Upon completion, participants will have the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the relationships and dependencies across the E&P industry.

By the end of this course delegates will learn about:

• • Exploration/production overview
  • Basic petroleum geology principles
  • Basic petroleum geophysics principles
  • Log interpretation basics
  • Drilling basics
  • Basic reservoir engineering
  • Basic production engineering
  • Basic facilities engineering
  • Business principles governing E/P

Newly hired engineers and geoscientists, petroleum engineers, production operators, technicians and industry personnel

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

Oil & Gas Reservoirs

• • Characteristics of rocks
  • Origin of oil
  • Reservoir Traps
  • Reservoir Fluid Composition

Drilling

• • Exploration
  • Rotary drilling rig
  • Drill bits
  • Hoisting, rotating and circulating system
  • Conductor casing
  • Drilling fluid / mud pump
  • Surface casing
  • Intermediate casing
  • Logs and tests
  • Production process casing

Oil Well Completion

• • Perforated completion
  • Open hole completion
  • Perforated liner completion
  • Tubing and packers
  • Tubingless completions
  • Multiple completion
  • Wire trapped screen completion

 Wellhead

• • Casing head
  • Tubing head
  • Christmas tree

Reservoir Drives

• • Dissolved-gas drive
  • Gas-cap drive
  • Water drive
  • Combination drive

Artificial Lift

• • Beam pumping
  • Sub surface hydraulic pumping
  • Electric submersible pumping
  • Gas lift

Reservoir Stimulation

• • Fracturing
  • Acidizing
  • Chemical treatment

Additional Recovery

• • Water flooding
  • Miscible processes
  • Thermal processes

 
Separation & Treatment

• • Two-phase separation
  • Three-phase separation
  • Emulsion treatment
  • Gas handling and treatment

Oil Well Testing

• • Potential tests
  • Bottom hole pressure tests
  • Productivity tests
  • Bottom - Hole Temperature Determination
  • Fluid Level Determination

Oil Lease Storage and Measurement

• • Oil storage
  • Oil measurement
  • LACT units
  • Computers in production process operation

Special Problems

• • Water
  • Paraffin
  • Hydrogen sulfide

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