This one day course will focus on Integrated Pore Pressure and Fracture Gradient Analysis performed in deep water drilling for well design purpose. This course will teach participants the concepts of deepwater subsurface pore pressure analysis. Technical professionals should leave the course with an understanding of the following topics:

• Concepts of Overpressure mechanism
• Units of Measurements
• Overpressure recognition and principal causes
• Normal Hydrostatic and lithostatic gradients
• Pore pressure & Fracture gradients prediction methods with a basic understanding of the usage of;
  • Petrophysical data
  • Seismic data
  • Basin Modeling
  • Drilling methods
• PPFG for well planning
• Real-time detection and case studies

Geologist, geophysicists, petrophysicists and drilling engineers who are involved in deepwater exploration and with significance in understanding of subsurface pressure analysis

Engineers are responsible for enhancing their professional competence throughout their careers. Licensed, chartered, and/or certified engineers are sometimes required by government entities to provide proof of continued professional development and training. Training credits are defined as Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or Professional Development Hours (PHD). Attendess of SPE training courses earn .8 CEUs for each day of training. We provide each attendee a certificate upon completion of the training course.

Gopal R Amruthapuri presently is a Geological Advisor – Pore Pressure at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for their Geoscience Technology. He has extensive experience of 26 years in the oil industry having worked with major operators such as Chevron and BP etc. He has specifically having expertise in pore pressure and fracture gradient
analysis of deepwater and HPHT exploration in Clastic, carbonate and presalt/subsalt environments. His expertise covers globally, mostly in West Africa, East Africa, Brazil, Deepwater GOM, Far East Asia and Middle East. During his tenure as Pore Pressure Specialist at Chevron‘s major deepwater exploration projects, he was involved in extensive regional pore pressure model development and recently at BP Brazil he was a Regional Technical Specialist for their projects in Santos and Campos basin in Brazil. In addition, he served as Chair for few of SPE/SEG/AAPG joint Emerging Technology (ETW) and Advanced Technology Workshops (ATW) on Pore pressure subject. He has been invited at international conferences as a keynote speaker, where he conducted post and pre-conference courses on pore pressure. He is a licensed Professional Geoscientist and certified Petroleum Geologist.