Instructor Led Gas Training Classes

Piping Design and Engineering Training ...gs - elbows, tees, reducers, end caps, Stub Ins, Flanges, Gaskets, Selection & Application of Valves, Pipe Racks, Pipe Supports, Anchors, & Guides, Thermal Insulation. Valves, Flanges & Gaskets Valves Types, Selection and Application, Control Valves, Valve Operators, Flange Types, Facings, Ratings, Gaskets & Bolts. Process Plant Layout & Engineering Definition, Basics of Plant Layout  more...

HVAC Design/Drafting Training per ASHRAE ...: Heating systems Introduction to Wet Indirect Heating, Gas Boilers, Boiler Efficiency, Combined Heat and Power, Pumps, Heat Emitters, Domestic Hot Water Systems, Controls, Valves, Feed and Expansion, Indirect and Direct Air Heating Systems, Heaters, Direct Water Heating Systems, Heat Pumps, Radiators, Heat Loss Calculations. Sources of Heat Loss, Heat Loss calculations and Air quantity  more...

CATIA V5 Week B Analysis This course focuses on topics such as: Generative Part Structural Analysis Fundamentals (GPF); Generative Part Structural Analysis Expert (GPE); Generative Assembly Structural Analysis (GAS); FEM Surface (FMS); FEM Solid (FMD); Realistic Shape Optimizer (RSO); and much more. We offer small class sizes, full manuals, one workstation per student, customized courses, and up-to-date technology.  more...

CATIA V5 - Week B - Analysis 5 Days This course focuses on topics such as: Generative Part Structural Analysis Fundamentals (GPF); Generative Part Structural Analysis Expert (GPE); Generative Assembly Structural Analysis (GAS); FEM Surface (FMS); FEM Solid (FMD); Realistic Shape Optimizer (RSO); and much more. We offer small class sizes, full manuals, one workstation per student, customized courses, and up-to-date technology.  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ... 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 three primary elements of the gas production system are next  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...

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  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...

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...

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...

Enhanced Oil Recovery - Fundamentals and Prediction Models ...OR 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 EOR process will be illustrated with an actual field example. Exercises in class  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 ...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, appropriate information, considered  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...

Introduction to Onshore & Offshore Drilling ...minology 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). In addition, the offshore section includes sections on the types of offshore drilling  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...

Catalytic Reforming ...ficant effort into increasing the octane ratings of their gasoline and other fuels. Catalytic reforming continues to remain as an important and critical process as it increases naphtha octane for quality gasoline and valuable aromatics. Catalytic reforming remains a complicated process that involves meticulous care and precision, where refiners have to manage complex problems, just to name a  more...

Offshore Drilling Completion ...gas operators in Asia are increasingly looking into deepwater development that may offer alternative source of oilfields. Deepwater exploration is generally technically challenging, which calls for the need for new technologies or techniques to optimise oil extraction. With capital investment in drilling and completions accounting for over 50% of total costs in oil and gas exploration and  more...

CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery ...ustry for decades. Additionally, concerns over greenhouse gas emissions and considerable financial return are leading to the investigation and realisation of its potential as a carbon storage method in recent years. Injection of CO2 into oil reservoirs with the right conditions can result in incremental oil recovery and permanent storage of CO2 and the potential of CO2 storage combining EOR  more...