Production Operations 1 - PO1

Posted by PetroSkills on Thursday, March 18, 2010

Start Date Monday, June 14, 2010
End Date Friday, June 25, 2010

Location
London, UK

Full Details

See full details at http://www.petroskills.com/courseDetails.aspx?courseID=228

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum engineers, production operations staff, reservoir engineers, facilities staff, drilling and completion engineers; geologists; field supervisors and managers; field technicians, service company engineers and managers, and, especially engineers starting a work assignment in production engineering and operations or other engineers wanting a firm foundation in production engineering.



YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

Gain insight into understanding typical geological models to assist in making relevant operating decisions in an oil or gas reservoir depletion plan

Design and properly select well completion mechanical equipment for initial well start up and later well workover improvements and upgrades

Evaluate the flow capacity of a well to understand why and how a well produces, either naturally flowing or on artificial lift

Apply critical design engineering review to maximize the potential for achieving well casing primary cementing success

Design and execute remedial casing cement repair techniques to achieve reliable zonal isolation in cement squeeze jobs

Select equipment and engineer alternate methods for perforating operations in varied down hole well environments including underbalanced procedures

Utilize alternate well intervention techniques of applied wireline operations and coiled tubing methods for zonal isolation, data gathering, well cleanout, acid placement, and other related field operations

Interpret tell tale signs to recognize harsh well producing environments leading to potential corrosion and erosion failure, scale formation, and related downhole deposits and how to prevent or minimize their production loss effects

Choose proper wellbore completion and workover fluids, fluid solids control, and fluids filtration standards and best practice methods

Distinguish the different characteristics of and types of mechanical artificial lift systems and how to properly choose and engineer the proper type for a depleted reservoir

Ascertain why and how formations become damaged and what are the alternate forms of damage

Understand how to interpret, prevent, and correct reservoir damage

Collect data to categorize options to choose an optimum well stimulation plan

Understand the causes of and the best approach to managing sand production

Understand how to properly acidize a carbonate or a sandstone reservoir and the distinctly different approach, design, and chemistry that must accompany each

Understand the proper use and effects of surfactants and their widespread application and presence in the oilfield in order to gain benefit from their use and avoid problems associated with their mis-application

Recognize, prevent, remove, and manage organic paraffin and asphaltene field deposits in tubing and surface facilities

Understand current practices in modern fracture stimulation and productivity improvement

Choose from the wide array of proven technology cased hole production logging tools and interpretation methods

Select the most appropriate mechanical and / or permeability altering chemical methods to attempt downhole water shut off

Recognize, prevent, and manage corrosive conditions in oil and gas operations

Recognize, prevent, remove and manage typical common soluble and insoluble scales in oil and gas operations

Apply modern state-of-the-art down hole technologies including: expandable tubulars and screens, intelligent well completions, wellbore fiber optic data gathering and transmission, interval control valves, multi-lateral completions, elastomer swellable tubulars, and others



ABOUT THE COURSE

The Production Operations 1 course represents the core foundation of PetroSkills’ production engineering course curriculum and is the foundation for future studies in the discipline. The participant will become familiar with both past proven, and, newer technologies, procedures, and techniques to improve and increase oil, gas, and condensate production. The entire course structure applies a proven methodology, least cost, integrated methods approach that allows engineers to make careful and prudent business decisions. The PO1 course is one of PetroSkills’ most popular.



COURSE CONTENT

Importance of the geological model

Reservoir engineering fundamentals in production operations

Well testing methods applicable to production operations

Understanding inflow and outflow and applied system analysis

Primary and remedial cementing operations

Well completion design and equipment (tubing, packers, other)

Completion and workover well fluids

Perforating design and applications

Production logging

Artificial lift completions (beam pumps, gas lift, esp, other)

Problem wells

Formation damage

Acidizing

Corrosion control

Scale deposition, removal, and prevention

Surfactants

Paraffin and asphaltenes deposition, removal, and prevention

Sand control

Hydraulic fracturing


See full details at http://www.petroskills.com/courseDetails.aspx?courseID=228

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