Petroleum Engineering Courses

Modern Core Analysis and Application

Workshop Overview

1. Planning of a core analysis program, objectives and selection of desirable coring fluid and suitable preservation and analytical techniques.

2. Understanding of laboratory methods and acquisition of conventional and special data.

3. Coring fluid effects on saturation and wettability.

4. Quality assurance and control methods.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Reservoir and Production Engineers, Completion and Drilling Engineers
  • Exploration, Reservoir, and Production Geologists.
  • Core and Log Analysts.
  • Petrophysicists
  • Duration: 2 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Reliable economic evaluation of a reservoir requires knowledge of certain fundamental reservoir properties. Core analysis data play an important role in exploration programs, completion and work-over operations, and in well and reservoir evaluations. This workshop focuses on the understanding of the different laboratory measurement techniques and data acquired. Program objectives have to be established early to guide decisions on the suitability of core and data acquisition methods. The implications of drilling fluids on core saturation; the effects of stress; considerations for clay preservation, and the effects of wettability are discussed. HPO has developed a workshop that emphasizes a thorough understanding of core analysis theory and practice. Historical and modern core analysis methods are reviewed, and the conversion of historical data to reservoir conditions is presented.

Petrophysical Modeling

Workshop Overview

• Soft computing refers to a collection of computational techniques which study, model, and analyze very complex phenomena: those for which more conventional methods have not yielded low cost, analytic, and complete solutions.

• Soft Computing uses soft techniques contrasting it with classical artificial intelligence hard computing techniques.

• Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that, unlike hard computing, it is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Geologists
  • Geophysicists
  • Reservoir Engineers
  • Exploration Geologists
  • Reservoir Geologists. Production Geologists
  • Duration: 3 days

Benefits of this Workshop

  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Adaptative Neural Networks
  • Hibrid System: Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network.

Reservoir Description

Workshop Overview

This course is intended to show participants the practical and systematic approaches for integrating core-log and seismic data to aid the geological and engineering modeling of oil and gas reservoirs. It is designed to communicate the sequences, principles and techniques of an integrated petrophysical evaluation based on core-log-seismic data integration. Details of core analysis, logging tools/or analysis and seismic interpretations are discussed briefly, and only in the context of the overall objectives. The major emphasis of the course lies on the assortment of data which must be considered at each stage of the evaluation, and on those petrophysical data which are input into reservoir characterization models, static and dynamic modeling.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Petrophysicists.
  • Geophysicists
  • Reservoir Engineers
  • Exploration Geologists
  • Reservoir Geologists. Production Geologists
  • Duration: 5 days

Participants will gain experience in the following:

1. Recognizing the interrelationships between rock and fluid properties and therefore the hydraulic behavior of the reservoir system.

2. Developing procedures to assess and integrate laboratory and field techniques systematically to describe and manage a reservoir for maximum return on investment.

3. Obtaining descriptive parameters for realistic reservoir model building and production prediction.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

Benefits of this Workshop

Core-Log-Seismic petrophysics plays a major role in reservoir management because it draws upon expertise from geology, geophysics and engineering. It is the key element in integrated studies as it brings the Exploration and Production Departments together. Due to recent advances in evaluation and horizontal wells technologies and increase in finding costs, there is more emphasis on improving the recovery factor of existing reservoirs, rather than finding new ones. Asset teams should encourage better reservoir description because it is key to sound investment decisions.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics

HPO Global

has developed a workshop that emphasizes the importance of integrated reservoir description. This course presents a practical and systematic approach to integrating data from various sources for reservoir description.

Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

Workshop Overview

This course is centered around the conventional reservoir engineering theory.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Reservoir and Production Engineers, Completion and Drilling Engineers.
  • Exploration, Reservoir, and Production Geologists.
  • Core and Log Analysts.
  • Petrophysicists
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

The basics of reservoir rock and reservoir fluids, volumetric gas in-place and oil in-place calculations, applications of material balance to black oil and natural gas reservoirs, single and multi-phase flow in reservoirs, well testing, aquifer influx calculations, and basics of reservoir flow simulation n technology including history matching operations.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Introduction to reservoir engineering
  • Reservoir environment and formation properties.
  • Definition of reservoir pressure.
  • Reservoir and surface conditions
  • Estimating gas, oil, and water properties from correlations.
  • Application of deviation factor to ideal gas law
  • Darcy's Law and fundamentals of fluid flow.
  • Relative permeability concept.
  • Principles of Well Testing in reservoir characterization.
  • Application of diffusivity equation to steady state, semi-steady state and unsteady state flow.
  • Inflow performance and basics of Nodal Analysis.
  • Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
  • Definition of reserves.
  • Recovery factor-API Correlations
  • Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place.

Advanced Reservoir Simulation

Workshop Overview

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with the advanced knowledge of the practical aspects of simulation engineering techniques.
The course participants will learn about data analysis, model construction, history match, and performance prediction.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Geologists
  • Geophysicists
  • Reservoir Engineers.
  • Managers involved in reserves estimating and reporting
  • Duration: 2 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

  • Data analysis
  • Model construction.
  • History match.
  • Performance prediction
Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Data analysis.
  • Model construction.
  • Reservoir performance prediction
  • Black oil simulation
  • Compositional simulation
  • Reservoir Development plan.

Decision Risk Management

Workshop Overview

This course provides participants with the basic knowledge of economic evaluation of projects and the assets. Cash flow techniques and project profitability are examined in detail. Decision Tree analysis and oil and gas property evaluation are reviewed.
The course also provides participants with a basic understanding of risk analysis.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Managers
  • Engineers
  • Field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skill and understanding of decision making and risk management
  • Duration: 3 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

How to evaluate the economic viability of a project. Cash flow techniques applicable in economic evaluations Models for determining sensitivities and uncertainties Techniques for determining expected value.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Introduction
  • Definition of economic concepts
  • Forecasting hydrocarbon production
  • Time value of money
  • Cash flow techniques
  • Decision tree analysis
  • Decision tree analysis
  • Valuation of oil and gas properties
  • Ethics in oil and gas economics

Artificial Lift Design And Optimization

Workshop Overview

The natural reservoir pressure will not be enough to push the oil through the turbines to the surface during production. Hence the maximum oil production cannot be achieved by only natural energy; gas lift has to be applied. Gas-lift is the process whereby gas is injected into the tubing to lift oil by buoyancy. This course is designed to assist participants to have a better understanding of Vertical lift of oil up the well by gas injection into the tubing, the design and construction of gas lift mandrels and process of installation. In some cases.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

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

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

How to design and install gas lift mandrels. Determining the injection point and appropriate gas volume. Competence will be developed in

Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Knowing the time to start gas-lifting
  • Knowing the difference between Gas lifting and Gas injection
  • Explaining the Difference between intermittent and Continuous gas lift
  • Determining the Volume of Gas to be injected Time value of money.
  • Understanding the function of the mandrels
  • Describing the Design of Gas-lift process
  • Knowing the process of Field Development
  • Sustaining the life of the Well
  • Forecasting Future Production

Product Enhancement-Application of Formation Damage Control Strategies

Workshop Overview

This workshop focuses on practical, preventive, and mitigative applications. As a result of your attendance, you will be able to:

  • Recognize formation damage problems during any stage of well development and reservoir exploitation.
  • Develop diagnostic methodology for the identification of any form of productivity impairments.
  • Learn the systematic and tractable approach to identify and quantify the mechanism of near wellbore formation damage. Specifically, the     thermodynamic (Pressure, Temperature, Composition and CO2 content) at which impairment begins to occur.
  • Review secondary recovery methods and effects on productivity.
  • Perform inflow performance relationships to determine well potential based on geological and petrophysical controls.
  • Perform vertical lift performance and optimization of surface facilities constraints.
  • Evaluate drilling and completion practices to establish procedures for selection of non-damaging systems.
  • Develop procedures to systematically, assess and integrate laboratory and field techniques to recognize and treat formation damage.
  • Design non-damaging drilling, completion, and stimulation programs.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Production, Drilling, Completion, and Reservoir engineers.
  • Reservoir and Production geologists.
  • Petrophysicists, and Core Analysts
  • Asset Managers
  • Duration: 5 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

Most problems of lower than expected production rate from or injection rate into a hydrocarbon bearing reservoir rock are due to formation damage, which is a condition that occurs when barriers to flow develop in the near-wellbore region. This problem has been recognized for several decades as a major contributor to anomalous production and/or abnormal decline in productivity or injectivity in most hydrocarbon reservoirs.

This workshop will help engineers, geologists and petrophysicists assess the type, mechanism, and magnitude of formation damage and its effect on productivity. They will also learn to design effective control and cost-efficient treatment strategies. Data obtained from geological and geophysical studies will be used to understand the limits of the reservoir and its effect on productivity. The effect of depleting pressure on transmissivity will be studied through proper reservoir description. The use of proper diagnostic tools to identify, quantify and prevent formation damage effects on productivity will be discussed.

Specifically, this workshop shows how to define the scope of, and offer the solutions for, formation damage problems. 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. Potential damage from drilling, completion, and workover operations, plus inorganic/organic scaling and injectivity problems during supplemental fluids injection, are also addressed

Drilling Optimization

Workshop Overview

The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of optimization techniques and approaches in drilling operations. The course covers drill string design, technology applications for vertical, directional and horizontal wells with highlights on safe practices that promote high performance drilling operations at optimized cost.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Engineers
  • Drilling Supervisors, Drilling superintendents, Drilling contractor
  • Managers
  • Duration: 4 days

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

The course is designed for who need an understanding of drilling optimization and how drilling optimization can be used for sound BHA design; effective drilling performance; avoidance of drillstring vibration and failure with minimum drilling cost. Both new and experienced drilling/well professionals would gain from the course.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Introduction: Basic elements of drilling optimization.
  • Drill string and BHA failure prevention.
  • Vertical-well design applications
  • Deviated- and horizontal-well design applications
  • Modern well steering systems: MWD/LWD systems
  • Torque, drag, and casing wear mitigation.
  • Vibration monitoring and avoidance
  • Drill string handling and inspection
  • Latest trends and technologies in drilling optimization
  • Blow out prevention
  • Data analytics and use of artificial intelligence:
  • To limit drill string vibration and preventing stuck pipes, and
  • As alert (warning) system for potential drilling hazards.

Pore Pressure Prediction

Workshop Overview

Pore pressure prediction and monitoring are foundational in drilling well design, well execution and the whole concept of drilling optimization. Understanding the pressure regime in an area, the interrelationships between in-situ stresses and drilling parameters are crucial in the reduction or elimination of unscheduled events in drilling.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Drilling engineers
  • Geophysicists
  • Well operations and well-site geologists
  • Duration: 3 days

The course covers the following topics in geopressure

  • Fundamentals of pore and fracture pressure prediction
  • Real-time pressure monitoring and detection while drilling
  • Leak-off Tests interpretation
  • Pore pressure prediction workshop
  • Introduction to well control

Geomechanics/Wellbore Stability

Workshop Overview

The understanding of the complex relationships between stresses, rock strength, rock mechanics and their influence in well design, drilling, production and field management has tremendous impacts on oil/gas operations and economics.

Workshop Candidate Attendees

  • Drilling engineers
  • Well operations and well-site geologists
  • Duration: 3 days

The course covers the following topics in geopressure

  • Rock stresses and strength (basic geomechanics).
  • Rock strength models
  • Rock failure models and breakout
  • Stresses and wellbore orientations
  • Shales
  • Fracture formations, salt (well design issues).
  • Hole problems
  • Reservoir compaction and casing requirements

Facilities Engineering

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

  • Engineers
  • Managers.
  • Duration: 3 days.

Benefits of this Workshop

Participants will learn about:

At the end of the course, attendees should have a general appreciation of how production facilities fit into the overall scheme for developing oil and gas fields, the different pieces of equipment used in typical facilities, how they work, and how they are assembled into a system. Sizing, design equations, specifications, and costs of equipment and piping systems are beyond the scope of this course.

Workshop Outline: Major Topics
  • Facilities Orientation: Goal of a facility, typical projects, controlling the process, stage separation, backpressure on wells, gas lift.
  • Oilfield Process Selection and Separation: Horizontal and vertical two phases and three phase separators
  • Oil and Water Handling: Skimmers, gas flotation, hydro cyclones, filters, deaeration of surface water
  • Hydrates: Hydrate inhibition, MEG reclamation, line heaters, heat exchangers
  • Gas Dehydration, Treating and Processing: Glycol systems, absorption systems, gas treating, gas plants
  • Pumps & Compressors: Process considerations
  • Piping and Safety
  • Design for Piping and Relief Systems: Pressure breaks, line size and wall thickness, relief valve sizing considerations, relief systems
  • Design for Safety: Principles for a safe design, drain systems, human factors