Basic Reservoir Engineering - BR

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Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

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Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

Leadership & commitment; Policy & strategic objectives; Legislation & regulation; Organization, responsibilities &r resources; Professional training & behaviors; Risk assessment & management; Planning & procedures; Contractor controls; Security; Emergency response; Performance management; Incident reporting & investigation; Audit; Management review

Fundamentals of seismology: Body waves that travel through a solid medium. Reflection, refraction, mode-conversion; Fundamentals of reflection seismology. P-P multi-azimuth. P-S multi-azimuth. S-S multi-azimuth; Fundamentals of seismic anisotropy; Fundamentals of 3D wide-azimuth seismic data acquisition. Issues of cost, number of channels, geophones chosen, recording system, fold, etc. Vertical component acquisition; multi-component acquisition; Fundamentals of seismic data processing: P-P multi-azimuth. P-S multi-azimuth. S-S multi-azimuth. Requirements for processing sequences. Necessity to comprehend the (chosen) contractor's definition of 'azimuth', and checks throughout processing to determine if the contractor is adhering to its definition of azimuth; Fundamentals of seismic data interpretation for fractured reservoir analysis, and in-situ stress evaluation. Commercially available software needed for multi-azimuth and/or multi-component 3D seismic interpretation; Fundamentals of seismic data modeling for anisotropy. Common (different) assumptions within different modeling packages; Commercially available support data. Where to find it; what it costs; how to integrate the required support data

Overview of building an E&P GIS Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI); Create a geodatabase; Well data; Licence data; Seismic data; Raster data and Raster catalogs; Spatial data metadata; Implementing desktop access; Strategic decisions in E&P GIS Implementation; GIS in the Oil and Gas project lifecycle; Stakeholders and GIS focal points; Managing and E&P GIS; Spatial data QC; Managing an SDI; Interfaces with third party systems

Leadership & commitment; Policy & strategic objectives; Legislation & regulation; Organization, responsibilities & resources; Professional training & behaviors; Risk assessment & management; Planning & procedures; Contractor controls; Security; Emergency response; Performance management; Incident reporting & investigation; Audit; Management review

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Composition and properties of water-based drilling fluids; Analysis of API water-base mud and non-aqueous drilling fluid report; Identification and treatment of drilling fluid contaminants; Composition and properties of water-based and non-aqueous drilling fluid systems; Selection of water phase salinity for borehole stability; API water-based and non-aqueous drilling mud tests; Adjustment of non-aqueous drilling fluid properties; Managing invert emulsion fluid systems: rig preparation and displacement; Non-aqueous drilling fluids designed for environmental compliance

Reservoir Characterization and Evaluation: geological setting; rock properties; petrophysical considerations; Drilling: vertical vs. horizontal wells; pilot holes; fluids; MWD and LWD; wellbore sizes and lateral; drilling challenges; mechanical considerations; Completions: cased vs. open hole; perforation schemes; stimulation design and considerations; case histories; Field trials and pilots: strategies for implementing a pilot program to optimize well drilling, completion, stimulation and producing alternatives using microseismic, fiber optics, production logs and other resources; Production Forecasting and Reserve Calculations: volumetrics; performance analysis; simulation; resource development; decline curve analysis; handling uncertainty in estimates

Goals of casing design; Types of oilfield tubulars and connections; Casing point selection and size determination; Load estimation methods for casing and liners; Typical design factors; Theories of strength and failure (standard collapse, burst, axial; yield basis for combined loads); Design examples and exercises for all key loads and strings; Casing handling, running and hanging practices

Applications for subsea systems; Flow assurance considerations in system design and configuration; Field architecture considerations; Subsea component descriptions and functions; Fabrication, testing, installation, commissioning, and operational issues; Production, maintenance, and repair considerations

Reservoir characteristics for horizontal and multilateral well applications; Well performance prediction; Wellbore stability of horizontal wells; Stress field effect on drilling, completion, production and stimulation; Geosteering; Multilateral well structure, junction and application; Formation damage and its effect on horizontal well performance; Well completion and its effect on horizontal and multilateral wells; Intelligent completion: downhole monitoring and control; Well trajectory and completion optimization; Horizontal well fracturing; Acidizing of horizontal wells; Other stimulation methods

Introduction to the fracturing process and mechanics; Practical fracture design; Fracturing fluid additives and proppant; Strengths and limitations of fracturing applications; Production increase; Factors involved in field implementation; Acid fracturing vs. proppant fracturing; Frac packs; Waterfracs; Fracturing in horizontal wells; QA/QC of fracturing treatments; Evaluation of fracturing treatment success

Introduction: What is LNG and where it comes from; Technical Fundamentals #1: Molecular weight, heating value and Wobbe Index; Technical Fundamentals #2: Vapor pressure, multi-component mixtures, thermodynamics; Gas Pre-treatment: Removal of acid gas, water, mercury and NGLs; Heat Exchangers: Description of heat exchangers specifically used for LNG production including Plate Fin and Coil Wound exchangers; Refrigeration: Single and multi-component refrigeration cycles; Rotating machinery: Compressors and drivers used for LNG, pumps and turbo expanders; Liquefaction: Description of typical liquefaction technologies for base-load and small scale production, issues relating to technology selection and operation.; LNG Storage: Description of LNG storage tanks, sizing basis, small scale tanks; LNG Shipping: Types of LNG carriers, marine management issues and LNG transfer; Siting Issues: Site selection and HSSE considerations; LNG Importing: Basis for sizing, technology selection, energy integration; Commercial Issues: The LNG chain and impact of contractual issues on LNG plant design and operation; LNG pricing; Project Issues: What influences LNG facility costs, benchmark costs, construction issues; New Developments: Development of off-shore LNG operations to regasification and liquefaction, coal seam gas project issues

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Bitumen and Heavy Oil Definitions and Introduction; Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Oil Sands In-situ Project Review; Introduction of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Environmental Challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela; Introduction of United States Heavy Oil Occurrences (Utah, California and Texas)

Defining the budget terms, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas sense; Classifying the different budgets, OPEX, CAPEX, Revenues, Cash budget; Tools and techniques for determining inputs to the budget process; Analyzing different types of budget management systems; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure performance; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using the budgets efficiently and effectively; Budget monitoring tools and approaches; Using variance analysis to monitor every line item of your budget; Budget estimation techniques; Operating Budget Management - Determining the inputs for the different operating budgets; Using different techniques to create the budgets; Using non-financial measures to make the budgets more effective; Support departments budgets; Developing budget standards; Optimizing the budget process; Capital Budget ManagementWhat makes up the capital budgets; Approval processes; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using scenario analysis to more effectively manage budgets; Earned Value Management (EVM); Cash Budget Management - Tie the budgets together to build the cash budget; Analyzing capital investment projects; Tools for adjusting the cash budgets; Performance Measurement - Key Performance Indicators characteristics; Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPI); Analysis incorporating financial and non-financial measures; Leading and lagging indicators; The Balanced Scorecard that works; Evaluation of performance measures; Benchmarking; Raising your own performance management awareness

Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

Leadership & commitment; Policy & strategic objectives; Legislation & regulation; Organization, responsibilities &r resources; Professional training & behaviors; Risk assessment & management; Planning & procedures; Contractor controls; Security; Emergency response; Performance management; Incident reporting & investigation; Audit; Management review

Fundamentals of seismology: Body waves that travel through a solid medium. Reflection, refraction, mode-conversion; Fundamentals of reflection seismology. P-P multi-azimuth. P-S multi-azimuth. S-S multi-azimuth; Fundamentals of seismic anisotropy; Fundamentals of 3D wide-azimuth seismic data acquisition. Issues of cost, number of channels, geophones chosen, recording system, fold, etc. Vertical component acquisition; multi-component acquisition; Fundamentals of seismic data processing: P-P multi-azimuth. P-S multi-azimuth. S-S multi-azimuth. Requirements for processing sequences. Necessity to comprehend the (chosen) contractor's definition of 'azimuth', and checks throughout processing to determine if the contractor is adhering to its definition of azimuth; Fundamentals of seismic data interpretation for fractured reservoir analysis, and in-situ stress evaluation. Commercially available software needed for multi-azimuth and/or multi-component 3D seismic interpretation; Fundamentals of seismic data modeling for anisotropy. Common (different) assumptions within different modeling packages; Commercially available support data. Where to find it; what it costs; how to integrate the required support data

Overview of building an E&P GIS Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI); Create a geodatabase; Well data; Licence data; Seismic data; Raster data and Raster catalogs; Spatial data metadata; Implementing desktop access; Strategic decisions in E&P GIS Implementation; GIS in the Oil and Gas project lifecycle; Stakeholders and GIS focal points; Managing and E&P GIS; Spatial data QC; Managing an SDI; Interfaces with third party systems

Leadership & commitment; Policy & strategic objectives; Legislation & regulation; Organization, responsibilities & resources; Professional training & behaviors; Risk assessment & management; Planning & procedures; Contractor controls; Security; Emergency response; Performance management; Incident reporting & investigation; Audit; Management review

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Composition and properties of water-based drilling fluids; Analysis of API water-base mud and non-aqueous drilling fluid report; Identification and treatment of drilling fluid contaminants; Composition and properties of water-based and non-aqueous drilling fluid systems; Selection of water phase salinity for borehole stability; API water-based and non-aqueous drilling mud tests; Adjustment of non-aqueous drilling fluid properties; Managing invert emulsion fluid systems: rig preparation and displacement; Non-aqueous drilling fluids designed for environmental compliance

Reservoir Characterization and Evaluation: geological setting; rock properties; petrophysical considerations; Drilling: vertical vs. horizontal wells; pilot holes; fluids; MWD and LWD; wellbore sizes and lateral; drilling challenges; mechanical considerations; Completions: cased vs. open hole; perforation schemes; stimulation design and considerations; case histories; Field trials and pilots: strategies for implementing a pilot program to optimize well drilling, completion, stimulation and producing alternatives using microseismic, fiber optics, production logs and other resources; Production Forecasting and Reserve Calculations: volumetrics; performance analysis; simulation; resource development; decline curve analysis; handling uncertainty in estimates

Goals of casing design; Types of oilfield tubulars and connections; Casing point selection and size determination; Load estimation methods for casing and liners; Typical design factors; Theories of strength and failure (standard collapse, burst, axial; yield basis for combined loads); Design examples and exercises for all key loads and strings; Casing handling, running and hanging practices

Applications for subsea systems; Flow assurance considerations in system design and configuration; Field architecture considerations; Subsea component descriptions and functions; Fabrication, testing, installation, commissioning, and operational issues; Production, maintenance, and repair considerations

Reservoir characteristics for horizontal and multilateral well applications; Well performance prediction; Wellbore stability of horizontal wells; Stress field effect on drilling, completion, production and stimulation; Geosteering; Multilateral well structure, junction and application; Formation damage and its effect on horizontal well performance; Well completion and its effect on horizontal and multilateral wells; Intelligent completion: downhole monitoring and control; Well trajectory and completion optimization; Horizontal well fracturing; Acidizing of horizontal wells; Other stimulation methods

Introduction to the fracturing process and mechanics; Practical fracture design; Fracturing fluid additives and proppant; Strengths and limitations of fracturing applications; Production increase; Factors involved in field implementation; Acid fracturing vs. proppant fracturing; Frac packs; Waterfracs; Fracturing in horizontal wells; QA/QC of fracturing treatments; Evaluation of fracturing treatment success

Introduction: What is LNG and where it comes from; Technical Fundamentals #1: Molecular weight, heating value and Wobbe Index; Technical Fundamentals #2: Vapor pressure, multi-component mixtures, thermodynamics; Gas Pre-treatment: Removal of acid gas, water, mercury and NGLs; Heat Exchangers: Description of heat exchangers specifically used for LNG production including Plate Fin and Coil Wound exchangers; Refrigeration: Single and multi-component refrigeration cycles; Rotating machinery: Compressors and drivers used for LNG, pumps and turbo expanders; Liquefaction: Description of typical liquefaction technologies for base-load and small scale production, issues relating to technology selection and operation.; LNG Storage: Description of LNG storage tanks, sizing basis, small scale tanks; LNG Shipping: Types of LNG carriers, marine management issues and LNG transfer; Siting Issues: Site selection and HSSE considerations; LNG Importing: Basis for sizing, technology selection, energy integration; Commercial Issues: The LNG chain and impact of contractual issues on LNG plant design and operation; LNG pricing; Project Issues: What influences LNG facility costs, benchmark costs, construction issues; New Developments: Development of off-shore LNG operations to regasification and liquefaction, coal seam gas project issues

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Bitumen and Heavy Oil Definitions and Introduction; Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Oil Sands In-situ Project Review; Introduction of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Environmental Challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela; Introduction of...

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Basic Reservoir Engineering - BR

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