Foundations of Petrophysics - FPP

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

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

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

Defining costs, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas senseClassifying the different costs; Determining cost objects, cost drivers and their behaviors; Assigning costs for an E&P company; Analyzing different types of Cost management systems; Measuring activities and their performance; Using Activities Based Management (ABM) to monitor costs and processes; Building and using an activity dictionary; Using value added costs versus non value-added costs for improvement; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure profits; Distinguishing between cost effectiveness and cost efficiencies; Using 4 dimensional costs; Developing productivity measurements that work; Operating Cost ManagementUsing the budgets efficiently and effectively; Using GAP analysis in measuring productivity of costs; Support departments cost allocations; Transfer pricing; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using variance analysis budget for monitoring performance; Measuring and controlling productivity; Optimizing the supply chain; Capital Cost ManagementCapital investment decision making and the effect on cost management; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Life Cycle Costing; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Managing personnel, logistics, purchasing and material costs effectively; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using different scenarios to more effectively manage costs; Performance MeasurementUsing capacity management techniques; Incorporating HSSE into the cost management system; Defining preventive and reactive costs; Breaking down the audit of performance management results; Raising your own cost management awareness

Gas properties: Real gas behavior equations of state, impurities, mixtures, phase behavior dew point, retrograde behavior, flash calculations; classifying gas reservoirs; Reservoir performance: Gas well testing - flow after flow, isochronal, stabilized inflow performance; turbulence and skin effects; perforation effects; tight well analysis; horizontal wells; hydraulically fractured wells; Reserve calculations: P/Z plots, energy plots, water influx, abnormal pressure effects; diagnostic testing based on production data; Flow in pipes and restrictions: Pressure loss - tubing, flowlines, chokes, safety valves; effects of liquids-liquid loading, liquid removal methods, multiphase flow correlations; erosional velocity; Compression: Types of compressors; compressor selection - reciprocating and centrifugal; effects of variables; capacity and horsepower; Total system analysis: Tubing and flowline size effects; perforating effects; relating deliverability to time; evaluating compressor installations; analyzing injection wells; Flow measuring: Orifice metering - design, accuracy, troubleshooting; other metering methods; Condensate reservoirs: Reservoir types - wet gas, retrograde; reserve estimates, laboratory simulation; gas cycling; Field operations problems: Interpreting P/Z plots; hydrate formation

Introduction to the fracturing process and mechanics; Practical fracture design; Fracturing fluid additives and proppant; Strengths and limitations of fracturing applications; Production increase; Factors involved in field implementation; Acid fracturing vs. proppant fracturing; Frac packs; Waterfracs; Fracturing in horizontal wells; QA/QC of fracturing treatments; Evaluation of fracturing treatment success

Introduction: philosophy and history; Geophysical fundamentals; Breaking out operational sequences; Introduction to fault interpretation; Chronostratigraphy construction and interpretation; Sea level curves, accommodation space, and cycle orders; Vail sequence theory and sequence hierarchy; Carbonate sequences; Siliciclastic sequences; Seismic Facies; Paleo-environmental analysis; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration

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

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

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

Defining costs, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas senseClassifying the different costs; Determining cost objects, cost drivers and their behaviors; Assigning costs for an E&P company; Analyzing different types of Cost management systems; Measuring activities and their performance; Using Activities Based Management (ABM) to monitor costs and processes; Building and using an activity dictionary; Using value added costs versus non value-added costs for improvement; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure profits; Distinguishing between cost effectiveness and cost efficiencies; Using 4 dimensional costs; Developing productivity measurements that work; Operating Cost ManagementUsing the budgets efficiently and effectively; Using GAP analysis in measuring productivity of costs; Support departments cost allocations; Transfer pricing; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using variance analysis budget for monitoring performance; Measuring and controlling productivity; Optimizing the supply chain; Capital Cost ManagementCapital investment decision making and the effect on cost management; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Life Cycle Costing; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Managing personnel, logistics, purchasing and material costs effectively; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using different scenarios to more effectively manage costs; Performance MeasurementUsing capacity management techniques; Incorporating HSSE into the cost management system; Defining preventive and reactive costs; Breaking down the audit of performance management results; Raising your own cost management awareness

Gas properties: Real gas behavior equations of state, impurities, mixtures, phase behavior dew point, retrograde behavior, flash calculations; classifying gas reservoirs; Reservoir performance: Gas well testing - flow after flow, isochronal, stabilized inflow performance; turbulence and skin effects; perforation effects; tight well analysis; horizontal wells; hydraulically fractured wells; Reserve calculations: P/Z plots, energy plots, water influx, abnormal pressure effects; diagnostic testing based on production data; Flow in pipes and restrictions: Pressure loss - tubing, flowlines, chokes, safety valves; effects of liquids-liquid loading, liquid removal methods, multiphase flow correlations; erosional velocity; Compression: Types of compressors; compressor selection - reciprocating and centrifugal; effects of variables; capacity and horsepower; Total system analysis: Tubing and flowline size effects; perforating effects; relating deliverability to time; evaluating compressor installations; analyzing injection wells; Flow measuring: Orifice metering - design, accuracy, troubleshooting; other metering methods; Condensate reservoirs: Reservoir types - wet gas, retrograde; reserve estimates, laboratory simulation; gas cycling; Field operations problems: Interpreting P/Z plots; hydrate formation

Introduction to the fracturing process and mechanics; Practical fracture design; Fracturing fluid additives and proppant; Strengths and limitations of fracturing applications; Production increase; Factors involved in field implementation; Acid fracturing vs. proppant fracturing; Frac packs; Waterfracs; Fracturing in horizontal wells; QA/QC of fracturing treatments; Evaluation of fracturing treatment success

Introduction: philosophy and history; Geophysical fundamentals; Breaking out operational sequences; Introduction to fault interpretation; Chronostratigraphy construction and interpretation; Sea level curves, accommodation space, and cycle orders; Vail sequence theory and sequence hierarchy; Carbonate sequences; Siliciclastic sequences; Seismic Facies; Paleo-environmental analysis; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration

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

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

Overview of the drilling process:Overall drilling practices; Language of drilling; Reservoir rock and fluid properties; Rigs & rig equipment; Drilling string components & design; Bits; Rig operation; Drilling fluids & hydraulics; MWD; Well control; Hole problems and stuck pipe; Drilling risks; Cores and coring; Casing design & installation; Primary cementing; Directional, horizontal, multilateral and under-balanced drilling; Wellhead & trees; Overview of the completion process:Zonal isolation; Tubing, packers & completion equipment; Safety & flow control devices; Open hole completions; Basic completion types; Perforating; Open & cased hole logging; Formation damage & treatment; Completion fluids; Multiple completions; Overview of workover techniques:Stimulation application: surfactants, solvents, acidizing, fracturing and deep perforating; Formation and sand control: chemical consolidation, gravel packing, frac-pack, new and novel techniques; Scale and corrosion; Sidetracking; Paraffin and asphaltenes; Reworks; Recompletions; Deepening; Coiled tubing

Defining costs, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas senseClassifying the different costs; Determining cost objects, cost drivers and their behaviors; Assigning costs for an E&P company; Analyzing different types of Cost management systems; Measuring activities and their performance; Using Activities Based Management (ABM) to monitor costs and processes; Building and using an activity dictionary; Using value added costs versus non value-added costs for improvement; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure profits; Distinguishing between cost effectiveness and cost efficiencies; Using 4 dimensional costs; Developing productivity measurements that work; Operating Cost ManagementUsing the budgets efficiently and effectively; Using GAP analysis in measuring productivity of costs; Support departments cost allocations; Transfer pricing; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using variance analysis budget for monitoring performance; Measuring and controlling productivity; Optimizing the supply chain; Capital Cost ManagementCapital investment decision making and the effect on cost management; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Life Cycle Costing; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Managing personnel, logistics, purchasing and material costs effectively; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using different scenarios to more effectively manage costs; Performance MeasurementUsing capacity management techniques; Incorporating HSSE into the cost management system; Defining preventive and reactive costs; Breaking down the audit of performance management results; Raising your own cost management awareness

Gas properties: Real gas behavior equations of state, impurities, mixtures, phase behavior dew point, retrograde behavior, flash calculations; classifying gas reservoirs; Reservoir performance: Gas well testing - flow after flow, isochronal, stabilized inflow performance; turbulence and skin effects; perforation effects; tight well analysis; horizontal wells; hydraulically fractured wells; Reserve calculations: P/Z plots, energy plots, water influx, abnormal pressure effects; diagnostic testing based on production data; Flow in pipes and restrictions: Pressure loss - tubing, flowlines, chokes, safety valves; effects of liquids-liquid loading, liquid removal methods, multiphase flow correlations; erosional velocity; Compression: Types of compressors; compressor selection - reciprocating and centrifugal; effects of variables; capacity and horsepower; Total system analysis: Tubing and flowline size effects; perforating effects; relating deliverability to time; evaluating compressor installations; analyzing injection wells; Flow measuring: Orifice metering - design, accuracy, troubleshooting; other metering methods; Condensate reservoirs: Reservoir types - wet gas, retrograde; reserve estimates, laboratory simulation; gas cycling; Field operations problems: Interpreting P/Z plots; hydrate formation

Introduction to the fracturing process and mechanics; Practical fracture design; Fracturing fluid additives and proppant; Strengths and limitations of fracturing applications; Production increase; Factors involved in field implementation; Acid fracturing vs. proppant fracturing; Frac packs; Waterfracs; Fracturing in horizontal wells; QA/QC of fracturing treatments; Evaluation of fracturing treatment success

Introduction: philosophy and history; Geophysical fundamentals; Breaking out operational sequences; Introduction to fault interpretation; Chronostratigraphy construction and interpretation; Sea level curves, accommodation space, and cycle orders; Vail sequence theory and sequence hierarchy; Carbonate sequences; Siliciclastic sequences; Seismic Facies; Paleo-environmental analysis; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration

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;...