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.

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.

Subsea Production Engineering - Incorporating Subsea Tie-backs - Virtual Instructor Led Training

The Subsea Production Engineering Virtual instructor Led Training (VILT) course provides an overview of all of the functionalities and key interfaces of subsea equipment.

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.

Petroleum Geology for Non-Geologists (Featuring Virtual Reality Field Trips) - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Course facilitator has delivered petroleum geology training to many companies over the years,facilitator is also a professionally trained teacher and former university lecturer who is experienced in communicating with people at all levels of technical knowledge, practical exercises, experiments, examination of real rocks, a virtual reality field trip and case study are used to clarify and reinforce important concepts.

Well Intervention and Productivity School - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

During the life of an oilfield, many well interventions are needed. They will be required for one of three reasons: To repair or replace damaged completion components (restoration of well integrity); To improve inflow performance (reduction of skin); To improve tubing performance (removing impediments to flow or installing artificial lift).

Drilling Essentials for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Drilling Essentials will help you de-mystify activities around the rig and well planning. It will explain the fundamentals of drilling with an emphasis on key areas such as logistical considerations, costing, and analysis of drilling contracts. Understand the urgency of drilling requests, know more about the cost implications of drilling-related problems, and understand the risks involved in a drilling contract.

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.

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.

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.

Harness Big Data for Upstream Analytics - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5-half day VILT course introduces the key concepts of ML & DL and the understanding of terminology and meaning of the AI landscape. The course will give you a deeper insight with case studies and will explore ML & DL soft-computing architecture and its parameters. The course will cover case studies in drilling and completion, subsurface reservoir characterization and production & forecasting optimization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

E&P Technical Services Contract - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This VILT course allows all parties involved – Company, Contractors and sub-Contractors – to better understand the contractual relationship, their rights and obligations. It gives a detailed review of the Contract and its main features.

Drilling Essentials for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Drilling Essentials will help you de-mystify activities around the rig and well planning. It will explain the fundamentals of drilling with an emphasis on key areas such as logistical considerations, costing, and analysis of drilling contracts. Understand the urgency of drilling requests, know more about the cost implications of drilling-related problems, and understand the risks involved in a drilling contract.

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.

CO2 Capture, Processing & Technologies - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 2 half-day Virtual Instructor Lead Training (VILT) course will examine the costs and technologies of CO2 capture and its application within the industry

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.

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.

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.

Production System Optimization (PSO) – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course looks at an integrated way to production systems – from reservoir to wells to facilities. The course applies a structured approach to understand and analyse the production system, with the objective to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.

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) – 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.

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.

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

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

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 – Classroom Training

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.

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.

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.

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.

Integrated Field Development Planning for Offshore Fields - Classroom Training

This course is designed with the aim of showing the degree of integration necessary in developing an offshore petroleum discovery, from field appraisal to development. The course gives a comprehensive account of the methodology, processes and techniques utilized in developing an offshore oil or gas discovery.

Advanced Well Stimulation Strategies