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The Upstream Oil and Gas Fundamentals

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25/10/2026 - 29/10/2026 DUBAI

Introduction

The Upstream Oil and Gas Fundamentals

 

What are the Goals?

  • Explain the formation of petroleum
  • Learning exploration and reservoir engineering
  • Develops field appraisal, development, petroleum economics and managing risk
  • Apply techniques are used to optimize recovery from the reservoir over its lifetime
  • Understand the processing oil and gas at surface facilities, and transportation
  • Learn how petroleum was formed
  • Understand the different methods in exploration and reservoir engineering
  • Develop field appraisals, Analysing Petroleum economics and managing risk
  • How to apply techniques used to optimize recovery from the reservoir over its lifetime
  • How to establish processing oil and gas at surface facilities and understand product transportation

 

Who is this Training Course for?

  • Managers & Team Leaders
  • Operations Managers
  • Operations Engineers
  • Project Managers
  • Project Engineers
  • Planning Managers
  • Planning Engineers
  • Contract Managers
  • Contract Engineers
  • Financial Managers
  • Administration Managers
  • Engineers
  • Cost Engineers
  • Supervisors
  • All personnel involved with upstream

Daily Agenda

Module I: Upstream Exploration for Oil and Gas

Petroleum Geology
  • The rock cycle
  • The plate tectonics
  • Hydrocarbon generation
  • Source rocks
  • Reservoirs
  • Traps
  • Seals
 Geoscience and Basin Exploration
  • Gravity and magnetic surveying
  • Seismic
  • Unconventional resources
  • Basin potential evaluation
  • Basin analysis
Field Appraisal
  • The role of appraisal in the field life cycle
  • Identifying and quantifying sources of uncertainty
  • Appraisal tools
  • Expressing reduction of uncertainty
  • Cost-benefit calculations for appraisal
 Economics
  • Development economics
  • Project cashflow
  • Exploration economics
  • Economic lifetime
  • Abandonment
 Health, Safety and Environment
  • Health considerations
  • Safety culture
  • Safety management systems
  • Environmental considerations
  • Current environmental concerns

Module II: Upstream Production for Oil and Gas

 Field Development Decision and Production
  • Field development planning
  • Lifecycle costing
  • Uncertainties and risks
  • Production operation
  • Managing the producing field
 Reservoir Engineering
  • Reservoir Management
  • Waterflooding
  • Natural gas processing
  • CO2 enhanced oil recovery
  • Steamflooding
 Drilling
  • Managing drilling risk
  • Drilling and casing program
  • Hydrofracturing
  • vertical Vs directional drilling
  • Deepwater drilling
 Completion and Well Productivity
  • Operations involved in well completion.
  • Types of completions
  • Perforating
  • The impairment to reservoirs that reduces production
  • Well performance
 Remedial Operation & Transportation
  • Remedial operations & workovers
  • Well stimulation
  • Pipelines
  • Oil tankers
  • Rail transportation

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