The Upstream Oil and Gas Fundamentals

Introduction

Most oil and gas companies’ business structures are segmented and organized according to business segment, assets, or function. The upstream oil and gas segment are known as the exploration and production (E&P). The exploration and production (E&P) lead to discovery of new oil fields, recovering and producing crude oil and natural gas to comply with increasing demand. It is a challenging area for many companies due to the technical complexity, resources, risk, technology and investment decision. This training course will cover the exploration and production process to be more efficient and optimize operations.

This training course will highlight:

• The formation of petroleum
• Exploration and reservoir engineering
• Field appraisals, development, petroleum economics and managing risk
• Techniques are used to optimize recovery from the reservoir over its lifetime
• Processing oil and gas at surface facilities, and transportation

Objectives

The objectives of this training course are to enhance the knowledge and skill in upstream in oil and gas. This training course has five key objectives:

• Explain the formation of petroleum
• Learning exploration and reservoir engineering
• Develops field appraisal, development, petroleum economics and managing risk
• Apply techniques are used to optimize recovery from the reservoir over its lifetime
• Understand the processing oil and gas at surface facilities, and transportation

By the end of this training course, participants will:

• Learn how petroleum was formed
• Understand the different methods in exploration and reservoir engineering
• Develop field appraisals, Analysing Petroleum economics and managing risk
• How to apply techniques used to optimize recovery from the reservoir over its lifetime
• How to establish processing oil and gas at surface facilities and understand product transportation

Training Methodology

Participants to this training course will receive a thorough training on the subjects covered by the seminar outline with the Tutor utilising a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. Seminar methodology includes classroom-style with highly interactive, exercise and case studies the training course will be run using PowerPoint slide and video.

Who Should Attend?

Upstream in Oil & Gas Fundamental, training course suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Managers & Team Leaders
• Operations Managers
• Operations Engineers
• Project Managers
• Project Engineers
• Planning Managers
• Planning Engineers
• Contract Managers
• Contract Engineers
• Financial Managers
• Administration Managers
• Engineers
• Cost Engineers
• Supervisors
• All personnel involved with upstream

Course Outline

Module One: Petroleum Geology

• The rock cycle

• The plate tectonics

• Hydrocarbon generation

• Source rocks

• Reservoirs

• Traps

• Seals

Module Two: Geoscience and Basin Exploration

• Gravity and magnetic surveying

• Seismic

• Unconventional resources

• Basin potential evaluation

• Basin analysis

Module Three: Field Appraisal

• The role of appraisal in the field life cycle

• Identifying and quantifying sources of uncertainty

• Appraisal tools

• Expressing reduction of uncertainty

• Cost-benefit calculations for appraisal

Module Four: Economics

• Development economics

• Project cashflow

• Exploration economics

• Economic lifetime

• Abandonment

Module Five: Health, Safety and Environment

• Health considerations

• Safety culture

• Safety management systems

• Environmental considerations

• Current environmental concerns

Module Six: Field Development Decision and Production

• Field development planning

• Lifecycle costing

• Uncertainties and risks

• Production operation

• Managing the producing field

Module Seven: Reservoir Engineering

• Reservoir Management

• Waterflooding

• Natural gas processing

• CO2 enhanced oil recovery

• Steamflooding

Module Eight: Drilling

• Managing drilling risk

• Drilling and casing program

• Hydrofracturing

• vertical Vs directional drilling

• Deepwater drilling

Completion and Well Productivity

• Operations involved in well completion.

• Types of completions

• Perforating

• The impairment to reservoirs that reduces production

• Well performance

Remedial Operation & Transportation

• Remedial operations & workovers

• Well stimulation

• Pipelines

• Oil tankers

• Rail transportation