Sandstone Reservoirs - SR

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Properties of Coordinate Reference Systems; Map projections and the ArcMap Data Frame; Exporting and projecting vector data; Raster datasets and Coordinate Reference Systems; Datum transformations; The EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset

Applications for directional drilling; Directional profiles; Extended reach wells; Survey calculations and accuracy; Dogleg severity calculations and problems associated with doglegs; Planning directional and horizontal wells; Horizontal drilling methods and applications; Logging high angle wells; Hole-cleaning; Multi-laterals; Types of survey instruments; Tools used to deflect a wellbore; Torque and drag calculations; Cementing

Gas turbines in the oil and gas industryOperating principles of gas turbinesElectric machinery: motors and generatorsInstallationDriven equipment: Pumps and CompressorsTransmission systemsAuxiliary SystemsPumpsPrincipals of operation and major components of gas turbines: rotors, blades, shafts, combustion chambers, nozzles, etc.Auxiliary systems: lube oil, seal oil, fuel, start-up, etc.Evaluation of turbine performance parameters during start-up and normal operationTroubleshooting control systems for gas turbines: start-up, speed and temperature controls, vibrationPrinciples of operation and general components of compressors: rotors, seals, diaphragms, etcOperating characteristics curvesSurging phenomenonChoking phenomenonCompressor instrumentation: various control loops; anti-surge control loopsCompressor safety interlock and trip systemsGas turbine and compressor systems start-up and shutdown proceduresNormal operation - monitoring of parametersLogging of monitoring checksKey performance variables and means to monitorProcess parameters (pressure, temperature, flow, equipment performance)Machine integrityMonitoring and gas turbinesVibration monitoringTroubleshooting Case Studies

Why Opportunities Emerge: nature of reserves growth; operating practices and their effect on new opportunities; the contribution of evolving technology; Recognizing Opportunities: reservoir characteristics and production performance indicative of new opportunities, unraveling limited data, linking operator practices to new opportunities; Reserves versus Upside Potential: review of reserve classification, risk assessment, value of new information, data quality control and integration; Reservoir Heterogeneity & New Opportunities: categories of heterogeneity and their implications for new opportunities, reservoir compartmentalization, application of 3D seismic in "old fields", identification of "net pay", fractured reservoirs; Exploitation Opportunities: reservoir enhancement through fluid injection, redevelopment of mature waterfloods, infill drilling, its utility, application, and value; horizontal and multilateral wells including their use in displacement projects, re-completions in stratified reservoirs, de-bottlenecking gathering systems, produced water management, co-production of water for improved recovery

General Overview of Nodal Analysis: Supply/Demand analogies, natural balance and stable/unstable equilibrium concepts, diminishing returns, independent/dependent subsystems, converging/diverging flows; Inflow Performance: Reservoir performance basics, Darcy, Jones and Ramey turbulence parameters, empirical models of Vogel and Fetkovich, the benefits and drawbacks of well-test and C&N values, appropriate models for differing well descriptions, rigorous multi-layer IPR curves including crossflow effects; Completion Performance: Completion modeling basics, perforation and gravel pack pressure drop, linear and radial flow patterns through gravel packs, the pressure drop in a gravel-filled wellbore, optimal perforation density, the rate reduction caused by a partial completion; Tubing Performance: Wellbore related pressure drops and dynamics, videotapes of vertical and horizontal flow patterns, diverging and converging flow dynamics, route preference, production logging physics in deviated/horizontal wellbores, wellbore slugging and pressure behavior in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wellbores, friction drop through restrictions and undulating horizontal sections, sonic flow and minimum lifting rates concepts, unloading techniques and examples; Flowline Performance: Panhandle, C&S, Dukler pressure drop models, identifying bottlenecks in a gathering network, line loops and jumpers, circular/parallel/layered gathering systems; Future performance: Integrating reservoir performance, development planning, and market constraints into field forecasts, optimizing capital investments when juggling new well, re-completion, compressor, artificial lift, and flowline options; Artificial Lift: Advanced Gas lift design and troubleshooting, electric submersible pump fundamentals, jet pumps, and sucker rod pumping basics; Other: Designing dynamic kills (video tapes of kill operations), liquid content in gas streams, why there is no such thing as a "dry" gas well, identifying loaded wells, predicting wellbore temperatures and why publicly available bottomhole pressure data is almost always lower than reality

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Properties of Coordinate Reference Systems; Map projections and the ArcMap Data Frame; Exporting and projecting vector data; Raster datasets and Coordinate Reference Systems; Datum transformations; The EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset

Applications for directional drilling; Directional profiles; Extended reach wells; Survey calculations and accuracy; Dogleg severity calculations and problems associated with doglegs; Planning directional and horizontal wells; Horizontal drilling methods and applications; Logging high angle wells; Hole-cleaning; Multi-laterals; Types of survey instruments; Tools used to deflect a wellbore; Torque and drag calculations; Cementing

Gas turbines in the oil and gas industryOperating principles of gas turbinesElectric machinery: motors and generatorsInstallationDriven equipment: Pumps and CompressorsTransmission systemsAuxiliary SystemsPumpsPrincipals of operation and major components of gas turbines: rotors, blades, shafts, combustion chambers, nozzles, etc.Auxiliary systems: lube oil, seal oil, fuel, start-up, etc.Evaluation of turbine performance parameters during start-up and normal operationTroubleshooting control systems for gas turbines: start-up, speed and temperature controls, vibrationPrinciples of operation and general components of compressors: rotors, seals, diaphragms, etcOperating characteristics curvesSurging phenomenonChoking phenomenonCompressor instrumentation: various control loops; anti-surge control loopsCompressor safety interlock and trip systemsGas turbine and compressor systems start-up and shutdown proceduresNormal operation - monitoring of parametersLogging of monitoring checksKey performance variables and means to monitorProcess parameters (pressure, temperature, flow, equipment performance)Machine integrityMonitoring and gas turbinesVibration monitoringTroubleshooting Case Studies

Why Opportunities Emerge: nature of reserves growth; operating practices and their effect on new opportunities; the contribution of evolving technology; Recognizing Opportunities: reservoir characteristics and production performance indicative of new opportunities, unraveling limited data, linking operator practices to new opportunities; Reserves versus Upside Potential: review of reserve classification, risk assessment, value of new information, data quality control and integration; Reservoir Heterogeneity & New Opportunities: categories of heterogeneity and their implications for new opportunities, reservoir compartmentalization, application of 3D seismic in "old fields", identification of "net pay", fractured reservoirs; Exploitation Opportunities: reservoir enhancement through fluid injection, redevelopment of mature waterfloods, infill drilling, its utility, application, and value; horizontal and multilateral wells including their use in displacement projects, re-completions in stratified reservoirs, de-bottlenecking gathering systems, produced water management, co-production of water for improved recovery

General Overview of Nodal Analysis: Supply/Demand analogies, natural balance and stable/unstable equilibrium concepts, diminishing returns, independent/dependent subsystems, converging/diverging flows; Inflow Performance: Reservoir performance basics, Darcy, Jones and Ramey turbulence parameters, empirical models of Vogel and Fetkovich, the benefits and drawbacks of well-test and C&N values, appropriate models for differing well descriptions, rigorous multi-layer IPR curves including crossflow effects; Completion Performance: Completion modeling basics, perforation and gravel pack pressure drop, linear and radial flow patterns through gravel packs, the pressure drop in a gravel-filled wellbore, optimal perforation density, the rate reduction caused by a partial completion; Tubing Performance: Wellbore related pressure drops and dynamics, videotapes of vertical and horizontal flow patterns, diverging and converging flow dynamics, route preference, production logging physics in deviated/horizontal wellbores, wellbore slugging and pressure behavior in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wellbores, friction drop through restrictions and undulating horizontal sections, sonic flow and minimum lifting rates concepts, unloading techniques and examples; Flowline Performance: Panhandle, C&S, Dukler pressure drop models, identifying bottlenecks in a gathering network, line loops and jumpers, circular/parallel/layered gathering systems; Future performance: Integrating reservoir performance, development planning, and market constraints into field forecasts, optimizing capital investments when juggling new well, re-completion, compressor, artificial lift, and flowline options; Artificial Lift: Advanced Gas lift design and troubleshooting, electric submersible pump fundamentals, jet pumps, and sucker rod pumping basics; Other: Designing dynamic kills (video tapes of kill operations), liquid content in gas streams, why there is no such thing as a "dry" gas well, identifying loaded wells, predicting wellbore temperatures and why publicly available bottomhole pressure data is almost always lower than reality

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Properties of Coordinate Reference Systems; Map projections and the ArcMap Data Frame; Exporting and projecting vector data; Raster datasets and Coordinate Reference Systems; Datum transformations; The EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset

Applications for directional drilling; Directional profiles; Extended reach wells; Survey calculations and accuracy; Dogleg severity calculations and problems associated with doglegs; Planning directional and horizontal wells; Horizontal drilling methods and applications; Logging high angle wells; Hole-cleaning; Multi-laterals; Types of survey instruments; Tools used to deflect a wellbore; Torque and drag calculations; Cementing

Gas turbines in the oil and gas industryOperating principles of gas turbinesElectric machinery: motors and generatorsInstallationDriven equipment: Pumps and CompressorsTransmission systemsAuxiliary SystemsPumpsPrincipals of operation and major components of gas turbines: rotors, blades, shafts, combustion chambers, nozzles, etc.Auxiliary systems: lube oil, seal oil, fuel, start-up, etc.Evaluation of turbine performance parameters during start-up and normal operationTroubleshooting control systems for gas turbines: start-up, speed and temperature controls, vibrationPrinciples of operation and general components of compressors: rotors, seals, diaphragms, etcOperating characteristics curvesSurging phenomenonChoking phenomenonCompressor instrumentation: various control loops; anti-surge control loopsCompressor safety interlock and trip systemsGas turbine and compressor systems start-up and shutdown proceduresNormal operation - monitoring of parametersLogging of monitoring checksKey performance variables and means to monitorProcess parameters (pressure, temperature, flow, equipment performance)Machine integrityMonitoring and gas turbinesVibration monitoringTroubleshooting Case Studies

Why Opportunities Emerge: nature of reserves growth; operating practices and their effect on new opportunities; the contribution of evolving technology; Recognizing Opportunities: reservoir characteristics and production performance indicative of new opportunities, unraveling limited data, linking operator practices to new opportunities; Reserves versus Upside Potential: review of reserve classification, risk assessment, value of new information, data quality control and integration; Reservoir Heterogeneity & New Opportunities: categories of heterogeneity and their implications for new opportunities, reservoir compartmentalization, application of 3D seismic in "old fields", identification of "net pay", fractured reservoirs; Exploitation Opportunities: reservoir enhancement through fluid injection, redevelopment of mature waterfloods, infill drilling, its utility, application, and value; horizontal and multilateral wells including their use in displacement projects, re-completions in stratified reservoirs, de-bottlenecking gathering systems, produced water management, co-production of water for improved recovery

General Overview of Nodal Analysis: Supply/Demand analogies, natural balance and stable/unstable equilibrium concepts, diminishing returns, independent/dependent subsystems, converging/diverging flows; Inflow Performance: Reservoir performance basics, Darcy, Jones and Ramey turbulence parameters, empirical models of Vogel and Fetkovich, the benefits and drawbacks of well-test and C&N values, appropriate models for differing well descriptions, rigorous multi-layer IPR curves including crossflow effects; Completion Performance: Completion modeling basics, perforation and gravel pack pressure drop, linear and radial flow patterns through gravel packs, the pressure drop in a gravel-filled wellbore, optimal perforation density, the rate reduction caused by a partial completion; Tubing Performance: Wellbore related pressure drops and dynamics, videotapes of vertical and horizontal flow patterns, diverging and converging flow dynamics, route preference, production logging physics in deviated/horizontal wellbores, wellbore slugging and pressure behavior in vertical, deviated, and horizontal wellbores, friction drop through restrictions and undulating horizontal sections, sonic flow and minimum lifting rates concepts, unloading techniques and examples; Flowline Performance: Panhandle, C&S, Dukler pressure drop models, identifying bottlenecks in a gathering network, line loops and jumpers, circular/parallel/layered gathering systems; Future performance: Integrating reservoir performance, development planning, and market constraints into field forecasts, optimizing capital investments when juggling new well, re-completion, compressor, artificial lift, and flowline options; Artificial Lift: Advanced Gas lift design and troubleshooting, electric submersible pump fundamentals, jet pumps, and sucker rod pumping basics; Other: Designing dynamic kills (video tapes of kill operations), liquid content in gas streams, why there is no such thing as a "dry" gas well, identifying loaded wells, predicting wellbore temperatures and why publicly available bottomhole pressure data is almost always lower than reality

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Properties of Coordinate Reference Systems; Map projections and the ArcMap Data Frame; Exporting and projecting vector data; Raster datasets and Coordinate Reference Systems; Datum transformations; The EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset

Applications for directional drilling; Directional profiles; Extended reach wells; Survey calculations and accuracy; Dogleg severity calculations and problems associated with doglegs; Planning directional and horizontal wells; Horizontal drilling methods and applications; Logging high angle wells; Hole-cleaning; Multi-laterals; Types of survey instruments; Tools used to deflect a wellbore; Torque and drag calculations; Cementing

Gas turbines in the oil and gas industryOperating principles of gas turbinesElectric machinery: motors and generatorsInstallationDriven equipment: Pumps and CompressorsTransmission systemsAuxiliary SystemsPumpsPrincipals of operation and major components of gas turbines: rotors, blades, shafts, combustion chambers, nozzles, etc.Auxiliary systems: lube oil, seal oil, fuel, start-up, etc.Evaluation of turbine performance parameters during start-up and normal operationTroubleshooting control systems for gas turbines: start-up, speed and temperature controls, vibrationPrinciples of operation and general components of compressors: rotors, seals, diaphragms, etcOperating characteristics curvesSurging phenomenonChoking phenomenonCompressor instrumentation: various control loops; anti-surge control loopsCompressor safety interlock and trip systemsGas turbine and compressor systems start-up and shutdown proceduresNormal operation - monitoring of parametersLogging of monitoring checksKey performance variables and means to monitorProcess parameters (pressure, temperature, flow, equipment...