Day 1
Introduction to Petroleum industry
- Field Life Cycle, from exploration to Plug and Abandonment
- Hydrocarbon origins and accumulations, Resources Triangle, Peak oil issue,
- Seismic and Well logging,
- Reservoir geology, Heterogeneity
- Drilling Systems and Operations: Well Planning, Well Control, Casing and Cementing
- Workover, Well Completion and Wellbore Integrity
- Case study discussion
Day 2
Overview of of Reservoir Engineering
- Reservoir Rocks Properties (Concepts of Permeability, Porosity, Wettability, Capillary Pressure and Saturation)
- Reservoir Fluid Properties (Fluid Sampling and PVT analysis)
- Coring and Core Analysis
- Original Oil/ Gas in Place, Volumetric (Reserves) Estimation, Deterministic and Probabilistic Methods (Monte Carlo)
- Reserves and Resources
- Reserves calculation using Material Balance and Reservoir Simulation
- Decision Analysis and Well Placement
- Case study discussion
Overview of Production Technology and Optimization
- Reservoir Dynamic Behaviour, Reservoir Drive Mechanism, Recovery Factor
- Primary Recovery Technology, Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)
- Artificial Lift Methods: Sucker rod pump, gas lift, ESP, PCP
- Well Testing, Cased-hole Production logging, Production Problem Diagnosis
- Production Optimization using Nodal Analysis
- Workover and Stimulation (Acidizing, Hydraulic Fracturing)
- Case study discussion
Day 3
Overview of Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery (IOR/EOR)
- Fluid Displacement, Recovering the remaining Oil: Infill Well, Improved Oil Recovery, Waterflooding, gas flooding
- EOR: Thermal techniques (Steamflooding, Cyclic Steam stimulation, downhole heater)
- Chemical Techniques (Polymer flooding, Surfactant flooding, ASP flooding)
- Miscible Processes, Microbial Processes and others
- Case study discussion
Petroleum Surface Testing and Production System
- Surface Production Testing, Gas/ Oil Processing Facilities
- Offshore Petroleum Facilities
- Crude oil Terminal and Storage Tanks
- Environmental Issues in Oil and Gas Industry, Disposal Well.
- Case study discussion
