Oil, Gas & Petroleum · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 3,900
Overview
To provide a comprehensive understanding of the physical principles governing the selection of well completion practices. This understanding will improve completion programs and lead to more efficient well completions. Well performance, vertical lift performance, choke performance, and horizontal flow performance will be studied in relation to the well completion and their effect on production rates and completion efficiency. Also the principles and practice of well test analysis from the perspective of deriving properties of reservoir description.
Learning Objectives
Introduction - the production system
Well completion design
Reservoir performance
Well performance - fundamentals of flow in porous media
Oilwell deliverability
Gaswell deliverability
Prediction of future performance
Multiphase flow - basics of flow in pipes
Vertical lift performance
Horizontal flow performance
Inclined flow
Estimating pressure drops
Choke performance - basics of flow across a choke
Multiphase flow correlations
Completion considerations - perforations
Gravel packing
Formation damage
Stimulation
Tubing selection
Surface production equipment
Systems analysis - overview of the completion system
Prediction of production rates
Selection of completion and production equipment
Integrating the completion design
Pressure transient theory, drawdown analytical solution, principle of superposition, pressure buildup analytical solution. Application of pressure transient theory and solutions. Well testing practical issues, wellbore storage, skin and radius of investigation. Geotype curves. Numerical well testing, well test forward modelling. Welltest design. Integration of welltest and geology. Measures of special correlation from welltest data. Upscaling from core to well permeability. Conditioning reservoir simulation models to welltest data. Field trip to outcrop analog.
Who Should Attend
The course is designed for petroleum, production, and well completion engineers and field personnel actively engaged in well completions Petroleum geologists, petrophysicists, petroleum engineers and geophysicists.
Professionals in Drilling & Well Engineering
Engineers and specialists in oil & gas operations
Operations, process and field personnel
Course Outline
Day 1 — Module 1
AM - Course introduction, Reservoir Life Cycle, Overview of the Production System, Reservoir Fluid Types PM - Flow Through Porous Media, Slightly Compressible Flow Solutions, Compressible Flow Solutions, Multiphase Oil Flow
Day 2 — Module 2
AM - Oil Well Deliverability, PI Concepts, IPR - Vogel, Fetkovich, Jones Blount & Glaze, Composite IPR, Class Exercises PM - Oil Well Deliverability, Incorporating the Skin Effect, Predicting Future Performance, Three-Phase IPR, Class Exercises
Day 3 — Module 3
AM - Gas Well Deliverability, Log-Log Analysis Technique PM - Gas Well Deliverability, Gas Well Testing Methods, (Flow-after-flow, Isochronal, Modified Isochronal), Class Exercises
Day 4 — Module 4
AM - Completion Effects, Permeability Alteration, Perforation Effects, Partial Penetration, Non-Darcy Flow Effects PM - Overview of Vertical Lift Performance, Single-phase Vapor, and Liquid Relations, Multiphase Flow Correlations, Use of Gradient Charts, Choke Performance
Day 5 — Module 5
AM - Systems Analysis, Integrating the Production System, Application of Systems Analysis, Example Applications PM - Well Completion Design, Systems Analysis Applications, Class Exercises, Production Optimization Considerations
Accreditation
Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.
What do Al-Khobraa oil, gas and petroleum courses cover?
The portfolio spans the full value chain: upstream exploration, drilling and well control; midstream processing, pipelines and gas treatment; and downstream refining and petrochemicals — plus process safety management (PSM), HAZOP studies, corrosion control and plant operations. Trainers are practitioners from the sector.
Who should attend an oil, gas and petroleum course?
These courses suit process, production and petroleum engineers, plant and field operators and supervisors, maintenance and inspection staff, HSE and process safety professionals, and technical or commercial staff joining the sector from another industry.
How long are oil, gas and petroleum courses, and where are they held?
Most Al-Khobraa oil, gas and petroleum courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.
What certificate will I receive?
Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.
Can oil, gas and petroleum training be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. Any Al-Khobraa oil, gas and petroleum course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.