Teaching and Training is one of our
expertise. We have senior staff to present the below topics as courses
to a wide range of groups involved in the oil and gas industry.
Please note that courses below are also available in
compressed form. Time allotted to courses can be modified
to the clients need. Please
contact us for further information.
Evaluation of Oil & Gas Properties (One
day per week, 12 wks)
This course is intended for both technical and non-technical
audiences. Typical audiences could be for financial analysts, property
owners, etc. Course components include:
1. Determination of Petroleum Reserves
2. Forecasting production
3. Estimating capital and operating costs
4. Calculation of royalties and mineral taxes
5. Forecasting hydrocarbon prices
6. Income tax applications
7. Time value of evaluations for project economics
8. Investment ranking
9. Purchases, sales and mergers of oil and gas assets
10. Lending by financial institutions
Introduction to Drilling Engineering and
Operations (32 hrs)
The course provides an introduction to
drilling operations and provides a foundation for the Advanced Drilling
course that follows as an option. Course components include:
1. Drilling Components
2. Drilling Muds and Hydraulics
3. Drillbits and drillstrings
4. Wellbore Casing
Advanced Drilling Engineering (80 hrs)
This course is for the students,
engineers and managers who want an in depth study Drilling Technology,
both design and operations. This course includes an introduction to
Directional and Horizontal Drilling. Course components include:
1. An Introduction To Drilling Background and Review
2. An Overview of the Drilling of a Well
3. Rig Equipment
4. Drilling Operations
5. Drill Surface Hole
6. Drill Intermediate Hole
7. Production Hole
8. Production Casing
9. Keep Or Abandon
10. Well Planning
11. Fluid Flow Equations
12. Formation Damage
13. Drilling Rig Components
14. Drilling Fluids
15. Solids Control
16. Bit Selection and Running
17. Drilling Optimization
18. Tubular Goods and bottom Hole Assemblies
19. Coring
20. Wireline Logging
21. Drill Stem Testing ( DST )
22. Casing and Casing Design
23. Cementing
24. Pressure Prediction and Blowout Prevention
25. Well Control Methods
26. Induced Problems
27. Contractor Cost Control
Underbalanced Drilling Engineering (46 hrs)
This course will provide the student the
specific understanding and the knowledge to plan, design and implement a
well to be drilled, using Under- Balanced - Drilling Method. Course
components include:
1. Underbalanced Drilling Basics
2. Air, Gas, Mist and Unstable Foam Drilling
3. Stable Foam Drilling
4. Aerated Liquid Drilling
5. Selecting Compressor Units
6. Field Applications
Directional Drilling (20 hrs)
This course will provide the student the specific understanding and
knowledge to control a deviated hole. Plan, design and implement a
Directional Well. Directional drilling is the process of directing the
well-bore along some trajectory to a pre-
determined target. Deviation control is the process of keeping the
well-bore contained within some prescribed limit relative to inclination
angle. Course components include:
1. Definitions and Reasons for
Directional Drilling
2. Planning the Directional Well Trajectory
3. Calculating the Trajectory of a well
4. Planning the Kick off Point and Trajectory Change
5. Leading the Target with planned Walk
6. Radius of Curvature
7. Sectional Method and Minimum Curvature
8. Directional Drilling Measurements
9. Deflection Tools
10. Principle of BHA
11. Tool Face Rotation
12. Deviation Control
13. Exercises
Horizontal Drilling (24 hrs)
This course will provide the student an
in depth knowledge of horizontal drilling . The material is organized to
present fundamentals first, followed by example applications
involving these fundamentals. Course components include:
1. Uses of Horizontal Well
2. Horizontal Drilling
3. Type of Horizontal wells
4. Horizontal well Costs
5. Casing and Drill Bit Sizes
6. Subs and stabilizers
7. Bottom Hole Assemblies
8. Length of non - magnetic Drill Collars
9. MWD - Tools
10. Trajectory Planning
11. Vertical Turn to a new track
12. Selection of Mud Weights
13. Drill Bit Hydraulics
14. Torque and Drag
15. Friction Factors
16. Buckling of the Drill String
17. Lock-up of the Drill String
18. Available Torque for drill bit
19. Cementing Problems
20. Case Histories
21. Exercise
Introduction to Production Engineering Operations
This course covers the range of operations involved with completing
and equipping a well to produce and includes the measurement, processing
and transportation of production. There are two separate courses
available:
Option I. (30 hrs)
1. Completion and Workovers
2. Production Operations
3. Gas Processing
4. Measurement
5. Pipeline Operations
Option II. (28 hrs)
1. Factors Influencing Design
2. Well Perforations
3. Gas Processing
Reservoir and Production Fundamentals (36 hrs)
This course has been distilled from a
mass of literature available on the subject with the objective of
providing incoming engineers with an overall view of the Industry and
with the fundamentals of reservoir and production that a general Field
Engineer requires.
1. Introduction
2. Geology and Hydrocarbon Accumulations
3. Reservoir Fluid Behaviour
4. Reservoir Rock Properties
5. Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
6. Well Performance
7. Reservoir Estimates
8. Well Testing and Pressure Transient Analysis
9. Fractured Reservoir
Blowout - BOP - ( 12 hrs )
This course will provide the student the specific understanding and
knowledge to prevent and control a blowout. Plan, design and implement a
complete Blowout Prevention and Well Control. The Course is known as:
"First Line Supervisors”. Course components include:
1. Introduction
2. Causes of kicks and Blowouts
3. B.O.P Equipment
4. Kicks while Drilling
5. Kicks while Tripping
6. Kicks While Out of the Hole
7. Fluid Displacement and Tripp Records
8. Proper Tripping and Hole fill Procedure
9. Drillers Method of Well Control
10. Low choke Method of Well Control
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