Artificial Lift Systems - ALS

Capillary pressure applications in reservoir characterization; Rock properties from mercury/air capillary pressures; Capillary pressure data representativeness; Capillary forces in reservoir rocks; their measurement; Capillary pressure data fitting methods; Representing a large number of capillary curves (averaging); Permeability from capillary pressure curves and petrography; Saturation-height functions; Surface phenomena, capillarity, wettability, and interphase tension; The competition between capillary and gravity forces; Relationships between initial and residual saturations; Interpretation of single and multiple pore system rocks; Clay-bound water; Capillary pressure vs. NMR; Seal capacity

Geologic characteristics that impact field development; Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons; Reservoir fluid properties and saturation; Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts; Reserve and resource evaluation; Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation; Stratigraphic influence on field production; Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution; Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks; Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay; The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping; Seismic applications in appraisal and development; Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery; Economic impact on field development; Subdividing the reservoir into working units; Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping; Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques; Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs; Steps in building a geologic reservoir model; Impact on barriers on field development; Secondary and tertiary field development; Rejuvenating mature and marginal fields

Understanding corporate business; The importance of creating value for shareholders; How is value measured and what are the expectations of different stakeholders in the financial framework of corporations; Introduction to Economic Evaluation (NPV, IRR); The importance of discounting for capital intensive industries; Definition of the Cost of Capital and how it is calculated; Valuing businesses at the macro level; Creation of value and competitive advantage; The competitive environment in the petroleum industry; How is energy demand growing; Location and ownership of oil and gas reserves; Capital requirements and risk; Oil and gas pricing and drivers for the future; Examples of competitive advantage and how this has impacted the history of the business; Introduction to accounting; The purpose of accounts; Key financial statements; Demystification of the annual report; Introduction risk; Economic evaluation at the project level (NPV, IRR, CE, Payback); Economic impact of projects on book value, market capitalization, share price; Measuring competitive advantage through net present value, the value of incremental economics

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

Capillary pressure applications in reservoir characterization; Rock properties from mercury/air capillary pressures; Capillary pressure data representativeness; Capillary forces in reservoir rocks; their measurement; Capillary pressure data fitting methods; Representing a large number of capillary curves (averaging); Permeability from capillary pressure curves and petrography; Saturation-height functions; Surface phenomena, capillarity, wettability, and interphase tension; The competition between capillary and gravity forces; Relationships between initial and residual saturations; Interpretation of single and multiple pore system rocks; Clay-bound water; Capillary pressure vs. NMR; Seal capacity

Geologic characteristics that impact field development; Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons; Reservoir fluid properties and saturation; Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts; Reserve and resource evaluation; Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation; Stratigraphic influence on field production; Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution; Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks; Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay; The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping; Seismic applications in appraisal and development; Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery; Economic impact on field development; Subdividing the reservoir into working units; Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping; Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques; Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs; Steps in building a geologic reservoir model; Impact on barriers on field development; Secondary and tertiary field development; Rejuvenating mature and marginal fields

Understanding corporate business; The importance of creating value for shareholders; How is value measured and what are the expectations of different stakeholders in the financial framework of corporations; Introduction to Economic Evaluation (NPV, IRR); The importance of discounting for capital intensive industries; Definition of the Cost of Capital and how it is calculated; Valuing businesses at the macro level; Creation of value and competitive advantage; The competitive environment in the petroleum industry; How is energy demand growing; Location and ownership of oil and gas reserves; Capital requirements and risk; Oil and gas pricing and drivers for the future; Examples of competitive advantage and how this has impacted the history of the business; Introduction to accounting; The purpose of accounts; Key financial statements; Demystification of the annual report; Introduction risk; Economic evaluation at the project level (NPV, IRR, CE, Payback); Economic impact of projects on book value, market capitalization, share price; Measuring competitive advantage through net present value, the value of incremental economics

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

Capillary pressure applications in reservoir characterization; Rock properties from mercury/air capillary pressures; Capillary pressure data representativeness; Capillary forces in reservoir rocks; their measurement; Capillary pressure data fitting methods; Representing a large number of capillary curves (averaging); Permeability from capillary pressure curves and petrography; Saturation-height functions; Surface phenomena, capillarity, wettability, and interphase tension; The competition between capillary and gravity forces; Relationships between initial and residual saturations; Interpretation of single and multiple pore system rocks; Clay-bound water; Capillary pressure vs. NMR; Seal capacity

Geologic characteristics that impact field development; Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons; Reservoir fluid properties and saturation; Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts; Reserve and resource evaluation; Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation; Stratigraphic influence on field production; Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution; Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks; Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay; The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping; Seismic applications in appraisal and development; Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery; Economic impact on field development; Subdividing the reservoir into working units; Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping; Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques; Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs; Steps in building a geologic reservoir model; Impact on barriers on field development; Secondary and tertiary field development; Rejuvenating mature and marginal fields

Understanding corporate business; The importance of creating value for shareholders; How is value measured and what are the expectations of different stakeholders in the financial framework of corporations; Introduction to Economic Evaluation (NPV, IRR); The importance of discounting for capital intensive industries; Definition of the Cost of Capital and how it is calculated; Valuing businesses at the macro level; Creation of value and competitive advantage; The competitive environment in the petroleum industry; How is energy demand growing; Location and ownership of oil and gas reserves; Capital requirements and risk; Oil and gas pricing and drivers for the future; Examples of competitive advantage and how this has impacted the history of the business; Introduction to accounting; The purpose of accounts; Key financial statements; Demystification of the annual report; Introduction risk; Economic evaluation at the project level (NPV, IRR, CE, Payback); Economic impact of projects on book value, market capitalization, share price; Measuring competitive advantage through net present value, the value of incremental economics

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

Capillary pressure applications in reservoir characterization; Rock properties from mercury/air capillary pressures; Capillary pressure data representativeness; Capillary forces in reservoir rocks; their measurement; Capillary pressure data fitting methods; Representing a large number of capillary curves (averaging); Permeability from capillary pressure curves and petrography; Saturation-height functions; Surface phenomena, capillarity, wettability, and interphase tension; The competition between capillary and gravity forces; Relationships between initial and residual saturations; Interpretation of single and multiple pore system rocks; Clay-bound water; Capillary pressure vs. NMR; Seal capacity

Geologic characteristics that impact field development; Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons; Reservoir fluid properties and saturation; Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts; Reserve and resource evaluation; Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation; Stratigraphic influence on field production; Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution; Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks; Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay; The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping; Seismic applications in appraisal and development; Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery; Economic impact on field development; Subdividing the reservoir into working units; Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping; Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques; Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs; Steps in building a geologic reservoir model; Impact on barriers on field development; Secondary and tertiary field development; Rejuvenating mature and marginal fields

Understanding corporate business; The importance of creating value for shareholders; How is value measured and what are the expectations of different stakeholders in the financial framework of corporations; Introduction to Economic Evaluation (NPV, IRR); The importance of discounting for capital intensive industries; Definition of the Cost of Capital and how it is calculated; Valuing businesses at the macro level; Creation of value and competitive advantage; The competitive environment in the petroleum industry; How is energy demand growing; Location and ownership of oil and gas reserves; Capital requirements and risk; Oil and gas pricing and drivers for the future; Examples of competitive advantage and how this has impacted the history of the business; Introduction to accounting; The purpose of accounts; Key financial statements; Demystification of the annual report; Introduction risk; Economic evaluation at the project level (NPV, IRR, CE, Payback); Economic impact of projects on book value, market capitalization, share price; Measuring competitive advantage through net present value, the value of incremental economics

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...