1-Day Short Courses
- Registration cost for 1-day short courses is USD 480 for SPE members and USD 580 for nonmembers.
- All short courses are held at the Hyatt Regency. 0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) awarded for a 1-day course.
0800–1700, Saturday, 20 September
Horizontal Well Completions
Instructor: Gary Corbett, Baker Oil Tools
This course develops strategies for completing horizontal wells with either cased or open hole configurations, with or without sand control. It reviews the historical development of horizontal wells and completions and discusses drill-in fluids, hole displacement, cementing, perforating, stand alone screens, horizontal gravel packing, execution and procedural guidelines for avoiding trouble, well surveillance and operations after it is completed, and well intervention for reducing water-gas oil ratios.
Coiled Tubing and Its Applications
Instructor: Ed Smalley, NOV CTES
This course presents coiled tubing (CT) as a tool for workover, drilling, and completion services. The course begins with a review of conventional CT workover and completion applications. The next portion describes the properties of CT, its manufacture, the surface equipment for running it, and subsurface tools for CT applications. A significant portion of the course covers the mechanical and hydraulic performance of CT including working limits, buckling, and fatigue. A discussion of CT drilling technology is included.
Streamline Simulation: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Akhil Datta-Gupta, Texas A&M University
This course covers introductory and advanced concepts in streamline simulation and its applications. The theory of streamlines/streamtubes in multidimensions is reviewed. Applications include swept volume calculations, rate allocation/pattern balancing, field-scale simulation of tracer response, waterflooding, solvent flooding, ranking geostatistical realizations, history matching and data integration. Strengths and limitations of streamline modeling compared with finite difference simulation are discussed. PC-Windows based computer programs are used to illustrate the concepts.
Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals
Instructor: Larry Lake, University of Texas at Austin
This course teaches an integrated version of the basics of waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The connection of each process to a few fundamental principles is illustrated. The course then reviews the specifics of thermal and solvent methods, relating basic principles to the results of field cases.
0800–1700, Sunday, 21 September
Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding and Sequestration
Instructors: Charles Fox, Kinder-Morgan CO2 Company, Michael H. Stein, BP America, Sam Avasthi, Avasthi & Associates, Jay Avasthi, Avasthi & Associates
This course covers the practical aspects of CO2 flooding and sequestration. Reservoir engineering design aspects of CO2 floods, surface facilities, well design, and operations are discussed. Case histories are reviewed, and potential problems analyzed.
Reservoir Characterization: From the Laboratory to the Field
Instructor: Larry Lake, University of Texas at Austin
This course teaches integrated reservoir characterization from the basics of petrophysics through geostatistics. The emphasis is on flow properties of porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability. The course also discusses the statistics of the spatial distribution of these properties and illustrates the benefits of using these properties.
Reservoir Aspects of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells
Instructor: Sada Joshi, Joshi Technologies International
The course includes discussion on practical issues and reservoir parameters of horizontal well projects. The topics include formation damage, drainage areas, well spacing, well reserves, and rate calculations using steady and pseudosteady-state methods. The course also includes discussion on several field case histories and performance analysis of horizontal wells.
Introduction to Underbalanced Drilling
Instructor: Steve Nas, Weatherford Asia Pacific
With the increased use of advanced drilling technologies such as underbalanced drilling, there is a need to train all personnel to ensure that the project is completed safely and successfully. Upon completion of this course, registrants will have a knowledge of the integrated technologies involved in underbalanced drilling operations; understand the operation of an underbalanced drilling project; and be able to make an informed selection of all equipment required to carry out an underbalanced drilling operation.
