Deepwater Well Engineering - DWE

Water chemistry fundamentals; Water sampling and analysis; Water formed scales; Corrosion control; Water treatment microbiology; Produced water discharge/disposal and treatment principles; Produced water treating equipment - theory of operation, advantages and disadvantages, and the importance of oil droplet size; Water injection and disposal systems - theory of operation, corrosion, scale, and biological control; Case study

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

Gas properties: Real gas behavior equations of state, impurities, mixtures, phase behavior dew point, retrograde behavior, flash calculations; classifying gas reservoirs; Reservoir performance: Gas well testing - flow after flow, isochronal, stabilized inflow performance; turbulence and skin effects; perforation effects; tight well analysis; horizontal wells; hydraulically fractured wells; Reserve calculations: P/Z plots, energy plots, water influx, abnormal pressure effects; diagnostic testing based on production data; Flow in pipes and restrictions: Pressure loss - tubing, flowlines, chokes, safety valves; effects of liquids-liquid loading, liquid removal methods, multiphase flow correlations; erosional velocity; Compression: Types of compressors; compressor selection - reciprocating and centrifugal; effects of variables; capacity and horsepower; Total system analysis: Tubing and flowline size effects; perforating effects; relating deliverability to time; evaluating compressor installations; analyzing injection wells; Flow measuring: Orifice metering - design, accuracy, troubleshooting; other metering methods; Condensate reservoirs: Reservoir types - wet gas, retrograde; reserve estimates, laboratory simulation; gas cycling; Field operations problems: Interpreting P/Z plots; hydrate formation

Explore the characteristics of change; Build an integrated change strategy; Embrace change positively using the power of vision; Use people and process to make change happen; Craft an effective measurement process to evaluate change; Facilitate change and overcome resistance through effective communication