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Description: 

This course takes a detailed look at carbonate reservoirs. It is designed for geologists, geophysicists, Petro physicists and engineers who are working in the exploration and development of carbonate reservoirs 

Contents: 

• Carbonate Reservoir Rock Properties 
• Depositional Carbonate Reservoirs 
• Diagenetic Carbonate Reservoirs 
• Fractured Reservoirs 

Designed For : Geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, petroleum engineers 

Geophysics & Geology 

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Reservoir Engineering

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Production & Operations

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Description :

Introduction to the petroleum systems and describes the trip of the organic matter, from its formation to its trapping 

Contents: 

• The dynamic Petroleum System Concept 
• Organic Source for Oil and Gas 
• Rocks Evaluation 
• Expulsion, Migration and Reservoir Processes 

 Designed For: Geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, petroleum engineers 

Description:

Introduction to the advantages of developing a Geographic Information System in Oil & Gas applications 

Contents:    

• Introduction to Earth System Science and Modeling 
• Creating Surfaces & 3D Models 

Designed For: All the Oil & Gas technicians and engineers 

Description: 

This course takes a detailed look at siliciclastic reservoirs. It is designed for geologists, geophysicists, Petro physicists and engineers who are working in the exploration and development of siliciclastic reservoirs. 

Contents: 

• Classification and Properties of Siliciclastic Reservoirs 
• Depositional Environments 
• Diagenetic Environments 

Designed For: Geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, petroleum engineers 

Description : 

This course introduces the essential acquisition and processing techniques. It aims at acquiring fundamental concepts in subsurface imaging for geological interpretation purposes. 

Contents:  

• Seismic Waves Propagation & Signal Processing 
• Seismic Acquisition 
• Seismic Processing & Imaging Borehole Seismic 
• Borehole Seismic  
• Seismic For Reservoir Analysis 
• Summary, Synthesis & Wrap-Up 

Designed For: Junior geophysicists, Geologists, petroleum engineers, and staff who interpret seismic data and need exposure to acquisition and processing techniques 

Description:

This course will explore the logging tools response to different lithologies. It will help participants understand log readings, applications, and limitations. It will teach them the basic concepts of petrophysics as well as the techniques and procedures of log interpretation.

• Basic petrophysical properties
• Basic Log Types
• Open hole logging tools and measurements
• Quick look Log Interpretation

DESIGNED FOR: Junior Petro physicists, Geophysicists, geologists and all technical staff interested in petrophysics

Description:

This course provides participants with an integrated approach to facies analysis and rock-typing combining logs, core description, and laboratory petrophysical data.

Contents: 

• Overview On Electro facies Analysis & Rock-Typing
• Non-Supervised Analysis
• Supervised Analysis
• Rock-Types Determination
• Summary, Synthesis & Wrap-Up 

Designed For: Junior Petro physicists, Geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers

Description:

This course covers the fundamental aspects and practices of production engineering, by providing a clear understanding of the integrated production systems, from reservoir to surface. The course addresses details of reservoir engineering concepts, reservoir inflow performance, well performance and productivity as well as monitoring production system behavior using Surface and downhole technologies, flow assurance issues, artificial lift technology and production surface facilities. It emphasizes production process diagnostics to help troubleshooting problem wells and aid design appropriate well intervention and work-over operations.

Contents:

• Reservoir Properties overview
• Reservoir Performance
• Well Production Optimization
• In-well production diagnosis
• Well Completion
• Artificial Lift Technologies
• Production Operations

Designed For: Petroleum engineers, graduated production engineers,  process engineers, development geologists, geoscientists and other technical or operational staff with a limited background in production engineering

Description:

This course aims to cover the fundamental aspects of Well Stimulation whose main objective is to repair formation damage and improve well production. Detailed understanding will be conducted on formation damage and its impact on well production performance, stimulation techniques, their advantages, and disadvantages. Stimulation job execution, monitoring and evaluation will be discussed with an emphasis on HSE considerations.

Contents:

• Formation damage
• Introduction to Stimulation Concepts
• Acidizing
• Acid Job design, Execution and Evaluation
• Hydraulic Fracturing

 Designed For: Petroleum Engineers, Reservoir engineers, Production Engineers , Production Technologist, Field Engineers, Development Geologist, Field Engineers, Oil Field Technical Staff, production managers and other technical or operational staff who are involved in acidizing and fracturing operations.

Description: 

This course presents an overview of the various artificial lift systems used in the oil and gas industry. After introducing the need for an artificial lift system, training will focus on each of the following lift methods: Gas lift, Beam (Rod) Pump Systems, Progressive Cavity Pumping (PCP), Electrical Submersible Pumping (ESP), Hydraulic Pumping (HP) and Jet Pump (JP). For each lift type, the course covers main components, design, applications and troubleshooting.

Contents:

• Well and reservoir performance
• Overview of Artificial Lift Systems
• Artificial lift systems limits
• Selection Methods
• Critical parameters affecting artificial lift type
• Gas Lift Systems
• Sucker Rod Pump
• Progressive Cavity Pump (PCP)
• Electric Submersible Pumping (ESP)
• Hydraulic Pump (HP)
• PERFORATION
• Well Completion Planning
• Special completions

Designed For: Petroleum engineers, production engineers, geoscientists, completion, reservoir and drilling engineers concerned with well performance and production enhancement. Technical and operations staff from other disciplines, who are interested in learning the basic concepts of artificial lift technologies.

Description:

This course overviews Coiled Tubing surface and pressure control equipment as well as downhole tools. Coiled Tubing pipe manufacturing and operational limits, how to deal with fatigue and the interventions performed with coiled tubing will be clearly presented and discussed. Hence, the course highlights job design, typical CT operations as well as HSE and risk analysis.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Coiled Tubing Equipment
• Monitoring integrity of CT
• CT Pipe
• Well Control Equipment
• Coiled Tubing Application
• Job Design

Designed For:  Production engineers, Drilling engineers, Completion engineers, Operations engineers, Field Technicians, Reservoir engineers, Other technical and operational staff who are involved in coiled tubing operations.

Description:

This course provides an understanding of almost all aspects of perforating including perforating guns and techniques, shaped charges and safety. API qualification tests procedures, methods of predicting and maximizing perforation effectiveness, equipment and operations for wireline and tubing-conveyed techniques will be discussed and presented. The training course covers the operating procedures, job planning and quality control.

Contents:

• Perforating Overview
• Perforating and Production Performance
• Electric Wireline Perforating
• Tubing-Conveyed Perforating
• Safety

Designed For: Production engineers, Completion engineers, Operation engineers, Drilling engineers, Field Technicians, Reservoir engineers, Other technical or operational staff who are involved in well completion operations.

Description:

This course will help acquire knowledge on well testing procedures and operations as well as an introduction to equipment and instrumentation, to control, condition, monitor, and measure and sample the fluids that are produced from the reservoir during the production testing process.

Contents:

• Overview of Well Testing
• Pressure Operation
• Introduction to DST
• Surface Well Testing in Deepwater Environment
• Fluid Sampling
• Surface Testing Operations
• Clean Up
• Productivity test
• Separator
• Oil Calculation
• Gas Calculation
• Equipment selection & preparation
• Data recordings and Measurements
• Data Quality Control
• Well Test Procedures
• Down-hole and surface equipment and specifications
• Real-time Technology in Well Testing

Designed For:  Production engineers, Petroleum engineers, Production Supervisors, Operation engineers, Field Technicians, Reservoir engineers, Other technical or operational staff who are involved in well testing operations.

Description:

This course aims to cover the fundamental aspects of reservoir engineering with an emphasis on interaction with the other subsurface disciplines.  The course provides an apprehension of reservoir engineering processes thereby improving integration and understanding between the different subsurface disciplines. The curriculum will be based on relevant case studies and is accompanied by practical field examples.

Contents:

• Reservoir Geology
• Reservoir engineering overview
• Fundamentals of reservoir fluid properties: fluid types, phase behavior, correlations
• Fluid Flow in Porous Media: Darcy’s law
• Fundamentals of reservoir Rock Properties: porosity, wettability, capillary pressure, permeability, relative permeability
• Fluid statics and fluid distribution
• Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
• Well performance
• Recovery Types
• Hydrocarbon volumetric
• Probabilistic reserves estimation
• Material Balance Concepts
• Decline Curve Analysis concepts
• Principles of transient well test analysis
• Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Reservoir Simulation and Management
• Economics of Reservoir Development

Designed For: All technical staff who are working closely with reservoir engineers.

Description:

This course introduces a comprehensive overview of the basic principles and techniques of reservoir engineering, including methods on how to calculate the original hydrocarbon volumes in place, reservoir pressures, PVT for fluid characterization, material balance, Darcy’s law, radial flow, well inflow equations and well testing fundamentals. The curriculum will be based on relevant case studies and is accompanied by numerous training exercises and practical field examples.

Contents:

• Petroleum Geology
• Introduction to Reservoir Engineering- key concepts and objectives
• Reservoir Drives and Reserves Determination
• Rock properties
• Fluid Properties
• Well production Performance
• Well Testing

Designed For: Petroleum Engineers, Reservoir Engineers, Production and Operations Engineers, Petro physicists, Geophysicists, and Geologists

Description

This course introduces the basics of reservoir fluid properties, phase behavior and fluid sampling. Along with PVT reports and laboratory experiments, PVT properties interpretation, EOS modeling and data preparation for reservoir simulation. The lecture is accompanied by numerous training exercises and practical field examples.

Contents:

• Reservoir Fluids and Phase Behavior
• Reservoir fluid composition and fluid types Classification
• Phase behavior
• Natural gas properties
• Crude oil properties
• Fluids Sampling
• PVT Reports
• PVT laboratory experiments
• Equation Of State Theory
• Compositional vs. black-oil modelling
• Introduction to EOS Models

Designed For: Equation Of State Theory Compositional vs. black-oil modelling Introduction to EOS ModelsEquation Of State Theory Compositional vs. black-oil modelling Introduction to EOS Models

Description:

This course aims to develop knowledge and skills on understanding of advanced r eservoir fluid phase behavior and equation of state (EOS) modeling. This course is designed to be a practical course.

Contents:

• Fluid Phase Behavior & Basic PVT Properties

• Fluid Sampling & PVT Laboratory Measurements
• Laboratory Report and PVT data Quality Checks (QC)
• Cubic Equations of State (EOS)
• VLE Calculations & Intro to PVT simulators
• Fluid characterization with an equation of state (EOS)
• Compositional vs. black-oil modeling
• Black oil correlations
• Correlations and laboratory data to estimate PVT properties
• Traditional and modified black-oil PVT properties
• PVT EOS Simulation study
• PVT Special Studies
• Advances in Interfacial tension test
  

Designed For:Reservoir Engineers, Production engineers, Petroleum engineers, Researchers, and all technical staff working on the PVT analyses.

Description: 

This course presents the fundamental aspects of oil and gas drilling technology, equipment and procedures. The drilling process is explained along with definitions and descriptions of drilling equipment as well as the terminology to understand the drilling process. The course addresses also an overview of rig types and equipment, the preliminary well design, directional drilling, drilling fluids, drilling bits and drilling economics. In addition, it emphasizes the basics of casing design calculations, well control as well as well completion.

Contents:

• Well Construction Process
• Drilling Fundamentals
• Preliminary Well Design
• Programming and Drilling
• Evaluating and Completing

Designed For: Junior drilling engineers, Geoscientists; Petroleum engineers; Reservoir Engineers and all the technical or operational staff who are working in collaboration with drilling engineers or involved in well design and drilling operations.

Description:

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the different types of bits, criteria for bit selection and design, drilling bit performance, and evaluation. It also covers the IADC classification system, factors affecting bit efficiency and optimization as well as wear study on the different types of bits.

Contents:

• Basics of Bit Design
• Bit Types
• IADC Classification
• Criteria for selecting the Bit for a given Formation
• Standard Methods for Evaluating Bit Dullness
• Factors affecting Bit Wear and Drilling Speed
• Optimization of Bit Weight and Rotary Speed
• Bit Optimization
• Study of wear on Roller cone bits
• Study of wear on fixed cutter bits

Designed For: Junior Drilling and well engineers, drilling supervisors, managers and all technical and operational staff who are involved with well design and drilling operations.

Description:

This course aims to provide basic understanding of drilling hydraulics, the methods and techniques used for pressure drop estimation, overview of drilling fluid rheology and how it affects drilling hydraulics. It will also cover the current industry practice on drill bit design and hydraulics optimization.

Contents:

• Functions and properties of drilling fluids
• Hydrostatics of Drilling Fluids
• Drilling Fluid Rheology
• Hydraulics Models
• Bit Hydraulics
• Hole Cleaning
• Surge and swab flow calculations
• Hydraulics Optimization

Designed For: Drilling engineers and supervisors, Drilling fluids engineers  and supervisors, Tool pushers, Geologists, Laboratory Fluid Technologists, and other technical and operational staff involved with drilling operations and the development, planning and application of the drilling fluids and drilling hydraulics.

Description:

This multi-disciplinary training course provides a comprehensive technical knowledge of reservoir characterization. It is designed for geoscientists and engineers who are involved in multidisciplinary teams. It covers the following disciplines: Geology, geophysics, petrophysics and reservoir engineering. This course allows to the participants to get a better knowledge of the different disciplines and thus improve their productivity and problem-solving skills.

Contents:

• Geology

• Geophysics
• Petrophysics
• Reservoir Engineering

Designed For: Geologists, Geophysicists, Petro physicists, petroleum engineers and all G&G staff who want to improve their productivity and problem-solving skills by learning how to integrate data and results from different disciplines.

Description:

This multi-disciplinary training course provides a comprehensive technical knowledge of a full field development plan. It is designed for geoscientists and engineers who are involved in multidisciplinary teams. It covers the following disciplines: Geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, drilling, management, petroleum economics and data sciences applied to the petroleum industry. This course allows to the participants to get a better knowledge of the different disciplines, and to get up to date with the newest technologies in the industry and thus improve their productivity and problem-solving skills. NB: This course is delivered per class (12 participants maximum) .

Contents:

• Geology

• Geophysics
• Petrophysics
• Reservoir Engineering
• Drilling
• Petroleum Economics
• Management
• Data Science

Designed For: Geologists, Geophysicists, Petro physicists, petroleum engineers and all G&G staff who want to improve their productivity and problem-solving skills and get up to date with the newest technologies.