Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices - BE

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

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Selecting casing & hole sizes; Setting depths; Casing loads; Selecting casing & connections; Casing stress calculations; Cement and cement additives; Selecting appropriate slurries; Mud removal & cement placement; Stage cementing, squeezes, & plugs; Preventing gas migration; Cementing calculations; Cementing equipment; Well head equipment

History: Progression into deep water and deep reservoirs; Marine Seismic Exploration: 3-D and 4-D in deep water; seafloor hydrophones; Drilling, Well Control, Drilling Risers, MODUs: DW drilling sequence; drilling pressure management (dual gradient); casing pressure barriers; safety monitoring, riser gas handler; Spread Mooring & Dynamic Positioning: Basics of DW spread mooring; synthetic rope; DW anchors; permanent anchors/piles; types of DP position reference; underwater positioning and navigation; Drilling Riser Emergency Disconnect: DP failure modes and consequences (high current); disconnect strategy and sequence; anti-recoil system; back-up systems; Currents, VIV, Vessel Hydrodynamics: DW currents; hazards of VIV (Vortex-Induced Vibration) and current drag; VIV suppression; platform motions and importance; model testing; Production platforms: Pros and cons, how to choose, historical numbers of the various versions of SPARs, TLPS, large semis, and various FPSO concepts; production riser interfaces/interactions; Pipelines & Flowlines: Route surveying & hazards; S-lay, J-lay and Reel-lay offshore fabrication/installation & vessels; onshore fabrication & tow-out; burying & covering; flow assurance by injection & pigging; temperature control methods; seafloor connections; inspection & repair; flexible pipe; Production Risers: Definition of wet-tree, dry-tree; TTPRs (Top-Tensioned PRs), tensioners, buoyancy; composites, IPBs (integrated prod. bundles), lazy wave configuration; SCRs (Steel Catenary Risers), TDP (Touch Down Point) problems, top connections, vessel motion effects, pipe-in-pipe, anti-corrosion cladding, VIV suppression; self-standing hybrids, single & multiline; monitoring; Subsea Completions, Control, Processing & Well Maintenance: Historical growth; drilling/completion sequence; SS tree complexity; seafloor hardware installation options; control/power/injection umbilicals; umbilical fabrication, installation, connection; ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) & IWOC (Installation, WorkOver & Completion) operations; downhole completions; reduced cost well WO/intervention/maintenance options including wireline, coiled tubing; seafloor processing; all-electric control; permanent SS surveillance; Oil Spill Prevention & Response: Elements of drilling/production safety; regulations; response initiatives - responders & standby equipment

Develop essential technical writing skills to convey a convincing message; Compose clear messages using a structured writing approach; Adapt your writing style to your audience's needs; Edit at the word level to improve persuasiveness and impact; Write precise and concise memos, letters, summaries, and reports; How to best display visual information; Create informative content using lists, bullets, and short paragraphs as the primary writing mode

Geological / depositional environment, reservoir properties review; Properties influencing formation damage; Damaging sandstones, shales and carbonates, clay mineralogy; Damage mechanisms - Causes of damage: Fluids and Polymers, During drilling, running pipe and cementing, From perforating, During well completions, During production (fines migration, paraffin, scale, etc), During workovers and Damage to Injection wells.; Evaluating damage potential: Laboratory testing; Evaluating wells that may be damaged: Production performance, Pressure analysis, Production logging; Damage removal: Non-acid approaches, Acidizing and Bypassing damage with hydraulic fracturing

Types of pumps, compressors, and drivers and their common applications and range of operations.; Evaluation and selection of pumps and compressors and their drivers for long-term efficient operations.; Unit and station configuration including multiple trains in series and/or parallel operations.; Integration with upstream and downstream process equipment, local and remote control systems, and facilities utilities.; Key auxiliary systems including monitoring equipment, heat exchangers, lube and seal systems, and fuel/power systems.; Major design, installation, operating, troubleshooting, and maintenance considerations.

Gas Processing Systems; Physical Properties of Hydrocarbons; Qualitative Phase Behavior; Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium; Water-Hydrocarbon Behavior; Basic Thermodynamic Concepts and System Energy Changes; Relief and Flare Systems; Fluid Hydraulics; Separators; Heat Transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration / NGL Extraction; Fractionation / Distillation; Glycol Dehydration; Adsorption Dehydration; Sour Gas Treating and Sulfur 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

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

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Selecting casing & hole sizes; Setting depths; Casing loads; Selecting casing & connections; Casing stress calculations; Cement and cement additives; Selecting appropriate slurries; Mud removal & cement placement; Stage cementing, squeezes, & plugs; Preventing gas migration; Cementing calculations; Cementing equipment; Well head equipment

History: Progression into deep water and deep reservoirs; Marine Seismic Exploration: 3-D and 4-D in deep water; seafloor hydrophones; Drilling, Well Control, Drilling Risers, MODUs: DW drilling sequence; drilling pressure management (dual gradient); casing pressure barriers; safety monitoring, riser gas handler; Spread Mooring & Dynamic Positioning: Basics of DW spread mooring; synthetic rope; DW anchors; permanent anchors/piles; types of DP position reference; underwater positioning and navigation; Drilling Riser Emergency Disconnect: DP failure modes and consequences (high current); disconnect strategy and sequence; anti-recoil system; back-up systems; Currents, VIV, Vessel Hydrodynamics: DW currents; hazards of VIV (Vortex-Induced Vibration) and current drag; VIV suppression; platform motions and importance; model testing; Production platforms: Pros and cons, how to choose, historical numbers of the various versions of SPARs, TLPS, large semis, and various FPSO concepts; production riser interfaces/interactions; Pipelines & Flowlines: Route surveying & hazards; S-lay, J-lay and Reel-lay offshore fabrication/installation & vessels; onshore fabrication & tow-out; burying & covering; flow assurance by injection & pigging; temperature control methods; seafloor connections; inspection & repair; flexible pipe; Production Risers: Definition of wet-tree, dry-tree; TTPRs (Top-Tensioned PRs), tensioners, buoyancy; composites, IPBs (integrated prod. bundles), lazy wave configuration; SCRs (Steel Catenary Risers), TDP (Touch Down Point) problems, top connections, vessel motion effects, pipe-in-pipe, anti-corrosion cladding, VIV suppression; self-standing hybrids, single & multiline; monitoring; Subsea Completions, Control, Processing & Well Maintenance: Historical growth; drilling/completion sequence; SS tree complexity; seafloor hardware installation options; control/power/injection umbilicals; umbilical fabrication, installation, connection; ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) & IWOC (Installation, WorkOver & Completion) operations; downhole completions; reduced cost well WO/intervention/maintenance options including wireline, coiled tubing; seafloor processing; all-electric control; permanent SS surveillance; Oil Spill Prevention & Response: Elements of drilling/production safety; regulations; response initiatives - responders & standby equipment

Develop essential technical writing skills to convey a convincing message; Compose clear messages using a structured writing approach; Adapt your writing style to your audience's needs; Edit at the word level to improve persuasiveness and impact; Write precise and concise memos, letters, summaries, and reports; How to best display visual information; Create informative content using lists, bullets, and short paragraphs as the primary writing mode

Geological / depositional environment, reservoir properties review; Properties influencing formation damage; Damaging sandstones, shales and carbonates, clay mineralogy; Damage mechanisms - Causes of damage: Fluids and Polymers, During drilling, running pipe and cementing, From perforating, During well completions, During production (fines migration, paraffin, scale, etc), During workovers and Damage to Injection wells.; Evaluating damage potential: Laboratory testing; Evaluating wells that may be damaged: Production performance, Pressure analysis, Production logging; Damage removal: Non-acid approaches, Acidizing and Bypassing damage with hydraulic fracturing

Types of pumps, compressors, and drivers and their common applications and range of operations.; Evaluation and selection of pumps and compressors and their drivers for long-term efficient operations.; Unit and station configuration including multiple trains in series and/or parallel operations.; Integration with upstream and downstream process equipment, local and remote control systems, and facilities utilities.; Key auxiliary systems including monitoring equipment, heat exchangers, lube and seal systems, and fuel/power systems.; Major design, installation, operating, troubleshooting, and maintenance considerations.

Gas Processing Systems; Physical Properties of Hydrocarbons; Qualitative Phase Behavior; Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium; Water-Hydrocarbon Behavior; Basic Thermodynamic Concepts and System Energy Changes; Relief and Flare Systems; Fluid Hydraulics; Separators; Heat Transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration / NGL Extraction; Fractionation / Distillation; Glycol Dehydration; Adsorption Dehydration; Sour Gas Treating and Sulfur 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

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

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Selecting casing & hole sizes; Setting depths; Casing loads; Selecting casing & connections; Casing stress calculations; Cement and cement additives; Selecting appropriate slurries; Mud removal & cement placement; Stage cementing, squeezes, & plugs; Preventing gas migration; Cementing calculations; Cementing equipment; Well head equipment

History: Progression into deep water and deep reservoirs; Marine Seismic Exploration: 3-D and 4-D in deep water; seafloor hydrophones; Drilling, Well Control, Drilling Risers, MODUs: DW drilling sequence; drilling pressure management (dual gradient); casing pressure barriers; safety monitoring, riser gas handler; Spread Mooring & Dynamic Positioning: Basics of DW spread mooring; synthetic rope; DW anchors; permanent anchors/piles; types of DP position reference; underwater positioning and navigation; Drilling Riser Emergency Disconnect: DP failure modes and consequences (high current); disconnect strategy and sequence; anti-recoil system; back-up systems; Currents, VIV, Vessel Hydrodynamics: DW currents; hazards of VIV (Vortex-Induced Vibration) and current drag; VIV suppression; platform motions and importance; model testing; Production platforms: Pros and cons, how to choose, historical numbers of the various versions of SPARs, TLPS, large semis, and various FPSO concepts; production riser interfaces/interactions; Pipelines & Flowlines: Route surveying & hazards; S-lay, J-lay and Reel-lay offshore fabrication/installation & vessels; onshore fabrication & tow-out; burying & covering; flow assurance by injection & pigging; temperature control methods; seafloor connections; inspection & repair; flexible pipe; Production Risers: Definition of wet-tree, dry-tree; TTPRs (Top-Tensioned PRs), tensioners, buoyancy; composites, IPBs (integrated prod. bundles), lazy wave configuration; SCRs (Steel Catenary Risers), TDP (Touch Down Point) problems, top connections, vessel motion effects, pipe-in-pipe, anti-corrosion cladding, VIV suppression; self-standing hybrids, single & multiline; monitoring; Subsea Completions, Control, Processing & Well Maintenance: Historical growth; drilling/completion sequence; SS tree complexity; seafloor hardware installation options; control/power/injection umbilicals; umbilical fabrication, installation, connection; ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) & IWOC (Installation, WorkOver & Completion) operations; downhole completions; reduced cost well WO/intervention/maintenance options including wireline, coiled tubing; seafloor processing; all-electric control; permanent SS surveillance; Oil Spill Prevention & Response: Elements of drilling/production safety; regulations; response initiatives - responders & standby equipment

Develop essential technical writing skills to convey a convincing message; Compose clear messages using a structured writing approach; Adapt your writing style to your audience's needs; Edit at the word level to improve persuasiveness and impact; Write precise and concise memos, letters, summaries, and reports; How to best display visual information; Create informative content using lists, bullets, and short paragraphs as the primary writing mode

Geological / depositional environment, reservoir properties review; Properties influencing formation damage; Damaging sandstones, shales and carbonates, clay mineralogy; Damage mechanisms - Causes of damage: Fluids and Polymers, During drilling, running pipe and cementing, From perforating, During well completions, During production (fines migration, paraffin, scale, etc), During workovers and Damage to Injection wells.; Evaluating damage potential: Laboratory testing; Evaluating wells that may be damaged: Production performance, Pressure analysis, Production logging; Damage removal: Non-acid approaches, Acidizing and Bypassing damage with hydraulic fracturing

Types of pumps, compressors, and drivers and their common applications and range of operations.; Evaluation and selection...