Online Training Courses

Description

The purpose of this course is to review the steps and principles of the seismic method and to present the basics of using seismic Amplitude Verses Offset (AVO) for hydrocarbon exploration and development. The principals of AVO are discussed and the use of AVO is demonstrated with examples. Requirements for reliable AVO results are discussed and recommendations given to insure proper seismic processing for AVO analysis. As part of this course, a review of the seismic method is included for those who wish to review seismic terminology and the basics of the seismic method. Both land and marine seismic methods are discussed. A section on seismic acquisition in producing fields is included.

About the Instructor

Gary P. Cancienne received an MS degree in geophysics from the University of New Orleans. He joined Amoco Production Company as a developer of interactive and batch geophysical software involving model-based wavelet estimation, synthetic generation, harmonic analysis, velocity filtering, DMO, and migration. Cancienne has extensive experience in applying and teaching wavelet estimation and sythetic modeling concepts for exploration and production problems relating to AVO and lithologic integration of well logs to seismic data. In 1998, he joined Petroleum Geo-Services as a senior geophysicist. In January 2000, he co-founded Flamingo Seismic Solutions, LLC.

Albert L. Frisillo received a PhD degree in Geophysics from Pennsylvania State University and spent three years as a research fellow at the Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center where he preformed physical property measurements on returned lunar samples. He joined Amoco Production Research Co. and established Amoco's rock physics laboratory. In 1996, he joined Petroleum Geo-Services as manager of the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based research and development group working on AVO and marine converted wave processing and interpretation. In January 2000, Frisillo co-founded Flamingo Seismic Solutions, LLC, a seismic processing company that processes 2D and 3D land a marine seismic and performs advanced AVO analysis.

Description

This course presents the fundamentals of fracturing pressure analysis. This includes design parameters which can be determined, uses and limitations of such analysis for on-site design, and field examples.

About the Instructor

Michael B. Smith is President of NSI Technologies, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has more than 20 years' experience in rock mechanics, well completions, and hydraulic fracturing, both with a major operator and as a consultant. He has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and wrote two chapters in the SPE Monogaph "Recent Advances in Hydraulic Fracturing." In 1995, he was awarded the Lester C. Uren award for his technical contributions to hydraulic fracturing.

Description

This course deals with all types of data normally important to the outcome of black-oil simulation: relative permeability, capillary pressure, porosity, and especially permeability. It reviews the fundamental principles dealing with rock properties and introduces advanced concepts about fluid displacements, residual-phase saturations, and pseudofunctions. This information is useful in evaluating reservoir data, in making recommendations about laboratory procedures, and in using measured information to its greatest extent.

About the Instructor

Larry W. Lake is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he has taught for 24 years. He was departmental chairman from 1989 to 1997. He is the author of Petroleum and Geosciences. Lake is a past SPE Distinguished Lecturer and member of the SPE Board of Directors. He is also the recipient of the SPE Reservoir Engineering Award and the Lucas Gold Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Engineering Research Award from The University of Texas in 1999. Lake earned BSE. and Ph.D. degrees from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively.

Description

Problems relating to unstable wellbores cost the industry hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Many, perhaps most, of these problems can be avoided or at least reduced with a little knowledge. The high level course learning objectives for this course are that, after completion, you will be able to:

1. List six common mechanisms of wellbore instability and describe the root causes of each.
2. Recognize wellbore instability, determine the root causes and propose practical solutions.
3. Incorporate wellbore stability optimization into the drilling program for a well.

Before starting this course, one should:

1. Be familiar with basic drilling geology and in particular be able to describe in general terms what is meant by "shale" and "salt diapir."
2. Understand the concept of vectors and be able to resolve two vectors into a resultant vector and to split a single vector into a resultant vector and to split a single vector into two components.
3. Be familiar with basic water and oil based drilling fluid properties; specifically density gradient, filtrate, filtercake and salinity.
4. Have a good understanding of hydrostatic pressures and hot to calculate a pressure at depth, given a fluid gradient.
5. Have a good understanding of the concepts of "pore pressure" and "fracture gradient."

About the Instructor

Steve Devereux joined Shell Oil Co. as a trainee driller in 1979. After stints with Shell in Holland and Brunei, he worked for British Gas in the UK North Sea before starting consultancy work in 1988. Since 1997, he has worked on classroom and online training courses, mostly for Schlumberger IPM and Next. His credits include the creation of an Advance Well Control course for Shell in Aberdeen, the drilling website www.Drillers.com , and has written drilling books for Pennwell.