Senior production, drilling, completion and reservoir engineers,

geologists, petrophysicists and managers. Those who attended the basic course are perfect candidates.

·        Productivity optimization

·        Reservoir description and characterization for productivity enhancement study

·        Types and mechanisms of formation damage

·        Production enhancement economics

·        Techniques to diagnose formationdamage

·        Techniques for evaluation of formation damage and effect on productivity

·        Sanding and wellbore stability: prevention and treatment

·        Techniques for prevention and treatment of formation damage

Petroleum and Production Engineers and Production Supervisors involved in artificial lifting, production operations and facilities. A minimum of 2 years production engineering experience is suggested.

 

To build the necessary experience required for the practical analysis of well performance and the basic evaluation of the artificial lift requirements and to have a common understanding of oil and gas separation and dehydration and compression of natural gas.

 

·Review of Basic Produced Fluid Properties

·Artificial Lift

·Oil & Gas Separation          

·Three Phase Separator

·Oil Field Emulsion Treating

·Dehydration and Compression of Natural Gas

·H2S and Gas Sweetening

·Oil Field Metering and Pumps

·Flowlines and Valves

·Oil field emulsions treating

 

Production engineers and operations staff responsible for designing

gas lift installations and or performing surveillance and optimization on wells using gas lift.

 

·        Gas lift concepts and data

·        Inflow & outflow

·        NODAL analysis & equilibrium curves

·        Gas lift equipment and valve mechanics

·        Valve selection & calibration

·        Gas lift equipment demo

·         Unloading

·        Mandrel spacing and step-by-step,complete gas lift design for a well

·        Temperature, trox and choke sizing

·        Lift gas rates, instability and distribution

·        Gas lift surveillance & gas measurement

·        Analysis of flowing gradient surveys

·        Gas allocation and field optimization

·        Use of computer programs for gas lift design, trouble-shooting & optimization

 

Engineers and Field technicians who are responsible for the selection, operation and maintenance of beam pumping systems.

 

This course will allow the user to become familiar with the system and when it should be used. Participants learn how to compare to other systems to select the best system for a given well whether it may be beam pumping or another method of lift.

·        Introduction to Artificial Lift

·        Beam Pumping Surface Equipment

·        Subsurface Equipment

·        Pumping Problem 

·        Fluid level

·        Dynamometer measurements

Petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, production engineers, drilling

engineers and geoscientists.

This course provides a broad overview of the nature of formation

damage problems, how they occur during various oilfield operations, and their effects on well productivity. It reviews basic rock properties affected by formation damage, discusses the types and mechanisms of formation damage, evaluates economic implications, and integrates field and laboratory methods for recognition of the damage. Geological

and engineering techniques for proper evaluation of the problem and procedures to minimize/alleviate it are presented.

·        Introduction to formation damage

·        Diagnosis of formation damage

·        Scale and precipitate damage

·        Scale deposition, removal and prevention

·        Prediction and identification of scales

·        Organic deposition

·        Bacteria

·        Sanding and wellbore stability

Production, operations, facilities and petroleum engineers, surface equipment technicians, technical or reservoir engineers, supervisory personnel who interact with field facility engineers/operators. Production managers and field production supervisors. Engineers and other personnel involved with the daily operation and management of producing oil and gas wells.

The chief function of a system wide analysis is to increase well rates. It identifies bottlenecks and serves as a framework for the design of efficient field wide flow systems, including wells, artificial lift, gathering lines and manifolds. Together with reservoir simulation and analytical tools. Nodal analysis is used in planning new field development.

·        General overview of nodal analysis

·        Production system analysis

·        Reservoir performance

·        Pressure drop of fluid flow in pipes

·        Total system analysis

·        Artificial lift method

·        Nodal analysis in specific field application

 

Petroleum, production, reservoir, facility, drilling, and research engineers; geologists; field supervisors; and managers.

 

The course aims to explain to participants how to apply the procedures and techniques that increase production and cut operations costs. It focuses on planning and implementing well completions, workovers, simulation treatments and routine production operations with an efficiency that increases profits.

 

·        Geological Considerations

·        Reservoir Fundamentals

·        Well Testing & Completions

·        Inflow and Outflow

·        Workover Fluids and Perforation

·        Completion Equipments

·        Production Logging

·        Squeeze Cementing

·        Workovers & Formation Damage

·        Surfactants, Paraffin and Asphaltene

·        Rock Mechanics

·        Hydraulic Fracturing & Sand Control

·        Acidizing & Corrosion Control

·        Scale deposition, removal and prevention

 

Geoscientists, Reservoir, Facility and Drilling Engineers as well as fresh graduate Production Engineers.

This course stresses the production technology required to effectively develop and operate an asset, and the role of production engineering in a multi-discipline development project.

·        Role and Tasks of Production Technology

·        Completion Design

·        Inflow and Outflow Performance

·        Sand Control

·        Artificial Lift Systems (gas lift, ESP, beam-pump, PCP)

·        Perforating

·        Fracturing

·        Formation Damage and Well Stimulation

·        Field Surveillance and Data

·        Production System Optimization

 Production, facilities and reservoir engineers and field and operations managers/supervisors.

 In this course, the participants will learn, practice and apply the

methods used to evaluate and analyze the performance of each of the various components of the production system and how to integrate those individual components to get the best results.

·        Introduction

·        Definition of Well Performance

·        System Analysis of the Production System

·        Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior

·        Reservoir Inflow Performance

·        Tubing (Outflow Performance)

·        Gradient or Pressure Traverse Curves

·        Flow Maps and Correlations

·        Temperature Modeling

·        Surface Pressure Losses

·        Completions Inflow Performance

·        Computerized Well Performance –

·        Prediction Programs

·        Well Performance Sensitivity Study

·        Exercises