Onshore Pipeline Facilities - Design, Construction and Operations - PL-42

The overall drilling process and equipment; The language of drillers - understanding their terminology; Understanding the abbreviations and acronyms associated with drilling; Rig equipment and types; Types of drill bits; MWD; Drill strings; Drilled solids management; Mud tank arrangements; Drilling fluid properties; Well control; Cementing; Casing design; Hole problems (stuck pipe, lost circulation); Well control; Directional drilling operations and tools; Safety

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

Importance of understanding the various scales of heterogeneity in carbonate reservoirs; Carbonate deposition, diagenesis, mineralogy, rock textures and pore types; Carbonate rock and carbonate pore system classification; Carbonate rock properties and core analysis; Well log response, limitations, and strengths in carbonates; Determination of lithology, porosity, and permeability; Fracture identification and distribution; Porosity/depth relationships in limestone and dolomite reservoirs; Importance of sequence boundaries to development of pore architecture; Variations in carbonate pore architecture and its effect on permeability; Relationship of primary depositional facies, sequence stratigraphic framework and diagenetic history to pore architecture and reservoir quality; Controls on reservoir heterogeneity, from sub-reservoir to reservoir scale; Value of analogs for development of petrophysically-based reservoir models; Value and limitations of 3-D geostatistical models to understand reservoir heterogeneity and architecture

The overall drilling process and equipment; The language of drillers - understanding their terminology; Understanding the abbreviations and acronyms associated with drilling; Rig equipment and types; Types of drill bits; MWD; Drill strings; Drilled solids management; Mud tank arrangements; Drilling fluid properties; Well control; Cementing; Casing design; Hole problems (stuck pipe, lost circulation); Well control; Directional drilling operations and tools; Safety

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

Importance of understanding the various scales of heterogeneity in carbonate reservoirs; Carbonate deposition, diagenesis, mineralogy, rock textures and pore types; Carbonate rock and carbonate pore system classification; Carbonate rock properties and core analysis; Well log response, limitations, and strengths in carbonates; Determination of lithology, porosity, and permeability; Fracture identification and distribution; Porosity/depth relationships in limestone and dolomite reservoirs; Importance of sequence boundaries to development of pore architecture; Variations in carbonate pore architecture and its effect on permeability; Relationship of primary depositional facies, sequence stratigraphic framework and diagenetic history to pore architecture and reservoir quality; Controls on reservoir heterogeneity, from sub-reservoir to reservoir scale; Value of analogs for development of petrophysically-based reservoir models; Value and limitations of 3-D geostatistical models to understand reservoir heterogeneity and architecture

The overall drilling process and equipment; The language of drillers - understanding their terminology; Understanding the abbreviations and acronyms associated with drilling; Rig equipment and types; Types of drill bits; MWD; Drill strings; Drilled solids management; Mud tank arrangements; Drilling fluid properties; Well control; Cementing; Casing design; Hole problems (stuck pipe, lost circulation); Well control; Directional drilling operations and tools; Safety

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

Importance of understanding the various scales of heterogeneity in carbonate reservoirs; Carbonate deposition, diagenesis, mineralogy, rock textures and pore types; Carbonate rock and carbonate pore system classification; Carbonate rock properties and core analysis; Well log response, limitations, and strengths in carbonates; Determination of lithology, porosity, and permeability; Fracture identification and distribution; Porosity/depth relationships in limestone and dolomite reservoirs; Importance of sequence boundaries to development of pore architecture; Variations in carbonate pore architecture and its effect on permeability; Relationship of primary depositional facies, sequence stratigraphic framework and diagenetic history to pore architecture and reservoir quality; Controls on reservoir heterogeneity, from sub-reservoir to reservoir scale; Value of analogs for development of petrophysically-based reservoir models; Value and limitations of 3-D geostatistical models to understand reservoir heterogeneity and architecture