Douglas Gust 4 days

Who Should Attend
Drilling Engineers, Superintendents, Foremen or Managers involved in planning and/or drilling horizontal wells.

Contents
Economic Evaluation Drilling Applications: development, exploration; remedial. Com-pletion techniques. Drilling Considerations Well Profiles. Well-Planning Bottom Hole Assemblies. Drilling Fluids. Hole cleaning. Hydraulics. Directional Survey Tech-niques. Logging. Drilling: building the curve; getting back to bottom; short trips. Drilling projections (software models). Completion Methods. Case Histories. Regional experts from Sperry-Sun Drilling Services will be available in some locations to address specific local conditions and problems pertinent to the region.

Chapman Cronquist 5 days

Who Should Attend
Reservoir engineers and geologists familiar with basic principles of reservoir behavior and reservoir characterization.

Contents
Includes lectures and practical problem-solving (students should bring calculators). Covers estimating reserves from reservoirs with wide ranges of fluid compositions and drive mechanisms, of all stages of reservoir maturity. Emphasizes reserves attributable to primary recovery.

Reasons for and uncertainties in reserves estimation; reserves classification. Anal-ogy/statistical methods: the log normal distribution. Volumetric Methods: sources and analyses of data, initial conditions, volumetric mapping, estimating primary recovery for various fluids and drive mechanisms; reservoir heterogeneity; reserves allocation. Material Balance Methods: expanded material balance equation, Havlena-Odeh methodology, prediction methods, volumetric gas reservoirs, reconciliating material balance and volumetric methods. Performance/Decline Trend Analysis: performance indicators, production decline equations, the hyperbolic equation and its special cases, type curve analysis. Special Problems: remote/frontier areas, heavy and extra heavy crudes, fractured/vugular reservoirs, tight gas reservoirs.

Donald J. Zimmer 10 days

Who Should Attend
Engineers at all levels, and operating personnel, (drillers, drilling foremen, drilling superintendents, and drilling managers). Non-drilling personnel with a "need to know" requirement.

Contents
Rig Math Review; Drill String Design; Pre-Spud Consider-ations; Spudding the Well; Drilling the Top Hole; Hydraulics; Solids Control; Lost Circulation; Stuck Pipe; Corrosion, Washouts and Twist-Offs; Care and Handling of Tubulars; Drill Bits; Tripping; Casing and Cementing Operations; Nippling Up and Testing BOPE; Evaluating the Cement Job; Drilling Out; Leak-Off/ Formation Capability Tests; Mud Practices; Shales; Abnormal Pressures; Well Control and Simulation; Diamond and PCD Bit Practices; Drilling the Gas Cap/Hydrocarbon Zone; Cement Plugs; Liners and Liner Cementing; Hydrogen Sulfide.

5 days

Who Should Attend
Practicing reservoir engineers, but as the course is more descriptive than mathematical, it can also be fully appreciated by geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, production engineers and technical managers.

Contents
Appraisal: Fluid sampling, PVT analysis and correlations; fluid pressure regimes, overpressured reservoirs, estimation of hydrocarbons in place. The concept of field unitization. Reservoir engineering aspects of equity determination; the significance of material balance, depletion of oil and gas fields, Darcy's Law. Well Testing: purpose, basic theory and assumptions, critical review of testing methods; traditional versus modern methods; oil versus gas well testing; rationalization of analysis techniques; pressure buildup versus multi-rate testing; interference and pulse testing, use of the RFT. Development. Secondary Recovery: significance of water drive, design concepts, basic mechanics, review of analytical methods for describing waterdrive; developing production profiles; planning and constructing of a 3-D numerical simulator; essentials of history matching; efficiency of gas drive versus water drive; monitoring water drive performance, the development of gas and gas condensate fields. Field examples and methods are used.

Donald J. Zimmer 3 days

Who Should Attend
Drilling engineers with 3-5 years of experience who are involved with the planning, execution and evaluation of cementing jobs.

Contents
Introduction: Basic rig math. Overview of casing design considerations, tubular connections and thread compounds. Cement and cement slurry design: water requirements; temperature and pressure; sulfate attacks; strength retrogression; pre-job testing; cement additives; special purpose cements; mixers and density measurement. Before Reaching Casing Point: Casing inspection and transportation; cementing equipment and materials; tools and running equipment; wellhead considerations; hole and mud conditioning practices. After Reaching Casing Point: Running casing and associated equipment; circulating before cementing; pre-flushes, scavenger slurries, spacers; mixing and displacing rates; casing wiper plugs; gas intrusion in annulus after cementing; pressure testing and landing the casing; nippling up and testing BOPE; evaluating the cement job; drilling out; leak-off tests; formation capability tests; open hole plugs; running and cementing liners; squeeze cementing.

James W. Fairchild & Kenneth L. Ancell or John A. Wells 5 days

Who Should Attend
Technical and management specialists who seek an understanding of the design, development and operation of underground gas storage reservoirs.

Contents
Strategic use of underground gas storage reservoirs; geological environments that may be used for the storage of gas; variables controlling storage reservoir design; technical aspects of storage field design; estimating the capital and operating costs of facilities, optimizing the final design and estimating the cost of service; regulatory considerations; project development and start-up; field operations and monitoring; inventory verification; analysis and discussion of several recently developed underground gas storage facilities. This is a workshop program in which the participants, with two instructors, solve reservoir design problems using PCs and appropriate software. Problem sessions will include individual well performance, volumetric and water-drive gas reservoir performance, aquifer storage performance and integrated performance of the reservoir, wellbore and surface facility system.

R. M. Pearson 5 days

Who Should Attend
Production, completion and drilling engineers and super-visors with at least five years experience; also suitable for cross training of reservoir engineers.

Contents
Application of Alternative Completion Concepts: to vertical and horizontal wells; factors affecting completion productivity. Equipment Selection and Application: packer options and selection considerations; elastomers and materials corrosion; tubing design and stress analysis. Perforation Planning: gun selection; benefits of underbalance perforation; effects of perforation policy and methods on well performance and skin factors in sandstones. Stimulation Techniques: options and selection criteria; effects on productivity and skin fracture stimulation, acidizing and diversion. Avoiding Production Problems: formation damage; sand production; downhole hydrates; scale; and wax. Workover Techniques: cement evaluation and remedial cementing; workover planning and methods; revised completion concepts.

Dr. Theodore van Golf-Racht 3 days

Who Should Attend
Reservoir engineers who want an introductory course to fracture/matrix evaluation and characterization from cores, logs, well testing, and so forth; evaluation of reservoir production mechanism from past reservoir behavior; and review of management of future reservoir behavior.

Contents
Introduction to fractured reservoir geology: evaluation and description of fractures; basic properties; field examples and critical discussion. Dynamic characterization of the reservoir through pressure transient testing: correlation between global results and direct measurements; field examples and critical discussion; examination of dynamic processes which take place between single matrix block and surrounding fracture network. Global fractured reservoir evaluation related to reservoir behavior and specific production mechanisms: simple expansion, pseudo-solution gas drive, gas gravity drainage, water imbibition in case of water drive. Use of material balance method for past history of reservoir. Use of reservoir simulation. Field cases and calculation examples are included.

Manuel E. Gonzalez 5 days

Who Should Attend
Engineers involved with ultra-deep wells in hostile environments. May also be of interest to explorationists working in these areas.

Contents
Throughout the world, large oil and gas reserves are being found in deeper horizons and more hostile environments. Although the opportunities can be very profitable, completion techniques can be complex and expensive. Unknown factors and minor details can lead to significant hurdles, and sometimes, failures. This course looks at technological breakthroughs developed for 26,000' wells in high temperatures, high pressure, sour gas environments.

Completion design analysis; Metallurgical material properties testing, selecting and using corrosion resistant alloys; Mechanical material properties; Temperature and pressure load analysis; New method for running CRA tubing; Testing and selecting tubing connections; Pressure-testing tubing connections; Field testing and perforating wells in hostile environments; Why seal leaks occur in hostile environments; Fracture stimulation treatments; Field procedure for well completion.

Dr. Chi U. Ikoku 5 days

Who Should Attend
Gas, petroleum, reservoir, and production engineers; technicians; service personnel; and others involved in oil and gas production, transportation, or storage.

Contents
The design of a development plan for a natural gas field always depends on the reservoir and well characteristics, tubing and flowline performance, and compressor and processing equipment characteristics. This course emphasizes a systems approach to natural gas production, since change in each component will affect the performance of the other components. The course presents a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of oil and gas separation and processing, compression and metering of natural gas, gas gathering and transportation, and gas well performance. Specific contents include: Fundamentals of natural gas; Gas properties and phase behavior; Gas and liquid separation; Dehydration of natural gas; Processing of natural gas; Compression of natural gas; Natural gas measurement; Gas gathering and transportation; Gas well performance; Auxiliary process equipment.

R. M. Pearson 3 or 5 days

Who Should Attend
Production, completion and drilling engineers and supervisors with at least five years experience.

Contents
Sand Failure Predictions: understanding sand production; basic rock mechanics; sand failure prediction. Sand Control Methods: improved completion efficiency; rate control and arching; selective perforation; plain screens; prepacked screens; gravel packing; consolidation, other methods. Gravel Pack Design and Procedures: type of gravel pack and their effect on well performance; gravel selection; screen and liner considerations; packer and liner equipment; perforation and cleaning methods; gravel placement; gravel pack fluids; formation damage; special considerations. Horizontal Well Completions: completion options; design considerations; drilling fluid selection; completion procedures. Discussion of case histories and local situations.

Dr. Chi U. Ikoku 5 days

Who Should Attend
Reservoir, petroleum, production, and operations engineers; technicians; geologists; managers; supervisors; and service personnel.

Contents
This is a one-week course designed to enable participants to better understand, manage, and optimize producing gas reservoirs. Practical techniques are presented to predict future performance and estimate reserves. Modifications to conventional analysis techniques are discussed for gas condensate reservoirs and fields with water influx. Specific contents include: Properties of natural gases; Rock properties; Flow in wellbores, pipes, and restrictions; Gas well testing; Estimation of gas reserves; Production decline curve analysis; Gas field development; Storage of natural gas.

Dr. Michael J. Economides 5 days

Who Should Attend
This program is ideal for production engineers and superintendents who wish to learn the full and practical aspects of reservoir stimulation.

Contents
Introduction; Reservoir Justification of Stimulation Treatments; Fundamentals of Pressure Transient Analysis; Reservoir Screening and Choice of Methods; Well and Reservoir Analysis; Pretreat-ment Well Analysis; Elements of Rock Mechanics; Laboratory Equipment and Measurement; Fracturing Fluids; Matrix Treatments; Principles of Acid Fracturing; Pre-Treatment Data Gathering; Fracture Height Prediction; Pressure Analysis During Fracturing; Mini-Frac Interpretation; Design of Propped Fractures; Design of Fractures in Horizontal Wells; Fractured Well Analysis; Post-Treatment Evaluation.

John M. Williams 5 days

Who Should Attend
Reservoir and production engineers, and others concerned with collecting valid samples, obtaining reliable PVT properties, and interpreting laboratory measurements.

Contents
Hydrocarbon phase behavior: reservoir types; limitations of surface production data; compositional variation; fluid properties. Importance of valid sampling: design; procedures; safety; back-up samples; sample quantities; latest developments. Data Vali-dation: on-site, laboratory checks; optimum selection of samples; data interpolation and correction. PVT Measure-ments: basic equipment; traditional versus mercury-free techniques; recombination; constant mass study; differential vaporization; depletion study; viscosity measurements; separator tests; quality assurance; special measurements; on-site PVT. Compositional Analysis: flash separation; distillation; gas and liquid chromatography; cryometry; GC-MS; "plus" fractions and pseudo components; sample storage effects; on-site analyses. Interpretation and Use of PVT Data: equation of state modeling; well test interpretation; reserve calculations; material balance; recovery estimation; facility design.

William K. Ott 5 days

Who Should Attend
Completion and production engineers; valuable for supervising engineers and geologists interested in well performance; also for operations personnel or anyone who wishes to become familiar with these well stimulation methods.

Contents
Presents the latest in well stimulation technology, focusing on acidizing and hydraulic fracturing. Provides an overview of formation damage problems, and suggests ways of overcoming or minimizing their affects. Gives insight into maximizing production and well performance by describing relationships between production and formation damage. Teaches proper selection and design of stimulation treatments, based on specific acidizing and hydraulic fracturing examples. Covers choice of treatment additives, peripheral materials, and equipment. Addresses acidizing objectives; Acid Types; Use of additives; Formation Analysis; Wellbore cleanout; Matrix Acidizing - sandstone and carbonate formations; Diverting Materials and Techniques; Gas Assist; Scale Removal and Control; Paraffin Removal and Control; Treatment Execution; Guidelines for on-site supervisors. Hydraulic Fracturing: well selection guideline; Concepts and Terminology; Mechanics of Fracturing. Fracture Geometry; Fracturing Fluids, Additives; Proppant Selection; Production Increases.

R. M. Pearson 3 or 5 days

Who Should Attend
Petroleum Engineers and Production supervisors with at least 5 years experience involved with well performance optimization.

Contents
Well Performance Predic-tions: overview and importance; inflow performance relationships for oil and gaswells; skin effects; fractured well performance; multiphase flow including concerns of friction and liquid hold-up. Well Performance Analysis: application of techniques to production optimization; well design; production forecasting; artificial lift selection; gaswell dewatering and identification of workover candidates. Artificial Lift Methods: review options; areas of application and selection methods spending additional time on systems most applicable to the area. Beam Pumping: pumping units; rods; pumps; additional downhole equipment; system design; optimization and problem diagnosis; common pump problems and solutions. Gas Lift: valves; types of installations; continuous gas lift design and analysis; intermittent gas lift systems. Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP): components; design procedure; failure and problem analysis. Hydraulic Pumping: power fluid; downhole completion. Surface pumps: piston pumps; jet pumps; (Weir) turbine pumps. Other Lift Systems: progressive cavity pumps and plunger lifts.

Dr. Michael J. Economides 5 days

Who Should Attend
Production and reservoir engineers seeking an understanding of horizontal wells and their role in reservoir management, particularly with respect to formation evaluation, completion and stimulation practices.

Contents
Horizontal well performance: selecting horizontal well candidates; challenges involved in stimulating horizontal wells. Formation evaluation for horizontal well planning: modern reservoir testing; reservoir characterization from horizontal well data; horizontal well completions. Matrix stimulation of horizontal wells: characterizing and removing formation damage; optimizing completions and stimulations. Hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells: longitudinal versus transverse fractures; multiple treatments. Case Studies: review of important publications on the issues of production, logging and testing of horizontal wells.

Dr. James J. Smolen 5 days

Who Should Attend
Reservoir and production engineers, petrophysicists, log analysts and others involved in maximizing recovery or planning workover operations.

Contents
Introduction: This is a modern up-to-date course that overviews virtually all cased hole logging tools as an introduction. Evaluation of formation through casing starts with gamma ray applications, then emphasizes pulsed neutron capture logging for saturation, monitoring, and bypassed production. It also covers natural and induced (carbonoxygen-C/O) spectral gamma logging, CNL, and modern pulsed neutron measurements based on oxygen activation, borehole sigma, and inelastic counts. Well integrity is evaluated using both casing and cement evaluation techniques. For cement evaluation, the traditional CBL/VDL logs are covered, followed by the newer borehole compensated, pulse echo, pad type, and Ultra Sonic Imager (USI) tools. Casing inspection includes mechanical, electromagnetic, acoustic, and video techniques. Fluid movement in both injection and producing wells is evaluated using spinners, tracers, temperature and noise surveys. A variety of fluid identification devices are used to evaluate phase flow. Special considerations for deviated and horizontal wells discussed.

Dr. Zaki Bassiouni 5 days

Who Should Attend
For novice geologists and petroleum engineers.

Contents
Reservoir Fluid Properties. Reservoir Rock Properties. Hydrocarbons Reserves - Volu-metric Method: structural contour maps; isopach maps; bulk and pore volumes; oil and gas in place; reserves and recovery factors. Hydrocarbon Reserves - Material Balance Equation: reservoir types; general material balance equation; reduced forms; graphical solutions; water influx; pressure maintenance. Reservoir Fluid Flow: classification of flow systems; Darcy's law; permeability variations; productivity index; diffusivity equation. Pressure and Flow Tests: buildup test; drawdown test; gas well testing; production forecasting for gas wells. Displacement of Oil by Water: general concepts; Piston displacement mechanism; Buckley-Leverett displacement mechanism; displacement efficiency.

Dr. Michael J. Economides 5 days

Who Should Attend
Production engineers who need a review of inflow performance relationships and vertical lift performance, along with an understanding of how to improve well deliverability by applying matrix stimulation techniques and artificial lift methods.

Contents
Inflow performance relationships: oil, two-phase and gas flow; vertical and horizontal wells; the near wellbore re-gion; skin effects and damage characterization. Vertical lift performance: gradient curves, two-phase flow correlations; well deliverability. Modern well testing for well diagnosis: well test design for production engineers; production logging. Matrix stimulation: sandstone acidizing; carbonate acidizing; hydraulic fracturing. Artificial lift: gas lift, pump-assisted; systems analysis; environmental concerns.

Dr. Zaki Bassiouni 5 days

Who Should Attend
Petroleum engineers and geoscientists interested in the reservoir mechanics of oil displacement by water. A basic knowledge of reservoir engineering is required.

Contents
Introduction: Primary, secondary, enhanced recovery processes. Examples of Secondary Production History. General Concepts: Relative Permeability; Water Cut and Water Oil Ratio; Mobility Ratio; Determination of Effective and Relative Permeabilities. Displacement Efficiency: Piston-Like Dis-placement; Buckley-Leverett Displacement. Sweep Efficiency: Flooding Patterns; Design Charts; Hurst Method. Invasion Efficiency: Dykstra-Parson's Method. Injection Rates and Pressures: Injection Rates for Enclosed Well Patterns. Waterflooding Performance Calculations: Perfect Method; Numerical Simulation. Planning A Waterflood: Data requirements; Economic Factors; "Rules of Thumb"; Laboratory Tests. Improved Water Flooding Methods: polymer flooding; alkaline flooding; Pilot Flood. Monitoring Flood Progress. Frequent problem solving exercises are included.

Dr. Bruce Craig 3 days

Who Should Attend
Those individuals not familiar with this subject, but who desire a fundamental understanding of corrosion mechanisms and methods used for corrosion control; and those who have a working knowledge of math, chemistry, and general science.

Contents
Corrosion Fundamentals: Electrochemical nature; Thermodynamics, Kinetics of Aqueous Corrosion. Principles of Metallurgy: Crystal Structure; Alloying; Mechanical Properties of Metals; Heat Treating; Cold Working. Forms of Corrosion: General Corrosion; Localized Corrosion; Metallurgically Influenced Corrosion; Mechanically Assisted Degradation; Environmentally Induced Cracking. Corrosion Protection Methods: Principles of Corrosion Protection; Coatings and Linings; Non-Metallic; Organic; Inorganic; Metallic; Inhibitors; Anodic and Cathodic Protection; Alloys. Corrosion in Oil and Gas Operations: Drilling, production; Corrosion by CO2 and H2S; Water-formed scales; Waterflooding. Corrosion Monitoring: Indirect Methods; Direct Methods. Problem solving exercises and case histories are included.

Louis Mattar 5 days

Who Should Attend
Petroleum, reservoir, and production engineers and senior technologists involved in conducting well tests and pressure transient analysis.

Contents
Introduction: Purpose of testing; equations, theory and assumptions; derivatives, time functions, superposition, detection of boundaries, reservoir limits. Pressure transient analysis: Drawdown and buildup; pseudo pressures. Analysis techniques: Type curves, radial, linear, bilinear, history matching. Deliverability tests: Types of tests, methods of analysis and diagnosing problems. Practical aspects and examples: Theory versus practice; test limitations; problem diagnosis; forecasting future performance. IHRDC Video Library modules used in this course: PE401, PE402, PE403, PE404. The course is a combination of lectures, exercises, workshops and case studies.

John Van Meter 5 days

Who Should Attend
Project managers, project engineers, facilities engineers with one to five years of experience, and engineering generalists with oil and water treating concerns.

Contents
This course is designed to help engineers understand oil and water treating systems and learn the relative merits of various design strategies and equipment types. More specifically, participants learn to develop system flowsheets, size separators and treaters, specify water treating equipment, and understand Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) unit operations. Example problems are included, and solutions to each problem are discussed in class. The following topics are discussed in detail: fluid properties; flowsheets; oil and water process selection; separating oil and water; emulsion treating; desalting; produced water treating; water injection equipment; LACT units; storage tanks.

Chapman Cronquist 3 days

Who Should Attend
Engineers or managers involved in preparing or utilizing reserve estimates, especially in situations involving a high degree of uncertainty. Recommended background includes basic reservoir engineering.

Contents
The statistical and probabilistic concepts which are the bases for estimation and classification of oil and gas reserves characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Reserve definitions: USGS, SPE, World Petroleum Congress. High risk prospects: Low permeability gas fields, fractured reservoirs, coalbed methane, offshore prospects. Statistical Concepts: Frequency distributions, distributions in nature, Monte Carlo simulation. Probabilistic methods: Example calculations, deterministic vs. probabilistic methods.

John Van Meter 5 days

Who Should Attend
Project managers, project engineers, facilities engineers with one to five years of experience, and engineering generalists with piping and process safety concerns.

Contents
This course is designed to help engineers design piping systems and understand relevant aspects of these systems' fabrication. Example problems are included, and solutions to each problem are discussed in class. The following topics are discussed in detail: pressure drop in piping; choosing line diameters and wall thicknesses; pressure ratings and determining pressure breaks; pipe, valve, and fitting specifications; pipe expansion and support; facility piping details; pipeline and gathering system design; pipeline pigging; inspection; mechanical design of pressure vessels; relief valves and relief systems; gas disposal; safety shutdown systems; process hazards analysis methods.