Production Operations 1

About

This course is the foundation course of PetroSkills' production engineering curriculum and serves as the basis for future oilfield operations studies. Participants will become familiar with both proven historical production practices and current technological advances to maximize oil and gas production and overall resource recovery. The course structure and pace apply a logical approach to learning safe, cost-effective, integrated analytical skills for successfully defining and managing oil and gas operations. These applied skills provide a framework for making careful, prudent, technical business decisions in the oil and gas industry. The course also covers emerging practices in the development of unconventional resources, including shale gas and oil, heavy oil, and bitumen, complementing the broad and specific coverage of conventional resource extraction.

Target Audience

Petroleum engineers, production operations staff, reservoir engineers, facilities staff, drilling and completion engineers, geologists, field supervisors and managers, field technicians, service company engineers and managers, and especially engineers starting a work assignment in production engineering and operations or other engineers seeking a well-rounded foundation in production engineering.

You Will Learn

Participants will learn how to:

Recognize geological models to identify conventional and unconventional (shale oil and gas and heavy oil) hydrocarbon accumulations
Understand key principles and parameters of well inflow and outflow
Build accurate nodal analysis models for tubing size selection and problem well review
Design and select well completion tubing, packer, and other downhole equipment tools
Plan advanced well completion types such as multilateral, extended length, and intelligent wells
Design both conventional and unconventional multi stage fractured horizontal wells
Apply successful primary casing cementing and remedial repair techniques
Select equipment and apply practices for perforating operations
Plan well intervention jobs using wireline, snubbing, and coiled tubing methods
Manage corrosion, erosion, soluble and insoluble scales, and produced water handling challenges
Apply well completion and workover fluid specifications for solids control and filtration
Employ the five main types of artificial lift systems
Identify formation damage and apply remedial procedures
Design and execute successful carbonate and sandstone reservoir acidizing programs
Understand the causes of sand production and how to select sand control options
Understand the proper use of oilfield surfactants and related production chemistry
Identify and successfully manage organic paraffin and asphaltene deposits
Choose cased hole production logging tools and interpret logging results
Understand modern conventional fracture stimulation practices
Understand multistage, horizontal well shale gas and shale oil massive frac job design and operations
Review heavy oil development and extraction including mining operations and current modern thermal processes