Petroleum Industry Overview
Modern Oil and Gas Industry
Duration: 2 hours
In Modern Oil and Gas Industry, you will learn about the historical, geographical, and modern context of the petroleum industry; its organization, the petroleum value chain, and economic drivers.
The E&P Asset Life Cycle
Duration: 1 hour
In The E&P Asset Life Cycle, you will learn about asset life cycle economics and the phases of the asset life cycle, including: exploration, appraisal, development and production, and mature production and enhanced oil recovery.
Reservoir Fluids
Duration: 1 hour
In Reservoir Fluids, you will learn about reservoir fluids, physical and chemical properties, and the impact on these properties at reservoir and surface conditions.
Petroleum Geology Duration: 4 hours
In Petroleum Geology, you will learn about Earth structure and plate tectonics; types of rocks, the rock cycle, clastic, biogenic, and chemical source sedimentary rocks; and historical geology, including superposition, index fossils, depositional environments, and global vs.regional stratigraphy.
Petroleum Reservoirs Duration: 5 hours
In Petroleum Reservoirs, you will learn about basins and plays, unconventional resources, and petroleum systems; reservoir rock properties: porosity and permeability, grain size, distribution, and sorting; and fluid distribution and flow characteristics. You will also learn about structural and stratigraphic traps, reservoir mapping, reservoir phase behavior and fluid properties, reservoir classification, and phase diagrams.
Exploration Rights and Surface/Subsurface Technologies
Duration: 3 hours
In Exploration Rights and Surface/Subsurface Technologies, you will learn about basins, plays, and risk analysis, mineral ownership, and contracts; surface exploration technologies, such as gravity, magnetic, and geochemical surveys, and seismic imaging and interpretation; and subsurface technologies such as mud logging, appraisal wells, coring, well logging, and drill stem testing.
Drilling Operations and Systems
Duration: 3 hours
In Drilling Operations and Systems, you will learn about well function, drilling history, onshore and offshore drilling, drilling programs, drilling rig components, and drilling systems; including drilling, rotating, fluid, and blowout prevention systems.
Well Completion and Stimulation
Duration: 1.5 hours
In Well Completion and Stimulation, you will learn about casing and cementing, wellhead installation, types of well completions, formation damage and well perforation, sand control problems and strategies, and well stimulation.
Production Technology: Flowing Wells and Artificial Lift
Duration: 1 hour
In Production Technology: Flowing Wells and Artificial Lift you will learn about production roles; artificial lift, including beam pumps, gas lift, and submersible pumps; and production logging and workover operations.
Hydrocarbon Recovery
Duration: 1 hour
In Hydrocarbon Recovery Mechanisms, you will learn about primary recovery drives such as dissolved gas (solution gas) drive, water drive, gas cap expansion drive, and combination drives.
You will also learn about enhanced oil recovery, including secondary and tertiary recoveries such as water flood, miscible flood, steam cycle, and steam drive, along with expected recovery efficiencies.
Surface Processing of Produced Fluids
Duration: 1 hour
In Surface Processing of Produced Fluids, you will learn about the integrated production system, fluid separation, emulsion breaking, crude products, gas separation and natural gas processing, NGL usage, and natural gas conversion to LNG and GTL.
Overview of the Midstream Industry Segment
Duration: 3 hours
In Overview of the Midstream Industry Segment, you will learn about the Petroleum Value Chain, the midstream segment, conventional and unconventional reservoirs, the crude oil and natural gas value chains and value chain investment trends; natural gas terminology, global energy demand and trade, gas production and contracts; and gas processing, including end use products, contaminants and sales gas specifications, gas conditioning, dehydration, hydrocarbon dewpoint control, NGL extraction and stability, and NGL product treating.
Pipelines and Storage Systems
Duration: 2 hours
In Pipelines and Storage Systems, you will learn about the different hydrocarbon transportation systems, advantages of pipelines, pipeline projects, pipeline construction and types of pipelines; pipeline system design and components; pipeline problems and protection; and pigging.
In addition, you will learn about hydrocarbon storage systems for liquids and gases, including appropriate types of tank designs and use of depleted reservoirs and salt caverns.
Gas Processing Overview
Duration: 3 hours
In Gas Processing Overview, you will learn about saleable products recoverable from raw, produced gas; gas composition and contaminants; sales gas specifications; gas sweetening and dehydration; hydrocarbon liquid products and extraction processes, Nitrogen removal and helium recovery; NGL fractionation/stabilization; NGL product treating; and sulfur recovery and disposal.
Fundamentals of Refining
Duration: 2 hours
In Fundamentals of Refining, you will learn about the refining industry as part of the downstream petroleum value chain including characteristics of crude oil and the refining products made from it, refining economics, a typical refinery configuration with its process streams and units.
Steam Cracking
Duration: 1 hour
Steam cracking is the main production process for petrochemicals, including ethylene, propylene and butadiene. The process involves breaking long chain hydrocarbons into shorter chains. In "Steam Cracking", you will learn about types of steam crackers and the functions performed in key areas, including the furnace, quench, compression, and chilling and separation sections. You will also learn about the difference between conversion and selectivity and the factors that affect ethane selectivity.
Introduction to the Petrochemical Industry
Duration: 2 hours
In Introduction to the Petrochemical Industry, you will learn about the processes and equipment that make up the petrochemical industry. You will be introduced to petrochemical products, including plastics, resins, fibers, and foams; base chemicals and their derivatives, and primary petrochemical feedstocks. You will also review petrochemical chemistry, and learn about petrochemical economic drivers. Finally, you will learn about petrochemical manufacturing; including refinery and chemical processes, such as cat cracking, reforming, isomerization, steam cracking, and extraction.
Introduction to Solvents
Duration: 2 hours
In Introduction to Solvents, you will learn about basic solvent chemistry, its purpose and selection. Solvent chemistry, including types of bonds, electronegativity, and polar bonds are covered. Polar (protic and aprotic) and non-polar types of solvents are explained, as well as what defines organic and inorganic solvents. Chemical and hydrocarbon solvent properties, are covered, such as viscosity, solubility, relative evaporation rate (RER), density, and surface tension, along with health, safety, and environmental considerations. Finally, you will learn about solvent applications, such as paints, sealants, cleaners, and polishes; drilling and metalworking fluids; water treatment; pesticides; concrete release fluids, and heat transfer fluids.