Flow Assurance for Offshore Production - FAOP

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Reservoir fluid properties; Coring practices and rock properties; Fundamentals of fluid flow; Reservoir fluid distribution; Reservoir classification; Reservoir drive mechanisms; Oil and gas well performance; Pressure buildup analysis; Oil displacement concepts; Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place; Recovery techniques

Law governing international petroleum transactions (including significant differences between various national legal systems, and the sources, principles and limits of international law as applied to petroleum transactions); Interpretation and enforcement of treaties and private contracts; Effects of international trade (and producing country) agreements such as the E.U., NAFTA, Mercosur, and OPEC; Dispute resolution approaches, including litigation and arbitration; Procedures under and enforcement of common arbitration provisions; Legal defenses available to foreign companies, states, and state-owned or connected entities, and recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards; Basic legal concepts of ownership of mineral rights (onshore, offshore, and deep sea bed); Expropriation and compensation issues; State-owned entities and privatization; Laws bearing on development rights; Legal interpretational issues of common contract provisions Interpretational issues for service contracts; Transfer and protection of technology and confidential business information; Operating agreements and unitized operations; Environmental protection laws; Criminal and civil liability for oil spills Indemnification and guaranty issues; Bribery laws; Marketing and transportation; Petroleum futures

Purpose and uses of reserves estimates; Types of reserves studies; How to read and understand a reserves report; SPE-PRMS reserves definitions; SEC reserves definitions; Compliant reserves estimation methods using: Analogies, volumetric analysis, performance analysis, and material balance; Supplemental compliant estimation techniques incorporating: Probabilistic analysis and simulation; Economics and reserves; Special reserves estimation topics - Reserves reporting in low permeability reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, CBM, and EOR projects

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Reservoir fluid properties; Coring practices and rock properties; Fundamentals of fluid flow; Reservoir fluid distribution; Reservoir classification; Reservoir drive mechanisms; Oil and gas well performance; Pressure buildup analysis; Oil displacement concepts; Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place; Recovery techniques

Law governing international petroleum transactions (including significant differences between various national legal systems, and the sources, principles and limits of international law as applied to petroleum transactions); Interpretation and enforcement of treaties and private contracts; Effects of international trade (and producing country) agreements such as the E.U., NAFTA, Mercosur, and OPEC; Dispute resolution approaches, including litigation and arbitration; Procedures under and enforcement of common arbitration provisions; Legal defenses available to foreign companies, states, and state-owned or connected entities, and recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards; Basic legal concepts of ownership of mineral rights (onshore, offshore, and deep sea bed); Expropriation and compensation issues; State-owned entities and privatization; Laws bearing on development rights; Legal interpretational issues of common contract provisions Interpretational issues for service contracts; Transfer and protection of technology and confidential business information; Operating agreements and unitized operations; Environmental protection laws; Criminal and civil liability for oil spills Indemnification and guaranty issues; Bribery laws; Marketing and transportation; Petroleum futures

Purpose and uses of reserves estimates; Types of reserves studies; How to read and understand a reserves report; SPE-PRMS reserves definitions; SEC reserves definitions; Compliant reserves estimation methods using: Analogies, volumetric analysis, performance analysis, and material balance; Supplemental compliant estimation techniques incorporating: Probabilistic analysis and simulation; Economics and reserves; Special reserves estimation topics - Reserves reporting in low permeability reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, CBM, and EOR projects

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Reservoir fluid properties; Coring practices and rock properties; Fundamentals of fluid flow; Reservoir fluid distribution; Reservoir classification; Reservoir drive mechanisms; Oil and gas well performance; Pressure buildup analysis; Oil displacement concepts; Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place; Recovery techniques

Law governing international petroleum transactions (including significant differences between various national legal systems, and the sources, principles and limits of international law as applied to petroleum transactions); Interpretation and enforcement of treaties and private contracts; Effects of international trade (and producing country) agreements such as the E.U., NAFTA, Mercosur, and OPEC; Dispute resolution approaches, including litigation and arbitration; Procedures under and enforcement of common arbitration provisions; Legal defenses available to foreign companies, states, and state-owned or connected entities, and recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards; Basic legal concepts of ownership of mineral rights (onshore, offshore, and deep sea bed); Expropriation and compensation issues; State-owned entities and privatization; Laws bearing on development rights; Legal interpretational issues of common contract provisions Interpretational issues for service contracts; Transfer and protection of technology and confidential business information; Operating agreements and unitized operations; Environmental protection laws; Criminal and civil liability for oil spills Indemnification and guaranty issues; Bribery laws; Marketing and transportation; Petroleum futures

Purpose and uses of reserves estimates; Types of reserves studies; How to read and understand a reserves report; SPE-PRMS reserves definitions; SEC reserves definitions; Compliant reserves estimation methods using: Analogies, volumetric analysis, performance analysis, and material balance; Supplemental compliant estimation techniques incorporating: Probabilistic analysis and simulation; Economics and reserves; Special reserves estimation topics - Reserves reporting in low permeability reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, CBM, and EOR projects

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Reservoir fluid properties; Coring practices and rock properties; Fundamentals of fluid flow; Reservoir fluid distribution; Reservoir classification; Reservoir drive mechanisms; Oil and gas well performance; Pressure buildup analysis; Oil displacement concepts; Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place; Recovery techniques

Law governing international petroleum transactions (including significant differences between various national legal systems, and the sources, principles and limits of international law as applied to petroleum transactions); Interpretation and enforcement of treaties and private contracts; Effects of international trade (and producing country) agreements such as the E.U., NAFTA, Mercosur, and OPEC; Dispute resolution approaches, including litigation and arbitration; Procedures under and enforcement of common arbitration provisions; Legal defenses available to foreign companies, states, and state-owned or connected entities, and recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards; Basic legal concepts of ownership of mineral rights (onshore, offshore, and deep sea bed); Expropriation and compensation issues; State-owned entities and privatization; Laws bearing on development rights; Legal interpretational issues of common contract provisions Interpretational issues for service contracts; Transfer and protection of technology and confidential business information; Operating agreements and unitized operations; Environmental protection laws; Criminal and civil liability for oil spills Indemnification and guaranty issues; Bribery laws; Marketing and transportation; Petroleum futures

Purpose and uses of reserves estimates; Types of reserves studies; How to read and understand a reserves report; SPE-PRMS reserves definitions; SEC reserves definitions; Compliant reserves estimation methods using: Analogies, volumetric analysis, performance analysis, and material balance; Supplemental compliant estimation techniques incorporating: Probabilistic analysis and simulation; Economics and reserves; Special reserves estimation topics - Reserves reporting in low permeability reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, CBM, and EOR projects

Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations; Overview of reservoirs and well inflow performance; Overview of artificial lift; Processing configurations (example PFD's); Fluid compositions, properties and phase behavior; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water; Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting; Crude stabilization and sweetening; Crude oil storage and vapor recovery; Measurement of crude oil; Transportation of crude oil; Produced water treating; Compressors; Water injection systems; Relief and flare systems; Overview of solution gas processing

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter...