Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Essentials of the Industry
- Meaning of petroleum
- Typical oil and gas company objectives
- Industry streams
- World reserves and production
- Peak oil
- Production management
- Quotas and capacities (OPEC/non-OPEC)
- Market distribution and dynamics
- Role of IOCs, NOCs and regulatory bodies
- Glossary of terms
Production Chemistry and Technology
- Role and scope
- Production chemistry
- Elements of production technology
- Reservoir production concepts
- Performance of flowing wells
- Well deliverability and production forecast
- Units and conversions
- Case Study: gas-oil ratio, inflow performance, effect of skin on well productivity
Production Engineering
- Completion concepts and techniques
- Casing, tubing and wellhead
- Completion equipment
- Completion design
- Artificial lift techniques
- Completion Practices and well Interventions
- Completion installations
- Multi zone completions
- Well interventions
- Production problems
- Causes of low productivity
- Effect of water-cut on economics
- Abandonments
Production Facilities
- Process selection
- Oil and gas separation
- Crude oil treating systems
- Condensate stabilization
- Gas dehydration
- Produced water-handling systems
- Pumps and compressors–centrifugal and reciprocating
- Offshore production facilities
Production Supply Planning and Scheduling
- Control room
- Oil and gas measurement and regulations
- SCADA systems
- Custody transfer and royalty payment
- Metering systems
- Specification and procedures
- Distribution pipeline network
- New metering technologies
- Case study: Gravity separation,
- metering accuracy and financial impact
Storage, Transportation and Marketing
- Oil and gas storage
- Transporting petroleum fluids
- Sales and marketing
- Challenges
- Vertical integration
- Improvements
- Environmental Concerns in Petroleum Production
- Waste generation
- Handling oilfield wastes
- Waste management and minimization
- Industry perception on HS&E
- Corporate responsibility
- Safety standards
- Environmental regulations in different regions
- Case Study: Refining value, transportation cost, contamination limits
Economics of Production Management
- Field appraisal and facilities planning
- Feasibility studies
- Capital investment planning and operating
- Cost budgeting
- Sensitivities analysis and investment
- Grade estimate
- Engineering, procurement and construction
- Phases of production (primary, secondary and EOR)
- Changing facilities needs
- Economic limit
Human Resources Management
- Corporate objectives
- HR management challenges
- Increasing project demands
- Lack of qualified people
- Ageing workforce
- Ineffective skills transfer
- Local resources development and training
- Leadership and culture
- Role of government regulatory agencies
Disaster and Contingency Planning
- Scenario planning
- Think of the unthinkable
- Minimal operational requirements
- Alternates
- Strategic reserves
- Maximum sustainable capacity
- Future Trends
- Intelligent (smart) wells
- I-Fields – Hi-tech control rooms – Innovations
