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Prospect Maturation

This 5 full day course will cover all aspects of the prospect maturation process: play understanding in the context of regional geological understanding, detailed prospect evaluation; realistic risk & volume assessment consistent with the play understanding and prospect details, and an introduction to exploration economics.

Seismic Data Processing and Reprocessing

This 5-day course has been designed to introduce key concepts, principles and practicalities that form the technical basis for value added seismic applications in exploration, field appraisal and reservoir management to seismic interpreters and geophysicists.

Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping

This 5-day course focuses on the fundamental principles and methodologies of accurately conveying critical data and information via subsurface mapping.

Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs

The Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs course will examine reservoir properties, modeling and development aspects, with practical examples and case studies from Brazil, Oman and Angola.

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 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.

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 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.

Human Reliability Analysis (Safety Critical Task Analysis) – Human Factors

This 2-day course will introduce you to a qualitative methodology to undertake Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) – sometimes known as Safety Critical Task Analysis – which is an approach used to pro-actively assess safety critical tasks and other business critical tasks to identify realistic potential human errors so as to take steps to reduce the probability of their occurrence.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence For Non-Data Scientists In Oil & Gas

Artificial Intelligence is probably the most important technology development of this decade. Artificial Intelligence attempts to simulate several key human capabilities. Simply put, it is a tool that looks for hidden patterns in a massive pool of data that most energy companies are acquiring or developing in business daily. These patterns have predictive value. Machines that can learn from these massive amounts of data can help you make faster, better and cheaper decisions.

Energy Security Management

About this Training Course  The course will introduce participants to petroleum economics in the upstream oil and gas business, providing them with the knowledge, language and tools to improve their commercial business awareness and to sharpen their focus on value creation. The course will enable them to understand the vital role petroleum economics plays in […]

Play-based Exploration

This 3 day training course will introduce participants to the Play-Based Exploration workflow through many individual andgroup exercises and discussions. The core of the course is a large group exercise based on a real data set. Based on dataprovided, participants will make reservoir, seal, charge and structural maps, followed by Play maps and CRS maps. The difference in and use of prospect-specific and play-based probabilities will be explained by examples and exercises. It will also be explained how play statistics can serve as a guide for prospect assessment and for assessing the (remaining) potential of a basin.

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.

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 large source for future gas supplies and reserves.

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.

Tender Preparation & Process Management for Client Organizations

This three (3) day workshop is structured primarily for the oil and gas industry, offshore marine, civil and heavy engineering and water and energy utilities. It is applicable to those persons who manage or lead the procurement processes & manage tender stakeholder committees associated with preparing and issuing requests for quotes, tenders or proposals and who evaluate and assess bid documentation, and negotiate with contractors.

Effective SOP for Engineers & Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are important for the safe and effective operation of industrial plants and oil & gas facilities. But SOPs are frequently developed late in the project, after the design is completed and construction is well underway.  And they may be used for little other than operator training. Following start-up, they often end up on a shelf collecting dust. Used this way, SOPs have little influence on either the design or the operation of the facility.  But this cannot reasonably be accomplished unless we start writing procedures that are more user-friendly. We must start writing SOPs that the operators will actually want to use.

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.

Masterclass On Oil Refining – Refinery Business & Technology

It is vital to understand the key business and technology components of the refinery business, and its varied disciplines in order to fully unlock its operations and business model. Therefore non-technical personnel and new engineers entering the industry will also benefit from attending the course.

AVO, Attributes and Inversion: Principles and Applications

This 5 full-day training course provides an understanding of the evolving role of seismic petrophysics through the use of amplitude variations with offset or angle (AVO/AVA), attributes, and inversion techniques. Understanding rock physics and the behaviour of the propagating seismic waves represents an integral part of the course, especially in the context of specific applications including enhanced seismic interpretation, rock and fluid characterization, including hydrocarbon identification and quantification, fracture identification, and stress/geomechanical analysis.

International Oil Pricing & Price Risk Management

In the current volatile oil market, you need targeted skills and knowledge to manage risk in your Oil pricing and trading strategy. By having strong fundamental knowledge of the market mechanisms, you will be able to better predict future market scenarios, and how to respond to it. To get a clear strategy on how to price and trade in the current and future markets, companies have to adopt sophisticated techniques and tools that can deal with the dynamism and challengers of today’s operating conditions.

Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing

This course teaches hydraulic fracturing in detail plus a matrix acidizing overview so the optimum stimulation treatment can be chosen. It requires a basic understanding of oilfield operations, preferable with prior exposure to well stimulation, though this is not essential. The course is intended for drilling, completion and production personnel who are looking to gain a better understanding of each technique’s advantages, limitations and applications for use in their upcoming completions.

Pipe Work Design & Fabrication

This course will familiarize engineers, designers and construction personnel with the layout and design procedures and practices involved in the choice of piping systems and their associated supporting equipment. It will also address in detail, common pipeline components such as pumps, compressors and heat exchangers and will cover their mechanical performance and limitations in different piping arrangements. This course will give participants the background required to complete and successfully apply typical equipment layout and piping arrangements.

Fluvial-Deltaic Depositional Systems

This course aims to review the fundamentals of fluvial and deltaic depositional systems, and their sequence stratigraphic evaluation.  Examples are given using modern and ancient analogues, and recognition of these depositional systems in the subsurface. 

HSE in Oil & Gas Logistic Operations

This 3-day course presents all associated risks that affect transport and lifting activities, as well as prevention and mitigation measures to reduce risks, necessary certificates to ensure the suitability of equipment and personnel, and the application of best practices.

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.

Effective Conflict Resolution And Dealing With Difficult People For Engineers And Technical Professionals

When confronted with a challenging personality or situation, most people will either avoid, confront, or concede rather than engage constructively. This workshop will prepare you to respond intelligently rather than react emotionally. It will help you change your attitude and behaviour, transform your relationships, and not waste time trying to change others.

In this intensive, 1-day workshop participants will gain the knowledge, skills, techniques, and attitude to successfully manage challenging people and relationships in the workplace and in their personal lives.

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 quality and architecture, and considers this within the context of the petroleum system.

Gas Conditioning and Processing

This 3 full-day course covers the design of systems for natural gas handling and treatment from the wellhead to the gas processing plant to achieve marketable products that meet desired product specifications.

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.

International Petroleum Contracts

This course will help you develop an in-depth knowledge of the legal and contractual framework in which the upstream oil industry conducts its operations. It opens with an explanation of the geopolitical forces which shape the modern oil industry and then covers the major technical, legal/contractual and financial/economic/taxation/fiscal issues that form modern E&P agreements worldwide.

You will learn the philosophy, evolution and fundamentals of international petroleum contracts. You will take part in life-like negotiating sessions mastering many negotiating techniques, where a mistake is a learning experience not a disaster.
The course continues with an explanation of the principles and strategy of petroleum negotiations and then proceeds to a worked example of the negotiation of an actual upstream petroleum agreement. In the latter, the course attendees will split up into two or more teams. One team will represent the government in the negotiations and the other(s) or more of the IOC’s who are attempting to secure the government and E&P agreement.
The classes include participants from both NOC’s, IOC’s contractors, which adds further realism to the exercises.

Petroleum Fluids and Source Rocks in E&P Projects

The course “Petroleum Fluids and Source Rocks in E&P Projects” enables participants to interpret fluids and source rock data to add value to E&P projects from exploration to environmental remediation. Examples and case studies come from both conventional and unconventional petroleum systems around the world. The learning objectives are achieved through well-illustrated lectures, numerous hands-on exercises and active class discussions.