Short Courses

1-Day Courses: Tuesday, 14 February

Sand Control Using FracPac Completion Technology

Instructor: Dave Norman

This course is for both the novice and the experienced practitioner. It will start with demonstrating why fracpack technology has become so popular as a sand control method. This will include defining some basic terminology associated with the technology. Then it offers basic information needed for designing and planning the execution of a fracpack sand control completion. It will also cover some selected topics regarding the technology regarding the execution issues and evaluation of the installed completion. These include the definition of an execution scorecard and using this scorecard to define operating limits.

Overview of Well Stimulation

Instructor: Alfred R. Jennings, Jr.

Enhancement and optimization of oil and gas production is a challenge faced by everyone in the industry involved with improving, maintaining, or re-establishing production from oil and gas wells. This course provides information concerning the impact of formation damage and flow restrictions on well production and offers guidelines concerning when and where matrix acidizing, acid fracturing, and hydraulic fracturing with proppant can best be used to improve well production. Recent advances in well stimulation technology will also be briefly discussed.

2-Day Courses: Monday and Tuesday, 13–14 February

Formation Damage Prevention

Instructor: Michael Byrne

This course is intended for industry professionals who wish to develop or expand their knowledge of formation damage and how optimum productivity and injectivity can be assured. It provides participants with a unique insight into formation damage through the practical integration of regional, core, well and drilling data. Theory and principles are reinforced by the extensive use of real field examples from throughout the world. The course aims to demystify the subject of formation damage and promote a formation damage awareness culture, encouraging participants to challenge convention and think about the implications of damage throughout a field or well life cycle.