Training Courses

1-Day Training Courses

0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) awarded for each 1-day course.

Reservoir Aspects of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells

Instructor: Sada Joshi, Joshi Technologies International, Inc.

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 pseudo-steady-state methods. The course also includes discussion on several field case histories and performance analysis of horizontal wells.

Topics Covered

• Drilling methods and costs
• Formation damage
• Well spacing and drainage areas
• Well spacing in a really anisotropic reservoirs
• Recovery factors
• Steady-state solutions
• Multilateral well productivities
• Water and gas coning
• Case histories on conning applications
• Fractured horizontal wells
• Production forecasting
• Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications
• Pressure drop in horizontal wells

30 November

2-Day Training Courses

1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) awarded for each 2-day course.

Oil and Gas Reserves: The New SEC Reporting Rules

Instructor: W. John Lee, Texas A&M University

This course provides substantial detail and interpretation of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s modernized rules for reporting oil and gas reserves. The course includes discussions on classifying resources; the SPE/WPC/AAPG/SPEE Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS), which provided the basis for many of the new SEC reserves definitions; the effects of the new rules on nontraditional resource disclosures; and recommendations for adapting to the new rules.

Portions of the class time involve lectures and discussions, but more than half of the class time is devoted to solutions from class problems and exercises. The course workbook includes relevant publications of the SEC, SPE, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

29–30 November

Integrated Asset Management/Production Optimization

Instructor: Gioia Falcone

This course focuses on the design and optimization of the technologies that increase oil and gas well performance, along with diagnosis of and solutions for production problems. We will review the basic principles of reservoir, wellbore, and surface facilities modeling, leading to solutions that integrate the different elements of a production system and maximize the recoverable reserves from a field. The instructor will present synthetic field cases to illustrate production optimization procedures using commercial software. 

Topics Covered

• Introduction to integrated production systems
• Review of reservoir inflow characterization and modeling tools
• Numerical vs. analytical modeling
• Review of multiphase flow modeling in wellbores, risers and flowlines
• Choke valves: the function of production choke valves; empirical vs. mechanistic models

29–30 November