Oil and Gas for non specialists
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OGNS-E
Course Objectives
This course aims to introduce the fundamentals and vocabulary of Exploration & Production techniques: geosciences, reservoir engineering, drilling, completion, production, projects…
Course content
- INTRODUCTION TO THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY
- Scope of the Oil & Gas industry:
- Context: producer and consumer countries; national/ independent/ international oil companies; services companies; international organizations.
- Risks related to the oil and gas industry.
- GEOSCIENCES & RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
- Introduction to petroleum geology:
- Geodynamics of the earth. Sedimentary basins. Structural deformations (folds & faults).
- Clastic and carbonate depositional environments and reservoirs.
- Elements and processes of the petroleum system (source, reservoir, seal, traps).
- Subsurface models, inputs data and concepts:
- Seismic data gathering, processing and interpretation.
- Well data acquisition and analysis.
- Formation evaluation and sampling (logs and cores).
- Reservoir characterization and modeling:
- Data integration; introduction to reservoir modeling.
- Volumetrics (in-place hydrocarbon estimation).
- Subsurface Development Options: reservoir engineering:
- Field development planning.
- Drainage mechanisms: introduction to EOR.
- Different types of reservoir effluents and their behavior.
- Reservoir simulation
- FIELD OPERATIONS & DEVELOPMENT
- Drilling:
- Main functions of drilling rigs
- Well architecture.
- Well construction.
- Drilling equipment: bits, drilling string, drilling fluids...
- Drilling techniques: casing, cementing, directional drilling, well testing, instrumentation.
- Rigs onshore and offshore.
- Well completion:
- Reservoir/wellbore interface; basics of well performance; stimulation; artificial lift techniques.
- Well equipment and well intervention.
- Field architecture:
- Surface development options
- Surface facilities:
- Well effluent gathering network.
- Oil, gas and water processing.
- Metering, storage and export.
- Oil & Gas transport through pipelines and tankers.
- HSE in field development:
- Main hazards in hydrocarbon exploration & production operations.
- Introduction to unconventional developments:
- Heavy oil fields.
- Tight & shale Oil & Gas fields.
- OIL & GAS FIELD DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
- Project profitability evaluation:
- Oil & Gas project economics and financial performance indicators.
- Reserve evaluation. Impact of subsurface uncertainty on project economics.