Geosciences Courses

Introduction to Geophysics and Seismic Interpretation

Workshop Overview

Lectures in this unit cover, at an introductory level, some of the important geophysical approaches which are used by Earth scientists to explore and understand the Earth’s interior.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

Methods of collecting and interpreting gravity, magnetic, seismic and electrical data and their use in assembling the presently held picture of the crust, mantle and core. Practical classes involve reducing and interpreting geophysical data from both exploration and global problems. An excursion provides an opportunity to carry out a field survey and interpret the results in terms of geological structure and environmental aspects. Introduction to geophysical methods used for resource exploration and engineering applications. Includes basic theory, instrumentation, field techniques, data analysis and case histories.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Introduction to Geophysical methods and geophysics.
  • Heat: sources, forms of transfer, heat flow, heat capacity, convection, adiabatic gradients.
  • Work and force: fundamental forces, vectors, laws of motion, superposition, 1D kinematics.
  • Electricity: Electrostatic force, Ohm’s Law, resistors, ideal conductors, equipotential fields.
  • Magnetism and electromagnetism: Earth’s magnetic field, types of magnetism, Curie temperature, electromagnetic waves 8.
  • Thermodynamics: laws of thermodynamics, standard state, entropy, enthalpy and Gibb’s Free Energy, redox reactions
  • Introduction to geophysical field techniques: application of different geophysical methods, inverse and forward modelling.
  • Seismic reflection and refraction techniques: applications, seismic wave propagation, bulk and shear moduli, geophones
  • Gravitational field techniques: applications, geoid and reference ellipsoid, isostatic equilibrium and isostasy, data corrections and reduction.
  • Gamma ray and GPR techniques: applications, radioactive decay, electromagnetic spectrum, environmental considerations.
  • Magnetic field techniques: applications, magnetic moment, Curie temperature, rock magnetism, magnetic profiles.
  • Electromagnetic (EM) field techniques: applications, electromagnetic theory, currents, CWEM and TEM systems.
  • DC resistivity and induced polarization (IP) field techniques: applications, natural and induced currents, common arrays, electrode and membrane polarization.
  • Borehole geophysics: applications, instrumentation, log literacy and log types, common borehole geophysical methods; spontaneous potential (SP).
  • Practical classes will be used to illustrate geophysical applications to real and synthetic and life data. These exercises will emphasize hands-on computation and current data analysis techniques.

Seismic Attribute & Image Interpretation

Workshop Overview

In this course, the candidates will gain an intuitive understanding of the kinds of seismic features identified by 3D seismic attributes, the sensitivity of seismic attributes to seismic acquisition and processing, and of how ‘independent’ seismic attributes are coupled through geology. Attributes are only as good as the data that goes into them.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers
  • Technicians
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

How to address components of seismic acquisition, reprocessing, and data conditioning. Detailed review and theory for inversion, bandwidth extension, cluster analysis, and neural networks to elicit the implicit assumptions made using this these technologies will be gained.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • A very brief overview of spectral decomposition.
  • A summary of volumetric coherence, amplitude and structural curvature, reflector shapes, lineaments, reflector rotation and convergence.
  • Poststack footprint suppression and prestack data conditioning for inversion and anisotropy analysis
  • Use of curvature, impedance, and seismic anisotropy to natural fractures.
  • A hierarchal overview of inversion.
  • Review of multiattribute display, crossplotting, and geobodies
  • Fundamentals of geostatistics, including colocated cokriging.
  • Clustering algorithms including k-means, self-organizing maps (e.g. Stratimagic's "waveform classification") and generative topographic maps.
  • A simple overview of neural networks.
  • Review of microseismic method and the relationship of microseismic events to surface seismic measurements
  • Recent work in mapping the unconventional Mississippi Lime play in OK and KS.

Fundamentals of Seismic Methodology

Workshop Overview

The main objective of this course is to provide E&P professionals with the opportunity to develop hands-on experience of various Seismic Interpretation techniques using the PETREL software package. The course will cover the essential Geological and Geophysical information necessary to visualize and interpret seismic data. The participants will gain a solid understanding of the applications and role of the seismic interpreter in studies that involve post-stack seismic attributes, AVO, seismic sequence stratigraphy, seismic geomorphology, 4D time-lapse seismic, and multidisciplinary integration. A significant percentage of the course is dedicated to reinforcement and advancement of interpretation techniques using practical exercises – both on the PETREL software and by hand. This will guide the participants in the understanding that the integration of all available data into the seismic model will add value in the needed coherent and successful seismic predictions that result from an interpretation.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

Methods of collecting and interpreting gravity, magnetic, seismic and electrical data and their use in assembling the presently held picture of the crust, mantle and core. Practical classes involve reducing and interpreting geophysical data from both exploration and global problems. An excursion provides an opportunity to carry out a field survey and interpret the results in terms of geological structure and environmental aspects.Introduction to geophysical methods used for resource exploration and engineering applications. Includes basic theory, instrumentation, field techniques, data analysis and case histories.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

Day 1

  • Exploration Seismology Fundamentals.
  • Review of rock properties, wave, and ray theory.
  • Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing.
  • Practical: Approaching the Seismic Sections.
  • Processing effects and limitations.
  • Land, transition zone, and marine acquisition technique.

Day 2

  • Interpretation Methods & Strategies.
  • Structural interpretation of seismic data.
  • Recognition of hydrocarbon signatures and interpretive “rule of thumb”.
  • Parameter selection. Acquisition geometry/ field design and planning.

Day 3

  • Seismic geomorphology, 4D time-lapse seismic .
  • Vertical Seismic Profiling
  • Seismic to well tie.
  • Field procedure and data Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA/QC).

Day 4

  • Principle of fluid substitution.
  • Parameterization of the AVO response for fluid product estimation.
  • AVO inversion of rock properties, impedances and reflectivities.
  • Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators, Amplitude-versus-Offset and seismic attributes.
  • Processing effects and limitations.
  • Data Processing techniques
  1. Algorithm and workflow
  2. Noise and noise handling/reduction techniques

Day 5

  • Fizz gas, anisotropy and other challenges facing the exploration industry.
  • Fundamentals of the Seismic Reflection Method.
  • Structural and Stratigraphical analysis 1.
  • Data processing from field tape to final migration.

Practical 1

  • Course Overview and Agenda – Geological Basics – contour mapping exercise – Geophysical Basics – central frequency and tuning exercise – Interpretation Basics – Introduction to Petrel software and seismic wedge model exercise.

Practical 2

  • Depth Conversion – Velocity modeling exercise – Sequence Stratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, and facies – Stratigraphic interpretation exercises (3) – Stratal Slicing and Geomorphology – Stratal slicing exercise.

Practical 3

  • Seismic Attributes – 3D fault mapping and ant tracking exercise – Reservoir thickness exercise – Spectral Decomposition – Reservoir characterization exercise – Carbonate case study – carbonate study exercise.

Practical 4

  • Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHI) – Reservoir Fluids – Amplitude versus Angle/Offset (AVA/AVO) – AVO slope/intercept exercise – Rock Physics – Inversion – Inversion (Acoustic Impedance) exercise.

Practical 5

  • Multi-Attributes – 3D Facies Classification Exercise – Fractured Reservoirs.

Principles of Data Integration for Exploration of Frontier and Mature Basins

Workshop Overview

This course provides an overview of the basic elements of the hydrocarbon systems of frontier basins. Review of basic interpretation techniques of remote sensing data including: satellite imagery, digital topography, radiometric and surface geochemistry data.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Supervisors and service personnel
  • Duration: 3 days

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

Day 1

  • Review of basic approach to regional interpretation of frontier basins.
  • Recognition and analysis of structural styles, timing of deformation, trap formation and oil generation.
  • An overview of the basic elements of the hydrocarbon systems of frontier basins.
  • Review of case history of different frontier basins.
  • Exercises one- Recognition of structural styles and timing of deformations of different frontier basins.

Day 2

  • Review of basic interpretation techniques of remote sensing data including: satellite imagery, digital topography, radiometric.
  • Exercises two- Interpretations of exposed and buried structures with different styles and timing of deformation
  • Review of basic interpretation techniques of gravity and magnetic data.
  • Exercises three- Depth to basement mapping of different frontier basins.

Day 3

  • Review of basic interpretation techniques of surface geochemistry data
  • Introduction to hydrocarbon migration, basin modelling and data integration techniques.
  • An overview of risk assessment techniques.
  • Exercises Four- an integrated analysis of different sedimentary basins.

Review of the Hydrocarbon Potential of the Onshore Basins

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Supervisors and service personnel
  • Duration: 2 days

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

Day 1

  • Regional overview of the structural history of the rift system in Nigeria, Chad and Niger.
  • Review of the basic elements of the hydrocarbon systems of different basins in Nigeria, Chad, and Niger
  • Review of different data sets that were used in exploration of the Nigeria Inland Basins.
  • Detailed analysis of Chad Basin exploration program and inventory of potential exploration targets
  • Exercises one- Integrated interpretation of the Maiduguri and Lake Chad Basins.

Day 2

  • Review of data sets used to identify prospects and leads in the BNT area.
  • Exercises two- detailed analysis of key prospects and leads in the BNT area.
  • An overview of the hydrocarbon potential of Bida and Sokoto Basins.
  • An overview of the hydrocarbon potential of the Anambra and Dahomy basins.
  • Assessment of the hydrocarbon potential of heavy oil and tar sands in the Nigerians Inland Basins.
  • Exercises three- assessment of the hydrocarbon potential of heavy oil and tar sand in Nigeria.

Application of Geochemistry in Exploration

Workshop Overview

This course provides an overview of basic petroleum geochemistry fundamentals with strong emphasis on applications to exploration and production. Various aspects of hydrocarbon generation and accumulation are discussed and this is followed with lectures on geochemical methods, markers, modeling, coal-bed methane and case studies.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Supervisors and service personnel
  • Duration: 3 days

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Introduction and review of fundamentals.
  • Geochemical methods.
  • Geological and geochemical constraints on hydrocarbon generation andaccumulation.
  • Geochemical correlation, “inversion,” and modeling.
  • Geochemistry in exploitation and development (reservoir geochemistry).
  • Introduction to coal-bed methane.
  • Case studies.

Subsurface Structural and Stratigraphic Mapping Methods

Workshop Overview

The course discusses the basic methods for the construction of subsurface structure and stratigraphic maps and cross sections to develop structural prospects or analyze producing fields.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

Basic mapping and cross section techniques for mapping structural and stratigraphic features. Detailed mapping techniques of extensional salt, compressional, strike-slip structures. Pitfalls in subsurface mapping and cross section construction. How to construct maps and sections through complex structural and stratigraphic features.
Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • INTRODUCTION TO SUBSURFACE INTERPRETATION.
  • BASIC PRINCIPLES-FOLDS, FAULTS, UNCONFORMITIES.
  • SUBSURFACE MAPS.
  • MAPPING STRUCTURAL-STRATIGRAPHIC FEATURES.
  • STRUCTURAL CROSS SECTIONS.
  • VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL PROSPECTS.
  • 3-D INTERPRETATIONS – APPLICATION TO MAJOR FIELDS.

Concepts of Application of Sequence Stratigraphy for Petroleum E&P

Workshop Overview

The better the background participants have in sedimentology and sedimentary systems the easier it will be for the participants to apply sequence stratigraphy in their daily work.The course will provide template to enable communication between geologists, geophysicists, and engineers in the exploration, production and business milieus so they can use this discipline as a predictive tool for regional basin analysis, shelf to basin correlation and reservoir heterogeneity.The course mixes presentations and exercises executed on participant’s laptop or iPad using Power Point. The results of completed exercises in class use Power Point renditions of exercises. Participants and lecturer will exchange open dialogues.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 6 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

The methodology and terminology of stratigraphic interpretation that uses a framework of genetically related stratigraphic surfaces that bound the sedimentary facies and geometries of hydrocarbon plays and fields.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Introduction to sequence stratigraphy: the critical stratigraphic surfaces used sequence stratigraphy with their relationship to the exercises briefly outlined.
  • Basics: introduction to sequence stratigraphy with lecture describing the ideal ‘sequence’ of Vail et al 1977 and its associated terminology.
  • Clastic Basin: using a movie on the clastic sedimentary response to changing sea level and rates of sedimentation reviewed.
  • Mixed Carbonate & Clastic Basin: a movie of the fill of a sided sedimentary basin with carbonate and clastic sediment reviewed.
  • Introduction to Sequence Stratigraphy of Clastic Sections - Book Cliffs, Utah: the first steps in the use of measured sections to build sequences stratigraphic models of clastic shoreline depositional systems, using measure sections from the Book Cliffs in Utah. 3 Exercises
  • Well Log Sequence Stratigraphy - Clastic High-Frequency Signals. 5 Exercises
  • Carbonate Outcrops. 3 Exercises
  • Seismic Sequence Analysis.
  • Select better quality in house examples that show good exploration potential and reservoir quality focusing on highlighting seismic quality and well logs in the interpretation.
  • Use seismic interpretation to identify stratigraphic plays. We will use course attendee examples to show how to make picks using well logs, seismic, maps and models.
  • Identify the important “key stratigraphic traps in present day oil production” matching with examples from the literature to show.
  • Use of in-house examples which combine stratigraphic and structural interpretations with emphasis on their stratigraphic signal rather than structure.
  • Closing Lectures.

Basic Logging Methods and Formation Evaluation

Workshop Overview

This practical concept drive course will focus on openhole data acquisition and interpretation. The course will cover all the basics of log data acquisition and interpretation. New high technology tools and their application will also be reviewed. These technologies will include Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Logging While Drilling (LWD), and optional topics, including wireline formation testing and borehole imaging. There will be daily workshops that cover the topics presented .

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

Log data acquisition, interpretation techniques, how to apply log quality control practices, types of high-technology tools, and the appropriate applications of that technology in formation evaluation. Participants should also have a working knowledge of openhole log interpretation and be able to confidentially compute important reservoir parameters such as porosity, lithology, shaliness, and water saturation.
Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Reservoir rock and basic logging.
  • Life of a well.
  • Spontaneous Potential (SP).
  • Natural Gamma Rays (GR) and the six basics of resistivity.
  • Acoustic measurements.
  • Neutron porosity measurement.
  • Density measurements.
  • Deep reading resistivity (Rt).
  • Shallow reading resistivity (Rxo).
  • Archie's Equation and determining saturation .
  • Computing the value of Vsh.
  • Interpretations for reservoir characterization.
  • Computing Sw in the presence of Shale.
  • The carbonates challenge.
  • The NExT 3-Line Interpretation Method .
  • Borehole imaging.
  • Measurement while drilling (MWD) and Logging While Drilling (LWD).

Integrated Reservoir Analysis

Workshop Overview

The goal is for participants to develop subsurface skills for integrated analysis of rocks, pore and fluids and to solve problems associated with identifying and exploiting reserves. Experience gained will allow participants to apply tools for analysis of the underlying uncertainty and assumptions used in many reservoir analysis techniques.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

Solving reservoir problems, from rock typing through log analysis. Various quick-scan and quick-look techniques. Reservoir issues such as drive mechanisms, recovery factor and scoping simulation models . Identifing lithologic zones and fluid types from log data. Physics of the measurements along with practical theory. Simple procedures for the rapid and accurate interpretation of log measurements.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Introduction, integration work and thought process.
  • Introduction to reservoir and lithofacies.
  • Carbonate pore-geometry, thin-section and Petrophysical Description Workshop and Presentation .
  • Applied examples and deliverables.
  • Geologic framework, mineralogy, reservoir compartmentalization, formation evaluation.
  • Introduction to static and dynamic reservoir simulation.
  • Introduction to the conceptual 3-Line log analysis method.
  • Applied hands on workshops.
  • Introduction to Routine Core Analysis
  • Core porosity.
  • Overview of core permeability (absolute, effective, Klinkenburg corrected and relative permeability)
  • Basics of net mean stress.
  • Fundamentals of Petrophysical rock types.
  • Overview of well log porosity, total and effective porosity .
  • Overview and the concept of practical capillary pressure and applications.
  • Workshop - Capillary pressure analysis.
  • What is Winland (Pittman) pore throat radius and why is it important.
  • Workshop - Winland Plots by Facies.
  • Workshop - Simple core analysis using Winland based method.
  • Clastic - Facies and Petrophysical rock types case studies.
  • Carbonate - Facies and Petrophysical rock type case studies
  • Capillary pressure and pore geometry, stress and reservoir performance, petrophysical quick scan analysis.
  • Permeability, relative permeability and wettability.
  • Archie saturation, cementation, and saturation exponent (optional).
  • Home Work - Well evaluation with core and log data.
  • Participant presentations of workshop results.
  • Introduction to saturation height methods (SHM).
  • Wettability and why it is important (optional).
  • SHM case studies both clastic and carbonate.
  • Introduce flow unit concept, analysis and workshop.
  • Final well analysis workshop - facies, core-log petrophysical rock types, flow units and saturation height model Individual and presentations.

Integrated Reservoir Modeling

Workshop Overview

This five day interactive and practical course will help participants to use geological modeling to produce realistic volumetric estimations for hydrocarbon reservoirs. It will show how new operational data and revised interpretations, such as a new well or a recently discovered fault, can be identified and incorporated into models at any point in the workflow.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

The procedures and workflow for building a 3D model, regardless of the software available to the modeling team. In other words, this will be an attempt at a best practice approach to a complex and varied workflow. There will be a particular emphasis on integrating static and dynamic reservoir properties with the geological facies model. Exercises will be done using industry standard modelling software (Petrel), although it should be emphasized that the purpose of the course is methodology and not software operation. Relevant industry case studies and practical applications will be reviewed throughout the course. Participants will gain an understanding of the key challenges associated with building effective 3D reservoir models from interpretation and design to quality assurance and optimization of results.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Reservoir envelope: top and base structure.
  • Internal framework: correlation scheme.
  • Reservoir architecture: facies model
  • Petrophysical property distribution.
  • Volumetric Assessment.
  • Depth conversion uncertainty.
  • Model surface selection and quality control.
  • Fault modelling and compartments.
  • Stratigraphy and correlation
  • Grid construction.
  • Depositional models and facies analysis.
  • Core-log integration.
  • Basic statistics.
  • Objects and indicators .
  • Seismic conditioning.
  • Facies modelling.
  • Basic petrophysics.
  • Rock typing.
  • More basic statistics.
  • Saturation models.
  • Permeability models

Reservoir Engineer for Non-RE

Workshop Overview

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out a complete reservoir engineering analysis using classical reservoir engineering techniques such as material balance, decline curves, well test analysis and reserves estimation. It also provides course participants with an understanding of reservoir (rock and fluid) properties and fluid flow mechanism.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Petroleum engineers
  • Technical Managers.
  • Technical Supervisors (Involved in improving recovery factor and reservoir management).

Benefits of this Workshop

  • Fluid flow in porous media
  • PVT analysis.
  • Pressure analysis.
  • Decline analysis and Material Balance.
  • Estimation of oil and gas in place.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Reservoir engineering concepts
  • Reservoir simulation equation
  • Well representation.
  • Solutions to simulation equations.
  • Numerical solution to single phase equation
  • Multi-phase flow simulation.

Seismic Stratigraphy

Workshop Overview

This workshop presents the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy for petroleum exploration and production. All concepts are illustrated with field examples of seismic, well-log, core, and outcrop data.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

In-class exercises emphasize the recognition of sequence stratigraphic surfaces and systems tracts on well-log cross-sections, seismic lines, and outcrop profiles. The points of agreement and difference between the various sequence stratigraphic approaches (models) are discussed, and guidelines are provided for a standardized process-based workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis. This enables the practitioner to eliminate nomenclatural or methodological confusions, and apply sequence stratigraphy effectively for facies predictions in exploration and production..

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Historical development of sequence stratigraphy
  • Chronostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, event stratigraphy
  • Fundamental concepts of sequence stratigraphy: depositional trends.
  • Sequence stratigraphic surfaces: subaerial unconformity, correlative conformity, basal surface of forced regression, regressive surface of marine erosion
  • Systems tracts: lowstand, transgressive, highstand, falling-stage, low-accommodation and high-accommodation systems tracts
  • Stratal stacking patterns.
  • Relative sea-level change.
  • Sequence models: depositional sequences, genetic stratigraphic sequences, transgressive-regressive sequences; standardization of sequence stratigraphy.
  • Applications to depositional systems: fluvial systems, coastal systems, shallow-water clastic systems, deep-water clastic systems, carbonate systems; hierarchy of sequences and sequence boundaries.

Sedimentology and Deepwater Deposits

Workshop Overview

This course covers the theory and application of sedimentology and depositional environments of deepwater deposits, introduction to operations Geology and Wellsite Duties.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

At the end of this integrated course, participants will be able to contribute effectively to the preparation of planned wells and their concurrent operations during the exploration, appraisal, and development phases.All should be able to understand and prepare daily drilling reports with a full appreciation of the various subjects. Cuttings, cores, logs, and well tests should be analyzed, cross-correlated, and compiled to mesh with prognoses and existing data to effectively manage the impact on the field development plan. The course is an extensive series of topic-related modules, with provision to include workshops on client and student datasets.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Why soft rock geology matters to the Oil industry
  • Deepwater mass-flow sediment transport.
  • Petroleum Geology and its systems.
  • Deepwater mass-flow sedimentary systems.
  • Refresher on carbonates: reefal build-ups as sources of deep water carbonates.
  • Operations Geology I.
  • Operations Geology II.
  • Slope & basin floor fan systems – Gulf of Mexico clastics case studies.
  • Wellsite Geology I.
  • Carbonate mass flow deposits – case studies.
  • Wellsite Geology II.

Oil Well Drilling for Non Drilling Personnel

Workshop Overview

Oil-wells are being drilled to depths of almost six miles to enable exploitation of oil and gas reserves. Wells can be designated as one of the following three types:

  • Exploration wells, Appraisal wells, Development or production, wells
  • More than 20,000 wells have now been drilled offshore; ocean-floor completions have been made below 1,500 feet of water, and the capability exists to complete such wells in 4,500 feet of water or deeper.
  • Oil and gas recovery are possible through such wells drilled into the earths structure. The essence of the workshop is to build a sound knowledge of the drilling process.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Supervisors and service personnel
  • Duration: 3 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

This course is designed to train participants on origin of petroleum, source and accumulation, good well planning, and the process of drilling, casing , cementing and completing a well. Participants are expected to identify common drilling equipment, appreciate drilling problems and learn new drilling technique.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Defining of well objectives.
  • Why is the well to be drilled? Will it be a wildcat exploration well or an appraisal or development well?
  • Obtaining consent to drill from authorities.
  • Collection of data.
  • Establishment of subsurface pressure regimes.
  • Establishment of fracture gradients.
  • Drilling programme preparation
  • Using the collated data, the programme is constructed in such a manner that well objectives can be met.
  • Rig specification.
  • Differentiating between Well Type and Trajectory
  • Explaining the process of MWD.
  • Functions of the BOP.
  • Understanding the process and Hazards of KICK and BLOW-OUT.
  • Explaining the process of drilling Wild Cat wells, Appraisal Wells and Development Wells.
  • Describing the working principles of Hoisting, Rotating and Circulating Equipments.
  • Selection of Well Type, Bit Type , and Mud Type.
  • Knowing the reasons for Pipe Sticking during Oil Well Drilling.
  • Knowing the process of Fishing Operation
  • Explaining the mechanism of Drilling JARS.
  • Identifying the Different Well Logging Tools
  • Listing the function of Drilling Mud.
  • Explaining the advantages of Horizontal and Multi-Lateral well drilling.
  • Understanding the process of Well Completion.
  • Monitoring the drilling progress.

Production for Non-Production Personnel

Workshop Overview

Oil-wells are being drilled to depths of almost six miles to enable exploitation of oil and gas reserves. Wells can be designated as one of the following three types:

  • Exploration wells, Appraisal wells, Development or production, wells
  • More than 20,000 wells have now been drilled offshore; ocean-floor completions have been made below 1,500 feet of water, and the capability exists to complete such wells in 4,500 feet of water or deeper.
  • Oil and gas recovery are possible through such wells drilled into the earths structure. The essence of the workshop is to build a sound knowledge of the drilling process.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • All oilfield engineers.
  • Technicians
  • Geologists
  • Managers
  • Supervisors and service personnel
  • Duration: 3 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

How to de-emulsify oil-emulsion, dehydration and Storage of Oil. On completion of the course, participants should be able to appreciate the function of flow station, tank farm and oil terminal.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

  • Selecting Crude Type and desired Quality.
  • Explaining the process of Oil and Gas Separation.
  • Processing Crude for export
  • Understanding the Flow Station and Storage Tank operation
  • Describing the operation of gathering systems and Manifold
  • Knowing the process of acquiring water removal form Crude
  • Knowing the process of Crude Transportation
  • Analysing production problems