Short Courses on Well Operations & E&P Disciplines
Course Modules
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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
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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)
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Well Ops-3: Logging While Drilling
- Principles and field application
- Open hole logging methods
- Porosity and Permeability Tools
- Fluid Analyses
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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