Well Engineering and Production Training Courses

Completion Design

This 5 full-day course is aimed at engineers and supervisors who already have a basic understanding of well construction methods but who would benefit from a more detailed knowledge of completion design.

Methane Emissions Mitigation and Management for Oil and Gas Industry

This 3-day course provides comprehensive training on emissions management in the oil and gas industry. Through 15 practical modules, the course equips professionals with strategies and technologies to reduce greenhouse gases, methane, flaring, and fugitive emissions. The highly informative training will cover the history of emissions testing, key terms and definitions, industry best practices, equipment types, oil and gas process improvements, current emission reduction technologies, future ...

Assessment Based Training - Python Programming & Analytics for the Oil & Gas Sector - Maximising Value from Data Assets

In the upcoming digital era, Python stands out as the language of the future for effective AI and data analytics implementation, particularly in the Oil and Gas sector. Its widespread adoption is attributed to extensive libraries, versatility, and a thriving community of developers consistently pushing the boundaries of the field. This training course will tailor a transformative learning experience for professionals in oil and gas.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

As oil prices continue to be volatile and margins remain low, operators are becoming increasingly sensitive to risks associated with well safety, operations and maintenance. This intensive 5 Day training course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimise productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Energy Insurance and Risk Management

This course is designed to provide individuals with a detailed understanding of the key concepts and practices involved in providing insurance coverage to businesses in the energy industry. The course covers topics, including the types of risks that energy companies face, the different types of insurance policies available, and the factors that influence the cost of insurance premiums.

Optimizing Gas Well Performance & Deliquification

To monitor and manage gas well performance, you need to understand and model gas well inflow and outflow as function of well, reservoir and surface parameters, identify and model measures that can restore, sustain or improve inflow and outflow performance, and select and justify such measures based on technical and economic arguments.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Project Risks & How to Manage Them - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

In this 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course, the methods for managing risk in CCS projects are addressed with a focus on CO2 injection and storage.

Subsurface Uncertainty Quantification using Machine Learning- Improved Reservoir Management through Data Driven Predictions

Quantifying uncertainty in subsurface environment is a complex challenge that machine learning techniques can effectively address and assist. The heterogeneous nature of subsurface formations, characterised by varying properties like porosity and permeability, often defies traditional modelling approaches. Machine learning algorithms excel at identifying patterns in this complexity, offering insights that conventional models might have missed. The energy sector's data acquisition limitations ...

Apollo Root Cause Analysis™ Methodology - Solve Complex Problems and Prevent Recurrences of Failures

The Apollo Root Cause Analysis™ methodology course is a comprehensive 2-day training designed to equip participants with the essential skills and knowledge for effective problem analysis and investigation. This course is particularly beneficial for professionals who regularly encounter incidents or failures that could recur, including those who lead investigations and produce reports.

Greenhouse Gas Accounting, Mitigation, Certification and Reporting

This 3-day training course is meticulously crafted for professionals interested to deepen their understanding of the greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting principles set forth by the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, and to analyze the three standard emissions scopes 1, 2, 3. The course will also address the process for quantifying total greenhouse gases emissions produced directly and indirectly by industries.

Completion Design

This 5 full-day course is aimed at engineers and supervisors who already have a basic understanding of well construction methods but who would benefit from a more detailed knowledge of completion design.

Advanced Applied Petroleum Geomechanics

This five-day course provides an intermediate level of understanding of the geomechanical factors that affect wellbore instability, sand production and hydraulic fracture design. The course is structured such that upon completion, participants will have understood the value that geomechanics can bring to drilling, completion and production operations and will be able to leverage this value wherever it applies.

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Well Design & Monitoring

This 3-days training will provide a comprehensive review of integrity of wells exposed to carbon dioxide (CO2) in the context of Carbon Capture Utilization for enhanced oil recovery and Storage (CCUS).

Upstream Petroleum Economics

This comprehensive 3-day course is designed to provide participants with a solid foundation in upstream petroleum economics and energy project valuation. The program combines essential economic principles with practical applications, tailored for professionals in the oil and gas industry who need to make informed decisions about investments, project development, and resource management.

Smart Oilfield and Sensor Technology

This comprehensive 5-day course provides an in-depth exploration of smart oilfield and sensor technologies, equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to optimize hydrocarbon recovery through advanced digital solutions. The program begins with an introduction to smart wells and smart reservoirs, setting the foundation for understanding the principles of system optimization and control in the oil and gas industry.

Gas Lift Design & Optimization using NODAL Analysis

This 5-day training course is designed to give participants a thorough understanding of gas-lift technology and related application concepts.

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course covers carbon capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide.

Produced Water for Upstream Oil and Gas - Proven Sustainable Technologies with Lower Maintenance

Produce water for upstream oil and gas course is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of produced water and its treatment in the context of the oil and gas industry. Produced water, the water that comes to the surface during oil and gas production, presents unique challenges and requires specialized treatment to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and to protect the surrounding ecosystems.

Casing And Tubing Design

This 5-day course uses a mix of generic well designs and some specific local wells and local issues to build up competency. The training is therefore part training and part workshop. By attending this course, participants will have worked on well designs in considerable detail and have several completed, fully-functional models based on the Oliasoft software. The focus will be on both casing and tubing issues but if required, it can be on one or the other.

Sand Control Design and Technology

The business of fuelling the world through hydrocarbon production must be carried out with optimum profitability. Participants will learn how sand production and inadvertent formation damage can erode these profits. Methods and procedures will be presented to guide the participants in decision making with regards to completing a well with optimum control of formation sand while incurring minimal damage to the well or production zone. Extensive theory will be presented illustrating why certain...

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Well Design & Monitoring

This 3-days training will provide a comprehensive review of integrity of wells exposed to carbon dioxide (CO2) in the context of Carbon Capture Utilization for enhanced oil recovery and Storage (CCUS).

Data Analytics Workflows for Artificial Lift, Production and Facility Engineers

In this hands-on 2-day training course, the participants learn some data analysis and data science techniques and workflows applied to petroleum production (specifically artificial lift) while reviewing code and practicing.

Artificial Lift and Real-Time Production Optimization in Digital Oilfield

This 5-day training course offers a thorough treatment of artificial lift techniques including design and operation for production optimization.

Well Intervention and Productivity School

This 5 full-day course is designed to make those that attend aware of how their job can directly impact the productivity.

Advanced Well Cementing and Integrity Management in Upstream Oil and Gas Operations

Cost Estimation and Analysis of Well Abandonment Activities

Well Abandonment is commonly the largest area of expenditure in decommissioning oil and gas production assets and is often the area of largest cost overruns. Estimating the abandonment costs before the end of well life provides some unique challenges to the engineer and the cost estimator due to the potential step change impact of technical decisions and regulatory requirements.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

As oil prices continue to be volatile and margins remain low, operators are becoming increasingly sensitive to risks associated with well safety, operations and maintenance. This intensive 5 Day training course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimise productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Project Risks & How to Manage Them - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

In this 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course, the methods for managing risk in CCS projects are addressed with a focus on CO2 injection and storage.

Completion Design

This 5 full-day course is aimed at engineers and supervisors who already have a basic understanding of well construction methods but who would benefit from a more detailed knowledge of completion design.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

As oil prices continue to be volatile and margins remain low, operators are becoming increasingly sensitive to risks associated with well safety, operations and maintenance. This intensive 5 Day training course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimise productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Sand Control Design and Technology

The business of fuelling the world through hydrocarbon production must be carried out with optimum profitability. Participants will learn how sand production and inadvertent formation damage can erode these profits. Methods and procedures will be presented to guide the participants in decision making with regards to completing a well with optimum control of formation sand while incurring minimal damage to the well or production zone. Extensive theory will be presented illustrating why certain...

Completion Design

This 5 full-day course is aimed at engineers and supervisors who already have a basic understanding of well construction methods but who would benefit from a more detailed knowledge of completion design.

Advanced Applied Petroleum Geomechanics

This five-day course provides an intermediate level of understanding of the geomechanical factors that affect wellbore instability, sand production and hydraulic fracture design. The course is structured such that upon completion, participants will have understood the value that geomechanics can bring to drilling, completion and production operations and will be able to leverage this value wherever it applies.

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Well Design & Monitoring

This 3-days training will provide a comprehensive review of integrity of wells exposed to carbon dioxide (CO2) in the context of Carbon Capture Utilization for enhanced oil recovery and Storage (CCUS).

Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course covers carbon capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide.

Methane Emissions Mitigation and Management for Oil and Gas Industry - Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-days course provides comprehensive training on emissions management in the oil and gas industry. Through 15 practical modules, the course equips professionals with strategies and technologies to reduce greenhouse gases, methane, flaring, and fugitive emissions. The highly informative training will cover the history of emissions testing, key terms and definitions, industry best practices, equipment types, oil and gas process improvements, current emission reduction technologies, f...

CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery

This 5-day training course offers a comprehensive exploration of the interconnected technologies of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) and CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). Participants will delve into the world of CCUS, understanding how they can capture CO2 emissions from various sources and explore the different pathways for utilization and safe geological storage. They will gain a thorough understanding of the various capture technologies, storage options, and the potential of...

Digital Oilfield: Managing Integrated and Digitalized Oil and Gas Assets- Digital Transformation from Theory to Practical Application

This course is designed to provide in-depth knowledge and practical insights into the implementation of digital technologies within upstream and midstream operations. The course will cover a comprehensive range of topics such as enabling technologies, real-time data collection, collaborative working, advanced digital technologies like Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and analytics, as well as the importance of change management. This course aims to equip participants with the necessary ex...

Data Analytics Workflows for Artificial Lift, Production and Facility Engineers – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

In this 3 Half day training course, the participants learn some data analysis and data science techniques and workflows applied to petroleum production (specifically artificial lift) while reviewing code and practicing.

Produced Water for Upstream Oil and Gas Proven Sustainable Technologies with Lower Maintenance Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Produce water for upstream oil and gas course is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of produced water and its treatment in the context of the oil and gas industry. Produced water, the water that comes to the surface during oil and gas production, presents unique challenges and requires specialized treatment to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and to protect the surrounding ecosystems.

Introduction to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Non-Technical Professionals (2 Days)

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an upcoming new technology that has a vital place within global efforts to decarbonise. It has a unique set of challenges, opportunities and risks to be understood and accommodated within appropriate legal, regulatory, and social and public licence frameworks. The course has a strong international and global south emphasis with case studies on CCS projects and will touch on the role of CCS in developing country energy transition. The course satisfies a part...

The Automated Oilfield: AI and Drilling Optimization

This 2 full-day course explores real-world applications of automation, types of automated drilling systems, monitoring & control techniques, simulation implementation, and more. Attendees will gain insights into developing a strategic roadmap to integrate automation, including human-machine interaction considerations.

Decision-based Geothermal Field Development

HPHT Well Design and Operations

This course is delivered as a scenario-based course to provide knowledge of High-Pressure and High-Temperature (HPHT) well design, drilling and completion operations. The course is specifically designed to provide an understanding of the challenges associated with the design and construction of HPHT wells. The course guides the participants to work through the various well design aspects starting from a geological well proposal with an estimated formation pressure and temperature profile. Wor...

Advanced CO2 Storage Course & Site Visit

This 3-day Advanced CO2 Storage Course will give you powerful insights and skills that can be applied instantly to CO2 storage site selection, development and operations. Designed for CO2 storage site project managers, senior geologists and engineers and delivered by world-class experts, this course focuses on building a high-performance CO2 storage site development team and enhancing individual subsurface storage skills.

Energy Insurance and Risk Management – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This course is designed to provide individuals with a detailed understanding of the key concepts and practices involved in providing insurance coverage to businesses in the energy industry. The course covers topics, including the types of risks that energy companies face, the different types of insurance policies available, and the factors that influence the cost of insurance premiums.

Converting Oil and Gas Assets for Sustainable Development - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

As hydrocarbon assets decrease mainstream production, their infrastructure become redundant. Operators must decide whether to decommission the assets or attempt to repurpose them for handling, transport, and storage operations in the CO2, hydrogen and geothermal sectors. Workflows, checklists, screening tools, cost adjustment and ready reckoners are discussed to help those involved in the rapidly developing business environment of energy transition.

Mature Field Development and Management

This course takes groups through these issues, fills any knowledge gaps in the essential technical fundamentals required for mature field development planning in support of a chosen strategy. Course content designed to give participants an appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated mature oil and gas field management.

Well Test Analysis in Practice

This 5-day training course enables participants to learn and understand the fundamental concepts of well test analysis. The methodology described in the course, which has become the standard of the industry, presents a systematic way of interpreting well tests in homogeneous and heterogeneous reservoirs, including fissured and multilayered systems. Recommendations for designing tests in such formations, examples, and problem-solving sessions for practical experience and immediate application...

Introduction to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Non-Technical Professionals

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an upcoming new technology that has a vital place within global efforts to decarbonise. It has a unique set of challenges, opportunities and risks to be understood and accommodated within appropriate legal, regulatory, and social and public licence frameworks. The course has a strong international and global south emphasis with case studies on CCS projects and will touch on the role of CCS in developing country energy transition. The course satisfies a part...

Making Major Investment Decisions Under Uncertainty in The Energy Sector

This fast paced 3-day training course will address topics related to the world of energy with a purpose to provide a holistic perspective on the theme of investment decision making. The course modules will not specifically focus on one technique but an array of tools and methods to improve the investment decision making process.

Well Design & Construction

This Well Design and Construction course is designed to provide participants with a robust knowledge of well engineering principles. Based on the global practices, and standards and using real examples, it represents how well engineering is managed in the oil and gas industry.

Fundamentals of Gas Well Deliquification

This 5 full-day course will first show how to predict and recognize liquid loading. Next, it will describe how to select, design, install and operate the best sequence of deliquification measures. It will also consider deliquification in the presence of other production threats such as water production and halite blockage.

Advanced Well Engineering

This 3 full-day course aims to further develop and assess the knowledge required to work on and eventually, authorize a well delivery program as deemed fit for purpose.

Subsea Production Engineering – Incorporating Subsea Tie-backs

This 2 full-day Training course provides an overview of all of the functionalities and key interfaces of subsea equipment. The course will refer to relevant industry engineering standards for subsea equipment, subsea tie-backs and critical operational requirements. The sessions will cover challenges associated with equipment design and installability.

Coiled Tubing Operations – Equipment, Applications, Well Control, Safety & Emerging Technologies

The aim of this course is to enable the participants to gain key knowledge that they will require to actively and efficiently participate in the planning, design, and/or execution of a Coiled Tubing intervention.

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) 

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) offers opportunities to improve safety and efficiency in drilling, and it is increasingly recognised by operators and regulators.

HPHT Planning and Well Control 

In our pursuit to discover oil & gas in deeper horizons, wells are often drilled in a HPHT environment. To be considered a HPHT well, the downhole conditions will have pressures in excess of 10,000 psi (69 MPa) and 300° F (150° C).

Drill String Design & Drilling Optimization

This 3 full-day course will cover in detail what it takes to decide on minimum drill string specifications, which are able to support the loads to which it will be subjected. In addition to the need to use a drill string with minimum strength requirements, we also need to ensure that we can prevent drill string failure.

Subsea Well Intervention

This 3 full-day intermediate level course focuses on areas of interest unique to the subsea environment, such as subsea trees and wellheads, intervention riser systems and riserless subsea interventions.

Plug and Abandonment 

This 5 full-day course will guide participants on the key techniques and methods for safe and efficient abandonment of wells both on land and offshore.

Geomechanics at Well and Field Scale

This 5 full-day course starts with the determination of the stresses in the earth, the impact of different structural styles, salt bodies, faulting and folding on the orientation of the three main principal stress components.

Well Stimulation Strategies

This 3 full-day course presents a comprehensive review of well stimulation strategies and technologies from fundamentals to advances. Stimulation is one of the quickest and perhaps most cost-effective way of increasing well productivity.

Managing Risks in Wells for Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Projects – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

In this 4 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course, the methods for managing risk in CCS projects are addressed with a focus on CO2 injection and storage.

Well Integrity (Basic and Advanced)

This intensive 5 full-day has been designed as a separately bookable course comprising 3 days of Well Integrity (Basic) and 2 days of Advanced Well Integrity.

CCS Analytics: AI-Based Carbon Capture & Storage

This 3-day training will focus on how to enhance your CCS strategies with the latest innovative technologies.

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) in Oil & Gas Drilling Operations – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course presents all associated risks to rig equipment and drilling operations. Participants will learn about the different aspects of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) in drilling operations including preventing and mitigating measures to reduce the risks, necessary certificates to ensure the suitability of equipment and personnel, and the application of best practices.

Production Engineering & Operations - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Lead Training (VILT) provide a technical comprehension on fundamentals of production engineering and production operations.

Cost & Engineering Planning for Well Abandonment & Redundant Oil & Gas Installations – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course is specially designed to give the participants a clear understanding of estimating for well abandonment such that potential opportunities can be identified and identified risks mitigated.

Wellsite Geology & Operations – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

A large amount of geological data is acquired at a substantial cost when carrying out a drilling operation. Ensuring optimal quality of this information and effective reporting plays a key role during well design and drilling operations. In addition, there is much to benefit from the later usage of the data in field studies. A critical component that ensures favourable and positive results is the close co-operation between geological, drilling and well engineering departments.

Gas Lift Design & Optimization using NODAL Analysis - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Our 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course focuses on key concepts in Gas Lift technology and related application concepts to enhance oil production.

Technoeconomic Modelling of Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Projects – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 2 half-day Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) course will guide participants on the technoeconomic aspects of capture, utilization and geological storage of carbon dioxide. It will address the methods and techniques used in the technoeconomic assessment of Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) projects and explore in detail the factors that affect the cost-effectiveness of current and emerging technologies for CO2 capture, transport and geological storage, including monitoring...

Computer Vision and Real-Time Analytics – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 4 half-day Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) course introduces Computer Vision (CV) and real-time data analysis. It discusses several architectures and data quality procedures to optimize operations and maximize production.

Geomechanical Assessments at Well and Field Scale – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will cover data acquisition and interpretation, geomechanical modelling and interpretation, and integrated risk assessment in conjunction with other subsurface disciplines to reduce project risks.

Stuck Pipe Prevention & Fishing – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Stuck Pipe is, and historically has been, a major headache for the Oil & Gas industry. It is easy to understand and accept that prevention of stuck pipe makes a lot more economical sense than even the best of freeing tools and techniques.

Drill String Design & Drilling Optimization – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 4 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will cover in detail what it takes to decide on minimum drill string specifications, which are able to support the loads to which it will be subjected.

Advanced Drilling Fluids – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Drilling-fluid services of some kind are required on every well. They encompass a broad spectrum of systems, products, software, personnel specializations, and logistical support.

Fundamentals of Gas Well Deliquification – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will first show how to predict and recognize liquid loading. Next, it will describe how to select, design, install and operate the best sequence of deliquification measures. It will also consider deliquification in the presence of other production threats such as water production and halite blockage.

Well Stimulation Strategies – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This VILT course will help the participants choose the right stimulation method and materials for their reservoirs and apply it in an optimal and engineered manner.

Subsurface Characterization, Modelling and Monitoring for Geological CO2 Storage - Repurposing Subsurface Petroleum Skills for CCUS - Virtual Instructor Led Training

Subsurface Characterization, Modelling and Monitoring for Geological CO2 Storage is a Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course conducted in an interactive manner. It will include presentations by the instructors and interactive quizzes and exercises, including hands-on experience.

Data-Driven Geophysical and Petrophysical Models – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This three-half-day VILT course will then get you going with sound background understanding, illustrated by real case studies.

Data-Driven Forecasting for Optimized Production in Well Portfolio – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) course will discuss key Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) techniques to help the reservoir engineer analyze the production time-series data to forecast well performance. Participants will explore and fully understand the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning and how to use the ML/DL algorithms under each learning technique.

Optimising Gas Well Performance – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) not only serves the surveillance and capacity needs of existing gas wells but also the design requirements of new gas wells.

Python Programming for Upstream Oil & Gas Projects - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The Python programming language is at the forefront of data science, helping engineers, analysts and scientists, extract value from their data with its extensive library and intuitive programming concepts.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Subsea Well Interface Options

This Micro VILT focuses on Smart Well Interfaces. It will also have a review of the various Interventions Systems such as RWLI, WOR supplied by FMC, Helix, Oceaneering.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Subsurface - Upper Completion

This Micro VILT focuses on deepwater cold environment impact to flow assurance, upper completion equipment topics specific to deepwater/subsea and on options on Downhole artificial lifts method available for subsea well.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Subsurface – Lower Completion

This Micro VILT focuses on wellbore clean out topic specifically related to deepwater floater rig, lower completion tools (gravel packing) and surface pumping topics specifically related to deepwater floater rig and an overview of hazards associated with deepwater and cold environment impact on completion fluid selection.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Subsea XMT‘S

This Micro VILT is about in depth explanation of various subsea XMT design, from old to latest covering dual bore and monobore VXT, HXT (various design), latest development in XMT design. Using API 17D as reference.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – SURF & MODU Selection

This Micro VILT also focuses on MODU overview and selection based on completion requirement.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Deepwater Development Overview

This Micro VILT focuses on introduction deepwater developments, overview of the various subsea architecture and overview of subsea development type.

Deepwater Well Completion & Intervention, Plug & Abandonment – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) is an overview of well design, construction, verification, operation, intervention, optimisation and eventual P&A.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Practical Well Control - what they DON’T teach at Well Control School

This Micro VILT takes a look at a number of key elements of the process of planning for, detecting and controlling a kick and subsequently re-establishing Primary Well Control.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Connection Assurance 1: Connection Qualification & Selection

This Micro VILT reviews the design characteristics of API and Premium connections and then explains the process of Connection Qualification using API 5C5 / ISO 13679.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Connection Assurance 2: Testing and Torque/Turn Management

This Micro VILT examines options for testing connections and then focuses on torque/turn analysis that should be applied whenever a premium Connection tubular is run into a well.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – The Drilling Window

This Micro VILT looks at the practical limits for the drilling window and how these can be estimated during the well design stage and measured during well delivery.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Drilling 101: Introduction to Marine Drilling

This 3-part Micro VILT is designed to help participants acquire the fundamental knowledge on Marine Drilling processes on offshore jack-up and floater drilling rigs.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Introduction to Dynamic Positioning

This Micro VILT examines equipment and procedures required to dynamically position a rig while drilling a Deepwater Well. It considers the risks associated with DP Operations and how they can be managed.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Off Bottom Well Control

This Micro VILT looks at the causes of these kicks and how they can be prevented before examining the options for controlling such kicks including the management of migrating gas using the “Volumetric Method”.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Root Cause Analysis

Understanding how to sustainably fix routine failures has the power to transform business performance.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Well Head and Xmas Tree Maintenance and Testing

It is critical that field operators have suitable wellhead and Xmas tree maintenance plans in place for routine well maintenance operations so that problem areas can be identified and remedied quickly and effectively.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Characterizing the Reservoir

In reservoir characterization, we need to be able to explain how reservoir characteristics determine well productivity, which in turn drives the well completion design and construction process.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Rigs & Rig Equipment

Although drilling rigs differ greatly in outward appearance and method of deployment, all rotary rigs have the same basic drilling equipment.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Production Start Up

This Micro VILT will cover the basic process of production startup, differences in procedures, operational issues, key factors with production facilities - all of which will be addressed in the startup process.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Running a Completion

This Micro VILT covers the planning, installation and all of the various steps that require special attention, especially ensuring that equipment is landed in the correct place as well as any potential operational issues.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Various Thru Tubing Operations & Rigless Well Remediations

This Micro VILT will highlight the varying types of operations, the equipment used as well as all HSE & Well Control aspects that require additional focus.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Pumping

Pressure Pumping is an integral operation required both in establishing communication with the reservoir as well as ensuring various sand control methods are installed. Following this Micro VILT, participants will understand the equipment and materials utilised for Hydraulic Fracturing as well as an overview of job execution, key HSE Issues as well as potential problems.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – HPHT Well Engineering

In attending this Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT), participants will gain knowledge and develop skills relating to HPHT Well Engineering. The Micro VILT focuses on key characteristics and challenges of HPHT wells from well design, planning, engineering and operational perspectives.

Deepwater Drilling Operations - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This VILT provides participants with a wealth of practical and operationally focused knowledge and helps to build critical skills in well delivery, with an emphasis on the operational aspects of well delivery in Deepwater.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Drilling & Completions Fluids: “As clear as MUD”

Drilling-fluid services of some kind are required on every well. They encompass a broad spectrum of systems, products, software, personnel specializations, and logistical support.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Sand Control Fundamentals

This Micro VILT will enable participants to understand the basics involved in successfully selecting the correct methods of managing their sand control issues and thus optimising production opportunities whilst ensuring equipment maintains integrity.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Well Testing: The Why & The How

This Micro VILT will equip participants with a basic understanding of how to select the appropriate test equipment, review the testing procedures, be familiar with practical well test analysis and be aware of the potential common hazards.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Managing TAP (Thermally Applied Pressures)

This Micro VILT looks at how the risks associated with TAP can be assessed, managed and mitigated in Deepwater Wells.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – The Strength of Tubulars

This Micro VILT examines the strength of pipe and how it can be effected by the manufacturing process. Participants will learn how to determine uniaxial strengths using the formula provided by ISO/API form and how to make allowances for tolerances permitted under ISO 11960 / API 5CT.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Kicks and Losses – Management of Underground Blowouts

This Micro VILT examines the characteristics of an underground blowout and classic pressure signatures that the rig team must be able to recognise. It goes on to explain how the blowout might ultimately be cured and identifies the rationale behind the immediate actions of the rig team to maintain access to the well until such time that control operations can start.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Well Delivery Barrier Management

This Micro VILT examines this critical concept, identifying the different type of barriers deployed throughout the lifecycle of a well - Well Barriers Elements (WBEs), minimum requirements for barriers and how barriers should be tested to provide assurance into the technical integrity of the well from the drawing board to abandonment.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Introduction to Kick Tolerance

This Micro VILT reviews the wellbore pressure envelope before looking at the practical limits for the window and how these can be estimated during the well design stage and measured during well delivery. Risk associated with narrow operating windows and mitigating techniques are discussed in this Micro VILT.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Casing Design Loads

This Micro VILT examines industry practices for the selection of load cases to be used for Casing and Tubular Design.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – API Standard 53: 2018 – What’s New for Sub-Surface BOPs?

This Micro VILT examines the principal changes that were made when migrating from a Recommended Practice to a Standard and their impact on Rig well control equipment. It also examines changes made in 2018 and how Standard 53 works alongside other Standards and Specifications for Well Control Equipment.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – API Standard 53: 2018 – What’s New for Surface BOPs?

This Micro VILT examines the principal changes that were made when migrating from a Recommended Practice to a Standard and their impact on Rig well control equipment. It also examines changes made in 2018 and how Standard 53 works alongside other Standards and Specifications for Well Control Equipment.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – MPD from Drillships and Semi-Submersibles

This Micro VILT examines sib-sea applications for MPD and the equipment and control systems required to deliver it.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – MPD Contingency Planning

This Micro VILT examines failure modes for this equipment and how they can be detected. It also examines what immediate and subsequent steps must be taken to maintain and/or recover primary well control.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – MPD Well Control

This Micro VILT examines the control systems and operational practices used to managed pressure in the well and automate kick detection and control and removal of influxes from the well.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – MPD HAZID and HAZOP

This Micro VILT introduces the concepts of HAZID and HAZOP and explains how they should be applied to both the equipment selection and configuration as well as operational and contingency procedures.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – MPD Equipment & Configuration

This Micro VILT introduces participants to the equipment and control systems required to apply MPD techniques in their wells.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Introduction to Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD)

This Micro VILT introduces participants to the different form that Managed Pressure Drilling can take; explains how candidate wells can be identified and introduces a tool for identifying and quantifying the potential for MPD capabilities to address operational challenges in their wells.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Rigless Intervention Options & Solutions

This Micro VILT has been designed to provide knowledge and understanding of surface equipment, downhole tools, various applications, and operational contingencies for rigless well interventions involving coiled tubing, slickline, or wireline.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Introduction to Artificial Lift

This Micro VILT will allow participants to have an overall clearer picture of the Artificial Lift options that exist to maximise the production life of their asset.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Designing for Plug & Abandonment from Day One

All wells require Plug & Abandonment (P&A) at the end of their productive life. P&A is responsible for up to 40% of total decommissioning costs for some operators.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Planning A Complex Workover

Participants will be aware of the advantages that Proper Planning of a workover can bring to the table, clearly identifying the workover objectives as well as considering a number of contingencies for a smoother operation.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Completion Design Introduction

Participants will understand why there are several keys to designing a successful completion system and selecting components that are fit for purpose for both the downhole environment and application.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) – Understanding Well Barriers & Verification

Participants planning the drilling and completion of wells will learn how to identify the solutions that give safe well life cycle designs which meet the minimum requirements of the standard.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Demystifying MAASAP & MAWOP

Participants will understand the need to fully understand that MAASP and/or MAWOP and/or MOP require to be calculated, monitored, verified and recalculated, taking into account material degradation as well as the number of operating cycles the well has gone through.

Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) - Understanding the Importance of a Well Integrity Management System

Participants will understand why an Effective Well Integrity Management System is required to ensure that Well Barriers are designed and constructed with a number of elements selected to meet the required performance criteria.

Drillstring Design & Failure Prevention

This 5-day course will address all elements of drillstring selection and design, integrating drilling optimisation with drillstring failure prevention.

Deepwater Drilling Operations

This 5-day course provides participants with a wealth of practical and operationally focused knowledge, while building critical skills in well delivery with an emphasis on the operational aspects of well delivery in deepwater.

Evaluation and Development of Shale and Tight Gas

Unconventional evaluation and development require much more multi-disciplinary approach compared to conventional. All pieces from evaluation to drilling, multi-stage fracturing and economics must fall in the right place to make such development possible. This course will help participants identify the essentials of each discipline in the context of shale gas development.

Hydraulic Fracturing: From Design to Execution and Post Frac Analysis

This 4-day course will cover drilling, completion, fluids, reservoir, geomechanics, fracture modelling and design, fracturing operation, production and reservoir management from the basics to the latest developments and the technologies involved.

HSE in Oil & Gas Drilling Operations

This 3-day course presents all associated risks to rig equipment and drilling operations.

Advanced Well Control

This 5-day comprehensive course will address planning and implementation of operational procedures in Well Control. In the event that a Well Control incident occurs, participants will be equipped with down-hole awareness of the behaviour of influxes and how to manage pressures in the wellbore to avoid escalation of the event.

Directional, Horizontal and Multilateral Drilling - Simulator Assisted

This 5-day training course covers the principles and practices of directional drilling, calculations and planning for directional and horizontal wells.

Gaslift Design, Operations And Troubleshooting

Gaslifting oil wells is one of the most flexible and cost effective artificial lift techniques, the success of any gaslift system depends on an adequate and reliable source of lift gas. The course will prove valuable to production and completion engineers who are involved in artificial lift selection and the design and troubleshooting of gaslift completions.

Well Integrity Management - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This intensive Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of well integrity management and risk assessment in producing assets.

Advanced Well Engineering - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course aims to further develop and assess the knowledge required to work on and eventually, authorize a well delivery program as deemed fit for purpose. It also addresses elements of well control that must be embedded into well design, well work programming and equipment selection.

HPHT Planning and Well Control – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The 4 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will explain the key characteristics and challenges of HPHT Planning and Well Control.

Sand Control Operations – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This intensive 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of downhole sand exclusion equipment and the operational procedures required for converting a drilled well into an efficient and safe producer.

Deepwater Depositional Systems

This course examines different deepwater depositional systems and considers how deepwater process, topography and sediment supply impact on these systems. The course examines analogue data from turbidite reservoirs and modern turbidite systems. Depositional settings and sequences associated with clastic deepwater systems are reviewed, along with the geological controls on reservoir quality and architecture. It also examines post-depositional process that can have a major impact on reservoir q...

Completions: Applications, Types, Installation and Workovers

This intensive five-day course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of completion equipment and operational procedures required for converting a drilled well into an efficient and safe producer. It follows a practical approach for the various completion types, specific applications, completion installation and workovers.

Surface Production Operations – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course is designed to provide an understanding of the wide range of surface production handling and treatment equipment. Participants will learn not only the "what" but "how" field fluid treating equipment works. Participants will be introduced to the fundamental principles of fluid behavior and how it applies to all of the various equipment and systems comprised in production operations.

Liquid & Gas Flowmetering & Custody Measurement – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will familiarise process, instrumentation and custody transfer engineers with the procedures and practices involved in the choice of flowmetering systems and their associated supporting equipment.

Root Cause Analysis for the Oil & Gas Industry - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Root Cause Analysis is a systematic, evidence-driven process that helps participants find the true underlying (and often hidden) causes that result in unwanted events. Minor failures matter, and can escalate out of control.

Plug and Abandonment - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will guide participants on the key techniques and methods for safe and efficient abandonment of wells both on land and offshore.

Well Drilling AFE, Forecasting & Cost Control - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This intermediate-level 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course covers the elements which comprise the well cost, how to estimate, forecast and monitor them. It also covers elements like geographical location, type of well and profile, hole depth, well targets, rig type, completion type, and contracting strategies.

Advanced Well Integrity Management - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This intensive Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimize productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Completion Design - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 8 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course is aimed at engineers and supervisors who already have a basic understanding of well construction methods but who would benefit from a more detailed knowledge of completion design. The VILT course will concentrate on the important aspects of completion design and what makes a safe and efficient well.

Advanced Well Stimulation Strategies

Navigating Petrophysics: Log Analysis, LWD & Wireline

Targeted at awareness to knowledge level, this course addresses the tenets of petrophysics and formation evaluation, using integrative perspective of multiple datasets, including geological, geophysical, and logging and core data. Significant worldwide case histories are included, as well as several exercises designed to provide hands-on experience.

Advanced Casing Design – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Advanced Casing Design Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course is delivered as a scenario-based training course. The VILT course takes the participants through all the aspects of casing design from first principles. A working spreadsheet is created by each participant for casing design that can be used by the participants in their day-to-day jobs.

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) - Virtual Instructor Led Training

This 3 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course provides participants with an understanding of the MPD techniques and equipment.

Subsea Well Intervention - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 3-day intermediate level course focuses on areas of interest unique to the subsea environment, such as subsea trees and wellheads, intervention riser systems and riserless subsea interventions.

Deepwater Completion Operations - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day VILT course provides participants with knowledge of critical well completion processes, completion equipment and operations associated with deepwater completions and available intelligent well and completion architecture used for both platform and subsea completions.

Coiled Tubing Operations - Equipment, Applications, Well Control, Safety & Emerging Technologies - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The aim of this VILT course is to enable participants to gain key knowledge that they will require to actively and efficiently participate in the planning, design, and/or execution of a Coiled Tubing intervention.

Applied Petroleum Geomechanics - Pore Pressure Prediction and Maintaining Wellbore Stability - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The 8 half-day sessions provide a fundamental level of understanding of the geomechanical factors that affect wellbore instability and the prediction and management of abnormal pore pressures.

Rigless Interventions: Slickline, Coiled Tubing, Hydraulic Workover & New Technologies - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) is designed to provide you with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the surface equipment, downhole tools, applications and operational contingencies for most Rigless Interventions techniques used in Oil & Gas wells worldwide.