Scheduled Training Courses

Dec
11
Mon
The Estimation, Classification and Reporting of Reserves and Resources using PRMS (2018 Update)
11 Dec 2023
Muscat, Oman
Douglas Peacock

This course presents the udpated 2018 SPE Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS), including an in-depth review of the framework, classification and categorization of volumes. The PRMS is an industry standard approach to classififying petroleum re...

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Disciplines: Management | Reservoir

Jan
22
Mon
Optimizing Gas Well Performance and Deliquification
22 Jan 2024
Vienna, Austria
Kees Veeken

Gas wells are the most uncertain hence critical component of any gas production system. A successful gas project relies on a reliable forecast of gas well production and on timely implementation of measures that restore, sustain and improve gas well ca...

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Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir

Feb
4
Sun
Comprehensive Coiled Tubing Essentials: Equipment, Operations Design, and Technical Training
04 - 05 Feb 2024
The Woodlands, Texas
Carlos Torres

 This course is a combination of:

 -Introduction to Coiled Tubing: Equipment and Operations Design
 -Coiled Tubing Technical Training

Day1:  An Introduction to Coiled Tubing, equipment, and operations design. Topics:

  • What is Coiled Tubing?
  • Coiled...
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Disciplines: Completions | Drilling

Feb
4
Sun
Hydraulic Fracture Simulation and Optimization - Conventionals, Shale, and Geothermal
04 - 05 Feb 2024
The Woodlands, Texas, USA

This course is designed as both an introduction and a refresher on the topic of hydraulic fracture modeling. It includes both theoretical fundamentals and practical applications. The course focuses on topics that help engineers drive practical value. L...

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Disciplines: Completions

Feb
5
Mon
Application of Machine Learning in the Unconventional Tight/Shale Reservoir Development
05 Feb 2024
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Shengnan (Nancy) Chen

Machine learning has been successfully used in various engineering disciplines. Nowadays, large amount of data related to reservoir properties, drilling, completion, and production is routinely collected in the upstream oil and gas operation, which can...

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Disciplines: Data Science and Engineering Analytics

Feb
5
Mon
Casing Deformation Associated with Multi-fracturing  - Causes and Methods of Reducing the Damage
05 Feb 2024
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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...

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Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations

Feb
5
Mon
Geothermal Reservoir and Hydraulics Design
05 Feb 2024
The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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...
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Disciplines: Reservoir

Feb
9
Fri
A Proactive Approach to Ensure Well Integrity During the Construction and Operation of Wells
09 - 10 Feb 2024
Virtual
Salim Taoutaou

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...

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Disciplines: Completions | Drilling

Feb
11
Sun
Introduction to CCUS
11 Feb 2024
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Mike Stephenson

This course is for geologists, environmental scientists, and regulators who deal with geological and engineering information related to carbon capture and storage. The course will cover the role of CCS within decarbonisation as an aspect of earth syste...

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Disciplines: Data Science and Engineering Analytics | Projects, Facilities, and Construction

Feb
11
Sun
Petrophysics and Geophysics Relevant to CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
11 Feb 2024
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
William Harbert

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) was a natural development in the production of hydrocarbons. In this course topics relevant to the utilization of CO2 to enhance oil recovery are presented. CO2 is an especially appealing EOR injection agent. The basic physi...

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Disciplines: Drilling | Reservoir

Feb
11
Sun
Upscaling and Artificial Intelligence Based Proxies for Uncertainty Assessment of Reservoir Production
11 Feb 2024
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Dominique Guérillot

The aim of the course is to recap main techniques required to build an integrated reservoir model and to explain different potential workflows for field development and/or history matching processes. This course will include explanations of upscaling t...

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Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir

Feb
11
Sun
The Art & Philosophy of Reservoir Fluid Sampling
11 Feb 2024
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
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.

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Disciplines: Completions | Data Science and Engineering Analytics | Drilling | Management | Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction | Reservoir

Feb
19
Mon
Cement Evaluation and Remediation
19 - 20 Feb 2024
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
James J. Smolen
William (Bill) 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...

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Disciplines: Completions | Drilling

Feb
19
Mon
Formation and Prevention of Oilfield Scale: From the Laboratory to the Field
19 - 20 Feb 2024
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Eric Mackay
Ken Sorbie
Mike Singleton

This course is based on one that has been presented on several occasions at the SPE Oilfield Scale Conference, Aberdeen, UK. It is normally presented by three members of the Heriot-Watt University Flow Assurance and Scale Team (FAST) – Professor Eric M...

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Disciplines: Production and Operations

Feb
19
Mon
Formation Damage During Waterflood, PWRI and CO2 Storage
19 - 20 Feb 2024
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
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...

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Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir

Feb
19
Mon
Formation Damage Prevention
19 - 20 Feb 2024
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Michael Byrne

This independent course provides participants with a unique insight into formation damage through the practical integration of regional, core, well and drilling data. Theory and principles are reinforced by the extensive use of real field examples from...

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Disciplines: Drilling | Reservoir

Feb
19
Mon
Fiber-Optic Sensing: Introduction to the Technology and In-Well Sensing Applications
19 Feb 2024
London, GBR
Dr. Dennis Dria

This course introduces engineers and geoscientists to fiber-optic sensing technology that is used for well and reservoir diagnostics and surveillance. It provides in-depth technology awareness, including underlying theories of operation and breadth of ...

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Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations | Reservoir

Feb
20
Tue
Fracpacking for Sand Control
20 Feb 2024
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Wm. David Norman

This course is for both the novice and the experienced practitioner. It will demonstrate why fracpack technology has become popular as a sand control method. This will include defining some basic terminology associated with the two technologies that ...

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Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations | Reservoir

Feb
20
Tue
Multistage Completions, Fracturing, and Refracturing in Shales
20 Feb 2024
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
W. Aaron Burton

This course gives an overview for completing, fracturing, and refracturing shales and other low-permeability formations that require multistage hydraulic fracturing. Participants will learn the primary types of wellbore completion options, plug-and-per...

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Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations

Mar
18
Mon
Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Gas Properties
18 - 22 Mar 2024
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cameron P. Six
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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Disciplines: Reservoir

Apr
16
Tue
Introduction into Geological Storage of CO2: An Interdisciplinary Geoscience and Engineering Approach
16 Apr 2024
Bergen, Norway

The course addresses key concepts in CO2 storage, while integrating geoscience, engineering, and to a lesser extent political and societal aspects. It will appeal to geoscientists, reservoir engineers, governmental stakeholders and all those interested...

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Disciplines: Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction | Reservoir

Apr
22
Mon
SPE-CEDEP Safety Leadership Academy
22 Apr - 04 Jul 2024
CEDEP Campus, Châteauform’ Seine Port
SPE-CEDEP Safety Leadership Academy

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...

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Disciplines: Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability | Management

Jun
3
Mon
Formation and Prevention of Oilfield Scale: From the Laboratory to the Field
03 - 04 Jun 2024
Aberdeen, Scotland, GBR
Eric Mackay
Ken Sorbie
Mike Singleton

This course is based on one that has been presented on several occasions at the SPE Oilfield Scale Conference, Aberdeen, UK. It is normally presented by three members of the Heriot-Watt University Flow Assurance and Scale Team (FAST) – Professor Eric M...

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Disciplines: Production and Operations

Jun
3
Mon
Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Gas Properties
03 - 07 Jun 2024
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cameron P. Six
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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Disciplines: Reservoir

Sep
30
Mon
Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Gas Properties
30 Sep - 04 Oct 2024
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cameron P. Six
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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Disciplines: Reservoir

Nov
25
Mon
Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Gas Properties
25 - 29 Nov 2024
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cameron P. Six
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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Disciplines: Reservoir

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