Short Courses on Well Operations & E&P Disciplines

Course Modules

  • Well Operations 1Well Ops-1: Field Operations
    • Pressure Basics
    • Geopressure basics
    • Borehole stability
    • Monitoring drilling parameters and process
    • Cutting sample collection and description
    • Laboratory measurements
    • Limitation of rock sampling and analyses
    • Gas monitoring
    • Petrography and Geochemistry
  • Well Ops-2: Geopressure analyses
    • Mass – Volume – Density Reminder
    • Pressure Units Conversion
    • Pore pressure prediction (PPP)
    • Overpressure estimation (OE)
    • Pressure While Drilling (PWD)
    • Pore pressure and fracture monitoring tools
    • Pore Pressure after Drilling (PPAD)
    • Pore pressure application in drilling
    • Leak Off Pressure (LOP)
  • Well Ops-3: Logging While Drilling
    • Principles and field application
    • Open hole logging methods
    • Porosity and Permeability Tools
    • Fluid Analyses
  • Well Ops-4: Directional Drilling
    • Introduction: from tools to formation
    • Measurement While Drilling (MWD)
    • Logging While Drilling (LWD)
    • Logging While Drilling (LWD) Tools
    • LWD Quality Control (QC)
  • Well Ops-5: Log Interpretation
    • Basic definitions
    • Log Responses
    • Depth of investigation
    • Porosity and fluid saturation
    • Quick look interpretation
    • Integration of biostratigraphy and stratigraphic association
    • Deliverables: Hydrocarbon estimation and oil in place
  • Well Ops-6: Gas Acquisition and Interpretation
    • Gas Measurement While Drilling (GMWD) Overview
    • GMWD Objectives
    • The Gas System: sensors and analysers
    • GMWD Cabin
    • GMWD data QC
    • GMWD Data Interpretation
  • Well Ops-7: Well Testing and Production
    • Well Test Principle
    • Objectives and types
    • Interpretation and applications
    • Formation damage
    • Skin concept: well bore interface modeling and improvement
    • Checks and Limitations
    • Well completion and stimulation
  • E&P-1: Exploration Process
    • The Exploration Phase
    • How do we know oil and gas is in there?
    • Exploration Methods
    • Seismic method
    • Correlation from offset wells
  • E&P-2: Oil Fields Prospecting
    • Exploration block acquisition
    • Lead and Prospect
    • Play and fairway
    • Discovery and reserve
    • Field and reservoir target
    • Block Appraisal
    • Commercial evaluation of oil field
  • E&P-3: Assessment of Reserves
    • Oil field compartmentalization
    • Hydrocarbon fluid variation within a field
    • Oil field lateral and vertical limits
    • Geological field model
    • Oil in place and recovery
    • Calculating hydrocarbon in place
    • Affirming the Reserve
    • Reservoir evaluation in an oil field
    • Reservoir modeling at block level
  • E&P-4: Prospect Evaluation
    • Petroleum prospect
    • Prospect Evaluation
    • First stage prospect evaluation
    • Second stage prospect evaluation
    • Risking a prospect
    • Estimating its uncertainty
    • Reservoir evaluation, target reservoirs and well prognosis
  • E&P-5: Seal Analyses
    • Hydrocarbon retention
    • Sealing processes
    • The concept of efficient and integrity of seals
    • Indication of seal breaching
    • The concept of efficiency and integrity of seals
    • Types of seal
    • Assessment of sealing and leaking faults
  • E&P-6: From Exploration to Production
    • The E&P chain
    • The Development Phase
    • The Production Phase
    • Pressure and seal evolution during production
    • Management of producing field
    • Well Geology and Petrophysics