Oil and Gas Production Management
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Oil and Gas Production Management Course
Introduction:
This introductory-level training course in oil and gas production management aims to fill in knowledge gaps. Those who are new to the oil and gas production business, senior managers who need a refresher on the big picture, and industry suppliers and advisers with expertise will find it most helpful. The training is beneficial for technical workers who need to improve their commercial or economic abilities, such as engineers and geologists, as well as for individuals who invest in or offer services to the sector. A wide range of production management-related topics are covered in the course.
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course, you will be able to fully understand the following:
- Gain a thorough understanding of oil and gas production management
- Understand the technology, facilities, and chemistry involved, as well as production operations and logistics.
- Look at the different elements of production technology, the units and conversions involved and reservoir production concepts.
- Learn about storage, transportation, and marketing
- Understand the environmental considerations
- Gain an understanding of the economics of production management
- Understand disaster and contingency planning
- Think of the unthinkable and learn how to calculate the maximum sustainable capacity.
- Explore future trends and innovations
Who Should Attend?
- Drilling engineers
- Drilling superintendents and foremen
- Reservoir Engineers 4. Production Engineers
- Petrophysics
- Geoscientists
- Economists and planners
- Facilities planning engineers
- Accountants
- Mid-level management
Course Outlines:
Essentials of the Industry
- Meaning of petroleum
- Typical oil and gas company objectives
- Industry streams World reserves and production
- Peak oil
- Production management
- Quotas and capacities (OPEC/non-OPEC)
- Market distribution and dynamics
- Role of IOCs, NOCs and regulatory bodies
- Glossary of terms
Production Chemistry and Technology
- Role and scope
- Production chemistry
- Elements of production technology
- Reservoir production concepts
- Performance of flowing wells
- Well deliverability and production forecast
- Units and conversions
- Case Study: gas-oil ratio, inflow performance, the effect of skin on well productivity
Production Engineering
- Completion concepts and techniques
- Casing, tubing, and wellhead
- Completion equipment
- Completion design
- Artificial lift techniques
Completion Practices and well Interventions
- Completion installations
- Multi-zone completions
- Well interventions
- Production problems
- Causes of low productivity
- Effect of water-cut on economics
- Abandonments
- Case Study: Tubing length change, integrity of well hardware, gas lift rate
Production Facilities
- Process selection
- Oil and gas separation
- Crude oil treating systems
- Condensate stabilization
- Gas dehydration
- Produced water-handling systems
- Pumps and compressors–centrifugal and reciprocating
- Offshore production facilities
Production Supply Planning and Scheduling
- Control room
- Oil and gas measurement and regulations
- SCADA systems
- Custody transfer and royalty payment
- Metering systems
- Specification and procedures
- Distribution pipeline network
- New metering technologies
- Case study: Gravity separation
- metering accuracy and financial impact
Storage, Transportation, and Marketing
- Oil and gas storage
- Transporting petroleum fluids
- Sales and marketing
- Challenges
- Vertical integration