Petroleum Production Operations
Petroleum Production Operations
OBJECTIVES:
- Become conversant with petroleum production operations
- Develop empathy for the challenges faced by the industry related to production operations
- Develop the vocabulary and understanding of roles necessary to facilitate discussions with other professionals on production operations
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Petroleum and Reservoir Engineers
- Drilling and Completion Engineers
- Production Operations and Facilities Staff
- Geologists
- Field Technicians
- Field Supervisors and Managers
- Service Company Engineers and Managers
- Engineers starting a work assignment in production engineering and operations
- Engineers seeking a well-rounded foundation in production engineering.
COURSE OUTLINE :
Day 1 : How Reservoir Properties Affect Production
- Overview of Production Engineering
- Geology and Production
- Rock Properties
- Fluid Properties
- Reservoir Driving Mechanisms
- Reserves
- Geological model
Day 2 : Optimization of Well Production System by Nodal Analysis Technique
- Well testing methods
- Well deliverability nodal analysis (inflow / outflow)
- Tubing performance
- Flow through chokes
- Modelling
Day 3 : Completion Design
Upper Completion
- Casing string and suspension
- Cementing operations
- Tubing selection
- Wellheads and Xmas trees
- Safety valves
- Multilaterals
Lower Completion
- Introduction to sand control
- Gravel pack design
- Perforations design and applications
Day 4 : Selection and Design of Artificial Lift
- ESPs
- Gas lift
- PCPs
- Beam pumps
- Hydraulic pumps
- Pumps / Compressors: centrifugal, positive displacement, rotary, reciprocating, ejectors
Day 5 : Production Operations
Formation damage and methods of well stimulation
- Matrix acidizing
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Corrosion control
- Scale deposition, removal and prevention
- Acid gas treatment: coatings, closed system, chemicals, solvents, conversion; stress cracking
- Well intervention: Wireline, hydraulic workover units and coiled tubing
Surface facilities
- Properties of fluids at surface
- Oil – water- gas – solids – contaminants
- Flowlines, piping, gathering systems; solids and liquid limits
- Storage tanks, gun barrels, pressure/vacuum relief and flame arrestors
- Integrated surface production system; separation and treatment (multi-phase separators, management of produced and waste waters, gas processing)
- Stabilizers
- Removal of foams, emulsions, paraffins, asphaltenes, hydrates and salts
- Water management: SP packs, plate interceptors, gas floatation, coalescers, hydrocyclones and membranes