HOT Engineering

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.

Introduction to Land & 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). In addition, the offshore section includes sections on the types of offshore drilling rigs (floating & bottom founded) and special issues such as motion compensation, station keeping, and re-supply.

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 their control on reservoir, source, seal and trap are discussed.

Carbonate Geology for Oil and Gas Exploration & Development : This five-day seminar introduces participants to establish principles of carbonate geology applied to hydrocarbon exploration and development geology. Using a highly acclaimed, hands-on approach, each participant learns to describe typical carbonate rocks, delineate facies and sequences, evaluate reservoir quality, relate carbonates to log and seismic expression, better predict play relationships in the subsurface, and construct a time-stratigraphic facies framework, essential for both accurate regional correlation of carbonate sequences and zonation of carbonate reservoirs.

Clastic Sedimentology for Exploration and Development : This 5 day course covers the basics of clastic sedimentology at scales that are appropriate for both regional exploration and detailed reservoir characterisation.

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 subsurface environments, subsurface temperature and pressure and the impact on petroleum systems. The usage and display of typical subsurface geological data, and an introduction to seismic and wireline logs. This is then developed into a definition of petroleum systems and an introduction to play 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 the region, and examines the petroleum systems and play types basin by basin.

Petroleum Geomechanics : This multi-disciplinary course combines technical skills in all subsurface and well engineering disciplines to provide Geomechanics solutions to field scale and individual well problems. A fundamental knowledge of Petroleum Geomechanics is a key part of good field development planning because Geomechanics often underpins optimised engineering and has been proven to realise significant project cost savings.

Petroleum Geoscience Basics : The course is designed for administrative and technical staff and summarises the different disciplines in geosciences in a systematic approach, starting from large scale earth systems and reaching into details of an oil reservoir.

Petroleum Geostatistics - Integrating Data for Reservoir Modelling and Simulation : The objective of Petroleum Geostatistics is to learn the basic geological and statistical concepts used to characterize hydrocarbon reservoirs.

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 these risk assessments.

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.

Seismic Acquisition for Supervisors : The objective of this course is to provide an insight into the decision-making processes with regards to in the planning, testing and acquisition of a seismic survey.

Sequence Stratigraphy : This 5 day course covers the theory and principles of sequence stratigraphy, the controls on sediment supply, sequences and systems tracts, high resolution sequence stratigraphy and parasequences, seismic stratigraphic interpretation and seismic reflection termination patterns, the recognition of systems tracts on seismic data and pitfalls in interpretation.

Use of Neural Networks in Reservoir Characterisation : 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 available provide results of limited to poor quality output, the neural network technology comes in handy.

Wellsite and Operations Geology : This course teaches the fundamental elements of wellsite and operations geology. First, a review will be made of the background to and some of the basics of these related disciplines. The course will then detail each of the main duties and responsibilities of operations and wellsite geology. These will include choosing and the quality control of the geological contractors, the ever increasing task of data management, formation pore pressure evaluation and well planning. There will also be detailed reviews of the more traditional tasks of sample and show description as well as coring and sidewall coring. All these will be presented with the support of practicals and 30 years experience of the instructor.

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.

Introduction to Petroleum Engineering : The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the technologies and applications of modern petroleum engineering. The course addresses engineering issues ranging from initial involvement in exploration to production optimisation challenges. It is considered a primary course prior to specialised training programs.

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, appropriate information, considered preferences, and impeccable logic. You know quality has been achieved when you have clarity of action. Sometimes clarity of action is obtained immediately, for example, when you are asked whether you would like a free, no-strings-attached $100 bill. However, in most 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.

The Significance of Petroleum Reserve and Resource Estimates : Petroleum reserves data are used by a variety of stakeholders for multiple purposes. The way reserves are estimated and communicated is an integrated activity, cutting across several technical and commercial disciplines. Therefore, a basic understanding of the reserve estimation process is a fundamental requirement for all disciplines involved in the exploration and exploitation aspects of the oil and gas industry. This course presents the reserve/ resource definitions and classification systems that are currently in use and includes recommended evaluation practices.

Bayesian Inference and Neural Networks in Formation Evaluation : This course will introduce the participants to the basic methods and techniques of modern Bayesian inference and Neural Network technology and their application in formation evaluation and reservoir characterisation. Bayesian inference allows dealing with complex problems in a conceptually simple and unified way.

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 of conventional approaches. Conventional approaches are juxtaposed with the purpose-designed, core-log-test, data gathering and evaluation techniques which have proven successful in providing increased accuracy for reserve estimating and simulation in these difficult reservoirs. Classic 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 characterisation tools

Integrated Petrophysics for Reservoir Characterisation : 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 often replace the need to run logs and explain apparent data conflicts. It provides the right answer faster, minimizes uncertainty and precludes criticism. By contrast stand-alone log analysis often results in bad economic decisions and bad personal reputations.

Introduction to Open Hole Log Analysis : In one week, you will gain all the confidence you need to understand and interpret all the basic open-hole logs.

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 interpreting the results. However, more...

Multiphase Flow Metering : Over the last two decades the development, evaluation and use of Multiphase Flow Meters (MFM) systems has been a major focus for the Oil & Gas industry worldwide. Since the early 1990's, when the first commercial meters started to appear, there have been around 2, 000 field applications of MFM for field allocation, production optimisation and well testing. So far, many alternative metering systems have been developed, but none of them can be referred to as generally applicable or universally accurate. Both established and novel more...

Production Chemistry in Oil and Gas Production : During the remaining lifetime of an oil or gas field, the application of economic methods in the treatment process is a prerequisite for ensuring compliance with specifications for the gas, oil, and water phase. Treatment plant efficiency is, among other factors, depending on the proper application of chemicals. Complexity and potential problems increase exponentially with the number of chemicals employed in the system. It is therefore essential to consider process engineering knowledge and the impact of chemicals applied.

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 principles and practice.

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.

Well Completion Design for Reservoirs with Sanding Problems : The main objective of the course is to transfer the knowledge for the detailed sand face completion design process for reservoirs with sanding problems. The process for geological and engineering characterisation of the reservoir will be introduced as well as the impact on well or reservoir properties on sand face completion design and sand control method selection. The course presents the tools and methodology to allow the attendant to confidently and competently address these types of problems in significant detail for reservoirs with sanding problems.

A Comprehensive and Applied Course in Enhanced Oil Recovery : 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 EOR process will be illustrated with an actual field example. Exercises in class will be conducted to estimate oil production forecasts with EOR.

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.

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 illustrated using practical examples. Participants are urged to bring their own PVT reports. Fluid characterization with an EOS using more...

Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies : 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 predictions more reliable. The participants will be trained in the methods and possible use of reservoir simulators and will use simulation software for practical exercises throughout this course.

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 action. Different formal approaches for optimum field development and field operating plans are analyzed. How different disciplines, or team members, contribute to reservoir management is outlined as well as how checks and balances are maintained.

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 three primary elements of the gas production system are next discussed production equipment, wells, and the reservoir as a whole. In each section, fundamental principles and are presented, emphasizing those relating pressure and flowrate. The final section of the course integrates equipment, well, and 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 dual porosity and dual permeability models, however, rely on: a) accurate representation of the fracture system as an equivalent porous and permeable medium, and b) accurate determination of the rates of fluid transport between matrix blocks and the fracture system. This course covers modern 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 thorough understanding of the principles and procedures.

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.

Streamline Simulation in Reservoir Engineering & Management : 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 novel technology, allowing them to understand where streamline simulation can be applied successfully.

Waterflood - Fundamentals Design and Management : This is an intensive, applied course in waterflood design and management. Certain theoretical aspects of waterflooding (e. g. Buckley-Leverett fractional flow) will be briefly covered. Topics covered will include: reservoir performance analysis, well injectivity estimates, waterflood candidate selection, waterflood forecasting (includes hands-on analytical and simulation modeling), impact of heterogeneity on waterflooding, selection of waterflood pattern (technical and economic considerations), waterflood performance analysis (includes analysis of production decline and fall-off tests), and design of waterflood injection and production facilities. Participants will also work many exercises.