02 Mar 2021
VIRTUAL UTC-6
David Anderson
This course provides attendees with a comprehensive Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)- based methodology for analyzing well performance data, with specific focus on unconventional oil and gas. The course combines the use of several powerful techniques and ...
09 Mar 2021
VIRTUAL UTC-6
This course acquaints participants with the basics of oil and gas shale evaluation and current shale selection, well completion, fracturing, and production technologies for shale reservoirs. The interactive format includes field data, current approac...
09 - 10 Mar 2021
Virtual [GST; UTC +4]
Mohamed Hashem
This course is meant to bring awareness about the importance of Reservoir Sampling and its technical validity and conditions. The course also explains the pitfalls and ways to avoid them to ensure a representative sample is achieved.
22 - 26 Mar 2021
Virtual Class (MDT; UTC-6)
Hayley Silberg
Cameron P. Six
Keith Carr
Miles Hughes
Matthew O'Blenes
Barry Hanson
Liam O'Brien
Tamara Warren
John Carlson
This comprehensive course is an introduction or refresher for the techniques of evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties, but the techniques used in this course also apply to oil and gas properties elsewhere in the world. There is ample opportunity t...
26 Mar 2021
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
This 1-day course provides participants with a background review of subsea production control systems and specific knowledge of Intervention Work-Over Control Systems (IWOCS) as they interact with subsea productions systems. This is followed by an in...
26 Mar 2021
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Topics:
- Introduction to surface equipment required to deploy coiled tubing during field operations
- Basic understanding of coiled tubing pre-job modeling and fatigue tracking - and why it’s important
- Challenges associated with use of coiled tubing ...
26 Mar 2021
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
This short course is designed to provide knowledge and understanding of surface equipment, downhole tools, various applications, and operational contingencies for rigless well interventions involving coiled tubing, slickline, or wireline. The particip...
19 Apr 2021
VIRTUAL UTC-5
This 1-day course will present an overview of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Industry. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the LNG supply chain, types of infrastructure, costs, siting and safety regulations, and LNG markets. The instructo...
26 - 30 Apr 2021
TBD
Geomodeling today is integral to a successful business strategy in most hydrocarbon reservoirs. The sub-surface team uses the Geomodel to render the geologic interpretation into a digital format suitable for input to reservoir simulation software, for ...
03 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
George E. King
Hydraulic fracturing places both static and dynamic stresses on casing and completion components that may not be apparent in conventional design programs. Non-uniform loading of formations, casing and cement may be driven by cyclic pressures of several...
03 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
Dennis Dria
Bill Shroyer
This one-day training event introduces completion, production, surveillance and reservoir engineers to the design of fiber-optic DTS (distributed temperature sensing) and DAS (distributed acoustic sensing) well installations. A basic understanding of ...
03 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
Carl T. Montgomery
The course presents the fundamentals of hydraulic fracturing, along with addressing the general process, the "terminology," and many of the "real-world" problems - in a concise format. The overall emphasis of the day is how hydraulic fracturing fits-...
03 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
Steve Hennings
This course covers the essential concepts and techniques applied in evaluating hydrocarbon storage and productivity potential in shale and tight reservoirs, with an emphasis on practical methods uncommon to conventional reservoir analysis. The limita...
03 May - 30 Sep 2021
Fontainebleau, France
Become Part of a New Era of Safety Culture and Leadership
The oil and gas industry is experiencing significant changes: leaner work forces, greater demand for operational excellence. Here, together, we will innovate, strengthen leadership and safety c...
07 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
W. Aaron Burton
Shales and other low-permeability formations require multistage completions, hydraulic fracturing, and horizontal wells to produce at economic rates. This course focuses on the multistage completion systems that are used in these applications, includin...
07 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
George E. King
Development or re-development of reservoirs with multi-fractured deviated or horizontal wells (MFHW) has changed the landscape of well design and operation in the last three decades. Both on-shore and off-shore examples of MFHWs have added to the knowl...
07 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
Dr. Neal Nagel
Dr. Marisela Sanchez-Nagel
Geomechanics – in both completions and drilling operations – has become a critical technology in the development of Unconventional Plays. This course presents the basics of oil field geomechanics and its application to unconventional developments, spec...
10 - 11 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
Dr. David P. Craig
DFIT – The Unconventional Well Test course will review the theory of fracture-injection/falloff testing, the design of DFITs, and interpretation of DFIT data using both straight-line and type-curve methods. Design and interpretation methods will be i...
10 - 11 May 2021
Virtual Conference and Exhibition [CDT, UTC -5]
Carl T. Montgomery
Michael B. Smith
This course covers the fundamental principles concerning how hydraulic fracturing treatments can be used to stimulate oil and gas wells. It includes discussions on how to select wells for stimulation, what controls fracture propagation, fracture width,...
10 May 2021
Virtual [MST, UTC-7]
This popular course introduces various aspects of the geological storage or “sequestration” of CO2, an important tool for combating global warming. Although much of the technology is similar to that of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR), there are import...
14 May 2021
Virtual [MST, UTC-7]
26 - 27 May 2021
Virtual Class (MDT; UTC-7)
Mazda Irani
This 1-day course is an introduction to analysis and design of the geothermal reservoir and wellbores. The following topics will be covered:
Analysis of Geothermal Reservoir:
- Introduction of geothermal reservoir
- Conduction and convection in the ge...
14 - 18 Jun 2021
Virtual Class (MDT; UTC-6)
John Carlson
Tamara Warren
Liam O'Brien
Barry Hanson
Matthew O'Blenes
Miles Hughes
Keith Carr
Cameron P. Six
Hayley Silberg
This comprehensive course is an introduction or refresher for the techniques of evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties, but the techniques used in this course also apply to oil and gas properties elsewhere in the world. There is ample opportunity t...
09 Jul 2021
Virtual [MYT; UTC+8]
12 Sep 2021
Muscat, Oman
Dr. Shedid A. Shedid
Several oil fields are currently under one or more of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes Worldwide. Main groups of EOR processes include chemical, solvent (gas), and thermal EOR plus other processes. The goal of this course is to provide attendants ...
12 Sep 2021
Muscat, Oman
Gas-based EOR in tight unconventionals is a growing application to tap the vast unproduced oil and condensate resources in liquid-rich shale basins. The Huff-n-Puff process now involves several hundred wells in the Eagle Ford, and pilots are planned or...
13 - 17 Sep 2021
Virtual Class (MDT; UTC-6)
Cameron P. Six
Keith Carr
Miles Hughes
Matthew O'Blenes
Barry Hanson
Liam O'Brien
Tamara Warren
John Carlson
Hayley Silberg
This comprehensive course is an introduction or refresher for the techniques of evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties, but the techniques used in this course also apply to oil and gas properties elsewhere in the world. There is ample opportunity t...
15 Oct 2021
Virtual [MYT; UTC+8]
15 - 19 Nov 2021
Virtual Class (MST; UTC-7)
John Carlson
Hayley Silberg
Cameron P. Six
Keith Carr
Miles Hughes
Matthew O'Blenes
Barry Hanson
Liam O'Brien
Tamara Warren
This comprehensive course is an introduction or refresher for the techniques of evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties, but the techniques used in this course also apply to oil and gas properties elsewhere in the world. There is ample opportunity t...
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