Advanced Oil and Gas Processing and Production
Introduction
Advanced Oil and Gas Processing and Production
Course Objectives:
This popular 5-day course is designed to familiarize non-technical personnel in the petroleum and related government, financial, legal, and service industries with the basics of the upstream (exploration and production) and midstream petroleum industry operations.
The course will provide an overview of most aspects of the petroleum industry, including exploration, drilling, reserves, production, processing, transportation, storage and economics. The course instructor will familiarize the participants with very rich information about issues closely related to oil and gas industry operations and vocabulary. Participants in this course will professionally get familiar with the following tasks.
- Overview of the Oil & Gas Industry
- Prospecting and exploration
- Domestic and international leasing
- Drilling, testing and completion
- Reserves Evaluation
- Production and maintenance
- Transportation and storage
- Refining, gas processing, liquefied natural gas (LNG), petrochemicals and natural gas liquids (NGLs), etc.
- Marketing, pricing and economics
Who Should Attend?
- Finance and Accounting
- Banks and financial institutions
- Human resources and planning
- Legal and marketing
- Security and secretarial staff
- Chemists and technicians
- Field supervisors and training specialists
- Contracts and materials procurement specialists
- Information systems and health, safety & environment (HSE) specialists
- Administrative and technical support staff
Course Outlines:
General Overview of the Industry
- The petroleum industry
- Typical oil & gas Company objectives
- Typical oil & gas Industry activities
- Typical oil & gas industry organization structure
- Interaction between various disciplines
- Meaning of petroleum
- Brief History of the oil & gas Industry
- Uses of petroleum
- Historical crude oil prices
- Worldwide reserves and production
- The Origin of Oil & Gas
- The nature of crude oil
- Classification of oil and gas
- Typical oil and gas composition
- Requirements for hydrocarbon accumulation and migration
Reservoir Rock Properties, Traps and Faults
- Porosity
- Capillary pressure
- Permeability
- Structural and Stratigraphic traps
Petroleum Prospecting (Exploration)
- Petroleum prospecting
- Seismic data acquisition
- Stratigraphic cross-section
Reservoir Mapping
- Structure map
- Isopach map
Control of Petroleum Exploitation
- Aspects of leasing
- International contracts
- Typical contract terms
- Concessionary system
- Production sharing system
- Risk service contracts
- Government take
Drilling Operations
- Drilling contracts
- Components of rotary rig
- Routine drilling operations
- Functions of drilling mud
- Classification and functions of casing
- Cementing
- Well control
Type and Orientation of Wells
- Types of wells drilled
- Orientation of wells drilled
Evaluating a Well
- Evaluating a well
- Coring
- Open hole logging tools
- Cased hole logging tools
- Well testing
Reservoir Drives
- Solution-gas drive reservoir
- Gas-cap drive reservoir
- Water drive reservoir
- Combination drive reservoir
Well Completions
- Factors in completion design
- Completion types
- Reservoir stimulation
Artificial Lift Systems
- Why use artificial lift?
- Beam pumping and gas lift
- Hydraulic and Electrical submersible pumps
Separating and Treating Well Fluids
- Crude treatment and processing
- Treating natural gas
Maintenance of Facilities
- Well servicing and workover
- Remedial cementing
Oil & Gas Reserves
- Reserves evaluation methods
- Oil and gas reserves estimates
- Volumetric estimates
- Decline curves analysis
- Economic limit
Reservoir Management
- Maximize oil & gas recovery
- Improved oil recovery
- Field development activities
Oil & Gas Processing
- Crude oil refining
- Gas processing
Crude Oil Marketing
Transportation of Oil & Gas
International Contracts
- Concessionary system’s cash-flow
- Production sharing system’s cash-flow
Project Economics
- Data required for economics
- Cash-flow projections
- Typical decision yardsticks
- Characteristics of ideal yardsticks
Investment Selection & Decision-Making
- Investments types
- Types of investment decisions
- Investment decision-making
- Uncertainties in oil and gas investments
- Accounting for uncertainties