Prospect and Play Assessment - PPA

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

Compressional structural styles and their plate-tectonic habitats; Wrench assemblage; Transpressive structures; Detached (thin-skinned) styles including forearc, backarc, collisional, and deep-water thrust-fold belts; Basement-involved styles including compressional drape folds, predictive models for rotated blocks and subthrust plays; Inversion; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Fault-bend folds; Fault-tip folds; Fault-propagation folds; Detachment folds; Buckle folds and the break-fold model; Duplexes; Triangle zones; Growth folds; Fracturing in compressional structures; Summary of oil and gas fields

Recognize symptoms of liquid loading in gas wells; Critical velocity; Systems Nodal analysis; Sizing tubing; Compression; Plunger lift; Use of foam to de-liquefy gas wells; Hydraulic pumps; Use of beam pumps to de-liquefy gas wells; Gas lift; Electrical submersible pumps; Progressive cavity pumps; Other methods to attack liquid loading problems

Natural Gas and World Energy Trends; A Closer Look at Natural Gas; Gas Sweetening; Gas Hydrates and Dehydration; Phase Behavior and Phase Envelopes; Stabilization and Fractionation Concepts and Facilities; Gas Conditioning (Dew Point Control) and NGL Extraction; Gas Processing Key Equipment and Support Systems (Heat Transfer, Compression, Pipelines and Gathering Systems, Measurement); Specialty Processes in Gas Processing (LNG, Nitrogen Rejection and Helium Recovery, and Sulfur Recovery and Acid Gas Reinjection); Special Topics in Gas Processing

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

Compressional structural styles and their plate-tectonic habitats; Wrench assemblage; Transpressive structures; Detached (thin-skinned) styles including forearc, backarc, collisional, and deep-water thrust-fold belts; Basement-involved styles including compressional drape folds, predictive models for rotated blocks and subthrust plays; Inversion; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Fault-bend folds; Fault-tip folds; Fault-propagation folds; Detachment folds; Buckle folds and the break-fold model; Duplexes; Triangle zones; Growth folds; Fracturing in compressional structures; Summary of oil and gas fields

Recognize symptoms of liquid loading in gas wells; Critical velocity; Systems Nodal analysis; Sizing tubing; Compression; Plunger lift; Use of foam to de-liquefy gas wells; Hydraulic pumps; Use of beam pumps to de-liquefy gas wells; Gas lift; Electrical submersible pumps; Progressive cavity pumps; Other methods to attack liquid loading problems

Natural Gas and World Energy Trends; A Closer Look at Natural Gas; Gas Sweetening; Gas Hydrates and Dehydration; Phase Behavior and Phase Envelopes; Stabilization and Fractionation Concepts and Facilities; Gas Conditioning (Dew Point Control) and NGL Extraction; Gas Processing Key Equipment and Support Systems (Heat Transfer, Compression, Pipelines and Gathering Systems, Measurement); Specialty Processes in Gas Processing (LNG, Nitrogen Rejection and Helium Recovery, and Sulfur Recovery and Acid Gas Reinjection); Special Topics in Gas Processing

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

Compressional structural styles and their plate-tectonic habitats; Wrench assemblage; Transpressive structures; Detached (thin-skinned) styles including forearc, backarc, collisional, and deep-water thrust-fold belts; Basement-involved styles including compressional drape folds, predictive models for rotated blocks and subthrust plays; Inversion; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Fault-bend folds; Fault-tip folds; Fault-propagation folds; Detachment folds; Buckle folds and the break-fold model; Duplexes; Triangle zones; Growth folds; Fracturing in compressional structures; Summary of oil and gas fields

Recognize symptoms of liquid loading in gas wells; Critical velocity; Systems Nodal analysis; Sizing tubing; Compression; Plunger lift; Use of foam to de-liquefy gas wells; Hydraulic pumps; Use of beam pumps to de-liquefy gas wells; Gas lift; Electrical submersible pumps; Progressive cavity pumps; Other methods to attack liquid loading problems

Natural Gas and World Energy Trends; A Closer Look at Natural Gas; Gas Sweetening; Gas Hydrates and Dehydration; Phase Behavior and Phase Envelopes; Stabilization and Fractionation Concepts and Facilities; Gas Conditioning (Dew Point Control) and NGL Extraction; Gas Processing Key Equipment and Support Systems (Heat Transfer, Compression, Pipelines and Gathering Systems, Measurement); Specialty Processes in Gas Processing (LNG, Nitrogen Rejection and Helium Recovery, and Sulfur Recovery and Acid Gas Reinjection); Special Topics in Gas Processing

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

Compressional structural styles and their plate-tectonic habitats; Wrench assemblage; Transpressive structures; Detached (thin-skinned) styles including forearc, backarc, collisional, and deep-water thrust-fold belts; Basement-involved styles including compressional drape folds, predictive models for rotated blocks and subthrust plays; Inversion; Structural validation criteria; Selecting the best balancing and restoration technique; Flexural-slip restoration; Area-depth technique for section validation, depth to detachment, bed-length changes and fault prediction; Fault-bend folds; Fault-tip folds; Fault-propagation folds; Detachment folds; Buckle folds and the break-fold model; Duplexes; Triangle zones; Growth folds; Fracturing in compressional structures; Summary of oil and gas fields

Recognize symptoms of liquid loading in gas wells; Critical velocity; Systems Nodal analysis; Sizing tubing; Compression; Plunger lift; Use of foam to de-liquefy gas wells; Hydraulic pumps; Use of beam pumps to de-liquefy gas wells; Gas lift; Electrical submersible pumps; Progressive cavity pumps; Other methods to attack liquid loading problems

Natural Gas and World Energy Trends; A Closer Look at Natural Gas; Gas Sweetening; Gas Hydrates and Dehydration; Phase Behavior and Phase Envelopes; Stabilization and Fractionation Concepts and Facilities; Gas Conditioning (Dew Point Control) and NGL Extraction; Gas Processing Key Equipment and Support Systems (Heat Transfer, Compression, Pipelines and Gathering Systems, Measurement); Specialty Processes in Gas Processing (LNG, Nitrogen Rejection and Helium Recovery, and Sulfur Recovery and Acid Gas Reinjection); Special Topics in Gas Processing