| Petroleum Refinery
Technology
James R. Alberts 3 or 5 days
Who Should Attend
Both non-technical and technical personnel working within and in support
of the oil and chemical industries. This course is particularly suitable
for those in finance and accounting, geology, law, marketing and sales,
administration, and communications, and it is a refresher course for those
in engineering.
Contents
Nomenclature. Oil exploration and production. Hydrocarbon chemistry; characteristics
of crude oil, distillation, catalyst structure and function. Refinery
equipment; catalytic hydrodesulfurization, catalytic reforming, coking,
catalytic cracking, visbreaking, alkylation, isomerization, hydro-cracking,
gas plants, sulfur recovery, lube refining and catalytic dewaxing. New
developments and the refinery of the future. Class exercises are conducted
to demonstrate analysis of crudes, gasoline blending, gasoline reformulation,
production economics, sulfur recovery, distillation, and operation of
many of the individual processes. The course lectures are supported by
high-quality visual aids, a 300-page manual, and samples of crude plus
all the products.
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Petroleum Geology
and Geophysics
Dr. Timothy A. Cross 5 days
Who Should Attend
Non-geologists who can benefit from a broad coverage of the essential,
practical aspects of petroleum exploration and production, including production
and drilling engineers, well log analysts, data processors, landmen, financial
analysts, supervisors, managers, information systems personnel, technicians
and nontechnical service personnel.
Contents
Overview of Petroleum Occurrence and Exploration Principles; Plate Tectonics
and Habitats of Petroleum; Minerals and Rocks; Principles of Structural
Geology; Interpretation of Maps and Cross Sections; Stratigraphic Concepts
and Geologic Time; Fossils and Their Applications to Exploration; Origin
and Interpretation of Sedimentary Rocks; Origin, Maturation and Migration
of Petroleum; Reservoir Geology and Engi-neering; Reservoir Production
and Recovery Technology; Well Drilling Technology; Logging and Borehole
Evaluation; Surface Geophysical Data Acquisition and Processing; Interpretation
of Seismic Records; Exploration Strategies, Reserve Estima-tion and Risk
Assessment. Simulated Exploration Ven-ture. Practical demonstrations and
workshops.
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| Microcomputers
In Exploration
Dr. Stephen A. Krajewski 5 days
Who Should Attend
Designed for geologists and geophysicists who are planning to purchase,
or who have recently purchased microcomputers and want to become more
familiar with microcomputer applications software.
Contents
Introduction to Microcom-puter Systems; Geologic Databases; Log Analysis;
Contouring; Seismic Model-ing; Production Data Analysis; Economic Modeling;
Reporting. Hands-on projects requiring 1 computer for every 2 to 4 participants.
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Reservoir Engineering
for Geoscientists
Dr. Zaki Bassiouni 5 days
Who Should Attend
Exploration specialists who want to learn the basics of reservoir engineering
and the procedures required to properly manage a reservoir's development.
Contents
The continuous process of reservoir management: roles of the geologist
and the engineer. Reservoir description and reservoir behavior. Geologist's
and engineer's joint responsibility in reducing uncertainties. Reservoir
Characterization. Rock and Fluid Properties. Reservoir Mechanics: reservoir
energy; natural drive mechanisms; material balance. Fluid Flow In Porous
Media: incompressible, compressible flow; multiphase displacement, limitation
of applying theoretical calculations. Reservoir Simulation: basic concepts;
reservoir description requirements; areas of application; potential pitfalls.
Well Testing: drawdown/buildup tests; analysis methods; test design; limitations
and inaccuracies. Using reservoir behavior to improve the description:
identifying the effective reservoir; understanding the drive mechanisms;
diagnosing inconsistencies. Refining development plans: defining fluid
movements and drainage patterns; planning development drilling, pressure
maintenance; managing depletion. Includes examples of primary, secondary
and EOR production from several reservoirs and the applications of Reservoir
Management in each.
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| Reservoir Management
For Geoscientists and Reservoir Engineers
Dr. M.A. (Al) Rogers 5 days
Who Should Attend
Geoscientists and reservoir engineers, particularly those working with
reservoir management or surveillance teams.
Contents
Introduction: Definitions, differentiation from traditional production
geology. Role of regional geological and geophysical studies in reservoir
analysis: geological controls on hydrocarbon accumulation, drive mechanism
and aquifer support, use of geophysical data base. Review of reservoir
properties. Reservoir Description: core to log comparisons, log analysis;
facies and reservoir geometry, diagenesis, controls on permeability, porosity
evolution; application of initial test data. Sources of reservoir heterogeneity:
depositional, diagenic, fracturing. Reservoir characterization: importance
of seismic, 3-D surveys, vertical seismic profiles, lithology and porosity
analysis, calibration with logs, cores, and engineering results. Reservoir
modeling and mapping: selecting parameters, predicting performance, mapping,
numerical simulators. Evaluating reservoir performance: decline curve
analysis; well testing, cased-hole logging, fluid properties. Reservoir
management: well spacing, well stimulation; reserves estimation, model
revisions. Thirty percent of the course is dedicated to exercises and
workshop sessions.
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Seismic Definition
of Reservoirs
Dr. Robert E. Sheriff 3 - 5 days
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers engaged in finding,
mapping, determining the properties of, and/or seeing what happens to
reservoirs.
Contents
Review of seismic basics: Interpretive use of velocity information,
horizontal and vertical resolution, uses of amplitude data, tuning and
thin-bed interpretation, use of hydrocarbon indicators including AVO.
3-D techniques: Benefits of 3-D, land and marine acquisition planning,
sampling and adequate area of coverage, processing, interpretation (including
use of work stations, structural use of time slices, mapping of faults,
fault slicing, stratigraphic interpretation and use of horizon slices,
reconstitution of depositional surfaces). Stratigraphy identification:
Using sequence and facies analysis, stratigraphic modeling. Reservoir
geophysics: Helping the reservoir engineer, determining reservoir compartmentalization
and limits, mapping of porosity and net pay, reservoir simulation, production
monitoring. Borehole methods: Identifying reflectors with reservoirs,
VSP, borehole-to-borehole.
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| Systematic Engineering
Approach to Reservoir Simulation
Nick P. Valenti 5 days
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for practicing reservoir engineers who have beginning
to intermediate experience with reservoir simulators. This course will
also suit managers and geologists who wish to gain an appreciation as
to the reservoir engineering required in a reservoir simulation project.
Contents
In the past, reservoir simulation projects have been viewed as long-term
projects. These projects have also been known to produce models calibrated
to field data by using virtually unlimited degrees of freedom. This course
presents a systematic method to conducting a reservoir simulation project
that will reverse these perceptions. This method is presented in the following
four sections: Types of Reservoir Models: 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D grid systems;
multiphase systems; compositional, thermal, miscible and coal-seam bed
methane simulators; Designing the Model: grid design; fluid properties;
porosity; permeability; relative permeability/capillary pressure; Running
the Model: initializing the model; history matching; running prediction
cases; Advanced Model Features: aquifers; faults; miscible displacement;
fracture reservoirs; tracers; rock compaction; horizontal and deviated
wellbores.
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3-D Seismic Methods
Dr. Robert E. Sheriff 5 days
Who Should Attend
Geologists and geophysicists considering 3-D surveys.
Contents
A non-mathematical course, beginning with the benefits of 3-D. 3-D acquisition:
Planning land and marine acquisition programs, determining sampling and
adequate area of coverage, monitoring production quality. 3-D processing,
imaging, interpretation: Ways to look at 3-D data, use of work stations,
structural use of time slices, mapping of faults, fault slicing and determining
the sealing quality of faults, stratigraphic interpretation using horizon
slices, reconstitution of depositional surfaces.
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