Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering

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Disciplines: Production and Operations | Reservoir

Course Description

Petroleum is the most important energy resource worldwide, not just as fuel, but also because its refined products are vital to a wide range of petrochemical and manufacturing industries. Petroleum is a principal driver of the global economy.
This course of fundamentals of petroleum engineering explains the engineering principles which underpin the upstream and downstream sectors. Anyone working in the oil industry will benefit from this program which delivers core foundation knowledge of the technology and processes involved. The course is designed to provide attendants with overriding aim of petroleum engineering knowledge and disciplines. It presents global distribution of oil and gas, petroleum geology, oil exploration methods, basic reservoir and production engineering, reservoir formation evaluation techniques, and different oil recovery methods (primary, secondary, and tertiary).

This five-day course aims to demystify the most important aspects of petroleum engineering, starting from exploration, drilling, completion and production, and abandonment of the wells. The course also presents reservoir drive mechanisms, classification and identification of five produced fluids plus different methods of evaluating the producing formation. This course is a mixed leaning tools including detailed lecturing manual, solved examples, and explanation scientific videos.

Learning Level

Introductory

Course Length

5 Days

Why Attend

The main learning objectives of this course will teach participants to:

1. Know upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the oil industry.
2. Understand geology and structures: types of oil traps: structural, stratigraphic, and combination.
3. Understand exploration methods: geological, geophysical, and geochemical.
4. Know organic and inorganic theories for oil origin and requirements for an oil accumulation.
5. Calculate reservoir rock and fluid properties: porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, wettability, oil formation volume factor, phase diagram, five reservoir fluids, etc.
6. Calculate volumetric gas and oil reserves in place.
7. Differentiate between six different primary reservoir drive mechanisms.
8. Understand different formation evaluation techniques: well logging and well testing.
9. Know secondary and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods.

Who Attends

The fundamentals of petroleum engineering will benefit a broad range of professionals in the oil and gas industry across the globe, from administrators, surveyors in the field, operators on offshore rigs, to analysts and managers in company headquarters.

Engineers in other sectors will be able to enhance their expertise with a solid understanding of this field. Anyone with an interest in exploration and production will gain invaluable insight into how hydrocarbon resources can be realized to the maximum of their potential.

Special Requirements

Students must bring their own laptops.

CEUs

4.0 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this 5-day course.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.

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