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2020 Upstream Training and Development Guide
NEW in 2020
• Accredited H&S Professional: GradIOSH,
CMIOSH and ASP by Applied Learning (pg 47)
• Construction Management for the Project
Professional (pg 58)
• Introduction to Fiber Optics for Well
Surveillance (pg 26)
• Operations Crew Resource Management (pg 7)
• Petroleum Project and Program Management
Essentials (pg 56)
• Petroleum Project Changes and Claims
Workshop (pg 58)
• Spill Control and Remediation Engineering
(pg 47)
• NEW PetroAcademy Virtual/Blended Learning
Options::
Options
- Production Logging
g (pg 44)
Message from the CEO
Doing more with less is how we thrive, but that requires a very MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING
competent workforce. 6 Basic Drilling, Completion and Workover Operations – BDC
(Also available as a Virtual/Blended course)
This guide presents the industry’s most comprehensive workforce 6 Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices – BE
development programs – focused on building competent people. 4 Basic Petroleum Technology – BPT
4 Basic Petroleum Technology Principles (Virtual/Blended
PetroSkills brings together industry-driven and industry-approved course) - BPT
programs that deliver flexible, practical, fit-for-purpose training and 7 Evaluating and Developing Heavy Oil Resources – HOED
7 Evaluating and Developing Shale Resources – SRE
development. This guide can help you find ways to advance your 6 Field Study – Heavy Oil Resources – HOFS
technical competence and build your company’s value. 7 Operations Crew Resource Management - OCRM
7 Overview of Heavy Oil Resources – HOOV
Since the first offerings of Production Operations 1 and the Campbell 6 Overview of the Petroleum Industry – OVP
Gas Course® over 52 years ago, PetroSkills instructor-led training GEOLOGY
programs have set the standard for excellence from subsurface to downstream. This guide
presents hundreds of sessions offered worldwide by top industry experts in each technical 8 Geology Progression Matrix
discipline across the value chain. Our competency-based programs are designed and delivered 11 Analysis of Structural Traps in Extensional Settings – ESS
8 Basic Petroleum Geology – BG
under the direction of the PetroSkills Alliance which includes some of the top petroleum 11 Basin Analysis Workshop: An Integrated Approach to the
companies worldwide, working together, to offer an industry-driven and vetted set of courses, Exploration and Evaluation of Conventional and Unconventional
Resources – BA
products and services. 9 Carbonate Reservoirs – PCR
12 Compressional and Transpressional Structural Styles – CPST
NEW courses to look for in this edition include: 9 Computer-Based Subsurface Mapping - CSM
12 Deep-water Turbidite Depositional Systems and Reservoirs – DWT
• Accredited H&S Professional: GradIOSH, CMIOSH and ASP by Applied Learning (HSP) - 12 Development Geology – DG
page 47 12 Geochemical Techniques for Solving Reservoir Management and
Field Development Problems – GTS
• Construction Management for the Project Professional (FPM64) - page 58 10 Geochemistry: Tools for Effective Exploration and Development
• Introduction to Fiber Optics for Well Surveillance (IFOS) - page 26 – MGT
• Operations Crew Resource Management (OCRM) - page 7 10 Geological and Geophysical Characterization of Heavy Oil
Reservoirs – HORC
• Petroleum Project and Program Management Essentials (P3ME) - page 56 10 Geomechanics for Heavy Oil – HOGM
• Petroleum Project Changes and Claims Workshop (PPCC) - page 58 13 Integrated Carbonate Reservoir Characterization – ICR
• Spill Control and Remediation Engineering (SCRE) - page 47 9 Mapping Subsurface Structures – MSS
13 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: Geologic and Engineering Analysis
– FR
In addition to our instructor-led programs, our digital learning solutions and professional 13 Operations Geology – OG
services continue to lead the industry; see page 3 for more details. 10 Petroleum Systems Analysis - PSA
10 Production Geology for Other Disciplines – PGD
13 Prospect and Play Assessment – PPA
Also, we are excited to announce that we have expanded our capabilities in operator training 9 Sandstone Reservoirs – SR
by acquiring Simulation Solutions Inc. This allows us to offer you a dynamic library of hands-on 11 Sequence Stratigraphy: An Applied Workshop – SQS
simulator training for console and outside operators. See petroskills.com/ssi for details. 11 Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration – ST
GEOPHYSICS
We are also proud that our blended/virtual learning program, PetroAcademy™, continues to
grow. This unique course model delivers the same competency development as our face-to- 14 Geophysics Progression Matrix
face courses via virtually delivered Skill Modules™, available from anywhere in the world. For 17 3D Seismic Attributes for Reservoir Characterization – SARC
16 Advanced Practices in Exploration and Development of
more information, see the back cover, or petroskills.com/blended. Unconventional Resources - EDUR
17 Advanced Seismic Stratigraphy: A Sequence – Wavelet Analysis
I hope you find this guide useful. If there is any way that we can help you, your team, Exploration – Exploitation Workshop – ADS
17 Applied Seismic Anisotropy for Fractured Reservoir
or your organization, please don’t hesitate to contact me personally at ford.brett@petroskills. Characterization – ASAF
com, or contact our Customer Service Department at +1.918.828.2500. 16 AVO, Inversion, and Attributes: Principles and Applications – AVO
15 Basic Geophysics – BGP (Also available as a Virtual/Blended
course)
16 Introduction to Seismic Stratigraphy: A Basin Scale Regional
Exploration Workshop – ISS
15 Seismic Imaging of Subsurface Geology – SSD
14 Seismic Interpretation – SI1
Ford Brett 16 Seismic Positioning Data Management – SPDM
CEO PetroSkills 15 Seismic Velocities and Depth Conversion – SVDC
17 Use of Full Azimuth Seismic and Microseismic for Unconventional
Plays – FAMS
WELL CONSTRUCTION / DRILLING
Cover Image: 18 Well Construction / Drilling Progression Matrix
Weano Gorge in Karijini National Park in Western Australia. The 18 Basic Drilling Technology – BDT
19 Casing and Cementing – CAC
walls of the gorge are made up of the distinctively colored Banded 20 Casing Design Workshop – CDW (Virtual/Blended course)
Iron Formations, which include alternating layers of fine-grained 21 Cementing Practices – Cementing II – CEP
quartz, hematite (iron oxides), siderite (iron carbonate) and chert. 22 Deepwater Well Engineering – DWE
22 Directional, Horizontal, and Multilateral Drilling – DHD
These rocks accumulated in Precambrian time, about 2.5 billion 22 Drill String Design and Optimization – DSD
years ago, when fine, iron-rich sediment was deposited on an 19 Drilling Fluids Technology – DFT
19 Drilling Practices – DP
ancient seafloor. After deep burial and compaction, plate tectonic 20 Fundamentals of Casing Design – FCD
forces uplifted and folded the layers, and finally, about 100 million 22 Managing Wellsite Operations – MWC
years ago during Cretaceous time, a drop in sea level caused 20 Offshore Drilling Operations - ODO
21 Primary Cementing – Cementing I – PCE
creeks and rivers to cut down through the rocks, creating the deep 21 Stuck Pipe Prevention – Train Wreck Avoidance™ – SPP
gorges that we see today. 19 Well Design and Engineering – WDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
PETROPHYSICS PRODUCTION AND COMPLETIONS
SURFACE FACILITIES
ENGINEERING (CONTINUED)
24 Petrophysics Progression Matrix For all production and processing facilities and midstream
27 Applied Rock Mechanics – ARM 44 Production Logging – RMP (Also available as a Virtual/Blended
course) courses, visit petroskills.com.
27 Cased Hole Formation Evaluation – CH
25 Coring and Core Analysis – CCA 37 Production Operations 1 – PO1 (Also available as a
24 Foundations of Petrophysics – FPP (Also available as a Virtual/Blended course)
38 Production Technology for Other Disciplines – PTO INTEGRATED - HEAVY OIL
Virtual/Blended course)
26 Integration of Rocks, Log and Test Data – ILC (Also available as a Virtual/Blended course)
26 Introduction to Fiber Optics for Well Surveillance - IFOS 44 Sand Control – SNDC 7 Evaluating and Developing Heavy Oil Resources – HOED
25 Introduction to Geomechanics for Unconventional Reservoirs - 43 Scale Identification, Remediation and Prevention Workshop 6 Field Study – Heavy Oil Resources – HOFS
IGUR – SIR (Virtual/Blended course) 10 Geological and Geophysical Characterization of Heavy Oil
25 Mud Logging – MDLG 38 Surface Production Operations – PO3 Reservoirs – HORC
26 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Petrophysics – NMRP 39 Unconventional Resources Completion and Stimulation – URCS 10 Geomechanics for Heavy Oil – HOGM
25 Petrophysics of Unconventional Reservoirs – PUR 45 Water Management in Heavy Oil Resource Operations – HOWM 7 Overview of Heavy Oil Resources – HOOV
26 Shaly Sand Petrophysics – APS 38 Well Stimulation: Practical and Applied – WS 33 Reservoir Modeling of Heavy Oil Resources – HORM
27 Structural and Stratigraphic Interpretation of Dipmeters and 45 Water Management in Heavy Oil Resource Operations – HOWM
Borehole-Imaging Logs – SSI
25 Well Log Interpretation – WLI HEALTH, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT
27 Wireline Formation Testing and Interpretation – WFT
UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES
47 Accredited H&S Professional: GradIOSH, CMIOSH and ASP by Applied .
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING Learning - HSP
46 Applied Environmental Management Systems – AEM 40 Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing – AHF
46 Applied Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems – 16 Advanced Practices in Exploration and Development of
28 Reservoir Engineering Progression Matrix HSM Unconventional Resources – EDUR
29 Applied Reservoir Engineering – RE (Also available as a 46 Competent Person Fall Protection – FPST 27 Applied Rock Mechanics – ARM
Virtual/Blended course) 47 Fundamentals of Process Safety – PS2 41 Artificial Lift for Unconventional Wells - ALUW
29 Basic Reservoir Engineering – BR (Also available as a 47 Management Systems Lead Auditor - AUD 6 Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices – BE
Virtual/Blended course) 46 Risk Based Process Safety Management – HS45 5 Basic Petroleum Technology – BPT
31 Capillarity in Rocks – CIR 47 Spill Control and Remediation Engineering - SCRE 11 Basin Analysis Workshop: An Integrated Approach to the
30 Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals – EORC Exploration and Evaluation of Conventional and Unconventional
34 Decline Curve Analysis and Diagnostic Methods for Performance Resources – BA
Forecasting – DCA OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE 37 Completions and Workovers – CAW
30 Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals – ORE 22 Directional, Horizontal, and Multilateral Drilling – DHD
31 Enhanced Oil Recovery with Gas Injection – EORG 7 Evaluating and Developing Shale Resources – SRE
34 Gas Reservoir Management – GRM 49 Applied Maintenance Management – OM21 24 Foundations of Petrophysics – FPP
32 History Matching and Reservoir Optimization – HMRO 49 Maintenance Planning and Work Control – OM41 43 Gas Production Engineering – GPO
34 Horizontal and Multilateral Wells: Analysis and Design – HML1 34 Horizontal and Multilateral Wells: Analysis and Design – HML1
32 Integrated Reservoir Modeling – GRD 45 Horizontal and Multilateral Wells: Completions and Stimulation
34 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: Geologic and Engineering PETROLEUM BUSINESS – HML2
Analysis – FR 40 Hydraulic Fracturing Applications – HFU
35 New Opportunities in Old Fields – NOF 53 Advanced Decision Analysis with Portfolio and Project Modeling 26 Introduction to Fiber Optics for Well Surveillance - IFOS
32 Oil and Gas Reserves Evaluation – OGR – ADA 25 Introduction to Geomechanics for Unconventional Reservoirs
32 Reservoir Characterization: A Multi-Disciplinary Team Approach 53 Cost Management – CM - IGUR
– RC 53 Economics of Worldwide Petroleum Production – EWP 10 Petroleum Systems Analysis - PSA
30 Reservoir Engineering for Other Disciplines – REO 51 Essential Leadership Skills for Technical Professionals - OM23 25 Petrophysics of Unconventional Reservoirs – PUR
31 Reservoir Fluid Properties: Preparation for Reservoir Engineering 51 Expanded Basic Petroleum Economics – BEC 37 Production Operations 1 – PO1
and Simulation Studies – RFP 54 Fundamentals of International Oil and Gas Law – IOG 56 Project Management in Upstream Field Development – FPM2
33 Reservoir Management – RM 54 International Petroleum Contracts – IPC 33 Reservoir Management for Unconventional Reservoirs – RMUR
33 Reservoir Management for Unconventional Reservoirs – RMUR 51 Introduction to Petroleum Business – IPB 35 Unconventional Resource and Reserve Evaluation - URRE
33 Reservoir Modeling of Heavy Oil Resources – HORM 52 Managing Non-Technical Risks – MNTR 39 Unconventional Resources Completion and Stimulation – URCS
33 Reservoir Simulation Strategies – RSS 54 Petroleum Finance and Accounting Principles – PFA 17 Use of Full Azimuth Seismic and Microseismic for Unconventional
35 Streamlines: Applications to Reservoir Simulation, 53 Petroleum Risk and Decision Analysis – PRD Plays – FAMS
Characterization and Management – SRS 54 Strategic Thinking: A Tool-Based Approach – STT 19 Well Design and Engineering – WDE
35 Unconventional Resource and Reserve Evaluation - URRE 30 Well Test Design and Analysis – WTA
31 Waterflooding A to Z – WF
30 Well Test Design and Analysis – WTA
PROCUREMENT / SUPPLY CHAIN
PRODUCTION AND COMPLETIONS 60 INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES
ENGINEERING
55 Contracts and Tenders Fundamentals – SC41
36 Production / Completions Engineering Progression Matrix 55 Cost/Price Analysis and Total Cost Concepts in Supply
40 Acidizing Applications in Sandstones and Carbonates – ASC Management – SC64
40 Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing – AHF 55 Effective Materials Management – SC42 PETROSKILLS SPECIAL FEATURES
45 Applied Water Technology in Oil and Gas Production – PF21 55 Inside Procurement in Oil and Gas – SC61
41 Artificial Lift Systems – ALS 55 Strategic Procurement and Supply Management in the Oil and
41 Artificial Lift for Unconventional Wells - ALUW Gas Industry – SC62 2 PetroSkills Alliance
41 Beam Pumps – BP 55 Supplier Relationship Management – SC63 3 PetroSkills Solutions - Competency Development
38 Coiled Tubing Interventions – CTI 4 PetroAcademy - Blended Learning Solutions
37 Completions and Workovers – CAW (Also available as a Virtual/ 5 In-House Training
Blended course) PROJECT MANAGEMENT
21 PetroSkills Conference Center
40 Downhole Remediation Practices for Mature Oil and Gas Wells 23 Unconventional Course Progression Matrix
– DRP 35 ePetro - Online Learning for Petroleum Professionals
41 Electrical Submersible Pumps – ESP 57 Advanced Project Management – FPM62
58 Advanced Project Management II – FPM63 42 Sign Up for Emails
42 Flow Assurance for Offshore Production – FAOP 48 New Course - Accredited H&S Professional
42 Formation Damage: Causes, Prevention, and Remediation – FD 58 Advanced Project Management Workshop – APMW
58 Construction Management for the Project Professional – FPM64 49 Testimonials from our Virtual Clients
45 Gas Lift – GLI 50 ePilot and ePetro - Online Learning for O&M and Petroleum
43 Gas Production Engineering – GPO 57 Managing Brownfield Projects – FPM42
56 Petroleum Project and Program Management Essentials – P3ME Professionals
43 Gas Well Deliquification – GWD 51 PetroSkills Conference Center
45 Horizontal and Multilateral Wells: Completions and Stimulation 58 Petroleum Project Changes and Claims Workshop – PPCC
56 Petroleum Project Management: Principles and Practices – PPM 52 New Course - Managing Non-Technical Risks
– HML2 59 Petroleum Professional Development Courses
40 Hydraulic Fracturing Applications – HFU 57 Project Controls for Capital Projects – PC21
56 Project Management for Engineering and Construction – FPM22 72 In-House Courses
39 NODAL Analysis Workshop – NAW (Virtual/Blended course) Inside Back Cover Contact and Registration
39 Performance Analysis, Prediction, and Optimization Using 56 Project Management in Upstream Field Development – FPM2
57 Risk Management for Upstream Capital Projects – PMRM Inside Back Cover CEU/PDH Certificates
Nodal Analysis – PO2 Back Cover PetroAcademy - Blended Learning Solutions
42 Plunger Lift – PLS
43 Production Chemistry – OGPC
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4 MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING
Basic Petroleum Basic Petroleum
Technology Technology – BPT
Principles – BPT
BASIC 20 HOURS BASIC 5-DAY
PetroAcademy This course provides the participant with an
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understanding of basic petroleum technology in
the context of the Petroleum Value Chain and
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Asset Management, from exploration to
abandonment. Unconventional shale (tight oil and
gas) and conventional oil and gas are covered.
BLENDED LEA RNING The participant will understand how and when
Reduced time to competency geoscience and engineering professionals use
technology to determine and then optimize the
This course will be delivered virtually through economic value of an oil and gas field. This
Eliminated travel expense PetroAcademy providing participants with the enables the participant to maximize their
knowledge they need at their convenience. professional and administrative contribution in
their organization. Participants first learn and
Flexibility—less time away from work This course provides the participant with an understand why various global oil and gas
understanding of basic petroleum technology production types and plays (unconventional and
Learning applied at point of need in the context of the Petroleum Value Chain,
from exploration to abandonment. The
conventional) have different value. The participant
learns which technologies are used by the
participant will understand how and when geoscience and engineering departments during
each stage of the asset life cycle and WHY! This
PetroAcademy Blended Learning Programs may include activities geoscience and engineering professionals use
E&P lifecycle context accelerates an
technology to find, then determine and optimize
such as reading assignments, self-paced e-Learning, virtual the economic value of an oil and gas field. This
understanding of basic petroleum technologies
and the oil industry. This learning is achieved
instructor-led sessions, discussion forums, group exercises, enables the participant to maximize their through guided discussions, videos, animations,
case studies, quizzes, field trips, and other activities. These professional and administrative contribution in and progressive team exercises utilizing ‘Our
their organization. Reservoir’ and ‘Our Well’ as working models.
continuous development activities increase knowledge retention, DESIGNED FOR
DESIGNED FOR
reduce time to competency, and provide just in time learning at Those who need to achieve a context and
This course is appropriate for those who need to
the point of need. achieve a context and understanding of E&P
understanding of E&P technologies, and the technologies in conventional and unconventional
role of technical departments in oil and gas fields, and/or the role of technical departments in
Blended Learning Program Example: operations. An understanding and use of oil and gas operations, and/or be able to
oilfield terminology is developed. understand and use the language of the oilfield.
YOU WILL LEA RN Y OU WILL LEARN
Virtual Instructor-Led
• Historical petroleum occurrences and usage • The E&P Process and how it differs in
Training Session • The objectives and processes of the conventional vs unconventional plays, the role
exploration phase of the E&P asset life cycle of each technical department and specialist,
PetroCore® • The objectives, processes, and economic and the technologies used
metrics of the appraisal phase of the E&P • The economic value and properties of
Reference Articles asset life cycle reservoir fluids
• Basic reserves and production value • Petroleum geology for exploration and
production
Moderated concepts
• About oil and gas reservoirs, both
Discussion Forum • The Earth's structure, continental drift, and
conventional and unconventional, and
plate tectonics role in oil and gas exploration understand the key differences
• Rock types and classification in an oil and • Exploration and appraisal technologies
E-Learning gas context • Drilling operations for exploration,
• The relationship between depositional development and production
environments and geological settings • Production - well completions and production
• Exploration concepts technology
• Elements of a successful petroleum system • Reservoir recovery mechanisms through
• Key differences between unconventional and primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery
conventional petroleum systems • Surface processing of produced fluids
• Features of structural contour and isopach
COURSE CONTE N T
maps World hydrocarbon production and consumption
• The basic reservoir rock properties and the review including reserves, benchmarks, and the
significance of core samples impact of shale resources • Reservoir fluid
• The roles involved in exploration properties • Petroleum geology • The
• Rig type classification and selection for petroleum reservoir, conventional and
onshore and offshore drilling unconventional • Exploration technologies for
• and more... conventional and unconventional reservoirs
including initial reserve estimates and
COURSE CONTENT consequent field development • Drilling and
E&P industry and asset life cycle • Petroleum operations • Well completions and workovers •
geology • Hydrocarbon reservoirs • Rock and Production operations • Reservoir recovery
fluid properties • Surface/subsurface mechanisms • Surface processing
exploration • Drilling operations and well
completions • Production operations
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6 MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING
Basic Petroleum Basic Drilling,
Overview of the Field Study – Heavy Oil
Engineering Practices Completion and
Petroleum Industry Resources – HOFS
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OVP presents an overview of the Petroleum This course is a basic introduction to most This course presents the basics of drilling and FIELD TRIP
Industry from the point of view of the Asset Life aspects of the Petroleum Engineering discipline, completion operations, plus post-completion This course is geologically and technically
Cycle. Participants will gain an understanding of which includes reservoir, production, and drilling enhancement (workovers). Participants will learn focused but instructed in such a manner that all
Exploration, Appraisal, Development and engineering as well as related topics. This to visualize what is happening downhole, disciplines and experience levels will
Production phases with particular emphasis course lays the groundwork for further discover what can be accomplished, and learn understand. Technologies for mining and in-situ
being placed on actions they can personally specialized training in advanced courses for oil how drilling and completion can alter reservoir production of bitumen from the Athabasca oil
take within each phase to support value company and service company personnel. The performance. Learn to communicate with sand region are reasonably recent commercial
creation. Through use of lecture, multimedia course focuses on the field and application drilling and production personnel. No experience
applications and the future levels of production
and class interactive exercises, a breadth of approach and includes classroom exercises, or prerequisites are required.
face uncertainty because of highly debated
upstream business acumen will be delivered fundamental engineering problems, and basic
DESIGNED FOR environmental challenges. The field course
covering economic, business, geoscience and field exercises. Basic Petroleum Engineering
Technical, field, service, support, and takes the participant to the rock; explaining
engineering topics. Discussions will include Practices will set the foundation for technical
supervisory personnel desiring to gain an complex relationships and issues emanating
topics related to all types of resource plays professionals with regards to technology and its
awareness of wellbore operations. Excellent for from the depositional and structural framework.
including deepwater, shale oil/gas and engineering applications. The course starts out
enhanced oil recovery technologies. with a brief introduction of the history and cross-training of other technical disciplines such
DES IGNED FOR
current state of the oil and gas industry. Next, as reservoir and facility engineers, geoscientists,
DES IG NE D F O R Anyone of any discipline who wants a hands-on
reservoir fluids, petroleum geology, and supervisors, service personnel, and anyone who
Both technical and business oriented understanding of the Athabasca Oil Sands.
petroleum reservoirs are discussed. Then, interacts with drilling, completion or workover
professionals who are either new to the engineers.
various facets of exploration technology, drilling Y OU WILL LEARN
upstream oil and gas industry or experienced in
engineering and operations, well completion • How to understand the depositional and
one part, but could benefit from a wider point of YOU WILL LEA RN
technology, and production technology are stratigraphic framework of the McMurray
view. OVP will likewise deliver for non-industry • How to comprehend drilling and workover
covered before finishing with surface processing Formation
personnel a broad, basic knowledge set of reports
of produced fluids. • How to understand the structural setting and
multiple E&P topics. Legal, Financial, • What can be done within open-hole
and cased wells, as a part of reservoir relationships of timing, emplacement and
Accounting, Management, and Service DESI GN ED FOR
management preservation of Alberta's bitumen/heavy oil
Company team members will certainly benefit. Engineers, engineering trainees, technical
• How drilling practices can optimize cash flow resource
YO U W IL L L E A R N managers and assistants, technicians, • The complex lithologic heterogeneities of the
and ultimate recovery
• The critical importance the industry plays geologists, geophysicists, chemists, physicists, McMurray and their effect on mining and in-
• How to communicate with drilling and
on the world's economic stage, including service company personnel, sales situ production
production personnel
discussions of pricing, global reserves and representatives, and data processing personnel. • To appreciate the challenges and progress
key short/long-term energy trends. COURSE CONTENT of environmental preservation efforts for the
YOU W I LL L EARN
• Business and exploration elements critical Overview of the drilling process • Language of development and production of Alberta's
• Basic petroleum geology drilling, completing, and well intervention • Drill bitumen resource
to the success of organizations in search of
• Reservoir fluid and rock properties string components: bits and accessories •
new reserves
• Fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow Drilling fluids and hydraulics • Hole problems, COURS E CONTE N T
• Methods by which new field prospects are
• Oil and gas reservoir classification, definition, stuck pipe, side-tracking and fishing • Cores and Overview of the geology, history and
evaluated and risk factors assessed (Geology,
delineation, and development coring • Electric logging, MWD, LWD • Casing development of Canada oil sands • McMurray
Geophysics, Petrophysics)
• Unconventional resources design and installation • Primary and remedial oil sand stratigraphy • Depositional details of
• How exploration rights are acquired (Land
• Fundamentals of drilling, well completion, and cementing • Directional, horizontal, multilateral the McMurray formation • Overview of
themes, International Concessions)
production operations and under-balanced drilling • Wellhead structural evolution and bitumen resources • Oil
• The basic process for drilling and evaluating
• Basics of casing design and primary equipment and trees • Options for completions sand mining methodology • Environmental
an exploration well (Drilling, Petrophysics, and workovers • Tubing, packers and completion
cementing challenges for Alberta's bitumen resources •
Testing) equipment • Safety and flow control devices •
• Primary and enhanced recovery mechanisms Current status and future plans for reclamation
• Major steps required to appraise a new Open hole completions • Perforating • Coil
• Surface operations mining activities
discovery and estimate its commerciality tubing operations • Wireline techniques • Well
(Reservoir Engineering) C OU RSE C ON T EN T stimulation - surfactants, solvents, acidizing,
• Strategies to maximize the value of an oil or Reservoir fluid properties • Petroleum geology • hydraulic fracturing • Formation and sand control
gas field asset Reservoir properties and evaluation • - mechanical retention, chemical consolidation,
• How geology and reservoir management Unconventional resources • Exploration and gravel packing • and more...
plans are used to guide new field technology • Drilling engineering • Well
development completion, stimulation, and workover • Well
• Major steps in the design, construction, and testing and formation damage • Production
commissioning of facilities operations • Recovery methods BDC is also available as a self-
• Basic technical and operational steps
required to produce an oil or gas field
Surface processing paced, virtual course, which
(Production Engineering) is an enhanced version of the
• Types of opportunities to optimize older fields face-to-face public session.
and increase production
VIRTUAL DELIVERY $4325
C OUR S E C O N T E N T
The business of E&P • Hydrocarbon origin • PETROSKILLS.COM/BDCONLINE
Exploration - acquisition of exploration/
development rights • Exploration - prospect
generation and evaluation • Appraisal - asset
characterization and reserve quantification •
Development - drilling, completion, and facilities
• Produce Asset - recovery optimization 2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
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ABERDEEN, UK 9-13 MAR $5035+VAT
BAKERSFIELD, US 9-13 NOV $4255
CALGARY, CAN 21-25 SEP $4255+GST
2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD) DALLAS, US 12-16 OCT $4255
ABERDEEN, UK 11-15 MAY $5080+VAT DENVER, US 6-10 JULY $4305
DENVER, US 14-18 SEP $4350 HOUSTON, US 16-20 MAR $4310
HOUSTON, US 22-26 JUNE $4355 24-28 AUG $4310 2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 10-14 AUG $5270 7-11 DEC $4310
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MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING 7
Overview of Heavy Oil Evaluating and Evaluating and Operations Crew
Resources – HOOV Developing Heavy Oil Developing Shale Resource Management
Resources – HOED Resources – SRE – OCRM
BASIC 2-Day FOUNDATION 5-Day FOUNDATION 5-Day INTERMEDIATE 3-DAY
This course is sufficiently detailed and widely Cold production, oil sands mining and in-situ This course will cover current practices for NEW
focused to appeal to a broad audience, thermal production methodologies are important evaluating, drilling, and completing these Why do experienced, competent personnel make
including non-technical, administrative, and contributors to the world’s oil production. The challenging reservoirs. Discussions and mistakes during the planning or implementation
business groups, as well as scientists and course takes an unbiased practical approach to exercises will include a focus on the limitations of operations? How does an organization
engineers, seeking an introduction to the the applications, citing benefits and limitations. of many of the current tools and technologies. address these potential mistakes? High-risk
business of heavy oil. Heavy oil is a large The course provides an overview and details of Information and opportunities for many current industries introduce and practice non-technical
component of the world's oil resource. specific occurrences of the geology, evaluation, and international shale plays will be described. skills (NTS) coined as Crew Resource
Commercial mining and current in-situ thermal development and commerciality of heavy oil/in- The participant should leave the course with a Management (CRM) to address human errors.
production methodologies are important situ oil sands resources. Each attendee should foundational understanding of value-adding In the late 1970s, the airline industry was
contributors to the world's oil production. These come away with a great foundational knowledge shale gas resource practices and an insight into plagued with many crashes and resulting
technologies are reasonably recent commercial of the business of evaluating and developing determining the critical reservoir and stimulation fatalities. Often investigations yielded no
applications, and the future levels of production heavy oil resources. parameters used to predict a potential evidence of design or mechanical failures, rather
face uncertainty because of highly debated commercial resource play.
DESI GN ED FOR poor or inconsistent decision making was the
environmental challenges. This course takes an
Anyone from any discipline who needs a better DES IGNED FOR major contributing factor to the incident (e.g.
unbiased practical approach to the recent
understanding of heavy oil/oil sands resources, Reservoir, production and completion engineers, poor communications, distractions, leadership
commercial applications of commercial mining
but more specifically designed for geoscientists petrophysicists, geologists, geophysicists, and actions, lack of teamwork, changing situation
and in-situ thermal production of heavy oil
or engineers with a need to better understand other professionals who desire a thorough without knowledge, stresses, and fatigue played
resources, citing benefits and limitations. The
the challenges of evaluating and developing overview of shale resource development. a role in the incidents). The industry came
course provides an overview of the aspects of
heavy oil/oil sands resources. together focusing on six non-technical skills,
the geology, development and commerciality of
Y OU WILL LEA RN HOW TO naming the effort CRM. After 40 plus years, CRM
heavy oil resources. This course contains
YOU W I LL L EARN H O W TO • Describe the resource potential and economic is still a major component of all airline industry
exercises and class problems to support the
• Evaluate and develop heavy oil/oil sands importance of shale gas and shale oil training. Other high-risk industries began to
presentation.
resources • Describe the similarities/differences between incorporate CRM into their organizations to
DES IG NE D F O R • Understand the importance of heavy oil/ shale gas, tight gas, and coalbed methane reduce the number of incidents. However, of
Anyone from any discipline who needs a better oil sands resources in today's world energy • Recognize and describe shale play recent, those and other industries have seen
understanding of heavy oil resources. market differences and critical reservoir properties to performance improvements with the
• Contrast heavy oil/oil sands resources identify the sweet spots incorporation of CRM. Introducing and
YO U W IL L L E A R N as compared to conventional and other • Estimate gas and oil in place practicing NTS has reduced nonproductive
• The geologic and engineering challenges to unconventional resources with aspects of • Apply different resource evaluation time thus improving performance delivery.
finding, developing, and producing heavy oil finding, developing, and producing techniques recognizing the advantages and The oil and gas industry has only recently started
resources • Understand the geology, critical attributes, disadvantages of each technique to introduce CRM skills. Initially the industry
• About the importance of heavy oil resources and commerciality of the Canadian heavy oil/ • Apply drilling, completion, and stimulation introduced CRM/NTS into well control training
in today's world energy market oil sands technology to shale gas and shale oil post the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) incident, as
• How to evaluate the challenges and • Collect the appropriate data and evaluate the formations several DWH investigations and reports
opportunities for understanding and critical geologic and reservoir parameters of • Evaluate and forecast individual well and referenced human factor causes. IADC and IWCF
improving the environmental footprint various types of heavy oil/oil sands resources reservoir performance have accredited enhanced well control training
required to develop and produce heavy oil • Recognize and evaluate the environmental • Determine how to estimate well reserves in which requires CRM/NTS components. Several
resources challenges required to develop and produce both PDP (proved developed producing) and operators and contractors have started to include
• The contrast between heavy oil resources heavy oil/oil sands resources PUD (proved undeveloped) categories CRM/NTS in their “drill the well on paper” or
versus conventional and other unconventional • Understand the process and methodology to “drill the well on simulator” exercises,
resources with aspects of finding, developing, evaluate, select, plan, design, and implement COURS E CONTENT recognizing non-productive time improvements.
and producing a heavy oil/oil sands recovery project Current shale plays and their global impact •
• The process and methodology to plan, • Become knowledgeable of the worldwide Reservoir characterization and evaluation: COURSE CONTE N T
design, implement, and evaluate heavy oil distribution and geologic setting of the more organic quality, rock quality and mechanical Situational Awareness (gather information, share
reservoirs significant heavy oil occurrences quality properties; geological setting; rock understanding, possible consequences,
• About the geology and commerciality of the properties; petrophysical considerations; the problems and contingencies) • Decision Making
Canadian Oil Sands C OU RSE C ON T EN T role of seismic data in field evaluation • Drilling: (define situation and goal, previous experience,
• About the world-wide distribution and Bitumen and heavy oil introduction and vertical vs. horizontal wells; pilot holes; fluids; risks, options, check) • Communications
geologic setting of the more significant heavy definitions • Comparison of conventional and MWD and LWD; wellbore sizes and lateral; (exchange information, explain context, clear and
oil occurrences including Venezuela unconventional reservoirs • Worldwide heavy drilling challenges; mechanical considerations • concise, relevant inclusion) • Teamwork
oil/oil sands resources and occurrences • Completions: cased vs. open hole; perforation (responsibilities, co-ordinate tasks, resolve
C OUR S E C O N T E N T Geology and overview of Venezuela and Trinidad schemes; stimulation design and gaps/duplications, working relationships,
Comparison of conventional and unconventional heavy oil resources • Introduction of United considerations; case histories • Field trials and support efforts) • Leadership (take charge,
reservoirs • Worldwide heavy oil resources and States heavy oil occurrences (Utah, California, pilots: strategies for implementing a pilot provide direction, prioritize tasks, delegate,
occurrences • Bitumen and heavy oil definitions and Texas) • Geology, history, and development program to optimize well drilling, completion, organizational process) • Stressors/Factors that
and introduction • Geology, history, and of Canada heavy oil/oil sands • Heavy oil/oil understanding Stimulated Rock Volume (SRV) Impact Human Performance (identify, mitigate,
development of Canada oil sands • Oil sand sands characteristics and development using microseismic, fiber optics, production practice resilience, recognize efforts)
characteristics and development strategies • Oil strategies • Oil sands mining details and logs, and other resources • Production
sand mining details and reclamation • Oil sands reclamation • Environmental challenges for oil forecasting and reserve calculations:
in-situ project review • Introduction of Steam sands resources • Heavy oil and in-situ oil sans volumetrics; performance analysis; simulation;
Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) • Other recovery process review • Introduction to Steam resource development; decline curve analysis;
commercial thermal in-situ methodologies • Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) • Other handling uncertainty in estimates • Logistics,
Environmental challenges for heavy oil commercial thermal in-situ methodologies • pad design, field development, water resources
resources • Geology and overview of Venezuela Commercial application of Cold Heavy Oil and the social license
and Trinidad heavy oil resources • Commercial Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Canada and
application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with other non-thermal heavy oil recovery methods •
Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela • Introduction of Field examples and development strategies of
United States heavy oil occurrences (Utah, heavy oil and in-situ oil sands recovery projects
California and Texas) • Overview of thermal well completions and 2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
production facilities • Reserves and economics
HOUSTON, US 10-14 AUG $4410
LONDON, UK 14-18 SEP $5135+VAT
MIDLAND, US 11-15 MAY $4355
2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD) DENVER, US 9-13 NOV $4405
CALGARY, CAN 20-21 AUG $2575+GST CALGARY, CAN 27-31 JULY $4355+GST * plus computer charge See website for dates and locations.
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Geology Basic Petroleum
Geology – BG
Course Progression Matrix
BASIC 5-Day
What is Basic Petroleum Geology? For all
practical purposes it closely resembles the
The Course Progression Matrix below shows how the Geology courses in this section are structured within each topic, from
freshman level course that a non-science major
Basic to Specialized. On either side of the Geology section, you will see courses in associated disciplines for cross-training. These at a university would take to satisfy the science
matrices are ideal for building training plans for early-career staff or finding the right course to build upon existing knowledge requirement. Presentation is oriented toward
and experience. topics of interest to the petroleum industry.
While high school chemistry and physics might
As demonstrated by the FIELD TRIP icon next to our course titles, many of our courses include field trips. These courses bring
help in understanding a very few selected
material from the classroom into the field and allow participants to get an up-close view of geological concepts. topics, the course is designed for those with no
technical training (and those who studiously
The following instructors have been selected and approved by the PetroSkills Curriculum Network: avoided science in school). Primary objectives of
the course are to broaden your geological
Mr. Jeff Aldrich Mr. Andrew Harper Mr. Dave McGee Mr. Mehrdad Soltanzadeh vocabulary, explain selected geological
Mr. Peter Bartok Dr. Howard Johnson Dr. Tim McMahon Dr. Tom Temples principles and processes, and describe how
Dr. Steven Boyer Mr. Jeff Lelek Mr. James Morse Dr. William Wade certain petroleum reservoirs and source rocks
Mr. Satinder Chopra Mr. Larry Lens Mr. Larry Moyer are formed.
Dr. Michael Grammer Ms. Randi Martinsen Dr. John Pigott
DES IGNED FOR
Dr. James Granath Dr. Mark McCaffrey Dr. John Sneider Petroleum industry personnel in need of basic
Reservoir,
geological training, including engineering,
Geophysics Geology Petrophysics Production geophysical, technical support, and
and Drilling administrative personnel.
STRATIGRAPHY / GEOCHEMISTRY RESERVOIR BASIN ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT MAPPING / GIS
STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION GEOLOGY
Y OU WILL LEARN
Wireline • About plate tectonics and petroleum
SPECIALIZED
Advanced Formation Naturally • About geological time and history
Seismic Testing and Fractured • The fundamentals of rock formation and
Stratigraphy Interpretation Reservoirs deformation
(Page 17) (Page 27) (Page 13)
• The essentials of various depositional
environments and the reservoirs created
by them
Integration of • The distribution of porosity and permeability
Rocks, Log and in reservoirs produced in different
Test Data
(Page 26) depositional environments
Compressional • How rock characteristics are related to
and Deep-water Structural and modern geological processes and applied to
Transpressional Turbidite Stratigraphic
INTERMEDIATE
Structural Depositional Interpretation of the ancient record
Styles Systems and Dipmeters and • About petroleum reservoir and source rocks
Introduction (Page 12) Geochemical Reservoirs Basin Analysis Borehole-Imaging Reservoir • Of petroleum origin, migration, and trapping
to Seismic
Techniques for (Page 12) Workshop Development Logs Characterization
Stratigraphy (Page 11) Geology (Page 27) (Page 32) • How to correlate electric logs and recognize
(Page 16)
Analysis of Solving Reservoir (Page 12) depositional environments on logs
Structural Management Integrated
Traps in and Field Carbonate Prospect Petrophysics of Integrated • How to make contour maps and cross
AVO, Inversion, Extensional Development Reservoir and Play Operations Unconventional Reservoir sections
Attributes Settings Problems Characterization Assessment Geology Reservoirs Modeling
(Page 16) (Page 11) (Page 12) (Page 13) (Page 13) (Page 13) (Page 25) (Page 32) • Elements of geophysics and exploration
• How geology bears directly on engineering
practices
Introduction
to Fiber Optics for COURS E CONTE N T
Well Surveillance Minerals and rocks • Plate tectonics •
(Page 26)
Geological time • Weathering and erosion •
Well Log Deposition • Diagenesis • Reservoirs •
Interpretation Structural geology and petroleum • Origin,
(Page 25)
migration, and trapping of petroleum
Well Test Design
FOUNDATION
Sequence Geomechanics for Heavy Oil (Page 10) Coring and and Analysis
Stratigraphy Core Analysis (Page 30)
(Page 11) Carbonate Computer-Based (Page 25)
Reservoirs Subsurface
Geochemistry: Mapping (Page 9) Production
Structural Tools for (Page 9) Foundations of Technology for
Styles in Effective Petroleum Production Mapping Petrophysics Other Disciplines
Seismic Petroleum Exploration and Sandstone Systems Analysis Geology for Subsurface (Page 24) (Page 38)
Interpretation Exploration Development Reservoirs (Page 10)
Other Disciplines Structures (Also available as a (Also available as a
(Page 14) (Page 11) (Page 10) (Page 9) (Page 10) (Page 9) Virtual/Blended course) Virtual/Blended course)
Evaluating and Developing Shale Resources (Page 7)
Basic Basic Drilling
Geophysics Technology
(Page 15) (Page 18)
(Also available as a
Virtual/Blended course) Basic Reservoir
Engineering
BASIC
Geological and Geophysical Characterization of Heavy Oil Reservoirs
(Page 10)
(Page 29)
(Also available as a
2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
Virtual/Blended course) HOUSTON, US 11-15 MAY $4420
Basic Petroleum Geology (Page 8) 30 NOV-4 DEC $4420
KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 13-17 JULY $5335
Basic Petroleum Technology (Page 5) LONDON, UK 28 SEP-2 OCT $5145+VAT
Basic Petroleum Technology Principles (Page 5) (Virtual/Blended course)GEOLOGY 9
Computer-Based Carbonate Reservoirs Sandstone Reservoirs Mapping Subsurface
Subsurface Mapping – PCR – SR Structures – MSS
– CSM
FOUNDATION 5-Day FOUNDATION 5-Day FOUNDATION 5-Day FOUNDATION 5-Day
For geoscientists, contour maps have long been This rigorous workshop is a must for This course is essential for geoscientists and Not just a collection of rules of thumb, this class
one of the most common tools used to convey geoscientists dealing with exploration for and engineers involved in the exploration and presents the fundamental concepts and
information. In the modern petroleum industry, exploitation of carbonate reservoirs. The development of clastic reservoirs. It focuses on techniques required to accurately construct
contour maps are generally derived from grids seminar emphasizes the complexity of methods that can be used to improve the structure maps in 3D so that you will get the
created in interpretation software packages. carbonate porosity. Its modification and prediction of reservoir size, shape, trend, and most out of your data. Principles and techniques
Maps, or the grids themselves, are used to evolution will be discussed in a sea-level driven quality through detailed analysis of depositional are illustrated by solving numerous exercises by
evaluate prospectivity, estimate prospect sequence stratigraphic framework. Case environments. The sedimentary characteristics hand (with drafting tools and a calculator) using
volumes, pick drilling locations, and are the histories and exercises from around the world of each of the principal clastic depositional strategies and workflows analogous to those
inputs for basin models, and static reservoir will be utilized throughout to illustrate important systems are presented in detail, using examples that participants will use back at the office using
models. Despite the importance of these maps concepts. These exercises and case histories from recent environments, outcrops, cores, computers. Participants will be prepared to
and the underlying grids, there is often a poor give the participant experience in developing wireline logs, and test/production data from oil develop more accurate structural models of
understanding of how the grids are generated viable exploration and exploitation strategies for and gas fields in various parts of the world reservoirs, avoid dry holes, find new traps in old
and what the implications may be for the final carbonate terrains. (United States, North Sea/Atlantic, Africa, Middle fields, extract the maximum information from
map. The underlying theme in this course is to In 2013 a new book, Carbonate Reservoirs, was East, Far East, etc.). Practical exercises are exploration wells, and validate or recognize
think about what you are mapping. Common prepared by Drs. Moore and Wade specifically taken from each of the principal depositional errors in existing interpretations. Dr. Richard
gridding algorithms and parameters are to accompany this course and is furnished to all settings and involve detailed mapping, Groshong's book, 3D Structural Geology, is
reviewed, with an emphasis on their strengths course participants. interpretation of core and log characteristics, included with the course materials.
and weaknesses for different geological and integration of data from FMI logs. Emphasis
problems and input data sets. Participants are is placed on the application of fundamental DES IGNED FOR
DESI GN ED F OR
asked to generate a variety of maps from Exploration and development geologists, sedimentary principles (modern, ancient, and Development geoscientists and those exploring
different input data types, seeing the impact exploration and development managers, and subsurface) to actual subsurface data so that mature areas; early-career geoscientists and
that varying parameters can have on a single geophysicists as well as engineers with some the participants can immediately use the technologists who make structure maps; those
input data set. Participants will also utilize geologic background will benefit. information in their exploration and development who need to judge the validity of maps and
various methods of quality control, grid editing, activities. cross sections.
and grid manipulation (operations). YOU WI L L L EARN H O W TO
DESIGNED FOR Y OU WILL LEARN H O W TO
• Recognize basic characteristics of carbonates
DES IG NE D F O R important to reservoir development Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, • Recognize common contouring pitfalls
Geoscience professionals and support staff who • Understand how sequence stratigraphy reservoir and production engineers, exploration- • Find thickness in deviated wells
generate structure, isochore, and other can be applied to carbonates and mixed production managers, all team members • Use thickness maps to interpret structure
subsurface maps using interpretation or carbonate-siliciclastic systems involved in reservoir characterization, and • Construct predictive cross sections
mapping software. • Understand the complexities of carbonate technicians working with clastic reservoirs. The • Apply the best techniques for projecting data
pore systems course provides a refresher in new concepts in • Make fault maps and integrate them with
YO U W IL L L E A R N H O W TO • Recognize the nature of carbonate porosity this field for geoscientists at a foundation level. horizon maps
• Understand the impact of different algorithms modification during diagenesis and the role of • Build a complete 3D interpretation
on output maps sea-level and climate in porosity modification YOU WILL LEA RN HOW TO • Recognize valid and invalid fault surfaces
• Determine appropriate choice of algorithm and gross reservoir heterogeneity • Interpret clastic depositional environments • Interpret folds and faults from dipmeters
and gridding parameters for different data • Develop viable exploration and exploitation using data from cores, cuttings and wireline • Construct juxtaposition (Allan) diagrams for
types and geologic scenarios strategies in carbonate terrains by working logs (including FMI) fault trap and seal analysis
• Create structure, thickness, and attribute with subsurface datasets • Apply new sequence stratigraphic concepts • Map structures with multiple overlapping
grids using different techniques to clastic reservoirs faults
• Quality control and edit grids and contours C OU RSE C ON T EN T • Correlate wells using knowledge of
• Use grid operations to manipulate existing depositional environment COURS E CONTE N T
Basic nature of carbonates • Carbonate facies
grids and create new grids through simple models • Basic concepts of sequence • Predict reservoir size, shape, trend and Manual and computer contouring techniques •
and complex operations stratigraphy • Relationship of stratigraphic quality Using dip in mapping • Different measures of
• Generate Combined Risk Element Maps patterns to changes in subsidence rates • thickness • Thickness in deviated wells •
• Generate detailed gross rock volume grids Sequence stratigraphic models including the COURSE CONTENT Thickness maps • Dip-domain cross sections •
ramp, the rimmed shelf, the escarpment Genetic stratigraphic analysis • Depositional Data projection • Trend and plunge of folds on
C OUR S E C O N T E N T margin, the isolated platform, and the mixed architecture • Basins and units • Wireline logs tangent diagrams • Composite-surface maps •
Introduction to mapping • Contouring review • carbonate-siliciclastic shelf • Characteristics of and conventional cores • Seismic and sequence Fault shapes and displacement distributions •
Coordinate system overview • Gridding carbonate pore systems • Diagenesis, porosity stratigraphy • Recognition of depositional Relationships between stratigraphic separation
introduction • Gridding algorithms overview • evolution, and porosity distribution at the time of systems • Process-response facies models • and heave & throw • Faults on isopach maps
Creating structure maps from well data • burial • The fate of early-formed porosity during Integrated genetic stratigraphy • Analysis of Mapping across faults • Structural quality-
Creating maps from seismic data • burial • The potential value of dolomitization, clastic depositional systems • Alluvial fan • control techniques • Multiple-surface map
Incorporating faults in structure maps • including by hydrothermal processes • The Fluvial • Eolian • Deltaic • Shoreline • Shelf • compatibility • Map validation using implied
Creating isochore/attribute maps from well data problem of H2S in carbonate reservoirs • Deepwater systems • Incised sequences • fault contours • Finding faults and fault
• Grid quality control • Grid editing • Grid Natural fractures in carbonates • Case histories Shelf margins and linked downslope systems • orientations with SCAT analysis of dipmeters •
operations • Creating and combining stoplight and exercises from the Americas, Europe, and Characteristic log patterns • Flow units • Soft linked and hard linked faults • Relay and
maps • Volumetrics Asia • Exploration and exploitation strategies in Prediction of reservoir size, shape, trend, quality branching fault patterns • Mapping sequential
carbonate and mixed terrains • How to select optimum well locations • cross-cutting faults
Lateral continuity and quality of seals •
Sedimentary controls on porosity, permeability,
saturation • Reservoir exploration and
production case histories • Exploration and
production scaled case histories
2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
HOUSTON, US 4-8 MAY $4410
2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
DENVER, US 20-24 JULY $4405
KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 28 SEP-2 OCT $5325 DUBAI, UAE 15-19 NOV $5550+VAT DUBAI, UAE 1-5 NOV $5550+VAT
LONDON, UK 30 NOV-4 DEC $5135+VAT 2020 Schedule and Tuition (USD) HOUSTON, US 9-13 MAR $4410 HOUSTON, US 27 APR-1 MAY $4410
* plus computer charge HOUSTON, US 16-20 NOV $4440 LONDON, UK 18-22 MAY $5135+VAT * plus computer charge
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