Evaluating and Developing Shale Resources - SRE

Seismic fundamentals as they relate to defining the appearance of hydrocarbons in the data; An inventory of direct hydrocarbon indicators, including AVO; Risk rating prospects that display AVO anomalies; Understanding rock properties and the effect of pore filling material; AVO and how it relates to the typical production zones around the world with various ages and depths of burial; Various methods of displaying AVO effects in the seismic data; Acquisition and processing considerations to display hydrocarbons as a pore filling material; Various approaches to seismic modeling and fluid replacement; Rock properties and pore filling material from seismic inversion; Spectral decomposition and seismic attributes as other ways of extracting reservoir information from the seismic image

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

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

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

Fundamentals; Field measurement devices; Final elements and actuators; Pressure relief and pressure regulation; Instrumentation documentation; Control system basics; Programmable logic controllers; Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems; Distributed control systems (DCS); Safety instrumented system (SIS); Hazardous areas and equipment selection

The role and function of the leader, supervisor and manager; Understanding and applying essential behavioral management concepts; Understanding and increasing employee motivation; Understanding and applying leadership concepts; Effectively supervising a diverse workforce; Basic skills in interpersonal communications; Performance management; Coaching; Working with difficult employees; Goal Setting; Empowering subordinates; Creating positive and functional thinking about work; Making ongoing change for growth and improvement; Taking personal responsibility; Developing personal plans to improve team effectiveness

Petroleum geology and its systems; Operations geology: prospect to well planning, provision of geological services; Wellsite geology: geological sampling, sample analysis and well stratigraphy, cutting and core description; Structural geology: fractures, faults, borehole geology; Drilling Operations: bits, fluids, casing and cement, drilling problems and well control, directional drilling, geosteering; Logging operations: acquisition, tools, quick look interpretation, MWD/LWD, geosteering; Well testing & fluids: reservoir properties, rock and fluid interaction, permeability, averaging, data gathering and interpretation; Impact on FDP: case histories; Tendering and contracting; Reporting: geological data, petrophysical data, pressure data; Exercises: cores, cuttings, quick look, pressures, daily drilling report

Seismic fundamentals as they relate to defining the appearance of hydrocarbons in the data; An inventory of direct hydrocarbon indicators, including AVO; Risk rating prospects that display AVO anomalies; Understanding rock properties and the effect of pore filling material; AVO and how it relates to the typical production zones around the world with various ages and depths of burial; Various methods of displaying AVO effects in the seismic data; Acquisition and processing considerations to display hydrocarbons as a pore filling material; Various approaches to seismic modeling and fluid replacement; Rock properties and pore filling material from seismic inversion; Spectral decomposition and seismic attributes as other ways of extracting reservoir information from the seismic image

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

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

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

Fundamentals; Field measurement devices; Final elements and actuators; Pressure relief and pressure regulation; Instrumentation documentation; Control system basics; Programmable logic controllers; Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems; Distributed control systems (DCS); Safety instrumented system (SIS); Hazardous areas and equipment selection

The role and function of the leader, supervisor and manager; Understanding and applying essential behavioral management concepts; Understanding and increasing employee motivation; Understanding and applying leadership concepts; Effectively supervising a diverse workforce; Basic skills in interpersonal communications; Performance management; Coaching; Working with difficult employees; Goal Setting; Empowering subordinates; Creating positive and functional thinking about work; Making ongoing change for growth and improvement; Taking personal responsibility; Developing personal plans to improve team effectiveness

Petroleum geology and its systems; Operations geology: prospect to well planning, provision of geological services; Wellsite geology: geological sampling, sample analysis and well stratigraphy, cutting and core description; Structural geology: fractures, faults, borehole geology; Drilling Operations: bits, fluids, casing and cement, drilling problems and well control, directional drilling, geosteering; Logging operations: acquisition, tools, quick look interpretation, MWD/LWD, geosteering; Well testing & fluids: reservoir properties, rock and fluid interaction, permeability, averaging, data gathering and interpretation; Impact on FDP: case histories; Tendering and contracting; Reporting: geological data, petrophysical data, pressure data; Exercises: cores, cuttings, quick look, pressures, daily drilling report

Seismic fundamentals as they relate to defining the appearance of hydrocarbons in the data; An inventory of direct hydrocarbon indicators, including AVO; Risk rating prospects that display AVO anomalies; Understanding rock properties and the effect of pore filling material; AVO and how it relates to the typical production zones around the world with various ages and depths of burial; Various methods of displaying AVO effects in the seismic data; Acquisition and processing considerations to display hydrocarbons as a pore filling material; Various approaches to seismic modeling and fluid replacement; Rock properties and pore filling material from seismic inversion; Spectral decomposition and seismic attributes as other ways of extracting reservoir information from the seismic image

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

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

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

Fundamentals; Field measurement devices; Final elements and actuators; Pressure relief and pressure regulation; Instrumentation documentation; Control system basics; Programmable logic controllers; Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems; Distributed control systems (DCS); Safety instrumented system (SIS); Hazardous areas and equipment selection

The role and function of the leader, supervisor and manager; Understanding and applying essential behavioral management concepts; Understanding and increasing employee motivation; Understanding and applying leadership concepts; Effectively supervising a diverse workforce; Basic skills in interpersonal communications; Performance management; Coaching; Working with difficult employees; Goal Setting; Empowering subordinates; Creating positive and functional thinking about work; Making ongoing change for growth and improvement; Taking personal responsibility; Developing personal plans to improve team effectiveness

Petroleum geology and its systems; Operations geology: prospect to well planning, provision of geological services; Wellsite geology: geological sampling, sample analysis and well stratigraphy, cutting and core description; Structural geology: fractures, faults, borehole geology; Drilling Operations: bits, fluids, casing and cement, drilling problems and well control, directional drilling, geosteering; Logging operations: acquisition, tools, quick look interpretation, MWD/LWD, geosteering; Well testing & fluids: reservoir properties, rock and fluid interaction, permeability, averaging, data gathering and interpretation; Impact on FDP: case histories; Tendering and contracting; Reporting: geological data, petrophysical data, pressure data; Exercises: cores, cuttings, quick look, pressures, daily drilling report

Seismic fundamentals as they relate to defining the appearance of hydrocarbons in the data; An inventory of direct hydrocarbon indicators, including AVO; Risk rating prospects that display AVO anomalies; Understanding rock properties and the effect of pore filling material; AVO and how it relates to the typical production zones around the world with various ages and depths of burial; Various methods of displaying AVO effects in the seismic data; Acquisition and processing considerations to display hydrocarbons as a pore filling material; Various approaches to seismic modeling and fluid replacement; Rock properties and pore filling material from seismic inversion; Spectral decomposition and seismic attributes as other ways of extracting reservoir information from the seismic image

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

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

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

Fundamentals; Field measurement devices; Final elements and actuators; Pressure relief and pressure regulation; Instrumentation documentation; Control system basics; Programmable logic controllers; Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems; Distributed control systems (DCS); Safety instrumented system (SIS); Hazardous areas and equipment selection

The role and function of the leader, supervisor and manager; Understanding and applying essential behavioral management concepts; Understanding and increasing employee motivation; Understanding and applying leadership concepts; Effectively supervising a diverse workforce; Basic skills in interpersonal communications; Performance management; Coaching; Working with difficult employees; Goal Setting; Empowering subordinates; Creating positive and functional thinking about work; Making ongoing change for growth and improvement; Taking personal responsibility; Developing personal plans to improve team effectiveness

Petroleum geology and its systems; Operations geology: prospect to well planning, provision of geological services; Wellsite geology: geological sampling, sample analysis and well stratigraphy, cutting and core description; Structural geology: fractures, faults, borehole geology; Drilling Operations: bits, fluids, casing and cement, drilling problems and well control, directional drilling, geosteering; Logging operations: acquisition, tools, quick look interpretation, MWD/LWD, geosteering; Well testing & fluids: reservoir properties, rock and fluid interaction, permeability, averaging,...