow and outflow relationships

Module 2 - Formation Damage

·         KeyTopics:

• Formation damage overview
• Well production problems: asphaltenes, waxes, hydrates, inorganic, scale formation, corrosion
• Drilling-induced formation damage
• Types of Damage Mechanisms and detailed review
• Various formation damage causes and their insights

Module 3 - Stimulation operations / Why and when do we need an artificial lift?

·         KeyTopics:

• Damage prevention
• Evaluation of damage – production performance, and pressure analysis review
• Damage removal: two basic acidizing treatments and acidizing materials and methods
• Damage removal by chemical solvents
• Acid type and concentration
• Evaluation of acid treatments
• Impact of changing well conditions and the need for artificial lift
• Overview of artificial lift technology: sucker road pump design, hydraulic pump design, jet pump, gas lift, ESP
• Application of artificial lift technology and its limitations

Artificial lift screening methods

Module 4 - Sucker rod pumping and gas lift system

·         KeyTopics:

• Sucker rod pump concept
• Limitations and advantages of the sucker rod pumping system
• Components of the sucker rod pump
• Design of the sucker rod pump
• Troubleshooting of the sucker rod pump systems
• Gas lift concept
• Gas lift types: continuous and intermittent gas lift
• Main components of the gas list system: mandrels and valves
• Gas lift design
• Effects of temperature and chokes
• Valve spacing
• Equilibrium curve and continuous flow design
• Injection gas requirements
• Limitation and advantages of the gas lift system

Module 5 - ESP System, Hydraulic & Jet Pumping and PCP systems

·         KeyTopics:

• The concept of the ESP system
• Equipment and accessories of the ESP systems
• ESP design: pump performance curves, pump intake curves, typical problems, installation, troubleshooting; best practices for installation and maintenance;
• Steps to correctly size an electric submersible pump (ESP) system. basic sizing principles for the pump, motor and cable
• Importance of correctly matching well productivity to pump performance
• Use of data to diagnose well/equipment problems
• Limitation and advantages of the ESP system
• The concept of the hydraulic pumps
• Limitation and advantages of the hydraulic pumps
• The concept of the jet pumping
• Limitation and advantages of the jet pumps
• The concept of the PCP pumps
• Limitation and advantages of the PCP pumps
• Best practices for installation and maintenance
• Criteria for selection of artificial lift systems and artificial lift screening methods

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