Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Petrophysics - NMRP

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

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

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

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

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

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

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

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

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

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

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

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

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response