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HOT Engineering is a company headquartered in Leoben, Austria, offering exploration and field development and E&P training services to the petroleum industry worldwide. With 20 years of consulting experience, we are one of the leading providers of advanced and integrated geological, geophysical, petrophysical and reservoir and production engineering technology, and we are well positioned to offer state-of-the-art training.
HOT Engineering is based in Leoben, Austria,
HOT Engineering Seminar Schedule
Our E&P training services include public, as well as customer-tailored training which can include HR tasks such as competence assessment, -development and -progression tracking, thus forming an all-round competence-management-package.
Over the past 20 years we have:
Over the past 20 years we have:
- Given training covering Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics, Reservoir Characterization, Drilling & Workover Engineering and Operations, Production Engineering and Operations, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation, Economics and Management.
- Trained more than 4, 000 participants from over 50 countries.
- Organised more than 300 Public Courses (2-5 days duration) around the world.
- Performed numerous tailor-made short- and long-term training programs for European, African, American, Middle- and Far Eastern clients.
- Organised International Forums in cooperation with American and Austrian universities.
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.
Fundamentals of Underbalanced Drilling
: This course is designed to provide an excellent overview of underbalanced drilling principles. The course will address design basics, calculations and "field tested" rules of thumb fundamental to achieving the successful execution of and underbalanced drilling project.
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.
Geology & Geophysics
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.
Carbonate Reservoir Characterisation
: This course will provide the basics of carbonate reservoir description for the less experienced staff (covered in 2 days), followed by 3 days of more advanced material. The subsequent 3 days will address the road map (workflow) used in data preparation and data analysis to build a coherent 3D static model of the reservoir.
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 fairway more...
Introduction to Petroleum Geology for Non-Geologists
: The course covers the fundamental principles of petroleum geology and the activities of the oil industry from basin analysis and prospect definition to drilling, field development, transportation and refining. Numerous actual examples are used throughout the course to illustrate the points covered.
Introduction to Petroleum Geoscience A Residential Lecture Field Based Course
: This residential course, set in the beautiful Yorkshire National Park of the UK, offers an intensive introductory course in exploration petroleum geology designed for new hire graduate geologists, geophysicists or engineers wanting more experience of geoscience.
Introduction to Petroleum Prospect Appraisal
: This course provides an introduction to how to identify, map, describe and risk a prospect, assess its volumetrics and propose it to management for drilling. Learning is by way of a mixture of lectures and exercises using actual examples.
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.
Pore Pressure Fracture Pressure and Wellbore Stability Management
: This course will teach you the fundamental skills required to estimate and predict geopressure. It will also introduce you to the basics of wellbore stability to help manage your planning for all types of well locations and designs. You will be guided through the basics of well control in the context of high pressure subsurface environments.
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.
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.
Introductory / Cross-Training
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.
Introduction to the Oil & Gas Industry
: This course provides a comprehensive overview of the upstream and downstream sectors of the petroleum industry.
Petroleum Business Management
Integrated Reservoir Studies - The Project Management Approach
: Companies rely on integration of technical disciplines in carrying out successful reservoir engineering studies. This creates challenges in ensuring that team members understand their role and the role of others in the overall project and in ensuring control over the project.
Managing Data Rooms for Quick-Look Asset Appraisal
: Whenever a company is involved in divesting or acquiring oil and gas assets, whether they are exploration ventures, appraisal opportunities or field developments, it is almost certain that a data room will be involved. Setting up a data room requires as much forethought and planning as attending one.
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.
Petrophysics
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 - A Roadmap
: 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. 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...
Production Engineering
Advanced Sucker-Rod Pumping
: The course will follow the latest book written on sucker-rod pumping theory and practice by the instructor. After a short description of the pumping system, the design of its most important part, the rod string, is thoroughly discussed.
Artificial Lift Design and Optimisation
: More than 80% of the worlds oil wells are placed on some kind of artificial lift, the most significant of which are sucker-rod pumping, gas lifting, and electric submersible pumping. Production engineers are required to design and operate these installations at their peak efficiencies so as to reach a maximum of profit. To achieve this goal, a perfect understanding of the basic design of the different lift methods, as well as working skills in the ways ensuring optimum production conditions is necessary.
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 Assurance - Troubleshooting and Guidelines in Oil&Gas Production Operations
: 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
: This course covers basic and modern petroleum production engineering by providing an understanding of Integrated Production Systems, from reservoir to surface.
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.
Reservoir Engineering
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.
Enhanced Oil Recovery - Fundamentals and Applications
: The objective of Enhanced Oil Recovery is to learn the fundamental EOR techniques.
Modern History Matching
: This course addresses the broad topic of how to calibrate numerical flow simulation models to measured field data. The ultimate goal of history matching is to improve the reliability of forecasts and other design applications of numerical models. In this course, current techniques used in the industry to modify input parameters to improve the match between historical data and simulated results are discussed. Special emphasis is given to modifying geological parameters, such as permeability and porosity while maintain geological consistency.
History matching requires a basic understanding of reservoir simulation as well as static reservoir model building. These concepts are reviewed as part of the 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.
Shale Gas Well Modelling Optimisation
: This course presents the key technical, engineering and economic issues controlling a model-based approach to development and optimisation of shale resources.
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.
Waterflooding Performance Predictions and Surveillance
: This five-day course covers the reservoir engineering aspects of waterflooding.
Soft Skills and Management Training
Effective Secretaries and Personal Assistants Program
: OBJECTIVES
- To enhance your secretarial capabilities
- To appreciate the changing role of the secretary
- To carry out your work more efficiently and effectively
- To update your knowledge of modern office practice and procedures
Effective Technical Writing for Exploration and Production Stuff A Structured System
: This unique course provides guidelines for the efficient reporting of petroleum engineering, geological and geophysical studies.
Motivational Leadership and Building Successful Teams
: To give senior managers new tools for better management
- To show how it is possible to increase productivity by effective communication, team-building, delegation and motivation
- How to build and implement successful and productive teams
- Deliver persuasive presentations to stakeholders.
- To communicate consistently and effectively
- To develop a strong integral personal brand and public persona
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