Course Description
The course prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems for locating, extracting, processing and refining crude petroleum and natural gas, including prospecting instruments and equipment, mining and drilling systems, processing and refining systems and facilities, storage facilities, transportation systems, and related environmental and safety systems.
Course Objectives
- Understanding the Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties
- Understanding the Material Balance Equations and their Uses
- Learning the Art of Fluid Sampling and Analysis
- Understanding the Reserve Estimates and Predictions
- Understanding the Crude Oil Composition & Analysis
- Learning the Picking of Pressure Points
- Understanding the Coring and the Use of Core Data
- Learning the Prediction of Pore Pressure
- Understanding the Multi Phase Flow of Fluids in Porous Media
Who Should Attend?
- Petroleum engineers
- Technical/ reservoir engineers
- Processing engineers
- Commercial analysts
- Decision makers/ investors in oil and gas sector
Course Details/Schedule
- Reservoir Traps
- Oil Reserve Estimates
- Production Mechanism
- Data Acquired
- Well Testing & Production
- Reservoir Types
- Rock Properties
- Rock Wettability
- Fluid Properties
- Fluid Composition
- Fluid Types
- Fluid Sampling
- Crude Oil Properties
- Formation Water Properties
- Material Balance Equations and their Uses
- Gas Reservoirs
- Pressure Measurements
- Plans for Development
- Crude Oil Composition & Analysis
- Processing Units & Degassing Stations
- Asphaltene, Tar, and Wax Problems
- Effects of Change of Reservoir Pressure
- Heavy Oil
- Samples from Core
- Down Hole Sampling
- H2S and CO2
- The Art of Sampling
- Picking of Pressure Points
- Coring: What is Coring
- Conventional Core Barrel
- Core Jamming
- Coring While Drilling
- Sponge Core
- Coring Tracer
- Gamma Tracking on Core Samples
- Corrosion: Basics of Corrosion
- Factors Affecting Corrosion
- Corrosion Rate & Mechanism
- Forms of Corrosion
- Analysis of Corrosion Data
- Cementing: Basics
- Cement-Mud Relationship
- Slurry Dynamics
- Rehology of Cement Slurry
- Displacement Mechanism
- Problems with Gas
- Analysis of Cement data
