Reservoir Engineering Training Courses

Geological CO2 Storage - Picking the Right Reservoir

Geological sequestration of CO2 is emerging as an important tool to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 for combating global warming. Much of the technology used for CO2 sequestration is similar to existing oil and gas fields operations, however, there are important differences which require adaptation of the industry’s subsurface knowledge to this new application. The essential questions for any CO2 storage project are: (a) where can we store the CO2? (b) how much CO2 can we...

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.

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 ...

Project Economics, Risk and Decision Analysis for Oil & Gas

This 5 full-day training course looks at the setup of economic analysis cases, including the estimation of recoverable reserves, production profiles, commodity prices, and project costs – CAPEX, OPEX, taxes, royalties, transportation, depreciation, before-tax (BTAX) cash-flow, after-tax (ATAX) cash-flow and international fiscal regimes (production sharing agreement and concessionary system).

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.

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.

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.

Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) & Related Agreements

This 3 full-day course examines the operational, fiscal and legal aspects of the different types of Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in use around the world.

Petroleum Risk Analysis & Portfolio Management

The Petroleum Risk Analysis and Portfolio Management course offers tools and practical techniques to identify, analyse and manage uncertainties and risk in exploration and production projects. Learning is reinforced by working on case material to explore uncertainties and risks in the context of production forecasting, cash-flow management, incremental projects and asset portfolio manipulation. Monte Carlo modelling and Decision Tree analysis software are employed during the course to dev...

Applied E&P Economics - Commercial Decisions & Fiscal Systems

This training course aims to provide a solid and incisive foundation to appreciate the essentials of building typical Economic Evaluations to support both National and Company decisions with particular focus on the many potential deductions and charges levied on the pre-tax ‘Technical Case’. We will touch on many critical aspects of these post-tax / contract decisions, such as balancing scope for value-generation and efficiency – which measures are employed, how national agencies might b...

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.

Project Economics, Risk and Decision Analysis for Oil & Gas

This 5 full-day training course looks at the setup of economic analysis cases, including the estimation of recoverable reserves, production profiles, commodity prices, and project costs – CAPEX, OPEX, taxes, royalties, transportation, depreciation, before-tax (BTAX) cash-flow, after-tax (ATAX) cash-flow and international fiscal regimes (production sharing agreement and concessionary system).

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.

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) – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

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

Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) & Related Agreements

This 3 full-day course examines the operational, fiscal and legal aspects of the different types of Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in use around the world.

Advanced Data Interpretation in Reservoir Engineering Using Python

Advanced Field Development Planning & Drive Performance

This 5-day course is aimed at pulling together the work of the all the technical specialists involved in oil/gas field development, both subsurface and surface, to realize the full value of a truly integrated Field Development Plan. It is assumed that each participant (geologist, reservoir engineer, well engineer, facilities engineer, cost engineer etc.) is an expert in their own discipline and wants to learn how to work more effectively in a team. All the courses are therefore of interest to...

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...

Marginal Field Development and Planning

This course is designed to address the challenges and opportunities associated with the development and production of marginal oil and gas fields. These fields are typically characterized by small reserve sizes, lack of infrastructure, high development costs, and technological constraints, which have prevented their exploitation in the past.

Integrated Field Development Planning

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the technical and commercial aspects of field development planning in the oil and gas industry. This course considers the technical and commercial influences on Field Development Planning within the global oil and gas industry. It also considers the need for understanding field development choice, resource size, facility choice and cost. The course covers the full field development workflow from exploration and appraisal through concept sel...

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...

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.

PRMS & SEC Resources Evaluation and Reporting - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This course will present the elements of the Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS) and its resources classification framework, a systematic way of placing all petroleum initially in place in an accumulation into a convenient inventory. Resources are classified based on their probabilities of becoming commercial and placed into categories within classes based on their relative certainty of being produced.

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.

Upstream Decarbonization: Strategies & Measures towards Lowering Emissions

This 2-day training course will provide participants with an understanding of the strategies and measures for decarbonizing the Upstream Oil and Gas sector within the framework of measures implemented by individual governments through their respective commitments to reduce emissions to achieve their National Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.

 Reservoir Geochemistry

This course focuses on methods and applications of petroleum reservoir geochemistry. It is designed for geoscientists, including geochemists, production and development geologists, reservoir engineers, but could also benefit exploration geologists and project managers

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.

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.

Upstream Petroleum Economics, Risk and Fiscal Analysis

The 3-day hands-on petroleum economics training course provides a comprehensive overview of the practices of exploration and development petroleum economics and its application in valuing oil and gas assets to aid corporate decisions.

Advanced Reservoir Engineering

The Advanced Reservoir Engineering course will address modern practical aspects of reservoir engineering during 5 full-days packed with lectures, virtual exercises, discussions and literature reviews.

Reservoir Engineering for Geosciences Professionals and Other Disciplines

This 5 full-day course addresses reservoir engineering concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary team work and the smooth exchange of ideas and experience.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Project Economics, Risk and Decision Analysis for Oil & Gas – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course looks at the setup of economic analysis cases, including the estimation of recoverable reserves, production profiles, commodity prices, and project costs – CAPEX, OPEX, taxes, royalties, transportation, depreciation, before-tax (BTAX) cash-flow, after-tax (ATAX) cash-flow and international fiscal regimes (production sharing agreement and concessionary system).

Analytical Method to Estimate Maximum Recovery Factors for Various Displacement Processes – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) teaches an analytical method to get a reasonable estimate of the maximum expected Ultimate Recovery by a viscously dominated displacement process like water, polymer or gas injection.

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.

Machine Learning & Data Science For Subsurface Oil & Gas Professionals - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The 4th Industrial Revolution (IR4) Technologies are transforming the way we work and accomplish daily tasks in the Oil & Gas industry, by increasing efficiency and reducing redundancy.

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 – An analytical method to estimate maximum Recovery Factors for various displacement processes

This 2 half day Micro VILT  teaches analytical methods to get a reasonable estimation of the maximum expected Ultimate Recovery by a viscous dominated displacement process like water, polymer or gas injection.

Advanced Carbonate Reservoir Geology for the Middle East

Using a combination of short lecture modules, group exercises, discussions and longer workshops based on Middle Eastern examples, this 5-day course will build on the existing knowledge of participants to create a detailed understanding of carbonate exploration and reservoir development.

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.

Petroleum Systems Analysis in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production

This 5-day course addresses the fundamentals of Basin Analysis to Petroleum Systems Analysis, a holistic view of how it works, which is essential for geoscientists involved in today’s challenging Exploration and Production projects.

Advanced Reservoir Engineering - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The Advanced Reservoir Engineering VILT course will address modern practical aspects of reservoir engineering during 5 half-days packed with lectures, virtual exercises, discussions and literature reviews.

Virtual Reality (VR) Geology Field Trip

VR field trips aren’t just a cost effective, risk free alternative to real field work. They offer unique opportunities to incorporate activities and features unavailable in the field, and deliver a more integrated and flexible learning resource.

Advanced Carbonate Reservoir Geology

This 5-day advanced course will start with a refresher on key aspects of carbonate sedimentation, diagenesis and porosity evolution.

Exploration for Tight Gas System

This 5 day course is designed to train the explorationist to efficiently identify and map pervasive, large opportunities in Tight Gas Systems. They occur in both clastics and carbonates, and examples of each will be provided. In as much as these resource plays will be a main focus of future gas exploration, it is critical to understand the occurrence and characteristics of these huge unconventional accumulations. They will also become increasingly important in worldwide exploration as a larg...

Depositional Systems & Reservoir Distribution

The course aims at improving the conceptual geological understanding of the presence and quality distribution of potential reservoir systems. The training material is derived from a variety of geological settings and comprises a mix of petroleum geology case histories and textbook material including seismic, log, core and outcrop data.

Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Waterflooding

This 3-day course addresses the basic Reservoir Engineering concepts of waterflooding. The course will discuss the target ultimate recovery to be expected from a waterflood based on the Complexity Index analysis.

Applied EOR Technology - Virtual Instructor Led Training

This course addresses the relevance and basic concepts of various EOR techniques. EOR techniques are often grouped in three main areas: thermal EOR (e.g. steam soak and SAGD), chemical EOR (e.g. low-salinity waterflooding, polymer and surfactant flooding) and Gas EOR (like HC gas and CO2 injection).

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.

Reservoir Engineering for Geosciences Professionals and Other Disciplines - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course addresses reservoir engineering concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary team work and the smooth exchange of ideas and experience.

Upstream Oil & Gas Development Lifecycle Costing - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

The lifecycle costs of an upstream oil & gas development are typically very high and subject to great uncertainty. However, it is crucial to be able to generate reliable cost estimates, covering the full lifecycle, at every stage. Costing is particularly challenging during the early lifecycle stages, when uncertainty is at a maximum, and information is limited and often unavailable. It is during the early (front-end) stages of exploration and development that reliable costs are crucial to ...

Advanced Carbonate Reservoir Engineering - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Reservoir engineering methods as practised in carbonate fields will be addressed in this Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT). Practical and actual carbonate reservoir problems and examples will be used to illustrate relevant subjects. Specific reservoir engineering problems related to the heterogeneity, fluid-rock interaction and the often fractured nature of carbonate rocks will be examined.