28 - 30 Nov 2021
Virtual
Disciplines: Drilling | Management | Production and Operations
06 - 07 Dec 2021
Virtual [MYT; UTC+8]
This training course is presented to you in a series consisting of three parts. Throughout the series, we will discuss sand control considerations involved in drilling and completing a well, including the various sand control techniques available for c...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations
07 - 08 Dec 2021
Virtual [CST; UTC -6]
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 ill...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir
08 - 09 Dec 2021
Virtual [CST; UTC -6]
Rawdon Seager
This course provides an overview of the classification, estimation and reporting of reserves and resources. The focus of the course is on the SPE-PRMS (2018), but other systems such as SEC and COGEH are also included. The course will outline the key de...
(Read More)Disciplines: Management | Reservoir
14 Dec 2021
Virtual [CST; UTC -6]
Shahab D. Mohaghegh
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is revolutionizing many industries. This technology is becoming an important point of competitive differentiation in the upstream oil and gas industry. Since optimization of production and enhanced recovery...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations | Reservoir
12 - 13 Jan 2022
Virtual
Ashwin Venkatraman
Data driven modeling is becoming a key differentiation to unlock higher recoveries from existing fields as well as identify new opportunities. The availability of data and democratization of these advanced algorithms is changing the landscape of subsur...
(Read More)Disciplines: Data Science and Engineering Analytics | Drilling | Production and Operations | Reservoir
17 - 18 Jan 2022
Virtual [MYT; UTC+8]
This training course will start to cover the P&A topic by reviewing different guidelines, definitions of terms, and well abandonment phases and challenges. In the next step, two different approaches (conventional and risk-based) for permanently aba...
(Read More)Disciplines: Drilling
24 - 25 Jan 2022
Virtual
George E. King
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations
31 Jan 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir
31 Jan 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Reservoir
31 Jan 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Bill Shroyer
Dennis Dria
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 ...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir
31 Jan 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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-in...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations | Reservoir
31 Jan 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Michael B. Smith
This course discusses how to select a candidate that will benefit from a workover and the extra considerations involved in a treatment design.
- What makes a good re-frac candidate
- How depletion affects the re-fracture for good and bad
- Re-fracture t...
Disciplines: Production and Operations
31 Jan 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Reservoir
04 - 05 Feb 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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 ill...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir
04 - 05 Feb 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Steve Hennings
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations
04 - 05 Feb 2022
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Dr. John M. Walsh
This course provides both an overview of water management in conventional and unconventional operations and an in-depth look at critical issues related to sourcing (acquiring), reusing, recycling, and disposing of water in shale operations with emphasi...
(Read More)Disciplines: Projects, Facilities, and Construction
08 - 11 Feb 2022
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Well Integrity management is looked at in three distinct stages, the first stage is during the well design which includes material selection, engineering design, cement design, coating and inhibitors and cathodic protection. The second stage is monitor...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Drilling
14 - 17 Feb 2022
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This training course is presented to you in a series consisting of three parts. Throughout the series, we will discuss sand control considerations involved in drilling and completing a well, including the various sand control techniques available for c...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations
21 - 22 Feb 2022
Virtual [CST]
James J. Smolen
William K. Ott
This course examines methods for detecting fluid channels, voids and leaks, and how to repair them. It also covers the logging tools and technologies use to evaluate the integrity of the cement prior to initial completion or anytime during the life of...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Drilling
21 - 22 Feb 2022
Virtual [CST]
Abbas Zeinijahromi
Pavel Bedrikovetsky
Currently, about 65% of worldwide oil is produced by waterflooding, produced water re-injection (PWRI), and production with strong water support. Yet, formation damage is a serious obstacle for oil- and gasfield development as well as subsurface CO2 st...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir
21 - 22 Feb 2022
Virtual [CST]
Mark Brinsden
FastTrack to a broader understanding of almost all aspects of perforating including types of charges, types of guns, phasing, shot density, penetration, hole size, gun initiation on wireline, TCP, slickline, perforating safety, API in perforating, perf...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations
21 - 22 Feb 2022
Virtual [CST]
Gordon M. Graham
This two-day course is an introduction to inorganic scaling. It includes an overview of the different types of inorganic oilfield scales encountered during production, and the various methods used to control them. Field examples will illustrate the i...
(Read More)Disciplines: Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction
24 - 25 Feb 2022
Virtual [MYT; UTC+8]
In today’s world, traditional methods of drilling oil wells don’t work as much anymore. Yesterday’s practices are being superseded by a universal trend towards the extensive use of historical and real-time data to understand, learn and predict all well...
(Read More)Disciplines: Data Science and Engineering Analytics | Management
21 - 25 Mar 2022
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Reservoir
04 - 07 Apr 2022
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kesavan Govinathan
This training course is presented to you in a series consisting of three parts. Throughout the series, we will discuss sand control considerations involved in drilling and completing a well, including the various sand control techniques available for c...
(Read More)Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations
30 May - 03 Jun 2022
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Reservoir
26 - 30 Sep 2022
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Reservoir
21 - 25 Nov 2022
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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...
(Read More)Disciplines: Reservoir
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