SPE 1-Day Training Courses

Thursday, 23 September

0900–1800

Reservoir Aspects of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells

Instructor

Sada Joshi, Joshi Technologies International, Inc.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for reservoir, production, drilling, and completion engineers, managers, and other personnel who want to learn about reservoir selection aspects of horizontal wells.

About the Course

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

Deepak Gala, Weatherford

Intended Audience

The course is designed for all personnel involved in underbalanced drilling operations, including on- and offshore management, wellsite engineers, wellsite supervisors, and operations engineers involved in the project.

About the Course

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, attendees 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.

Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals

Instructor

Larry Lake, Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Intended Audience

This course is design for engineers with at least a BS degree in petroleum or chemical engineering. All other engineers, mathematicians, and physicists with at least a BS degree and some experience in reservoir engineering and/or numerical simulation can also benefit from this course.

About the Course

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.

Managing Your Business Using PRMS and SEC Standards

Instructors

John Etherington, PRA International Ltd.
Rawdon Seager, Gaffney Cline & Associates

Intended Audience

The course is designed for professionals involved in estimating, classifying, and reporting, or using reports of petroleum reserves and resources based on SPE’s Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently revised regulations. 

About the Course

The PRMS provides an industry standard approach to classifying petroleum resources based on the status of the applied development projects and categorizing the project sales volumes according to the range of associated technical and commercial uncertainties.

The PRMS was designed to support project evaluations and the associated decisions as part of a company’s internal portfolio management.  However, publicly-traded companies listed on US stock exchanges also are obligated to report a portion of their portfolio of assets according to SEC reserves disclosure rules. At the end of 2008, the SEC rules underwent a very significant revision. Although now more closely aligned with PRMS guidelines, there are some key differences.

This course reviews and compares the key features of PRMS and SEC-2009 and provides insight into how companies may combine the two standards to better manage their business.

Friday, 24 September

0900–1800

Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding and Sequestration

(Laptop required)

Instructors

Charles E. Fox, P.E., Kinder Morgan CO2 Company, L.P.
S. M. (Sam) Avasthi, P.E., Avasthi & Associates, Inc.
Michael H. (Mike) Stein, Premium Petroleum Consulting
J. M. (Jay) Avasthi, Avasthi & Associates, Inc.

Intended Audience

Petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, production engineers, facilities engineers, managers, government officials, and others involved or interested in CO2 flooding or in hydrocarbon gas flooding and CO2 geosequestration. Due to overwhelming demand and interest in this course content, those who want to attend this course should register early.

About the Course

The course instructors will focus on how to improve oil recovery from oil fields by CO2 flooding or by hydrocarbon gas flooding and will focus on CO2 geosequestration, a topic of growing interest to professionals around the world.

In teaching this course, the instructors plan to spend most of the time discussing the practical aspects of CO2 flooding and keep discussion of the theoretical topics to bare minimum. They will also discuss economics of CO2 flooding (vis-à-vis water flooding) and give course attendees some practical and useful problems to work on. They will discuss CO2 geosequestration wherever there is interest in this topic. Finally, they will provide each course attendee with a workbook containing copies of the instructors’ PowerPoint presentations and solutions to the problems.

The instructors, all seasoned engineers and longstanding SPE members, offer their extensive experience and expertise in practical aspects of CO2 flooding to teach this course to SPE members around the world. In addition, the instructors plan to invite all coauthors of the monograph, and other CO2 flooding experts, who may be attending ATCE, to answer questions from the course attendees.

This course is based on the SPE Monograph Volume 22, “Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding”, published in 2002, and is an outgrowth of The University of Texas of the Permian Basin/ SPE CO2 Conferences and short courses held in Midland, Texas.

Since Excel programs will be provided in the class, course attendees should plan to bring their notebook computers to the class.

Waterflooding, Concepts, Design Prediction, and Optimization

Instructor

Iraj Ershaghi, University of Southern California

Intended Audience

Reservoir engineers, geologists, production engineers and asset managers can benefit from this course.

About the Course

The art and science of waterflood management is an optimization process. There are opportunities for the field engineer to improve well placement, well completion, and voidage/replacement management for stretching ultimate recovery. As such, critical factors and diagnostic procedures are discussed before initiation and during the flood.

The course consists of seven modules and in each, a number of examples are included to further clarify the subject matter. In Module 1, characteristics of petroleum reservoirs affecting the success of waterfloods from pore level to reservoir level are reviewed. Then various sources of data and their cost effectiveness are scrutinized in Module 3.  Module 4 reviews the procedure for the analysis of performance data using specific diagnostic plots. This leads to Module 5 where various prediction techniques are reviewed.  Some aspects of trouble shooting and a few case studies are discussed in Modules 6 and 7 respectively.

Coiled Tubing and Its Applications

Instructor

Ed Smalley, NOV CTES

Intended Audience

Those interested in applying coiled tubing (CT) technology for workover services, drilling, completions, and production operations and those who need an update on the latest CT technology will benefit from this course. This is an introductory CT course and is appropriate for individuals that are new to the CT industry or anyone that would like to expand their CT knowledge.

About the Course

This one-day training course presents coiled tubing (CT) as a tool for workover, drilling, and completion services. It provides an overview of conventional CT workover and completion applications, the properties of CT, its manufacture, the surface equipment utilized for deployment, and subsurface tools for CT applications. A significant portion of the course covers mechanical performance of CT, including working limits, buckling, and fatigue. A discussion of CT drilling technology and hydraulics is also included.