Training
The upstream is one of the major segments of every organization involved in oil & gas exploration and production. The upstream sector is all about : Geology, Geophysics, Drilling engineering, 3D modeling & reservoir engineering. The big challenges for all companies operating in the oil & gas business is understanding the concept of upstream and exploration in the aim to deliver the highest possible return on investment with the safest and optimum operational footprint.
We have tailored our upstream training course to be suitable for managers, team leaders, engineers, technicians, designers and supervisors pursuing a career in oil & gas exploration and production. The upstream training course will include studies in Drilling Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, general petroleum course, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, and production engineering. During the course, participants will analyze geographical, geological, and engineering data and use it to make their own time-critical decisions.
Courses can be customised to a client’s particular needs. For more information on the training we offer,
Petroleum Geology
During this course, Participants learn, through hands-on exercises, to compile a development plan that emphasizes optimal recovery. Emphasis is placed on rock, log and test data to distinguish reservoir and non-reservoir rock properties. Structural, stratigraphic, deposition and diagenetic concepts are used to locate drill sites and describe reservoirs.
Target Audience
Reservoir, development, and exploration geologists; geophysicists; petrophysicists; log analysts; petroleum engineers; and experienced technicians.
Course Content
- Characteristics that impact field development
- Determining recoverable hydrocarbons
- Reservoir fluis properties
- Influence of capillarity reservoirs
- Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation
- Stratigraphic influence on production
- Controls on reservoir rock in carbonate, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution
- Describing reservoir rock in carbonate and clastic rocks
- Determining recoverable hydrocarbons
- The impact of drive mechanism
- Seismic applications
- Development drilling: optimizing hydrocarbon recovery
- Economic impact on field development
- Subdividing the reservoir into working units
- Reservoir pore space configurations
- building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques
- Key factors affecting the development of fractured reservoirs
- Impact on barriers on field development
- Secondary and tertiary field development
- Rejuvenating old marginal field
Integrated Reservoir Management
The course is designed to highlight the benefits of integrating the geological, geophysical, petrophysical and engineering data in reservoir study
Target Audience
Senior Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir, drilling & production engineers, as well as team leaders who are involved in reservoir studies.
Course Content
- Field life cycle
- Why integrated reservoir studies?
- Data needed for integrated study
- Integrated geoscience and engineering models
- Deterministic and stochastic modeling
- Facies and object-based modeling
- Fractured-reservoirs modeling
- Upscaling techniques (Conventional and flux based)
- Simulation techniques
- Reservoir management
- Drilling, production operations
Geophysics for Reservoir Studies
Target Audience
Reservoir engineers who are investigating reservoir behaviour, optimizing reservoir performance and providing the basis for risk management.
Course Content
- General purpose model formulation versus conventional formulations
- General review of griddling techniques
- Black oil simulation
- Compositional simulation
- Modeling structural elements (e.g sloping faults, channels, etc..)
- Representing complex wells in reservoir model
- Simulation of fractured reservoirs and transient well test
- Model building procedure: from seismic to simulation
- Development planning & reservoir forecasts
Reservoir Characterization for clastics & carbonates
The correct use of seismic attributes, well data analysis, AVO and seismic inversion is essential to establish subsurface models that can be used for improved field development planning and design. At the end of this course participants will understand basic concepts in quantitative seismic analysis and interpretation based on AVO, well-o-seismic calibration and inversion techniques.
Target Audience
Geoscientists, engineers, team leaders, geoscience technicians, asset managers, and anyone involved in using seismic data that needs to understand and use this data at a basic level or to communicate with others that use it.
Course Content
- Seismic inversion theory
- AVO modeling of well data versus seismic
- inversion types and methods
- Data loading, conditioning and QC on software (Petrel)
- Well logs cross-plotting
- Synthetic seismogram well to seismic tie
- Post stack inversion
- Initial low frequency model building
- Seismic inversion QC
- Pre-stack (AVO) inversion
- AVO Modeling
Static & Dynamic Reservoir Modeling
Target Audience
Reservoir engineers and geoscientist who are investigating reservoir behaviour, optimizing reservoir performance and providing the basis for risk management.
Course Content
- Introduction to reservoir modeling
- Data loading and visiulization
- Structural & geometrical modeling
- Petrophysical and facies modeling
- Model upscaling & (OOIP/OGIP°) volumetric calculations
- Reservoir fluid & rock physics modeling
- History matching & production optimization
- Uncertainty, optimazation and sensitivity (U&O)
- Project
Well Log Interpretation
Target Audience
Petrophysicists, geologists, geophysicists, engineers, technicians, or anyone interested in a solid understanding of the principles of borehole geophysics.
Course Content
- Logging objectives
- Invasion profile
- Challenge of borehole geophysics
- Passive electrical properties of earth materials
- Resistivity measuring tools, normal, introduction, laterolog
- Reservoir/non-reservoir discrimination
- Matrix sensitivity logs, GR, SGR, PE
- Depth measurements and control
- Borehole calipers
- Porosity-mineralogy logs, density, neutron, sonic
- Porosity determination in clean formations
- Formation resistivity factor
- Conductivity of shales
- Porosity log crossplots and mineralogy identification
- Partially saturated rock properties and Archie Equation
- Linear movable oil plot
- Reconnaissance techniques, Rwa, FR/FP, logarithmic scaler
- Porosity-resistivity crossplots
- Permeability relationships
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Use of pressure measurements
- Computerized log evaluation
- Sidewall coring