Geological Engineering Training and Seminars

Introduction to Onshore & Offshore Drilling This three-day course provides a non-technical overview of the phases, operations, and terminology used in the drilling and completion of an oil or gas well. The course will provide participants with a better understanding of issues faced in all aspects of drilling operations. This includes the aspects common to all petroleum drilling (onshore, bottom-founded offshore, and floater operations).  more...

Production Logging and Reservoir Monitoring Based on the highly successful Reservoir Monitoring and Production Log Interpretation course which Roger Nutt taught for many years, this course has been modified to reduce the time spent on Cement Bond and Casing Corrosion Logs and their interpretation, to give additional time for interpreting production and reservoir monitoring logs, designing the logging program, engineering the surveys, and  more...

Applied Reservoir Management The reservoir life cycle and how requirements for successful operation of a reservoir throughout its entire life change will be discussed. Development of a field goes beyond technical expertise; it requires consideration of economics, the environment, the government (regulations) and the public. Reservoir management therefore requires sophisticated tools to make decisions and determine a course of  more...

Integrated Petrophysics for Reservoir Characterization This course will teach you how to evaluate reservoirs and quickly identify flawed results. Robust, minimum error reserves are achieved by a logical, systematic integration of all relevant data. Interpretation is cost-effective compared with data acquisition or development mistakes and essential for the complex reservoirs and marginal fields being re-evaluated today. Systematic Integration can  more...

Reservoir Geology - Integrating Data for Reservoir Modelling Reservoir (development) geology is a fundamental part of reservoir management studies: It integrates various disciplines and data at different scales. In today s world of 3D modelling and visualization, professionals have to acquire the skills to be able to understand, judge and validate complex computer-generated output. Participants will perform many hands-on exercises.  more...

Carbonate and Fracture Petrophysics This intermediate-level course details the primary problems of carbonate and fracture evaluations and how to optimise data acquisition and data integration for useful output. A wide variety of examples from high porosity/ low permeability carbonates, detrital carbonates, low porosity fractured carbonates and basement fractured reservoirs are employed to demonstrate the often severe shortcomings  more...

Reservoir Engineering for Non-Reservoir Engineers The objective of reservoir engineering is to optimise hydrocarbon recovery. This course will introduce basic reservoir engineering concepts to help answering the following questions crucial to the reservoir engineer: How much is there (accumulation)? How much can be recovered (reserves)? How fast can it be recovered (rate)? The participants will also work practical problems to ensure a  more...

Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoirs with Neural Network Technology Neural networks find their archetype in nature and are a simplified imitation of the human brain. They are widely used for analysis and prediction purposes, particularly for financial services, the security industry and automotive industry. Within the oil and gas industry their utilization is not common practice yet. Wherever statistics, best practice formulas and the meanwhile vast amount of data  more...

Geoscience for Non-Geoscientists The course summarises the different disciplines in geoscience, the link to exploration techniques and field development, and the importance of their integrated application. Tools and techniques available for reservoir characterization as well as their integration to a reservoir model will be discussed. Case histories and practical examples will illustrate the concepts. Participants will get to  more...

Advanced Gas Condensate Reservoir Management Thorough evaluation of gas condensate reservoirs requires an understanding of not only the fluid behaviour in the reservoir, but also the sampling and testing procedures together with the wellbore performance. This course addresses the key subjects concerning the performance of gas condensate systems from reserve evaluation to production optimisation planning.  more...

Petroleum Geology of North Africa North Africa holds huge reserves and resources of oil and gas and contains some of the most important regions for future hydrocarbon production. The recent drilling successes onshore Algeria and offshore Egypt, and renewed industry interest in Libya have re-invigorated exploration activity. This course introduces the petroleum geology of North Africa, reviews the main depositional elements across  more...

Fundamentals of Petroleum Geology This introductory course reviews the fundamental elements of the petroleum geology. It starts by placing hydrocarbons in a global context; the philosophy and structure of the oil industry; energy trends, future resources. The petroleum environment is then reviewed: source rocks, reservoirs, traps, seals and the timing of generation relative to trap formation. The course then examines the  more...

Quick Look Petrophysics This 3 day Basic Petrophysics Course sets out the essential data sets used to identify and evaluate reservoirs, explains their operating principles and arrives at a set of 'quick look' results. All geoscientists require this basic level of understanding to communicate with team members and manage assets effectively. All commonly used formation data is briefly presented with explanation of how it  more...

Carbonate Geology for Oil & Gas Exploration & Development This five-day seminar introduces participants to establish principles of carbonate geology applied to hydrocarbon exploration and development geology.  more...

Basin Analysis and Petroleum Systems This 5 day course covers the theory of basin formation, the controls on, and mechanisms of subsidence and sedimentation, and then looks at examples from around the world of typical basin types. Emphasis is on impact basin style and sedimentation has on the hydrocarbon habitat and prospectivity, offering analogues for use in exploration. Within each basin, depositional systems are reviewed, and  more...

Petroleum Systems Modelling for Exploration Risk Assessments Geologic risks in petroleum exploration are related to the traps (geometry, reservoir, seal), as well to the petroleum Charge Risk. While traps are always subjected to the most detailed possible assessments as a part of the exploration risk analysis, this is not always the case for Charge Risking, even though it can easily be shown that the geologic risking is often dangerously incomplete without  more...

Advanced Drilling Engineering This course will cover selected areas of drilling engineering such as horizontal and extended reach drilling, advanced hydraulics and hole cleaning. It includes data analysis procedures and real time data analysis. The course comprises theoretical as well as practical sections.  more...

Advanced Reservoir Simulation Dynamic reservoir models are the basic tools for investigating reservoir behaviour, optimising reservoir performance, designing complex wells, estimating uncertainties and providing the basis for risk management. New techniques, such as unstructured and time-dependent gridding, combined with local time stepping eliminate most of the drawbacks of conventional simulation methods and make  more...

Advanced PVT and EOS Fluid Characterization Phase behaviour plays an important role in most oil recovery processes and is an essential part of all enhanced oil recovery processes. Thus, understanding of the underlying phase behaviour is an important first step towards description and modelling of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. The use of both laboratory experiments and correlation to obtain PVT data will be discussed and  more...

Streamline Simulation Streamline simulation has become a powerful complementary tool to more traditional finite difference approaches for dynamic reservoir simulation. In some cases, streamline simulation can be considered an alternative, allowing to rapidly evaluating multiple geological and engineering scenarios for quick decision making. The objective of this course is to introduce practicing geoscientists to this  more...

Enhanced Oil Recovery - Fundamentals and Prediction Models This is an intensive, applied course in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The three main EOR processes covered are miscible flood (CO2 and miscible gas injection), chemical flood (micellar/polymer), and thermal recovery (steam injection and in-situ combustion). The physics of each EOR process will be covered in detail, including the fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow and recovery mechanisms. Each  more...

Special Core Analysis The extensive use of reservoir simulation in the evaluation, development and management of oil fields is placing increased importance on the correct use of results from special core analysis, particularly those from relative permeability tests.  more...

Natural Gas Engineering This course covers modern engineering concepts and methods used for the analysis and design of recovery projects for natural gas reservoirs, using an approach that integrates various methodologies for optimizing reservoir performance. The course begins with a discussion of basic gas properties, demonstrating how properties may be obtained from both correlations and laboratory measurements. The  more...

Naturally Fractured Reservoir Engineering The presence of extensive networks of natural fractures creates a number of challenges for evaluating and optimizing recovery from naturally fractured reservoirs. The use of dual porosity or dual permeability approaches is often necessary, providing the basis for both analytical models (such as used for pressure transient analysis) as well as for reservoir simulation. Appropriate application of  more...

Production Engineering Well Performance, Completions, Formation Damage and Stimulation This course presents a comprehensive coverage of topics related to production engineering. Participants registering for this course will be expected to have a basic working knowledge of engineering concepts. Experience in the field is very desirable since the course deals with field application of advanced production engineering  more...

Underground Gas Storage Underground gas storage (UGS) plays a vital role in securing the gas supply needed to meet consumer demands. Tremendous UGS capacity will have to be developed in the coming years in order to keep up with the booming gas demand.  more...

Foundations of Petrophysics Petrophysics is a key discipline in petroleum exploration and production. The main objectives of this course are to understand: - The petrophysical properties and corresponding logging methods, - The fundamentals of log interpretation and formation evaluation, - The link between petrophysics and seismic reservoir characterization tools  more...

Introduction to Petroleum Engineering The objective of this 5-day course is to develop an understanding of the technologies and applications of modern petroleum engineering. It is considered the primary course prior to specialized training programs.  more...

Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) projects are usually handled by multidisciplinary teams. This course targets technical staff not involved in detailed engineering design and non-technical staff involved in the legal, financial and decision-making aspects of EOR projects.  more...

Decision and Risk Analysis Strategic and tactical decisions about your company s future lease or company acquisitions, oil and gas field developments, selecting drilling locations, initiating seismic and reservoir studies, R&D investments are often complex and have highly uncertain outcomes and consequences. Acquiring decision quality in such situations means making properly framed decision with clear alternatives,  more...

Petroleum Economics and Business This course teaches the fundamentals of assessing the economic viability of upstream oil & gas projects in terms of the data/information required, the calculation techniques used, the assumptions made and how to interpret the resulting metrics such as NPV, ROI, ROR, IRR, P/I, etc.  more...