Petrophysics of Unconventional Reservoirs - PUR

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; The petroleum reservoir; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling technology; Well completion and workover; Production operations; Recovery; Surface processing; Offshore operations

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Bitumen and Heavy Oil Introduction and Definitions; Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Introduction of United States Heavy Oil Occurrences (Utah, California and Texas); Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Environmental challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery Process Review; Introduction to Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Canada and other non-thermal heavy oil recovery methods; Field Examples and Development Strategies of Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery Projects; Overview of Thermal Well Completions and Production Facilities; Reserves and Economics

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

Getting started: Financial terms and definitions, the language of business; Accounting rules, standards and policies; Constructing the basic financial statements; Classifying assets and liabilities; Comparing different accounting elements; Accounting for joint operations; Accounting and reporting