Advanced Production Logging, Cased Hole & Production Log Evaluation

The Advanced Reservoir Engineering Course addresses modern practical aspects of Reservoir Engineering during 5-days packed with 7 hours of lectures, classroom exercises, discussions and literature reviews.

Advanced Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management Turnarounds are complex projects that have a substantial impact on business performance. The purpose of the course is to use the Model of Excellence for Turnarounds and the principles of Challenge Planning to equip attendees with an advanced approach to Turnaround Management.

This intensive five-day course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management and skills for designing, operating and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimize productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

This 5-days programme is designed for those involved in all aspects of well completion design and has the emphasis on well stimulation. Obviously, to be able to make decisions it is important to understand the characteristics of the “drainage volume” in relation to the well paths. Candidate selection is therefore key and time will be spent discussing candidate selection strategies, how that will affect the inflow performance and consequently, the stimulation design. The course includes acidizing and fracturing design, quality control, conducting the treatment, analysing pressures and other critical parameters, during and after the treatment.

This course is designed to address all the aspects of bunker fuel production, markets, supply chain logistics, delivery procedures, measurement, specifications, sampling, fuel treatment on board, routine and advanced analysis and claims management.

This course is designed to develop skills in understanding the geometry and petrophysical characteristics of carbonate reservoirs. Depositional fabric, grain type and size and subsequent diagenetic modifications are the major controls on carbonate reservoir behaviour. The complex inter-relationship of the depositional and burial history can be unravelled to allow prediction of reservoir facies and reconstruction of three-dimensional reservoir models. The course demonstrates the value of the reservoir model in volumetric assessment and development of carbonate reservoirs.

This 5 day school is aimed at engineers and supervisors who already have an understanding of well construction methods but who would benefit from a more detailed knowledge of completion design. The course will concentrate on the important aspects of completion design and what makes a safe and efficient well.

This intensive five-day course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of completion equipment and operational procedures required for converting a drilled well into an efficient and safe producer. It follows a practical approach for the various completion types, specific applications, completion installation and workovers.

The purpose of the course is to present a Model of Excellence for Turnarounds that has been developed and refined over a 30 year period by many hundreds of people working in different industries around the world. The course will consist of direct teaching of principles, case studies of real situations, free discussion of issues and workshops to give hands on experience of the elements of Turnarounds.

Understanding the essential ingredients of contracts and mastering the fundamentals will equip you to identify vague contracts, avoid dangerous and often hidden terms and better understand your position and your project. petroEDGE has researched, developed and enhanced this 3-day workshop that covers important topics such as contracting strategies, liabilities of the parties, issues of indemnity warranties and guarantees. This workshop will provide you with a forum to explore root causes behind disputes as ambiguous clauses or one sided contracts and strategies to deal with such scenarios.

This 5 day course covers the design of systems for natural gas handling and treatment from the wellhead to the gas processing plant to achieve marketable products that meet desired product specifications. The course will emphasise on field handling equipment and separation systems, dehydration, fluid measurement, sampling and analysis, introduction into reciprocating and centrifugal compressors.

An intensely participative 2 day training course that will develop participants already familiar with the HAZOP technique, the skills, knowledge and attributes of a HAZOP Team Leader.

The course contrasts the technical and commercial differences between LNG and natural gas to point out benefits and constraints that arise from the LNG option. A description is given of the elements in the “gas chain” which apply to LNG and of drivers that would lead to optimisation of design and commercial operation. The range and role of relevant parties to a successful LNG project are described. Case histories and exercises will deal with examples taken from international and local experience.

This course addresses the technology constraints and challenges in Gas treatment and LNG processing in production and regasification terminals, both on onshore and marine applications.

The course aims to explain how lubricant blending plants are designed and why, to provide an in-depth understanding of the principles, economics and flexibility of lubricant blending plants and how to operate a lubricants blending plant efficiently and economically. The latest developments and trends in lubricant blending and the advantages and disadvantages of lubricant blending equipment, facilities and operations will be discussed. The importance of testing components and products for each blend, lubricant blend quality control and product quality management will be explained. It will also clarify the importance of lubricant product filling, packaging and warehouse storage, strategies for optimising existing lubricant blending plant facilities and how to avoid or minimise problems with lubricant blending and product quality.

A key component of production cost is maintenance and the key role of maintenance is to guarantee the reliability of the production. The crucial element for ensuring that maintenance is cost effectively delivered is the planning and scheduling of maintenance tasks. This course provides a methodology for, pre-planning routine maintenance tasks generated by predictive and preventive maintenance programs, planning tasks to recover from malfunction or breakdown and a strategy to allow us to cope with random failure. The course will cover the essential steps we need to take to plan and schedule our maintenance work properly.

An intensely participative 3 day training course that will both explain the key facets of the HAZOP technique as well as provide ample opportunities for delegates to practice and become familiar with the technique using generic and real life examples.

This course provides an overview of important elements of process safety as they are often encountered in today’s industrial practice. The emphasis is on engineering design aspects of Process Safety Management and it will highlight the safeguarding aspects of processing equipment inside the plant. Techniques for analysing and mitigating process safety hazards applicable to hydrocarbon processing will be reviewed. Integration of the concepts required to achieve an optimum approach to Process Safety Engineering is the main goal of this course. Exercises and useful examples will be utilized throughout the course to emphasize the key learning points.

The reliability of a Plant or Facility determines its performance – process safety, environmental and cost performance all depend on it. It is thus a pivotal driver which we can use to make significant business gains. Unfortunately it is often seen as a black art, best left to mathematicians or other specialists. This practical training course will show you that it is easy to understand and explains how to use data from operating and maintenance records and get the results.

Sand Control Participants will learn how sand production and inadvertent formation damage can erode profits. Methods and procedures will be presented to guide the participants in decision making with regard to completing a well with optimum control of formation sand while incurring minimal damage to the well or production zone. Extensive theory will be presented illustrating why certain practices should either be employed or strictly avoided.

This course focuses on unique needs of technical professionals who write and present for both technical and non-technical readers. This 3-day separately book-able workshop will demonstrate on how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to write in a reader-friendly, grammatically accurate way reports and persuasively communicate for buy-in purposes.

This course provides a detailed overview of the worldwide lubricants business, its structure, participants, dynamics, economics, markets and prospects. It gives managers, planners and marketers the industry perspectives required to make strategic business decisions.

Well Integrity Management This four-day course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of well integrity management and risk assessment in producing assets. Based on the regulatory requirements and using real examples and exercises from around the world, this represents best practice integrity management within the oil and gas industry.

Well interventions have a large opportunity to enhance well production if correctly designed and implemented. Conversely they can have a large negative impact on production if they’re not. The Well Intervention & Productivity School (WIPS) is designed to help well intervention specialists, well service supervisors and petroleum engineers become more aware of the problems that can arise in the planning and execution of well interventions.